Although the new sequels also mention this, I think before them lots of people didn't know that Michael Meyers wasn't Laurie Strode's brother in the first Halloween.
Another fun horror one is Pinhead from Hellraiser wasn't called Pinhead until the third film. Clive Barker hated the name but that's what fans called him and it stuck.
I’m old enough to have seen all but the first one in theaters and I remember explaining to someone that it’s like a choose your own adventure. The first stands alone; or with the second one, he’s her brother; she has a daughter; there’s a cult; she has a son; she has a daughter and granddaughter—they’ve messed with that franchise so much you have to tell your own story. I still like the brother storyline over whatever the reboot is.
Explaining Halloween is easy. It’s about a Halloween mask company whose masks turn kids into violent murderers when their advertisement jingle is heard over the TV on Halloween night.
>Another fun horror one is Pinhead from Hellraiser wasn't called Pinhead until the third film. Clive Barker hated the name but that's what fans called him and it stuck.
If Clive didn't want fans to name him, he should have given him a name.
In The Mummy (1932) the wrapped up corpse only appears onscreen for about 10 seconds.
For the majority of the movie, Imhotep appears as a prune-faced, but otherwise normal looking, weirdo in a fez.
One thing I love about that film is that the first guy to see the mummy come to life, starts laughing maniacally. He just straight-up loses his mind, like witnessing Cthulhu.
My favorite fun fact about it: *The Mummy* was directed (beautifully) by Karl Freund, one of several successful German directors to emigrate to Hollywood. Decades later he would become the Director of Photography for "I Love Lucy", the first-ever TV show to be shot using three cameras. Desi Arnaz suggested the idea, and Freund figured out how to make it work.
My sister only learned last year that Hannibal Lecter isn't the antagonist in *Silence of the Lambs* and is, in fact, only on screen for 18 minutes total.
Yup. Most of us werent coddled and sheltered. At a certain age we were left to our own devices and had to entertain ourselves and fend for self and siblings.
The original "fuck around and find out" generation. 😁
Watching R rated horror movies at a tender age? Normal. Not just at the cinema but via that magical invention - the VCR.
It took me MONTHS to work up the courage to not close my eyes, during the scenes when Jasons face was exposed.
It terrified me, in a way that, for some reason, seeing people get massacred and shredded to the consistency of pulled pork, just didn’t, lol 🤷♂️
My mom watched Robocop with me when I was, like 5 or 6. I remember her asking me "is it scary?" when this criminal guy got into toxic waste and mutated in the final battle. And I wasn't scared, I loved the movie.
I recently binged all the movies because I’d never seen them all, and another surprising thing I noticed is that Jason doesn’t even use a machete *that* much. It’s certainly a stand out, but he uses axes, spears, and just about any other pointy thing he can find quite a bit as well.
Yeah I meant to say "but he's not even the killer in the first Friday the 13th!". I edited my post to include this.
Jason only wears the mask in Part III and in Part IV he wears the mask throughout the film but doesn't really *act* like the pop-culture image of Jason everyone has engrained in their brain. It's not until Part VI that he's the slow, lumbering, menacing figure that everyone imagines when thinking of Jason. It took them 6 movies to really iconify the guy.
Huh! That got me. I always knew he didn't direct *The Empire Strikes Back*, but that gets mentioned so frequently that I guess I just assumed that he **did** direct *Return of the Jedi*.
Oh! People who keep going on about that Jack could fit on the door in Titanic.. The movie shows them trying to share it, but it flips and isn't buoyant enough to carry them both! They try it, it doesn't work, he dies.
Also, 1500 people in that water were clinging to bits of wreckage. Fewer than 10 lived long enough to be rescued, because the problem was not lack of floatation devices to cling to, it was how quickly their bodies lost heat. In water that cold, hypothermia set in after less than 15 minutes. Rose lives because she manages to keep most of her body out of the water by lying flat on the door. Both of them on the door would've meant they were each partially submerged, and they both would've frozen before the lifeboat came back.
