we can turn this into a game, go to imdb and read some movie trivia and post the title and the clip here

Sphere (1998)
- Joseph Hahn, the DJ in rock band Linkin Park, designed the sea snake.

12/24/2008 3:07:19 PM

Wow, so he contributes to shitty music and shitty movies? What a renaissance man.

12/24/2008 3:08:15 PM

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
-In 2003 a man named Juan Catalan was arrested for a murder in Los Angeles. He repeatedly professed his innocence and asked to take a lie detector test, a request that the police denied. He also had an alibi: he swore that at the time of the murder he was at Dodger Stadium with his little girl, watching the Dodgers get creamed by the Braves, but his lawyer was unable to find him in any of the Dodger Vision or FOX footage he subpoenaed. However, he discovered that there was another source of crowd footage: "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had filmed at Dodger Stadium that night. Although Catalan did not make the final cut of the show, his lawyer was able to find him and his daughter in the outtakes, and determined from the timestamps on the tapes that Catalan could not have been the killer. When told that his show had released a wrongfully accused man from prison and a trial that could have led to the death penalty, Larry David commented, "I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently."

12/24/2008 3:13:05 PM

lol holy shit thats crazy

12/24/2008 3:13:47 PM

Harriet the Spy (1996)
- Nickelodeon's first feature film.

Good Burger (1997)
- Linda Cardellini's feature film debut.

Snow Day (2000)
- A real bank heist took place near the filming location and the felons drove right past the PA who immediately alerted everyone on set. The felons were surprised to see that they were driving through a film set, shortly before driving headlong into (and becoming hopelessly stuck in) a fake snow drift. The police immediately apprehended the two bumbling crooks to the amusement of all on set.

12/24/2008 3:14:07 PM

12/24/2008 3:15:03 PM

Back to the Future (1985)
-The device originally considered for use as the time travel machine was a refrigerator. Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.

12/24/2008 3:15:34 PM

that would have been so gay

a refridgerator that goes back in time?

12/24/2008 3:16:05 PM

Doesn't make any less sense than a phone booth.

Whoa.

12/24/2008 3:17:44 PM

so instead, 23 years later, Spielberg wants children to climb into refridgerators to avoid nuclear bombs

12/24/2008 3:17:48 PM

clearly u have no imagination if a phone booth doesnt make more sense than a refrigerator

12/24/2008 3:18:57 PM

Stagecoach (1939)
- A device known as a "Running W" was used on the Indians' horses during the sequence where they are chasing the stagecoach. Strong, thin wires are fixed to a metal post, then the other end of the wires are attached to an iron clamp that encircles the legs of a horse, and the post is anchored into the ground. The horse is then ridden at full gallop, and when the wire's maximum length is reached--just when the rider is "shot"--the animal's legs are jerked out from underneath it, causing it to tumble violently and throw the "shot" rider off. The trouble was that the rider knew when the horse was going to fall but the horse didn't, resulting in many horses either being killed outright or having to be destroyed because of broken limbs incurred during the falls. The use of the "Running W" was eventually discontinued after many complaints from both inside and outside the film industry.

12/24/2008 3:19:06 PM

xXx (2002)
- Stunt player Harry O'Connor was killed when he hit a pillar of the Palacky Bridge in Prague, para-sailing during one of the actions scenes. The accident occured while filming the second take of the stunt; O'Connor's first attempt was completed without incident and can be seen in the completed film.

12/24/2008 3:20:29 PM

Girlfight (2000)
- Michelle Rodriguez trained for two months before the 30-day shoot began. She was also chosen over 300 other women to be cast in the film. It was her first audition.

12/24/2008 3:22:10 PM

Oz (1997)
- Some cast members that played prisoners have noted that, throughout the series, if you showed up late to the set, your punishment would be that your character would either die or be raped the next week.

