Questions tagged [movies]
Use this tag when questioning something about the movies, not when being skeptical of something seen in a movie.
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What do you really know about the Lucy movie? [duplicate]
If someone knows about the deep details of the Lucy movie, don't hesitate to answer my question.
That drug really exists in the world. Or it's fake a product?
What is the real name of the chemical ...
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Could the diphtheria antitoxin (vaccine) have been flown into Nome, Alaska in 1925, but was chosen not to?
I just finished watching Togo on Disney+ last night, where the plot of the story is centered around a musher, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo. They make a very long trek across the ...
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Is the skeleton in the grave in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” that of a recently deceased actress?
In one of the final scenes of the movie “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the titular characters dig up a grave in a cemetery to reveal a skeleton.
Several sites online report that this is a real ...
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At Chernobyl, did someone see the fuel channel caps bounce shortly before the explosion?
The well known 2019 show Chernobyl mentions an operator who happened to walk through the reactor hall of Unit 4 seconds before the reactor exploded. He allegedly saw this:
If this story seems ...
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When James Cameron pitched the movie ALIENS did he draw the S as a $?
I've heard this story that James Cameron pitched the sequel of ALIEN by simply writing ALIEN$ on a piece of paper, and instantly getting the project greenlit for millions of dollars. I tried tracking ...
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Has Francesca Marie Smith written any episodes of Hey Arnold?
Migrate to movies se if need be please.
It says in this reddit post here
TIL Francesca Marie Smith, the voice of Helga from Hey Arnold, actually started writing episodes of Hey Arnold when she was ...
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Did Kamala Harris ignore anti-pedophilia California Child Protection Act of 2012?
An Open Secret (anti-pedophilia, anti-Hollywood film) posted on Twitter the following claim which was retweeted 1k+ times:
Did you know?
California Child Protection Act of 2012
Requires adults ...
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Was Donald Trump's scene from Home Alone 2 removed by the CBC in 2014?
Comicbook.com recently reported that Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2 had been cut from the version of the film aired on the CBC.
The CBC responded that the cuts were made back in 2014:
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Does the average American watch 5,000 movies in their lifetime?
Here is a snippet from an article on the Utah Statesman:
According to a Redbox study, Americans watch more than 5,000 movies in their lifetimes, an average of about seven per month.
I cannot find ...
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Did Bruce Lee have to slow down his punches to see his movements on camera?
Fact fiend, for example, maintains that:
Bruce Lee himself had to slow himself down before the camera even started rolling because when he punched as fast as he could, or as fast as he was allowed ...
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Did David Prowse know his voice would not be used for Darth Vader?
A Star Wars fact I have seen a lot of times is that the original actor for Darth Vader, David Prowse did not know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones.
Wookieepedia claims this, ...
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Did actors playing different ape species refuse to eat together during the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967?
According to Futility Closet (attributed to Planet of the Apes Revisited, 2001):
During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton Heston noted “an instinctive segregation on the set. Not ...
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Was the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” gamed by “trolls” and/or bots?
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was recently released and some professional journalists are attributing a discrepancy between the low Rotten Tomatoes audience score—when compared to the relatively universal ...
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Did Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot earn ~1/40th of Man of Steel's Henry Cavill?
According to a recent Fox News article, Gal Gadot earned much less money for starring in her DC movie, Wonder Woman, than fellow actor Henry Cavill did for starring in Man of Steel.
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Did Emma Watson's movie The Colony gross £47 in its UK opening weekend?
According to Breitbart1, Emma Watson starred in a movie which they claim grossed approximately US$61 in the UK:
After having spent years starring in the blockbuster Harry Potter film
franchise, ...
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Did 50% Americans believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews" in 1964?
Joel Stein wrote an article on Los Angeles Times in which he claims:
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are ...
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What makes up $17,500 cost to outfit a U.S. Soldier mentioned in War Dogs?
