Charlie Sheen called this film, "a piece of shit that I wished didn't exist and that I was terrible in". See more »
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 4 July 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Both Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams's stunt doubles were named Keith. When Steven Spielberg called for Keith to come to the set, both Keiths showed up. Eventually, Hoffman's stunt double changed his name from Keith to Keifo.
― soref, Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:14 (1 week ago) Permalink
real good, this one
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 11 July 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
According to the Train Movies website Railserve, "the film was shot in British Columbia, where a 'Lac Des Arcs' train station was built along the tracks specifically for the film. The train consisted of a British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) SD40-2 diesel and 12 privately owned passenger cars, all painted in VIA Rail Canada livery to appear as the Toronto-Vancouver Canadian. The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches (#521, 524, 550), one dome car (#555), one dining car (#548), another coach (#540), three sleepers (#558, 564, 544), and a rear dome car (#597). The primary compartments in the film are A6 in #564, and later C6 in #558. Some of the distant exterior shots of the train (specifically two bridge crossings) were filmed using a model train".
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 17 July 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
The character played by Bruce Fontaine exclaims "Hey, he hit me!" after an opponent slashes him with a knife. The scene was originally written so that Fontaine would be punched, but when the knives were improvised, no one updated the dialogue or corrected Fontaine.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
In a deleted scene, the Gremlins release all the animals in the "Splice o' Life" lab. During the filming of this scene, the monkeys in the lab set were genuinely so terrified of the Gremlin puppets, that they refused to leave their cages when their trainers called for them.
― pplains, Monday, 14 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
hahaha poor monkeys
― balls, Monday, 14 September 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
Robin Williams sports a bushy mustache throughout all of this movie.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
Henry Cavill naturally has a hairy chest and left it untouched for the shoot of this movie. He insisted that Superman has chest hair in this film; he rejected the notion that just because you are muscular, you should not have chest hair and cited the Superman comic book "The Death Of Superman" as being an iconic representation in which Superman had a hairy chest.
― soref, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Despite his name, Gary Oldman was only 28 during filming.
― pplains, Saturday, 7 November 2015 06:10 (eight years ago) link
bad jeopardy clue
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Saturday, 7 November 2015 06:36 (eight years ago) link
Director Tarsem Singh told Henry Cavill after their first meeting that if he got the role of Theseus, he would have to develop an "eight pack", not a "six pack", he could have very little body fat on his body and that his wardrobe would be very revealing. Cavill trained for six months and developed his abdominal muscles into a full "eight pack" which was then displayed throughout the movie in numerous shirtless scenes. He brought down his body fat percentage to 6%, which he subsequently maintained throughout the shoot.
Henry Cavill refused all assistance from the make-up and VFX departments to achieve his eight-pack for the movie. He told them "I do not want you to draw abs on me". He said it was "a pride thing" for him. He "actually wanted to have that body for real and show it in the film."
Mickey Rourke said of star Henry Cavill that he would do 2000 push ups daily before he went before the camera.
Henry Cavill, who is naturally hairy, had to shave his torso for the film. But he said that shaving had its advantages as he was able to see all the muscle definition that he had achieved for this role.
Henry Cavill said he felt very stressed out leading up to filming of his shirtless scenes for the movie. He would wake up every morning and look into the mirror and think "Can I still see the veins in my abs". He said he did look good enough but felt a lot of pressure because he wanted to completely deliver on the shape his director had asked for (a full eight-pack of abs).
Henry Cavill noted that there was a healthy competition on set among all the male actors as all of them had to appear shirtless and all wanted to look their best in front of the camera. He said that they would have friendly "best abs contests" to determine "who had the best abs". Co-star Luke Evans said that Henry Cavill was definitely the one to beat.
― slam dunk, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
I was going to congratulate you on the intricately-fabricated IMDB trivia but then I went to IMDB and now I need a shower.
― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
Henry Cavill seems conflicted about his body hair
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 6 December 2015 07:51 (eight years ago) link
At the 1:01 mark, you can see Luke Goss trip over his own feet.
The scene of Sharon Stone's character cutting her husband's hair (played by William H. Macy) was not in the script. Stone was to pantomime cutting the hair, but she actually snipped his hair. Macy's visibly tense reaction to the haircut was real.