12/24/2008 3:28:23 PM

Memento (2000)
- In the reversed opening scene, the footage of the shell casing reversing is really writer/director Christopher Nolan blowing on it, since it would have been too difficult to try to get the shell casing in a close-up view as it hit the ground, while keeping the camera still. In order to get a better looking scene in reverse, they didn't simply film it forward and reverse it in editing. They actually fed the film through in reverse, making a crisper picture. However, this specific shot was not meant to be filmed in reverse. It was done accidentally, and so they had to, in editing, reverse it. That means it's a shot of a simulated reversal, recorded backwards, and then manually reversed to get the desired effect.

12/24/2008 3:30:57 PM

do what now?

12/24/2008 3:34:12 PM

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- The evil character from the future is called "De Nomolos", which is writer and producer Ed Solomon's name spelt backwards.

12/24/2008 3:36:38 PM

i was gonna post that memento one, but i didnt understand it the first time i read it and didnt want to re-read it

12/24/2008 3:39:58 PM

^^thats pretty cool

12/24/2008 3:42:15 PM

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
-The gag about Robin being able to speak with an English accent is a reference to Kevin Costner's performance in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Unfortunately viewers who saw both movies in a dubbed version couldn't get this gag. For the German dubbed version the gag was changed to: "because I -- unlike some other Robin Hood -- do not cost the producers 5 million". The German word "kosten" (cost) was also pronounced to sound a little bit like Costner. In the French (France) and Italian (Italy) dubbed versions, it is translated as, "Because unlike other Robin Hoods, I do not dance with the wolves", referring to another Kevin Costner movie Dances with Wolves (1990). In Quebec, the translation becomes "Because unlike other Robin Hoods, I accept to wear tights," which refers to the fact that Costner didn't wear tights in the 1991 movie.

-The character played by Joe Dimmick, "Dirty Ezio", was originally written as "Dirty Harry" (Dimmick being a Clint Eastwood look-alike). But on that shooting day, Ezio Greggio, the Italian director, was visiting on the set and 'Mel Brooks (I)' decided to change the killer's name as a joke-homage to his colleague.

-Dave Chappelle's screen debut.



[Edited on December 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM. Reason : moar]

12/24/2008 3:42:47 PM

A Charlie Brown Christmaas (1965)
- Just before her remarks about Christmas being a big commercial racket, Lucy refers to Charlie Brown simply as "Charlie". This is the only time she does this in any of the TV specials; every other time it's "Charlie Brown".

12/24/2008 3:43:13 PM

Pulp Fiction (1994)
-Tarantino originally wanted Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love to play Lance and Jody.

12/24/2008 3:43:46 PM

The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994)
- During the show's heyday, children who met Larisa Oleynik (and were too young to understand special effects) would sometimes ask her to "morph" for them. Rather than try to explain things, she would quickly glance around, then tell them "Not here - everybody would see!".

12/24/2008 3:44:16 PM

i, too, have some things i'd ask alex mack to do that i wouldn't want everyone to see

12/24/2008 3:48:34 PM

the mask in Halloween is from a mold of a William Shatner mask

12/24/2008 3:51:33 PM

i use to want to do that broad so much^^

[Edited on December 24, 2008 at 3:51 PM. Reason : .]

12/24/2008 3:51:37 PM

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
-In order to achieve a constant limp while filming, Owen Wilson placed a small lime in his shoe.

12/24/2008 3:55:24 PM

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- Police Chief Hubbard ('Stephen Elliott') walks into his first scene carrying some rolled-up sheets of paper. It is actually one of many reworked scripts, which was given to him to memorize and rehearse only minutes before the shooting of the scene started.

- The song which plays during the strip club scene is "Nasty Girl", by Vanity, and was recommended by the real-life stripper who was hired for the scene.

- David Cronenberg was asked to direct but turned it down.

i can't imagine how different the movie would be if cronenberg had directed it

12/24/2008 4:02:24 PM

Snatch (2000)
-When Vinny and Sol are sitting outside Brick-Top's Bookies, about to give him the diamond, the man that approaches the car is not really Bullet-Tooth Tony, it was a look-alike. Vinnie Jones didn't show up for shooting that day because he was in jail for fighting the night before.

