Thursday, May 21, 2026

What are some weird movie facts?

 Here is a list of oddities and curiosities

  • In the movie "John Wick: Chapter 2", Keanu Reeves shot about 95% of the fight scenes without stunt doubles.
  • In the movie "Jurassic Park" the sounds made by the Velociraptors are nothing more than recordings of two turtles mating.
  • Scream is loosely based on a real 1990s Florida killing spree
  • Tony Todd actually put bees in his mouth to film this scene from Candyman
  • Jack Nicholson pointed a real gun at Leonardo di Caprio in "The Departed," even though it wasn't in the script.
  • In the film "The Silence of the Lambs" Hannibal Lector never bats an eyelash.
  • Many of the extras in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" were actually mentally ill.
  • When Taxi Driver premiered in New York, it also became one of the 25 most dangerous films.
  • Casino Royale was the first James Bond film to be approved by Chinese censors.
  • To really make Jack Nicholson nervous during the filming of The Shining, he was only fed cheese sandwiches, which he hates.
  • There's an island nation called Niue that accepts collectible Star Wars coins.
  • Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing the script for Inception
  • In the movie Seven, Brad Pitt breaks his arm while chasing John Doe in the rain, only after the accident was it written into the script
  • In "Star Trek" the noise of the automatic doors on the USS Enterprise is nothing more than the toilet flushing of a Russian train.
  • James Cameron, during the filming of Avatar, used a nail gun to pin all the ringing phones to a wall.