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

[Taukyrie]

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.

Oh yeah, I know the scene with the piano eating the girl is directly the result of this. Which is... actually understandable, I can see how a grand concert piano can seem intimidating.

 

[Yousef]

Kevin Nash was legitimately stabbed in one of his movies. A real actual stab, but he was cool about it because they got him a six pack.
The Batman Begins’ bat mobile was shown in Brendan Fraser’s looney tunes movie years before the actual film.
“Why is Gamora” was ad-libbed.
The Godzilla dance wasn’t in the script and staff almost got mad about it but kept it in.
For some reason, Bryan Cranston while directing some episodes of Breaking Bad would around the set in a baby outfit. Has nothing to do with the show.
In season 3 of Prison Break, Sara was presumed dead because her actress legitimately couldn’t be in the season, some weird camera angles even led to people (myself included) thinking there was gonna be a big twist like there was a twin or something but nope…
Mike Tyson does actually voice himself in his cartoon.
Boomhauer is apparently based on a random guy Mike Judge was in a call with.
Daria cameos in a few episodes of Beavus and Butthead and seems to get along with them.
The telltale game was sorta deliberately written to be as back to the future 4 and it works, micheal j fox cameos in it.
Uncharted took way more from Firefly and the mummy than it did Indiana jones.
The Big Show of WWE fame has a sitcom on Netflix called The Big Show.
Contrary to what people may think, Randy Orton did Star in a few movies. He didn’t follow the footsteps of Batista and Cena, but he did appear in 2011’s “that’s what I am” as a middle aged teacher and one of the kids pees his pants.
Triple H also appears in three movies and they’re all terrible.
Kane has a slasher film called May 19th that was both based on his alleged backstory and was constantly teased during the ruthless aggression era. It sucks.
“Pookie pants” is a real line in one of hulk hogan’s movies. Every hogan movie is bad.
John Cena’s first ever tv appearance was in a WCW’s Ready to Rumble, ironically enough.
Will Forte’s “MacGruber” has a cameo of Kane, Jericho, MVP, Khali and Mark Henry only for them to all die.
John Cena doesn’t own the rights to his name.
There’s a scene in Taken where a guy speaks Arabic and the Arabic is awkward as all hell and sounds stiff and unnatural.
Jackie Chan broke his actual skull at one time. Yikes. How is this man alive?
Oh, he was also in one of Bruce Lee’s movies as a random background grunt. Historic!

I can never run out of pointless trivia.

 

[Pseudo64]

Kevin Nash was legitimately stabbed in one of his movies. A real actual stab, but he was cool about it because they got him a six pack.
The Batman Begins’ bat mobile was shown in Brendan Fraser’s looney tunes movie years before the actual film.
“Why is Gamora” was ad-libbed.
The Godzilla dance wasn’t in the script and staff almost got mad about it but kept it in.
For some reason, Bryan Cranston while directing some episodes of Breaking Bad would around the set in a baby outfit. Has nothing to do with the show.
In season 3 of Prison Break, Sara was presumed dead because her actress legitimately couldn’t be in the season, some weird camera angles even led to people (myself included) thinking there was gonna be a big twist like there was a twin or something but nope…
Mike Tyson does actually voice himself in his cartoon.
Boomhauer is apparently based on a random guy Mike Judge was in a call with.
Daria cameos in a few episodes of Beavus and Butthead and seems to get along with them.
The telltale game was sorta deliberately written to be as back to the future 4 and it works, micheal j fox cameos in it.
Uncharted took way more from Firefly and the mummy than it did Indiana jones.
The Big Show of WWE fame has a sitcom on Netflix called The Big Show.
Contrary to what people may think, Randy Orton did Star in a few movies. He didn’t follow the footsteps of Batista and Cena, but he did appear in 2011’s “that’s what I am” as a middle aged teacher and one of the kids pees his pants.
Triple H also appears in three movies and they’re all terrible.
Kane has a slasher film called May 19th that was both based on his alleged backstory and was constantly teased during the ruthless aggression era. It sucks.
“Pookie pants” is a real line in one of hulk hogan’s movies. Every hogan movie is bad.
John Cena’s first ever tv appearance was in a WCW’s Ready to Rumble, ironically enough.
Will Forte’s “MacGruber” has a cameo of Kane, Jericho, MVP, Khali and Mark Henry only for them to all die.
John Cena doesn’t own the rights to his name.
There’s a scene in Taken where a guy speaks Arabic and the Arabic is awkward as all hell and sounds stiff and unnatural.
Jackie Chan broke his actual skull at one time. Yikes. How is this man alive?
Oh, he was also in one of Bruce Lee’s movies as a random background grunt. Historic!