12/24/2008 4:06:57 PM

Aliens (1986)
- Lance Henriksen wanted to wear double-pupil contact lenses for a scene where Bishop is working in the lab on a microscope and gives a scary look at one of the Marines. He came to set with those lenses, but James Cameron decided he did not need to wear them because he was acting the character with just the right amount of creepiness already.
SOMEONE MAKE THE BISHOP CHRONICLES NOW!

-The Alien nest set was kept intact after filming. It was later used as the Axis Chemicals set for Batman (1989). When the crew of Batman (1989) first entered the set, they found most of the Alien nest still intact.
SOMEONE MAKE BATMAN VS. ALIENS NOW!

- Sigourney Weaver told James Cameron that she wanted to do three things in the movie; not handle a weapon, die, and make love to an alien. While none of these wishes were fulfilled, she got to do all three in the later movies.
SOMEONE MAKE A PORNO FEATURI...you know what, no, nevermind

- In the original script, when Ripley is rescuing Newt, she runs into Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) in the power plant. He claims he can feel the parasite inside him and asks for help. Ripley gives him a live grenade and moves on.
THIS WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT SCENE, DONT KNOW WHY IT WAS CUT

12/24/2008 4:22:19 PM

Fight Club (1999)
-The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn't be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.

12/24/2008 4:27:15 PM

if i ever write an action movie, i'm putting the live grenade bit in there

12/24/2008 4:28:59 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
-The vision of Freddy came from a childhood memory of Wes Craven, When he was 10 yrs old he looked out the window of the apartment he lived in and a drunk man dressed similar to Freddy was looking directly at him and continued to stay there looking at the window for several minutes. This scared him so, later on he decided this would be the look for Freddy.

-While struggling to conceptualize what his villain would use for a weapon, Wes Craven saw his house cat unsheathe his retractile claws. This, of course, gave him the inspiration for the knifed fingers. Special-effects supervisor Jim Doyle then designed the actual weapons.

12/24/2008 4:38:19 PM

The Professional (1994)
-During the filming involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the "police" and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.

12/24/2008 5:12:40 PM

I like this thread.

12/24/2008 5:43:41 PM

Twelve Monkeys (1995)
-In a scene where Cole is drawing blood from himself, the shadow of a hamster in a hamster wheel can be seen on the wall. This scene would normally be shot in 5 minutes, but took a whole day because the hamster would not move, and Gilliam is such a perfectionist that he insisted that even this detail should work as intended. For the rest of the production Gilliam's perfectionism was nick-named "the Hamster Factor".

12/24/2008 8:22:55 PM

Brazil (1985)
- This was River Phoenix's favorite movie, and he had been filming Dark Blood (1993) with Jonathan Pryce. As a gift, Pryce arranged for Phoenix to meet Terry Gilliam, his hero. The meeting was set to happen the day he died outside the Viper Room. Phoenix never met him.

12/24/2008 8:33:53 PM

Salo
- The August 1998 Criterion was removed from the market due to copyright problems. So, this version of the DVD with the "white ring around the hub" can be easily sold for 600 or more US dollars in good condition. This makes it one of, if not the most, valuable DVD in the world. Bootlegs are extremely common due to its value. Research should be done before purchasing.

I HAVE THIS MOVIE. AS AN ASIDE, I WISH I DID NOT HAVE THIS MOVIE.

12/24/2008 8:39:22 PM

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
-The giant boulder that chases after Indiana Jones at the start of the film was made of fiberglass. The sound they used for it was of a Honda Civic rolling downhill.

-To create the sound of the heavy lid of the Ark being slid open, sound designer Ben Burtt simply recorded him moving the lid of his toilet cistern at home.

-At the end of the film, when Indy and Marion are tied to the pole as the Nazi's and Belloq open the Ark, the dome-topped head of R2-D2 is resting on the top of the pole that they are tied to.

12/24/2008 8:39:37 PM

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The snake, Basil, was introduced into the film by Stanley Kubrick when he found out Malcolm McDowell had a fear of reptiles.
HE DID LOOK PRETTY PETRIFIED.

