34 Mystical Bits of Movie Trivia That Are Like a Counterspell to the Doldrums

Let’s get those wheels turning, shall we?
34 Mystical Bits of Movie Trivia That Are Like a Counterspell to the Doldrums

Since your brain is roughly 75 percent water (thank you, Google), a stagnant brain is basically like a stagnant bucket of water. It gets pretty sludgy pretty quickly. 

Wow, there’s a lot of “pretties” in a sentence about something that isn’t so pretty. 

Anywho, consider this list of random movie facts a return jet in a swimming pool: Something to stop the stagnation by keeping the brain water flowing.

Grand Budapest Hotel

Saoirse Ronan had to actually learn how to bake. Director Wes Anderson had Ronan bake the courtesan au chocolat herself on screen, which wasn't easy. We have to wonder if Anderson knows what acting is. Grand Budapest Hotel CRACKED.COM

Hereditary

Hereditary Alex Wolff offered to break his own nose. Wolff's character breaks his own nose by slamming his head onto his desk. Wolff was ready to do it for real, but director Ari Aster said no. Because laws. CRACKED.COM

Do the Right Thing

Do The Right Thing Barack and Michelle Obama saw this movie on their first date. She claims he was trying to impress her by picking a movie by an independent filmmaker. CRACKED.COM

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys Ben Stiller was almost in the movie (maybe?). Stiller may or may not have been joking when he mentioned the fact at the 2010 Hollywood Life Young Hollywood Awards. In any case, he still had a successful career despite not playing a teen vampire. CRACKED.COM

Selena

Selena The movie was announced a few months after Selena's death. Selena's biopic was announced in August 1995, after she was tragically shot and killed in March. The movie was released in 1997. CRACKED.COM

King Ralph

CRACKED.COM King Ralph John Goodman is the only American cast member. To fit the tone and premise of the movie, the director made sure that everyone but the crass American Ralph was played by British actors.

Despicable Me

Kristen Wiig and Ken Jeong are in both movies. Wiig plays Miss Hattie in the first film and Lucy in the sequel. Jeong plays a Talk Show Host in the first, and returns in the second film as Floyd Eagle-san. Despicable Me 1&2 CRACKED.COM

The Batman

CRACKED.COM The Batman Robert Pattinson auditioned in Val Kilmer's Batman costume. Director Matt Reeves already had Pattinson in mind for the Caped Crusader-which is good, because the nipples couldn't have caused a great impression.

The LEGO Movie

A real Lego Gotham would be 650 yards long. The animators went into overload to give the city buildings, alleys, businesses, and other features the comic book Gotham had. If built with real Lego bricks, the set would be six and a half football fields long. BANG The Lego Batman Movie CRACKED.COM

The Avengers

CRACKED.COM The Avengers Jeremy Renner wanted Hawkeye killed off. Even Renner found Clint an underwhelming character at first, and wanted him to die so he could focus on other projects. Instead, Hawkeye is alive and well, with his own series on Disney+.

The Naked Gun

CRACKED.COM OOL The Naked Gun The movie was John Houseman's final film role. Houseman, who won an Oscar for The Paper Chase and was a frequent collaborator with Orson Welles, made his final film appearance giving the middle finger as a driving instructor.

Hook

CRACKED.COM Hook Michael Jackson put a curse on Steven Spielberg. The king of pop really wanted to play Peter Pan, and wasn't at all happy when Spielberg turned him down - to the extent that he reportedly paid $150,000 to put a hex on the director.

Ocean’s Eleven

Mark Wahlberg turned down a role for Planet of the Apes. Wahlberg was offered the role of Linus (which eventually went to Matt Damon), but chose to work on Tim Burton's monkey movie instead. Swing and a miss, Mark. Ocean's Eleven CRACKED.COM

13 Going on 30

CRACKED.COM 13 GOING ON 30 It's one of Ariana Grande's favorite movies. Grande loves the movie so much that she references it in her video for thank u, next. She said on Instagram that she used to watch the movie every night before bedtime.

Crazy Rich Asians

CRACKED.COM CRAZY RICH ASIANS The Mahjong scene is a nod to The Joy Luck Club. The encounter doesn't happen in the book, but the director wanted to pay homage to another Hollywood film that featured an all-Asian cast.

