Movie Film Trivia

[RolandF1]

John Hughes wrote Breakfast Club over a single weekend.

Captain Kirks house in Star Trek Generations was Shatner's real home.

Darth Vader's funeral burning in Return of the Jedi was added at the very last minute and was filmed at Skywalker Ranch. There were concerns audiences wouldn't think Vader had died.

Get the Gringo is an unofficial sequel to Payback

Showgirls is an unofficial sequel to Saved By The Bell.

Jerry Goldsmith's last completed score for the film Timeline wasn't used. This was due to Richard Donner re-edit of the film no longer fitting with Goldsmith's theme.

Michael Biehn has stated making Navy Seals was the worst experience of his life.

 

[worbod]

The Muppet Movie (1979) was cut by New Zealand Censors on grounds of gratuitous violence.
Sweden banned E.T. for children under 11 because it claimed the film showed parents being hostile to their children.

 

[RolandF1]

The Muppet Movie (1979) was cut by New Zealand Censors on grounds of gratuitous violence.

I just checked what was cut. A friggin broken bottle! Geez! Reminds me of the UK's silly rules when it comes to headbutting, implied animal cruelty, and nunchakus.

 

[exe ex machina]

The Muppet Movie (1979) was cut by New Zealand Censors on grounds of gratuitous violence.
Sweden banned E.T. for children under 11 because it claimed the film showed parents being hostile to their children.

If only ET had a gratuitous close-up of a pair of **** then Sweden would've given it a G rating

 

[chefmeister]

Tina Turner almost quit during the filming of 'MAD MAX - Beyond Thunderdome' due to Mel Gibson's excessive drinking saying it had gotten so out of control that she didn't want to be witness to his funeral on set...

 

[worbod]

All three leads in the 2015 film Secret in Their Eyes (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts) are left handed.

 

[worbod]

If you use the official alternative title of X, Y and Zee for Michael Caine's 1972 film Zee and Co, this means Caine has acted in films starting with each letter of the alphabet, except U. He would still have Zulu as his Z film.

 

[worbod]

In The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the skeleton found by Eli Wallach's character inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.

 

[exe ex machina]

Does anyone know the exact amount of movies there are in the world? Like in entirety.

 

[RolandF1]

Does anyone know the exact amount of movies there are in the world? Like in entirety.

How could you even begin to measure that? What length is a movie a movie? Do we include youtube movies? Different cuts of the same movie? Special editions? All those silent films they destroyed when the talkies started?

 

[akkaps]

This would probably be the best measure, but not completely accurate.
http://www.imdb.com/stats

 

[PVF]

Does anyone know the exact amount of movies there are in the world? Like in entirety.

Lots.

 

[SwampCreature]

There'd be more pr0n movies than not-pr0n movies, that's for sure.

 

[vast]

There's be more pr0n movies than not-pr0n movies, that's for sure.

Dont know if its true but I remember reading the first movie ever made was in australia and may have been a porno.

Or maybe it was the first australian movie ever made was a porno. That sounds more accurate haha

 

[Spiritof82]

Dont know if its true but I remember reading the first movie ever made was in australia and may have been a porno.

Or maybe it was the first australian movie ever made was a porno. That sounds more accurate haha

First movie made was suppose to be Ned Kelly, and not the one with Jagger in it even though he was probably around when the first movie was made

 

[Northworth]

Does anyone know the exact amount of movies there are in the world? Like in entirety.

17

 

[exe ex machina]

17

Correct!

 

[RolandF1]

Jim Carrey went from a struggling actor to releasing 3 well received motion pictures in 1994. By Dumb and Dumber he was already commanding $7 million a film, and by 1996 was one of the highest paid actors at $20 million for The Cable Guy.

The director of the Cable Guy, Ben Stiller, thought he was going to be directing for the rest of his film career but the Farrelly brothers wanted him in the main role for Something About Mary and even had to fight to have him as the studio felt he was too unknown.

James Earl Jones is a stutterer and took acting lessons to control it.

Quentin Tarantino was a script doctor for Crimson Tide.

Walter Hill films like Streets of Fire and The Warriors were the main inspiration for the video game Final Fight.

Independence Day was originally conceived as a sequel to Stargate.

 

[Godchin]

Jim Carrey went from a struggling actor to releasing 3 well received motion pictures in 1994. By Dumb and Dumber he was already commanding $7 million a film, and by 1996 was one of the highest paid actors at $20 million for The Cable Guy.

To come from nowhere and release Ace Ventura ($107m), The Mask ($351m) and Dumb and Dumber ($247m) in less than 12 months is phenomenal.

Liam Neeson in 2012 had three box office #1's: The Grey, The Dark Knight Rises, Taken 2.

Dwayne Johnson in 2013 had three box office #1's: G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Pain and Gain, Fast & Furious 6.

Robin Williams did it in 1991, but like Neeson and Johnson (and unlike Carrey), he did it with the aide of featuring in an already established film franchise/playing a minor part.

 

[edgie]

Inspired by the 2012 Paralympics in London, Matthew Vaughn wanted to have a character with a prosthetic leg similar to the 'Flex-Foot Cheetah' as worn by paralympian sprinters. At one point, Oscar Pistorius was approached about playing the role of 'Gazelle' and his representatives were asked if Pistorius could play a convincing killer. He later declined to take the role to focus on practicing for future sporting events. In February 2013 Pistorius was put on trial and later sentenced for shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Also in the film, Gazelle shoots someone through a door. Pistorius had shot Steenkamp through a door.

Lol, so kinda like a modern version of OJ being knocked back from the Terminator for being too nice.

 

[worbod]

The 1998 film Primary Colours is based upon Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. The main character is named Jack Stanton, as portrayed by John Travolta. Clinton enjoyed the film so much that he invited Travolta to a party, on one condition, he must come as Governor Jack Stanton. Travolta declined.

The names Bill and Jack both have one syllable and four letters, and the surnames Clinton and Stanton both have two syllables and seven letters, both ending with a "ton" suffix.

 

[exe ex machina]

The 1998 film Primary Colours is based upon Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. The main character is named Jack Stanton, as portrayed by John Travolta. Clinton enjoyed the film so much that he invited Travolta to a party, on one condition, he must come as Governor Jack Stanton. Travolta declined.

The names Bill and Jack both have one syllable and four letters, and the surnames Clinton and Stanton both have two syllables and seven letters, both ending with a "ton" suffix.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[exe ex machina]

The only sci-fi film that correctly predicted the future was Draft Day

 

[worbod]

The only sci-fi film that correctly predicted the future was Draft Day

Thank goodness that honour didn't go to The Planet of the Apes (as yet).

 

[exe ex machina]

Thank goodness that honour didn't go to The Planet of the Apes (as yet).

(yet) -- that's the scary thing.