Movie Film Trivia

[chefmeister]

It's not really that bad, but I thought it was a pretty underwhelming standard 80s comedy considering it was the meeting of the God of 70s comedy and 80s comedy with a titan of the 50s for good measure. Bowfinger was a better allstar collaboration featuring Eddie Murphy imo.

I just really enjoy the subject matter and especially this line -

"what would a woman that fine want with a fat, nasty, greasy, fat, stank, bloated, cheesy-backed, twelve-sandwich-eating bastard like him?"

The dice table conversation in the beginning is just fabulous.

 

[STFU Donnie]

The 1980 (underappreciated) film The Long Riders about the James gang, featured four sets of acting brothers playing four sets of brothers.

David, Keith and Robert Carradine played the Younger brothers. James and Stacy Keach played the James brothers. Randy and Dennis Quaid played the Miller brothers. And lastly, Christopher and Nicholas Guest played the Ford brothers.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Passion of the Christ (2004)

According to an interview he gave to Newsweek, Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning while filming the Sermon on the Mount scene.

So, even God doesn't like Mel Gibson.

 

[Exe Gesis]

So, even God doesn't like Mel Gibson.

Or, He doesn't like Jim Caviezel.

 

[STFU Donnie]

There's an urban myth that when The Madness of King George was produced and released in the US, the producers omitted 'III' from the title because they were afraid that confused Americans would want to know what happened to the first two films. In actual fact, the director, Nicholas Hytner, stated that the principal reason why the film was titled "The Madness of King George" (not "The Madness of King George III", like the play) was that this was a film about a king.

On a similar note, and I believe this one is actually true, when Titanic was originally about to be released, the studios were terrified that the run time of 194 minutes (ie 3 hr 14 min) would put people off. Apparently there is a psychological barrier about movies running over 3 hours. So it was released with an official run-time of 2 hr 74 min.

 

[STFU Donnie]

I don't think Bill bought 500 Danishes every day of the shoot. I think it was a thankyou gesture towards the end of filming, though he probably could have afforded to buy 500 Danishes every day.

Unlike a savvy chap such as yourself to so completely miss the joke.

 

[STFU Donnie]

One of the three volleyballs named Wilson in Castaway was sold at auction for $18,400.

Ah, Tom Hanks. The only actor, dual Oscar winner no less, to be out-acted by a half inflated sack of air.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Burt Reynolds turned down a role in Terms of Endearment which had been written with him in mind.

He decided to do City Heat instead, which flopped.

Jack Nicholson took the TOE role and won Best Actor Oscar.

Reynolds career tapered off after that

John Travolta turned down An Officer and a Gentleman and Days of Heaven which were both taken by Richard Gere

Burt Reynolds has been his own worst enemy when it comes to choosing roles. As well as your example above, he was furious with his agent and fired him for getting him involved in Boogie Nights. This turned out to be the role of his career and garnered him his only Oscar nomination.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Jack Hawkins as a Roman Tribune and naval commander in BenHur it is said , his pale skin where his watch band had been, can be seen in the sea battle scene.
A Cgrade swords and chariots Hercules movie made in the sixties an airoplane jet stream can be seen in the sky.

As a Roman History buff, I apologise for feeling the need to correct this, but I can't help myself. Hawkins played a Roman Consul. In Republican times this was the highest office a man could hold (not counting the rarely invoked role of Dictator). At the time in which Ben Hur was set it was second only to the Emperor himself. Stephen Boyd (Massala) played a Tribune, much lower down the pecking order.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Arnold Schwarzenegger was banging Brigitte Neilson while they filmed Red Sonya. Arnie was duped into thinking his role was a minor one to fulfill his 3 picture conan deal but realised it wasn't when the Red Sonya poster had him displayed over Neilson. Sly Stallone also banged Brigitte Neilson and made reference to their splitting up in Tango and Cash when he says to Kurt Russell 'I hate Danish'.

James Spader and Jaye Davidson only acted in Stargate for the paycheck. Initially Spader was going to refuse but couldn't help admiring Roland Emmerich's passion for the project after meeting with him. Davidson demanded $1 million thinking they'll turn him down and that'll be the end of it, only to find they accepted.

Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, Alien, and Predator (so far).

Many of the crappy direct to dvd sequels to Hellraiser use old acquired scripts that are adapted to include Pinhead and his Pandora's Box.

Superb!

 

[STFU Donnie]

It's possible Dolph Lundgren also put one through her while she was married to Stallone.
The story goes that during the filming of a fight scene for Rocky IV, her and Lundgren were making so much goo-goo eyes at each other the Sylvester had a go at the co-star telling him in no uncertain terms to lay off his wife "OR ELSE".
Lundgren, who had a background in kickboxing then promptly laid into Stallone sending him to the hospital with suspected cracked ribs which delayed filming.

Dolph Lundgren is an interesting guy. Far from the stereotypical airhead, himbo tough guy, he has a Masters degree in chemical engineering from Sydney University.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Quentin Tarantino was a script doctor for Crimson Tide.

Unfortunately, the patient died.

 

[STFU Donnie]

Of the first five actors to portray English spy James Bond, only one was an actual Englishman:

Sean Connery (Scotland)
George Lazenby (Australia)
Roger Moore (England)
Timothy Dalton (Wales)
Pierce Brosnan (Ireland)

Actually, Barry Nelson (USA) played Bond in a TV movie of Casino Royale in 1954, eight years before Connery.

 

[Hoos]

Ah, Tom Hanks. The only actor, dual Oscar winner no less, to be out-acted by a half inflated sack of air.

They've got some good burgers.