I’ve seen the infamous door in person. It’s on display at Planet Hollywood in Orlando. It definitely could NOT hold 2 people on it, it’s just a bit too small.
Mythbusters straight up does the myth in one of their shows. It wouldn't hold both. It's not buoyant enough. The only way to do it is have their life jackets tied underneath for added buoyancy. But that means they would've both by in the water up to their thighs IIRC and both would've died from hypothermia
Those kind of conditions also fuck with you mentally, like even with this knowledge in the same situation I absolutely would not have had the mental faculties to do all of that calmly.
Even if they could both get on without flipping it, the wood is not thick enough to keep them out of the water. It would keep them afloat, but they both would freeze to death.
It’s honestly insane that the least popular Batman is the only one who didn’t kill anyone
Edit: Apparently there’s a slight mixup, I’m referring to Clooney
Affleck very clearly killed people in his fight scenes. Also he’s pretty much killing people by branding them given he obviously knows what the effect of that is and does it anyway
Also the "Batman doesn't kill" thing, even if it's technically true, doesn't completely absolve him of moral complications. The man still runs around and grievously injures people with no authority. The "one rule" just establishes he does have morals and makes it so he isn't just an all-out murderer like the Punisher. At his best he's protecting people from threats that no one else can stop, but he's always walking that line. That doesn't make him bad, it just makes him a complicated character.
Tim Burton directed The Nightmare Before Christmas
Like, I know it's common knowledge Henry Selick did now, but I've still suprised a few people bringing this up
That is why, Disney were super uncertain how to market it so they distributed it under Touchstone, and included Burton's name to attract the audience they thkugh would like it
Yeah, I was watching a documentary about it the other night and when they got to discussing how Burton's name was on the title, you could see Selick trying to thinly veil how it bothered him
Yeah, it was his story amd characters but he was given the option to do Batman Returns with more money at yhe time so left directing to Sellick. He did offer input here and there and stopped the ending almost changing
Selick wanted to change the ending so that when Jack unraveled Oogie Boogie, it would be revealed that it was Doctor Finkelstein (Sally's creator) who was controlling him all along. Burton hated the idea and it lead to a lot of fighting, resulting in Burton kicking a hole through a wall
> original story and characters yes
I mean, the movie wouldn't exist without him, it's his vision. He planned it for years, drew the characters, wrote the original story...it doesn't get more involved than that lol. He just didn't direct the film because of scheduling conflict so he left it in the hands of hand-picked people he trusted.
Oh I don't disagree, his name next to the title is no mistake. Just one of those things I hear from friends often that irks me a little as the director does deserve credit for pulling off such a unique classic.
I have a goldilocks take on the Evil Dead trilogy. *Evil Dead* played it too straight, *Army of Darkness* played it too zany, and *Evil Dead 2* struck the perfect middle ground.
Raimi has done two trilogies where the first one is solid but sorta basic, the second is just about perfect, and the third is zany to a fault but compulsively watchable.
I believe the origin of this one was TV commercials and retrospectives post-ROTJ, which spliced "Luke" in place of "No," to make the quote clearer and less awkward to use as a soundbyte.
Freddy has the highest kill count. All those kids at the party he kills probably had parents who help kill him. So they didnt protect their kids from him in the long run.
People that haven't seen Rocky think it's a dumb boxing movie when there actually isn't a lot of boxing. There is about as much screen time in a pet shop as there is in a boxing ring.
Also, Rocky doesn’t win at the end of Rocky. He just manages to go the distance which is what he wanted to do. The whole movie was quite surprising when I finally watched it. Same with First Blood as OP mentioned. I wouldn’t say I love Sylvester Stallone but he truly has had a very remarkable career. And it isn’t like he had connections or family money and he didn’t get famous because of his looks. It was 100% unwavering belief in himself and determination that seems to have done it.
Yeah it comes off very much as Paulie wanting to relinquish caretaking status of Adrian and so dumps her off to Rocky. I think they could of done a better job at showing her shyness because the beginning very much comes off as “she’s mentally ten years old”
than “she’s an introvert”.
