What's a fact about a movie or tv show that you know that makes you go, "Why do I know this?!!!"

[Pseudo64]

Like, that one quote-on-quote "fun fact" that makes you go, "why do I know this fact? What am I doing with my life? It doesn't affect my life in anyway, so why do I know this?"

For me it would be the fact that John Franklin, the guy who played Issac in Children Of The Corn (1984) was actually a full grown man, but because of a growth hormonal deficiency, he looked like a child. Again I don't know why or even how I know this fact, but...I just know for some reason. :v

 

[Iguana-0]

Milo And Otis. There is a fact i won't state though because i don't wanna get my account banned.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

Vigo Mortinson broke his toe on TLOTR.

 

[fake-kun]

The Last Temptation of Christ is banned in the Philippines.

 

[NeonKnights]

Hideaki Anno animated the God Warrior sequence in "Nausicaa of the Valley of The Wind".

 

[Cu-Neo]

The last season of Bakugan, it was going to be 26 episodes long, but Nelvana wanted 20 more episodes and the season ended having in total 46 episodes.

 

[Azazelivae]

Ultraman Nexus was supposed to be longer but cut short because Rating.

Honestly i wish they remake that series one day.
The only reason i wish for that is because the re-adaptation for Dark Lucifer which is Dark Lugiel is idk man less cool than what Dark Lucifer could've been.

 

[Mr. SyS]

Milo And Otis. There is a fact i won't state though because i don't wanna get my account banned.

Tldr; rumors of mass animal cruelty. It's a tough read.

 

[Prism_Red]

Sam Jackson supposed to have a full afro in Pulp Fiction, the makeup department somehow got it wrong and brought a jerry curl, Tarantino decided to kept it since it fits Jules' character better as a hitman, an afro would stand out too much among the crowds.

Edward Robinson was fighting cancer during the filming of Soylent Green, he didn't tell anyone on the set except his co-star, Charlton Heston, that he probably only have few weeks left to live (sadly, he passed only few days after the shoot). Heston genuinely cried during the euthanasia scene.

On Tropic Thunder, Kirk Lazarus, a black person played by an Australian actor portrayed by American actor Robert Downey Jr. joked on the set that he was going all in playing the Kirk Lazarus he would stay in-character for the remainder of the production. And he did, the promotional material, behind the scenes, interviews, every single one of them, RDJ did as Kirk Lazarus, complete with the fake accent and fake tan.

 

[Jediuser]

The ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail happened because the cast really got arrested for filming on the grounds without permission. It was originally supposed to end with them finding the grail in a hardware store.

 

[bjork]

One of the posters used to promote Spice World, as well as the image used for the original VHS/DVD releases in the US, uses a flipped image of the girls, but they took the time to flip Baby's necklace so that it reads "BABY" properly. Why? Who knows.

 

[Stingy Perry]

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and New Mobile Report Gundam Wing(1995) were both premiered in Japan on 7th of April on their respective years.

 

[Pseudo64]

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and New Mobile Report Gundam Wing(1995) were both premiered in Japan on 7th of April on their respective years.

I am wondering if the release date was purposeful and some sort of an anniversary thingey. Considering sega infamously rushed sonic 06 so it could be released on sonic's anniversary.

 

[PhrawzT]

The ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail happened because the cast really got arrested for filming on the grounds without permission. It was originally supposed to end with them finding the grail in a hardware store.

There was a whole massive battle scene in the script, but they ran out of budget so it was scrapped.

 

[Tonberry]

Disney's The Black Cauldron has about 12 minutes of deleted scenes because test audiences deemed it too graphic. This was done late in production so it's pretty easy to tell in some scenes where they re-animated stuff in a short time frame.
It probably wouldn't have saved the movie from being incredibly boring, but it would probably have been a bit cooler.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The creators of the French-Canadian cartoon "Robinson Sucroe" were sued by the Robinson Crusoe people for copyright infringement... some twenty years later.

Why the wait? I'd love to say that that's because they wanted the show to end so they could sue for all the generated revenue lol.