Bulworth

BULWORTH Warren Beatty needed Cornel West's opinion before releasing the movie. Beatty was concerned about how the movie would be received by black audiences, and wanted its intended message heard, so he arranged a private screening for the professor and civil rights activist. West gave the film a thumbs up. CRACKED.COM

The Good Dinosaur

THE GOOD DINOSAUR Arlo's movements were based on elephants. Since you can't exactly look at the way a living dinosaur walks, the animators mimicked the movements of elephants for the main dino character. CRACKED.COM

Hoosiers

CRACKED.COM HOOSIERS Jack Nicholson couldn't play the coach for legal reasons. Nicholson really wanted the part, but he was busy for several months playing the real-life role of a witness in a lawsuit during production.

Hotel Transylvania

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA The movie went through six directors. It was first helmed by Anthony Stacchi and David Feiss before Jill Culton, who was followed by Chris Jenkins and then Todd Wilderman. Genndy Tartakovsky ended the movie/hot potato, and saw the project to completion. CRACKED.COM

Mulan

MULAN Mulan had two voices. Ming-Na Wen voiced the character during the speaking scenes, and Tony Award-winning Lea Salonga provided the singing voice. CRACKED.COM

Nomadland

NOMADLAND The majority of the cast were real people. The characters in the movie are actual nomads playing fictionalized versions of themselves. If you look at the credits, you'll see that most of their characters were named after themselves. CRACKED.COM

Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT (1995) It took eleven people to bring Goro to life. The four-armed champion required six puppeteers and four technicians (plus the stuntman stuffed into the suit). CRACKED.COM

Promising Young Woman

CRACKED.COM PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN The director purposely cast nice guy actors. Emerald Fennell cast Adam Brody, Max Greenfield, and Chris Lowell due to their past screen appearances as nice characters to help sell the reveal when their movie characters were... Well, not nice.

Mortal Kombat

CRACKED.COM MORTAL KOMBAT (2021) Sub-Zero's costume weighed 33 lbs. As the movie relied on realistic and practical effects/costuming, the entire outfit that Joe Taslim wore weighed in at 33 pounds, making his quick stunt moves even more impressive.

Godzilla

CRACKED.COM GODZILLA Godzilla was allegedly named after some big dude. According to director Ishiro Honda, Gojira (westernized as Godzilla) was a nickname for a large man that worked at Toho's publicity department. Gojira came about when two people argued whether he was as big as a gorilla or as a whale (kujira).

Die Hard

DIE HARD Bruce Willis did the movie due to a pregnancy. At first, Willis couldn't take the part of John McClane due to his commitment to Moonlighting. That changed when his Moonlighting co-star Cybill Shepherd announced she was pregnant, and the series paused production. CRACKED.COM

Osmosis Jones

OSMOSIS The movie inspired the National Buffalo Wing Festival. The festival didn't exist in real life when Bill Murray's character wanted to attend in the movie. Buffalo native Drew Cerza made it a reality in 2002. CRACKED.COM

Wonder Woman

WIX WONDER WOMAN General Erich Ludendorff actually existed. While the thing involving the Greek god of war wasn't real (probably), Ludendorff was actually a general in the German army during World War I. Unlike the movie version, the real Ludendorff resigned and fled to Sweden. CRACKED.COM

Dogma

by SNOPPON DOGMA Jason Mewes took the role seriously due to Alan Rickman. Mewes didn't want to anger an actor of Rickman's caliber by being his usual slackish self, so he went out of his way to learn his lines. CRACKED.COM

The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM THE PRINCESS BRIDE André the Giant was too big for his horse. A pulley system was devised to lower the huge guy onto the horse without putting too much weight on the poor beast's spine.

Howard the Duck

The first-ever Marvel movie was Howard the Duck. HOWARD was THE DUCK There was an earlier Captain America movie, but Marvel didn't actually exist yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Casino Royale

In the 2006 Casino Royale, Tsai Chin played Madam Wu. She also appeared in You Only Live Twice, in 1967. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Baby Driver

CJ Jones, the actor who plays Joseph in Baby Driver, is actually deaf. Writer/director Edgar Wright says, I started auditioning other very good actors who were pretending to be deaf. It made me feel immediately uncomfortable. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pirates of the Caribbean

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Mackenzie Crook had to wear two lenses in the same eye. It's uncomfortable, but not painful, he says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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