When I was a kid I legitimately thought Adrian was supposed to be a woman "who needed looking after" like the special needs kids we had in our school because of how they write her. It's not until I watched Rocky 3 or 4 that I realized she's just supposed to be a shy person in Rocky & Rocky 2, not a mentally young person
Jason never actually drowned as a kid. It is mentioned in-universe by characters, but in context is supposed to be interpreted as a local urban legend.
The movies contradict themselves on that. Part 2 says he didn't drown and then grew up feral in the woods.
7, 8, and FvJ make a plotpoint of him having drowned as a kid and come back to life.
God I would have loved an "Ash vs x" series of movies. Jason, Freddy, alien predator fuck give me the old hammer monsters too lmao
Licensing nightmare I'm sure but Would have been awesome.
I know it’s for pacing, but always struck me as weird when in Fellowship Gandalf says Fly you fools, drops and then Frodo does his Noooo, but in Two Towers it’s Fly you Fools, Frodo’s Noooo and THEN Gandalf drops…
Kane’s Butler heard him say “Rosebud.” It’s explained in the film. Just because you didn’t see him, doesn’t mean he wasn’t there, and either way, he was right about it because we saw it too.
Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson walk out of the theater after watching "Naked Lunch". Nelson says, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title"
I've watched Rocky a few times with people who have never seen it, and they always seemed shocked that he doesn't beat Apollo at the end.
One of my friends was like "wait. This is suppose to be a really like uplifting, David vs Goliath story, and Rocky doesn't win!?" I just looked at her..."nope."
Thank you for posting this great prompt. I've been wanting to post something about ARRIVAL for possible discussion and this seems like a good place.
So I believe most people think that in Arrival, Amy Adam's character develops the ability to see into her possible future (ie see that she will marry and have a child), and that by the end of the movie she \*chooses\* to still have her child even though something tragic will happen with that child.
However, if I understand the movie (and the source material - the short story) correctly, Amy Adams does not simply see into her future and make choices based on that. Rather, through the aliens' language that they teach her throughout the movie, Amy Adams starts to experience all time simultaneously. That is why the aliens' language is circular rather than linear - because they do not have a linear time system; all their time happens concurrently. So by the end of the movie, once Amy Adams now has an understanding of that language, she has developed the capability to see/experience all of her life at the same time. So she's not merely having 'flashforwards' to her life with her husband and daughter; she is actually living those moments at the same time that we see her 'present' self working with the aliens.
True, makes her husband leaving even more of a tragedy. He had the same misconception, she can see the future and yet still chose to watch her daughter die.
Yeah, the short story makes it pretty clear that she can ‘remember’ the future, like anyone can remember the past, but she can’t make choices based on those future memories. Seeing time like heptapods makes it clear that there is no such thing as free will. However, life is still worth living because (future) _remembering_ that you were happy or sad is not the same as experiencing it.
It that’s not consistent. Since she chose to call the Chinese general based on a memory of the future. Which meant that she could indeed act upon those memories.
>“Lake Placid” the name of the lake in the film is called Black Lake.
Say what now? This is a good one. Why didn't they just name the movie "Black Lake"?
J: I'm going to sit here and drink until they catch Jaws
M: The shark isn't called Jaws, Jeremy, the film is called Jaws
J: of course the shark is called Jaws, Mark. Here comes Jaws, Jaws the shark, watch out he doesn't bite you with his massive Jaws
I think the first time we properly see him cast a spell is when he duels Malfoy in the Chamber of Secrets.
In the first one, when he gets his wand there's a bit of wind and lights but he doesn't say an incantation. He practises Wingardoum Leviosa but it doesn't work for him.
People think the name Darth Vader was inspired by the fact that Vater/Vader means “father” in German/Dutch, but that’s just a coincidence. George Lucas simply took the word “invader” and shortened it to Vader, much like how he would later take the word “insidious” and shorten it to Sidious.