― soref, Sunday, 6 December 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link
Starring William H. Macy as The Husband's Hair
lol
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 6 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
all the trivia about reactions being "real" needs to go
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
here's another jeopardy clue
One of two Best Picture Oscar winners with a 'Z' in the title. The other one was The Great Ziegfeld (1936).
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
Schindler's Liszt?
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
At the beginning of the film, when Lou Ivon (Jay O. Sanders) comes into the office of Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to tell him that President Kennedy has been shot, Costner's horrified reaction to the news is real, Stone having kept the plot of the movie a secret from the cast. Sanders' broken expression is likewise real, Stone having told him just before the cameras rolled that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.
― nomar, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
Why did I think Garrison in JFK heard about it in a restaurant, with some heckler in the background going I'm glad he's dead!
― pplains, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
This is one of two films in which a character played by Jerry O'Connell has his penis bitten off. The other is Piranha 3D (2010).
― soref, Saturday, 20 February 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like a movie night!
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 February 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
Man, I must've suppressed the details of that leech scene.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 February 2016 00:33 (eight years ago) link
I just discovered the Cinemorgue wiki which is a treasure trove of death scene trivia. Particularly: http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Death_scenes_by_cause_of_death
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Saturday, 26 March 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Death_scenes_by_orgasm
http://i.imgur.com/7jsij6o.png
― pplains, Saturday, 26 March 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Some of those categories are fantastic. I think my favorite is 'death scenes by ceasing to exist'.
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Saturday, 26 March 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
• Shot (in the throat and head) while riding in his motorcade beside Blair Brown.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
• Destroyed when Linda Hamilton crushes him in an industrial press in an empty factory.
• Sacrifices himself by having Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong lower him down into an iron foundry and being melted so that the futuristic technology of his android body won't be misused.
• Destroyed in an explosion after he places a bomb in Kristanna Loken's mouth to destroy them both.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Steve Buscemi: Shot repeatedly by soldiers whilst he's dying of an exotic leprosy-like flesh-eating disease in the jungle, after Roger Daltrey tricks him into going into an off-limits area.
I... I did not see this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 March 2016 01:31 (eight years ago) link
it's an ok episode but has some outstanding gross body horror sfx. roger daltrey's nose falls off at the end.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EP9-ZE3kS0
― slam dunk, Monday, 28 March 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
That's what the Tommy movie was missing... clothespins.
― pplains, Monday, 28 March 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
This filmed was originally conceived as a drama with Daniel Day-Lewis originally attached to play as Gilmore, Sean Connery as Chubs, and Richard Gere as Shooter McGavin. During pre-production, both Geare and Day-Lewis left the project, and the script was retooled as a comedy vehicle for Adam Sandler. After Sandler was cast as Happy Gilmore, Sean Connery also left the project.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
WTF at that Happy Gilmore trivia. Who knew. I've never been able to find it again but I read something ages ago about Pauly Shore's Jury Duty similarly mutating from a psychological thriller into the thing it ultimately became.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
See also John Gregory Dunne's 'Monster', about how he and Joan Didion wrote the screenplay for the movie about the real-life death of a journalist, which ended up being hollywoodised into a romantic comedy.
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
any sources back up the happy gilmore thing? its writers were adam sandler and a guy who only writes adam sandler movies.
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 1 July 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
"In real life, Adam Sandler is terrible at both hockey and golf."
― circa1916, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
not trivia but content advisory
Numerous scenes of Chinese girls getting fucked mercilessly.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
There are occasional derogatory and colloquial references to peoples parentage.
― niels, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Goofs: Though the "girls of the road" are supposed to be broke, sleeping outdoors and living on the thin edge of starvation, they all have perfectly permed hair and plucked eyebrows.
― soref, Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
really want to see this
http://www.thevideobeat.com/media/description-pix/Girls%20of%20the%20Road.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:35 (seven years ago) link
hands up ilxors who've got an imdb entry
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 October 2016 08:01 (seven years ago) link
Taglines: A Christian horror film that's in tents.
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
If I calculated correctly, the body count is 69.
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link
A real website was created for Jimmy's business in the show. The fictional business, Saul Goodman Productions, can be seen by typing in the name of the business with no spaces between the words.
Wait, can you do this with other words too?
― pplains, Sunday, 17 June 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
other urls too?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 June 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
It's amazing what you can find on the World Wide Web.
― pplains, Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
hands up ilxors who've got an imdb entry― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:01 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:01 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
... raises hand...
OK, I put it there, but it got accepted, so ner.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 June 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link