I just watched the movie War Dogs last night (good flick, btw), and they opened with a line that claims that it costs $17,500 to outfit the average US Soldier. Assuming this disregards training and ...
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Did John Nash Jr. write equations on the windows of a Princeton library? [closed]
I know that the pen ceremony at the end of the film, A Beautiful Mind, to announce that he had won the Nobel Prize in economics was completely fiction.
What about the scenes in the movie that showed ...
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Did Marilyn Monroe say that she could stop giving oral sex after signing her first contract?
This my first question here. I hope it is appropriate for this site.
I recently saw here (I am translating from Greek) that Marilyn Monroe after signing her first contract said something like
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Did David Prowse do the lightsaber duel in Star Wars?
Per Wikipedia:
Vader actor David Prowse explains that he did his own swordplay in Star Wars, but when the movie became a hit deserving of sequels, “having one of the principals do his own stunts ...
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Did "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas" have this quote, which has been compared to Trump's slogan? [closed]
Did the movies "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas" have dialogue with the following subtitle, which has been compared to Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again"?
He's [Hitler] making the country great ...
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Have the ending credits of Rambo III been changed?
I've seen this comparison of the ending credits of Rambo III:
Original ending credits:
Rewritten(?) ending credits:
Did this happen, or is it manufactured?
I've found this comparison on twitter.
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Was Harrison Ford the janitor or carpenter on the set of Star Wars?
There is an old urban legend that Harrison Ford was actually the janitor on the set of Star Wars, and was standing in for the actor that was supposed to play Han Solo. The execs liked him so much ...
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In the movie "Life of Brian", were the guard extras told that they couldn't laugh?
I came across the following image today(I'm just posting it as a link because the image is fairly large):
http://themetapicture.com/why-monty-python-was-so-great/
The image says that in Monty Python'...
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Are movies with aircraft incidents not shown on planes?
CinemaSins (a YouTube channel of movie critiques) often points out movies that 'instantly make themselves unavailable for in-flight viewing due to plane-crash sequence' (e.g. their review of Fight ...
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Is this newspaper clipping about Dave Prowse revealing a major Star Wars plot twist two years in advance, genuine?
Arguably the most famous scene in Star Wars is when Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that
According to most sources, this surprise was kept secret to most of the crew and even the cast during ...
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Did Sandahl Bergman lose a finger during the filming of Conan the Barbarian?
Further, the actress playing Valeria had her index finger severed during a fight scene where they inexplicably used a real sword instead of a prop, and then even more inexplicably gave it to an extra ...
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Are Roman numerals used in the end credits of films to mask their age?
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A post on MTVSE questions why movies use Roman numerals in the copyright notices of the end credits. The accepted (and referenced) answer (ref 1, ref 2) states that ...
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Did production of "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" involve a dramatically high rate of animal deaths?
A rumor has circulated on the internet for quite some time that there were many animal cruelty violations in the process of making the movie, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, including the deaths of ...
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Did Studio Ghibli send a katana to Disney that said "no cuts?"
A famous story that has made the rounds in the anime circles is this:
While Disney/Miramax were in talks to dub and release Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke in the states, it was suggested that a ...
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Was Alan Bradley named after Alan Kay?
Alan Bradley is a character in the 1982 film Tron, the software developer who wrote Tron, a security program and the eponymous protagonist of the film. Alan Kay, on the other hand, is a pioneer of ...
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Did John Nash decipher code from a large board in the Pentagon?
I was watching the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", in which John Nash walks into the Pentagon, looks at a board having codes and deciphers them.
I am quite skeptical about the way the scene is portrayed ...
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Do Disney movies have "adult content" subliminally embedded in them?
It's long floated around my ears that Disney movies have "adult content" secretly/intentionally "embedded" in their various movies. I've heard examples from Lion King, Aladdin, and the Little Mermaid. ...
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Is the Bechdel Test an accurate critique of the film industry?
The Bechdel Test is named for the author of a comic that popularized the following three "rules" that must be fulfilled before a movie passes the test:
The film must have at least two women ...
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