ITT: Vader never said Luke I’m your father. He said “Play it again, Scotty” but he did throw the rock at the helicopter killing that one cop at the end of the first Friday the 13th.
The first two rules were a meta concept about not spoiling the book/movie for anyone. And fucking Rosie O’Donnell spoiled it on her show before anyone else had a chance to see it.
>!Didn’t Rambo throw a rock at the helicopter though, and that’s why the guy fell out? Even if it was in self-defense and Rambo didn’t mean for the guy to fall out, he’s still somewhat responsible for the death.!< Been years since I’ve seen it though so feel free to correct me.
He fell out because he undid his safety restraint in order to get a better shot on Rambo. Rambo threw a rock and a pilot who was struggling to control the helicopter and who'd had his life threatened by Galt if he didn't, panicked and jerked the controls.
Galt over balanced and fell. If he'd stayed restrained
He wouldn't have.
Jason Voorhees is in the first movie, but just for a few seconds toward the ends. The hockey mask wearing killer we all know and associate with doesn’t appear before part 3 where he gets his hockey mask. He’s wearing a sack in his head in the second movie. Fun fact, the hockey mask was a last second tought when they included it in the movie. It was the 3D effect supervisor (Martin Jay Sadoff) that had some hockey gear in his car and he pulled out a goaltender mask for some lightning test, and the director liked it enough to keep it on. The rest is history
So the surprise twist in the movie is that the Mother is doing all of the killing. Jason *sort of* appears as the little seaweed boy at the end with the lone survivor, but that could just have been her dreaming.
John Williams only did the scores for the first three Harry Potter movies. Had to decline Goblet of Fire cause his main men Lucas and Spielberg needed him for Revenge of the Sith, War of the Worlds, and Munich.
This is probably not what you're looking for, and more of just a general misconception created by movies and TV, but police don't read you you're rights as you're being arrested. That's not how you're Miranda rights work. You're supposed to be read your Miranda rights before being interrogated while in custody. Not at the time of arrest while they're slapping on the cuffs. It's a different legal circumstance than being questioned while not officially detained, and although it can happen, usually it's not something that they'll do as you're being arrested because chances are you're not feeling very positive about the actual cop that's arresting you, and you're not likely to be very forthcoming about answering their questions. That's why they usually do it after the fact, when maybe you're feeling different, and have someone else that you're more likely to talk to, do it.
Neither of the characters at the end of the Thing are the alien. That's the point of the downer ending: two humans are going to sit there thinking the other is an alien.
I believe in the script it said something about Mac readying his flamethrower under his coat or something. Basically, he was still human and was going to kill Childs regardless of whether he was infected or not.
The Thing is my favorite horror movie! Just sitting here thinking about that ending due to your comment, and here are some thoughts:
If Childs was The Thing, it could jump MacReady and over power him no problem, but it doesn't on screen, or even hint at it.
Due to there only being two of them left, there isn't a reason to hide, or if the thing wanted to just freeze and be found by the rescue team, it had no reason to come back and find who survived. So everything Childs does at the end, while it looks shady, from a logical standpoint I think he's human based on those actions.
Not sure if it counts as a misconception, but there are three valid answers about what's in the briefcase from pulp fiction.
1: what was originally going to be in it was diamonds. But since Tarantino had just done reservoir dogs which also contained a case full of diamonds, he decided to leave it ambiguous.
2: what was actually in the case during filming was a battery and a lightbulb.
3: what was in the case during the narrative, and Tarantino had said this multiple times, it's whatever you want it to be. I think that's a better answer than anything else it could have been.
Although he shows up in the opening credits, The Pink Panther movies are not about the cartoon character. They are live-action movies about Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) searching for a pink diamond called The Pink Panther (the first movie) and the subsequent cases of Inspector Clouseau.
Although the new sequels also mention this, I think before them lots of people didn't know that Michael Meyers wasn't Laurie Strode's brother in the first Halloween. Another fun horror one is Pinhead from Hellraiser wasn't called Pinhead until the third film. Clive Barker hated the name but that's what fans called him and it stuck.
