25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

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25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

Facts always save the day. Our brains have known this for quite some time, but we didn’t fully understand it until now. When we’re completely out of our element, and have nothing to discuss, a movie fact will pop in our heads and boom! We’re the life of the party. 

One good fact usually gets other movie nerds’ wheels turning too, so they start throwing a few back at us. Sure, there’s always a few crusty curmudgeons who roll their eyes and walk away once the movie facts start really getting tossed around, but you know what? We don’t want to hang with non-movie fact lovers anyways.

See! Movie facts even help thin the herd. Is there anything they can’t do?!?!

Step Brothers

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS THE CATALINA WINE MIXER WASN'T SHOT ON CATALINA ISLAND. FC HOTEL STEP BROTHERS The event was actually shot at the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. CRACKED.COM

Guardians of the Galaxy

While filming the Xandar chase scene on Guardians of the Galaxy, most of the extras were hanging around in their underwear. It was shot in 100-degree weather, and that all they could do to stay cool while cameras weren't rolling. CRACKED.COM

Men in Black

Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld says Will Smith has really nasty farts. When they were filming the tunnel scene, Will let a big one rip in the upside-down car. Не said Oh, Jesus! I'm so sorry, Tommy. Guys, get us out of here! Get us out! Tommy said No, Will, it's okay, but he bolted out the second he could. CRACKED.COM

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHIND-THESGENESPHOTS Jon Heder was BARELY PAID CRACKED.COM At first, anyway. Since it was the film school classmates' first low-budget film, Heder was paid a cool $1,000 for his iconic performance. After the film grossed more than $40 million, he was given a cut of the earned profits.

Office Space

Someone was busted trying to pull off an Office Space-esque scheme. CRACKED.COM 22-year-old Michael Largent, who apparently didn't watch the second half of the movie, wrote an automated script to open up 58,000 accounts with online brokerage firms -- each of which would deposit a few cents in his account for verification. Не was... extremely caught.

Blade Runner

Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher threw a fit when he was asked for a rewrite. He had left the movie on pretty bad terms, but they asked him to rewrite the final scene. After he saw their footage, he started crying. Editor Terry Rawlings came up behind him and held his head to his own belly, while Ridley Scott and the studio execs left in embarrassment. Fancher went after them, but walked off an eight-foot drop, fell in front of them, and said You motherfuckers! Не still got the job. CRACKED.COM

Captain America: Civil War

On his first day of shooting Captain America: Civil War, Anthony Mackie fell face-first in the dirt. They pulled him up with a rig for a scene where Falcon touches down, and he then tried to do a graceful landing pose based on how birds land. But his lower body weighed a lot more than he thought, so he landed in the dirt and bounced 10 feet, ending up with mud and grass caked on his face while the crew laughed. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame

On the shoot for the Avengers: Endgame funeral scene, Gwyneth Paltrow kept asking why Samuel L. Jackson was there. The other actors had to say things like What are you talking about? He's Nick Fury! and remind her she's been in movies with him. CRACKED.COM

Talladega Nights

BEHINO-THE-SOENESPACTS Ferrell and Cohen took home an MTV MOVIE AWARD TALLADEGA NIGHTS CRACKED.COM THE BALLAD OF BICKY BOBBY The actors scored the coveted popcorn trophy for Best Kiss 2007. No one was surprised when the two locked lips once again during their acceptance speech, eventually rolling around on the floor in a fit of erotic passion.

Predator

Arnie pranked Jesse Ventura on the Predator shoot. In the wardrobe department, Ventura noticed that the tape for Arnold's arms was one inch shorter than his. Not long after, Ventura told Arnold they should measure their arms, so Arnold said Sure and suggested they bet a bottle of champagne. They found out Arnold's arms were three inches bigger - so Ventura was out a bottle of champagne. Arnold had set up the fake tape, knowing Ventura would react the way he did. CRACKED.COM

Scream

While filming Scream, Drew Barrymore called 911 for real. The crew forgot to disconnect her phone in the scene where her character calls 911, so she made calls in which she screamed and hung up, over and over. Which made the police call back (in the middle of shooting a take) and ask what's going on and why they keep getting calls. CRACKED.COM

Animal House

The Animal House actors got beaten up at a real frat party. They were brought on location to the University of Oregon campus a week early, so one day they went to a party on campus. The brothers hated them being there in the first place, and James Widdoes knocked a beer cup into one of their faces - - that's when the brothers charged them, and they ran (unsuccessfully). Widdoes had a few teeth knocked loose but, he says, that fight cemented us as a group. CRACKED.COM

The Emperor’s New Groove

Sting wanted vengeance after seeing The Emperor's New Groove. Sting wrote a ton of songs, but Disney dropped all but two. When he saw an early cut that ended with the prince building a palace with a waterslide, he wrote a letter starting with Gentlemen, when you have achieved genuine human values, you don't need a theme park or a water slide. The whole thing made him want vengeance. CRACKED.COM

Billy Madison

In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Chris Tucker

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHRIS TUCKER AND MARIAH CAREY NEARLY STARRED IN AGENT DOUBLE-O-SOULIN THE'90S. AT ORT Tucker would play a spy armed with gadgets, and Carey would be his love interest, but it fizzled out - maybe because Undercover Brother and Austin Powers came out in the meantime, and were a little too similar.

Thor: Ragnarok

A MAKE-A-WISH SET VISIT GAVE THOR: RAGNAROK ONE OF ITS FUNNIEST MOMENTS. According to Chris Hemsworth, on the day they were filming the scene in which Thor and Hulk meet again, a kid from Make-A-Wish was visiting the set. In between takes, the kid came up to Hemsworth and suggested the memorable line He's a friend from work! CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame (Again)

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. GAVE US LOVE YOU 3000. The Avengers: Endgame screenwriters revealed that the original script had Tony and his daughter saying Love you tons to each other. However, when Downey came to the set, he switched it to Love you 3,000 - a thing he and his children actually say to each other. CRACKED.COM

Dog Day Afternoon

AL PACINO YELLING ATTICA WAS A LAST-SECOND SUGGESTION FROM AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. Pacino revealed that when it was time to shoot the famous Dog Day Afternoon scene, an assistant director came up to him and whispered, Say 'Attica.' Go ahead. Say it to the crowd out there. Pacino says he didn't totally get it, but followed the instruction. CRACKED.COM

Joker

25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

Fallout

25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

Edge of Tomorrow

25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

Deadpool

DEADPOOL'S INNOVATIVE OPENING CREDITS HAPPENED BECAUSE BASICALLY NOBODY WAS ATTACHED TO THE FILM. THE COMIC RELIEF A BRITISH VILLAIN A MOODY TEEN A CGI CHARACTER The work on the title sequence began before anybody but Ryan Reynolds was cast, so the team just used generic terms like hot chick and bad guy as placeholders. When the time came to put actual names in, they showed the sequence to director Tim Miller, who found it hilarious and decided to use it in the film. CRACKED.COM

Venom

TOM HARDY SAW A LOBSTER TANK AND DECIDED НЕ WANTED TO BATHE IN IT. The restaurant scene from Venom originally just had Hardy rummaging for food. According to director Ruben Fleischer, once Hardy saw the lobsters, he immediately said, Well, I'm going to go in the tank. That was of course unsafe, so the production team had to build him a tank that wouldn't break - and more importantly, replace real lobsters with fake ones. CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

25 Bits of Movie Trivia We Landed in When We Were Thrown From the Windshield at the End of a Long, Dramatic Car Chase

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