 

[JoondalupJ]

As a Roman History buff, I apologise for feeling the need to correct this, but I can't help myself. Hawkins played a Roman Consul. In Republican times this was the highest office a man could hold (not counting the rarely invoked role of Dictator). At the time in which Ben Hur was set it was second only to the Emperor himself. Stephen Boyd (Massala) played a Tribune, much lower down the pecking order.

No worries about the Tribune, it was the watch band sun tan that I was on about. But fine correction and taken on board.

 

[Exe Gesis]

effing noobs who don't know their roman history

 

[Crimson Azure]

Laurence Fishburne lied about his age in order to win a minor role in Apocalypse Now. He told the producers he was 17, but he was in actuality only 14.

According to Wikipedia he would have been 17. Born in '61.

 

[Exe Gesis]

According to Wikipedia he would have been 17. Born in '61.

Maybe he was 14 when he rehearsed and went to casting calls, telling them at the time he was 17. So that by the time the movie actually started to get made he had turned 17 by then. I'm not sure, but often from casting calls to production in movies, 2-3 years elapses.

 

[JoondalupJ]

According to Wikipedia he would have been 17. Born in '61.

Brave kid! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!

 

[worbod]

Unlike a savvy chap such as yourself to so completely miss the joke.

I went back and read the relevant posts, and I now realise it was a Groundhog Day reference. Well, at least I'll only miss that joke once.

 

[worbod]

Back in the 1970s Chuck Norris once gave karate lessons to the Osmonds.

 

[emuboy]

Jack Black and rising young actress Madison Iseman were in the move 'Goosebumps 2 - Haunted Halloween' but they had previously been in another movie together - playing the same role.

This movie was Jumanji 2, and Madison Iseman's character Bethany selects a character to play in the Jumanji video game, she chooses a character named 'Shelley', thinking that Shelley is female. When Bethany and the other kids get sucked into the game, she finds to her horror that Shelley is short for Sheldon and a plump middle aged man, played by Jack Black

 

[Quokka]

This is a bit of a long one but I love the story of how Danny Trejo got into acting, you can take this as Danny Trejo trivia or trivia for the movie Runaway Train (1985) with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.

Its sounds like Trejo had a pretty rough start to life and was in and out of prison by the 60s, juvenile detention before that. At least some of the charges related to drug use and armed robbery, his final sentence was for 5 years. Whilst in prison he learnt to box, going on to win prison championships, he also eventually cleans himself up via Narcotics Anonymous. He becomes a NA counselor whilst in prison something he continues do when he is released.

The rest of this is from a Danny Trejo interview quoted on imdb...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001803/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

"I walked on that movie set as a drug counselor. I was helping this kid I was counseling. He called me up and said, "Hey, there's a lot of blow down here." It was 1985, and cocaine was running rampant in the movie industry. It was crazy. You'd walk into production and there'd be lines on the table. He just asked me to come down and support him, because that's what I did. I still do it. I'm going over on an intervention right now to one of our Hollywood actors. I went onto this movie set (Runaway Train, 1985) and he was a PA, and I thought it was cute. I had never been on a movie set in my life."

"All these guys were dressed up as inmates, and they were all trying to act tough. They all had these fake tattoos. I kept smearing these tattoos. I had to say, "Oh s**t, I'm sorry. That stuff smears." This guy asked me if I wanted to be in a movie, and I said, "What do I gotta do?" And he said, "Do you want to be an extra?" And I said, "An extra what?" And he said, "Can you act like a convict?" I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever heard. I'd been in every penitentiary in the state. I looked at him and I said, "Well, I'll give it a shot." "

He gave me a blue shirt, and I took off my shirt, and I have that big tattoo on my chest. He said "Leave your shirt off." Then this other guy comes over and says, "Hey, you're Danny Trejo. I saw you win the lightweight and welterweight title up in San Quentin." And I go, "Yeah. You're Eddie Bunker [Edward Bunker]." I had been in prison with him. And he was a writer. We started talking, and he asked, "Are you still boxing?" And I go, "Well, I still train." And he said, "Do you want a job?"

We need someone to train one of the actors (Eric Roberts) how to box." And I said, "I got a job. They're going to give me 15 bucks for acting like a convict. What's this pay?" He said, "It pays $320 a day." So I said, "How bad do you want this guy beat up? s**t, for 320 bucks..." And he goes, "No, you have to be really careful, this actor's really high-strung. He's already socked a couple of people." I said, "For $320, man, give him a stick. I'll fight Godzilla for 320 bucks."

I started training Eric Roberts how to box. Eric wanted to learn how to box, and I think he was scared of me, so he'd do whatever I told him to do. Andrey Konchalovskiy, the director, saw that he would do whatever I told him to do. I guess Andrey had some problems with it. So Andrey comes over and hires me. He says, "You be in the movie. You fight Eric in the movie."

And that's where it started. From that day until right now, I've got 183 movies."




Walked on set as someones Narcotics Anonymous Support and got offered to be an extra without asking. Then he got spotted by someone who knew him as a boxer and offered to train the main star. Get spotted once more this time by the director and offered a third upgrade, the boxing scene in the movie. Makes a big enough impression in his few minutes on screen that the phone starts ringing. That's a lot of sliding doors sliding your way and bam you're a Hollywood movie star.

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[STFU Donnie]

Alien vs Predator. Most of the film was shot in an abandoned factory in Prague, which was at the time (and probably still now?) one of the European pr0n industry's major centres. Anyway, the crew was detained by customs in Prague for the large amounts of K-Y Jelly they were shipping in. All that Alien drool, you know.