I can never run out of pointless trivia.

Need to correct you there.
*Every Hulk Hogan film that is not Gremlins 2 is bad. XD

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[ATenderLad]

Need to correct you there.
*Every Hulk Hogan film that is not Gremlins 2 is bad. XD

Oh, and Rocky III (as Thunderlips!) if we're counting cameos!

Useless trivia feels right up my alley, but I always struggle to summon this stuff willingly; it seems to bubble up when I should be having a serious conversation instead. That said, looking at the recent movies I watched, here's a few:

In The Whip and the Body (1963), Christopher Lee has a central role, but is completely dubbed over in every audio track; even English! It had something to do with a scheduling issue, but given that he was already famous from the many Hammer films he appeared in - Dracula, especially - it's pretty unusual to have happen with the biggest name in a film.

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According to Vic Armstrong's book, The True Adventures of the Worlds Greatest Stuntman, a lot - and I mean a LOT - of stuntmen for all the biggest films of the 20th century participated in You Only Live Twice (1967). They needed a ton of bodies for the climax of the film, a ninja assault on a volcano lair. (Ohmygod that felt good to write). It was one of the largest and most elaborate sets ever built, and they basically called in every yahoo they could to attack the joint. Actually, that movie also has an excellent fight scene between Bond and Dwayne Johnson's grandfather, Peter Maivia. He looks wild as hell, and it's probably just behind the train fight with Robert Shaw for my favorite brawl in any Bond movie.

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Road House (1989) is a popular guilty pleasure, but did you know there's a Road House (1948)? The two are completely unrelated, but they do both feature a local hotspot with some brawling, drama, and torrid romance. The older movie also has some fantastic performances by Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark; the latter becomes a full menace by the end of the movie, the kind of thing that would make a modern viewer ask "Is he the fucking Joker now?" Lupino has my favorite scene though, a firm slap that I find irrationally sexy. (The video should be the right timecode now).

 

[Pseudo64]

Oh, and Rocky III (as Thunderlips!) if we're counting cameos!

Useless trivia feels right up my alley, but I always struggle to summon this stuff willingly; it seems to bubble up when I should be having a serious conversation instead.

That said, looking at the recent movies I watched, here's a few:

In The Whip and the Body (1963), Christopher Lee has a central role, but is completely dubbed over in every audio track; even English! It had something to do with a scheduling issue, but given that he was already famous from the many Hammer films he appeared in - Dracula, especially - it's pretty unusual to have happen with the biggest name in a film.

According to Vic Armstrong's book, The True Adventures of the Worlds Greatest Stuntman, a lot - and I mean a LOT - of stuntmen for all the biggest films of the 20th century participated in You Only Live Twice (1967). They needed a ton of bodies for the climax of the film, a ninja assault on a volcano lair. (Ohmygod that felt good to write). It was one of the largest and most elaborate sets ever built, and they basically called in every yahoo they could to attack the joint. Actually, that movie also has an excellent fight scene between Bond and Dwayne Johnson's grandfather, Peter Maivia. He looks wild as hell, and it's probably just behind the train fight with Robert Shaw for my favorite brawl in any Bond movie.

Road House (1989) is a popular guilty pleasure, but did you know there's a Road House (1948)? The two are completely unrelated, but they do both feature a local hotspot with some brawling, drama, and torrid romance. The older movie also has some fantastic performances by Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark; the latter becomes a full menace by the end of the movie, the kind of thing that would make a modern viewer ask "Is he the fucking Joker now?" Lupino has my favorite scene though, a firm slap that I find irrationally sexy.

Obligatory Peter Griffin meme as a reply XD

 

[Adrastia]

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).

I watched this movie over and over again when I was a kid. And I didn't even notice. It wasn't until the actor appeared in a sequel that I found out. I think it works well because Isaac is essentially possessed and has an otherworldly aura. He's not supposed to be a normal kid at all.

The set of Alf had holes all over the floor to make it easier for the puppeteers to animate him. The cast and crew would often fall into these holes when working on the set. Also, Alf's creator Paul Fusco was very sensitive about people not treating Alf like a real living being. Fusco refused to refer to Alf as anything other than a real alien.