-Alex singing and dancing to "Singing in the Rain" as he beats and ties up the writer and his wife was not scripted. Stanley Kubrick spent four days experimenting with this scene, finding it too conventional. Eventually he approached Malcolm McDowell and asked him if he could dance. They tried the scene again, this time with McDowell doing an improv of Alex singing and dancing. Kubrick was so amused by it that he and McDowell drove back to his home, where he swiftly bought the rights to "Singing in the Rain" for $10,000.

-According to an interview with Malcolm McDowell, the actor often kept Stanley Kubrick highly amused by his ability to belch on command (as illustrated at various points of the movie). The actor and director also passed the time obsessively playing table tennis (a sport which appeared in Kubrick's earlier Lolita (1962)); McDowell was later irritated to find that his salary had been docked for the hours spent playing the game.
LOL

-In the scene where Reformed Alex is being taken into the woods by his old droogan buddies you can see the officer numbers on their uniforms 665 and 667 implying that Alex is 666.

12/24/2008 8:55:08 PM

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Melissa Joan Hart auditioned for a role in this movie.

- When Stanley Kubrick was first developing ideas for the film in the early 1980's his first choice for the male lead was Steve Martin. Kubrick had greatly enjoyed The Jerk (1979).

12/24/2008 9:03:15 PM

Quote :

"Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Melissa Joan Hart auditioned for a role in this movie. "

gee thanks director

12/24/2008 9:13:03 PM

2001 (1968)
- According to Isaac Asimov, Stanley Kubrick wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyd's of London to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence were discovered before the movie was released. Lloyd's wouldn't insure him.

- If you consider the relative positions of Bowman when he first arrives in the suite, when he is next standing in the room, when he is in the bathroom, when he is at the table, and when he is in the bed, these points form a star.

- Although it's commonly believed that the famous "jump cut" is from the bone being tossed in the air to a ship floating in space, it is in fact not a spaceship, it's a nuclear device circling the earth. So the bone being used as the "first" murder weapon is thrown to the "ultimate" weapon. Originally the "star child" was to detonate this device and all the other devices that were circling the earth. Stanley Kubrick decided against the ending as it was too similar to the end of his previous film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), where nuclear bombs are exploded.

12/24/2008 9:26:25 PM

Pitch Black (2000)
- The contact lenses Vin Diesel wore in the movie, while a prototype during production, were briefly available to the public from Lens Quest following the release of the film. They were called Shine Job, like in the movie.

12/24/2008 9:29:59 PM

Vanilla Sky (2001)
- The scene with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz in the street with a Wolkswagen van in the back is a perfect copy (cars, jacket of tom cruise, attitude of the women...) of the cover of Bob Dylan's record "The Freewheeling Bob Dylan".

12/24/2008 9:39:30 PM

Mean Girls (2004)
- Tim Meadows makes a reference to a "Saturday Night Live" (1975) character he created. During the gymnasium confessional, he begins the talk by asking, "Is there anyone here with a lady problem?" - the catchphrase of talk show host Leon Phelps, aka "The Ladies Man".

12/24/2008 10:35:54 PM

^^ is that really trivia? dont they pretty much tell you in the movie?

12/24/2008 10:37:27 PM

crash (2004) - During a heated argument, Christine (Thandie Newton) tells Cameron (Terrence Howard) that the closest he's ever been to being black was watching "The Cosby Show." Terrence Howard's first professional acting role was on "The Cosby Show" at age 19.

12/24/2008 10:47:21 PM

Here's a bit of Fight Club trivia I have been trying to back up since high school but I can't find my tape ...

A friend of mine's uncle worked for some production company and he used to always score us movies before they came to theaters.

He gave me a copy of Fight Club, and I swear it had every deleted and alternate scene (abortion versus grade school) that was included on the DVD. It also had a different introduction, and the entire soundtrack was done by Massive Attack rather than Dust Brothers.

It sucks for numerous reasons. One: It's an awesome thing to have and show people. Two: It was good, and I'd love to watch the version again. Three: I can't remember which version I liked better

[Edited on December 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM. Reason : ]

12/24/2008 11:13:17 PM