 

[Jediuser]

There was a whole massive battle scene in the script, but they ran out of budget so it was scrapped.

Yeah, they decided to just leave in the footage of them getting arrested (which IS funny).

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Kirby Right Back At Ya actually had an effect on the future games.

-the Twin Nuts song became a motif in the Kirby games for a while.
HnK > Lifted Upwards (Mass Attack) > Tumbling Ice (RtDL/RtDL DX) > More Dig & Dash (Rainbow Curse)

-Kirby’s poyo language became canon, before he would often speak English or not at all

-there’s a few cameos from the show (the NME transporter in Squeak Squad, Escargoon in Mass Attack, Buff Dedede)

-Checker Knights

-Meta Knight’s sword forever being named Galaxia

-Waddle Dees and Doos being associated with Dedede wasn’t really a thing till the anime

-Water Kirby first appeared in the anime

-Metal Kirby in Squeak Squad is very obviously based on Iron Kirby

-Ghost Kirby may be inspired from Baton Twirling Kirby

-Knuckle Joe started becoming more of a staple likely due to the anime

-the return of the Cook ability and Kawasaki (arguably)

-that one attack Needle Kirby can do that causes him to shoot out spikes HAS to have come from the anime because that happened quite often and that wasn’t a move until RtDL

 

[UnDubious]

For me it would be the fact that John Franklin, the guy who played Issac in Children Of The Corn (1984) was actually a full grown man, but because of a growth hormonal deficiency, he looked like a child. Again I don't know why or even how I know this fact, but...I just know for some reason. :vView attachment 55770

This explains a lot! I didn't know this when I watched the movie, but I spent the whole movie thinking he looked... off. He looks like a child, but sometimes he doesn't, cause his skin looks old. IIRC his voice is unusual too. I even wondered if he wasn't played by a short, kind of masculine woman (I had never heart about that kind of hormonal deficiency until a couple years ago).

 

[Jediuser]

Kirby Right Back At Ya actually had an effect on the future games.

-the Twin Nuts song became a motif in the Kirby games for a while.
HnK > Lifted Upwards (Mass Attack) > Tumbling Ice (RtDL/RtDL DX) > More Dig & Dash (Rainbow Curse)

-Kirby’s poyo language became canon, before he would often speak English or not at all

-there’s a few cameos from the show (the NME transporter in Squeak Squad, Escargoon in Mass Attack, Buff Dedede)

-Checker Knights

-Meta Knight’s sword forever being named Galaxia

-Waddle Dees and Doos being associated with Dedede wasn’t really a thing till the anime

-Water Kirby first appeared in the anime

-Metal Kirby in Squeak Squad is very obviously based on Iron Kirby

-Ghost Kirby may be inspired from Baton Twirling Kirby

-Knuckle Joe started becoming more of a staple likely due to the anime

-the return of the Cook ability and Kawasaki (arguably)

-that one attack Needle Kirby can do that causes him to shoot out spikes HAS to have come from the anime because that happened quite often and that wasn’t a move until RtDL

But Meta Knight's Spanish accent didn't stick? LAME!!!

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

But Meta Knight's Spanish accent didn't stick? LAME!!!

Sadly no.
Would've been a game changer to have permanent Spanish Meta Knight

 

[Antilocal123]

In Pulp Fiction they kill people.

 

[UnDubious]

In Pulp Fiction they kill people.

What I heard is that they make it look like they're killing people but none of the actors actually died, pretty wild stuff

 

[Taukyrie]

The special effects in Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film House are bad on purpose because they're meant to look like something a child would do.

 

[UnDubious]

The special effects in Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film House are bad on purpose because they're meant to look like something a child would do.

Not "bad", unrealistic. The movie is loaded with crazy inventive analog effects. Obayashi came from the experimental filmmaking scene of the '60s before getting into commercials to earn a living, and he had spent years messing with the medium, so it's in line with what he was already doing, but even crazier, and with more money and staff.
He wrote the movie with his daughter, so that's where the child part comes in. He asked her what scares her and a lot of the crazy situations in the movie come from that - the weird fears of a young child.