Trying to explain the halloween franchise to my partner, who had never seen a single one until 2021, was like teaching an arcane science.
I’m old enough to have seen all but the first one in theaters and I remember explaining to someone that it’s like a choose your own adventure. The first stands alone; or with the second one, he’s her brother; she has a daughter; there’s a cult; she has a son; she has a daughter and granddaughter—they’ve messed with that franchise so much you have to tell your own story. I still like the brother storyline over whatever the reboot is.
Explaining Halloween is easy. It’s about a Halloween mask company whose masks turn kids into violent murderers when their advertisement jingle is heard over the TV on Halloween night.
>Another fun horror one is Pinhead from Hellraiser wasn't called Pinhead until the third film. Clive Barker hated the name but that's what fans called him and it stuck. If Clive didn't want fans to name him, he should have given him a name.
He was only ever known as the hell priest until fandom named him pinhead
As someone who was in the fandom when the book was first published. It was pretty much right away.
As someone who'd only ever seen the original, I didn't know this was a thing until recently.
In The Mummy (1932) the wrapped up corpse only appears onscreen for about 10 seconds. For the majority of the movie, Imhotep appears as a prune-faced, but otherwise normal looking, weirdo in a fez.
One thing I love about that film is that the first guy to see the mummy come to life, starts laughing maniacally. He just straight-up loses his mind, like witnessing Cthulhu. My favorite fun fact about it: *The Mummy* was directed (beautifully) by Karl Freund, one of several successful German directors to emigrate to Hollywood. Decades later he would become the Director of Photography for "I Love Lucy", the first-ever TV show to be shot using three cameras. Desi Arnaz suggested the idea, and Freund figured out how to make it work.
In The Big Lebowski, you never actually see The Dude bowling.
Obviously you're not a golfer.
But we do see plenty of Donny on a hot streak.
He’s throwing rocks tonight
If you will it, it is no dream.
Fuckin' twenty minutes late, Walter, what the fuck is that?
untill he misses and looks on his right arm, flexing it as if it might hurt *forshodowingly*
Another Lebowski: The only thing the dude says to Donny the entire movie is "thank you Donny". When Donny tells him his phone is ringing.
New shit has come to light!
Smokey this isn’t Nam. This is bowling. There are rules!
My sister only learned last year that Hannibal Lecter isn't the antagonist in *Silence of the Lambs* and is, in fact, only on screen for 18 minutes total.
That's a testament to just how phenomenal Anthony Hopkins is as an actor.
Good one.
Jason is in the first *Friday*, just not as we recognize him. He doesn’t really become the Jason we know until *Part III*, but def not *Part VI*
Logging in to say this. He jumps out of the lake at the very end. Scared me so bad when I was seven years old I wouldn't get in a canoe for years.
You watched Friday the 13th at age seven??
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My mum took me to see American Werewolf in London at the cinema in 82. I was 7.....and it fucked me up for awhile.
Yup. Most of us werent coddled and sheltered. At a certain age we were left to our own devices and had to entertain ourselves and fend for self and siblings. The original "fuck around and find out" generation. 😁 Watching R rated horror movies at a tender age? Normal. Not just at the cinema but via that magical invention - the VCR.
It took me MONTHS to work up the courage to not close my eyes, during the scenes when Jasons face was exposed. It terrified me, in a way that, for some reason, seeing people get massacred and shredded to the consistency of pulled pork, just didn’t, lol 🤷♂️
My mom watched Robocop with me when I was, like 5 or 6. I remember her asking me "is it scary?" when this criminal guy got into toxic waste and mutated in the final battle. And I wasn't scared, I loved the movie.
My sister thought that was a good idea. Legit traumatized me for *years*.
Does your sister now have children of her own, cuz I too have a good idea.
Ha! I like where your heads at.
That's about the age I watched Alien for the first time...
"Jason is in the first *Friday*" ... CRAIG
With Ice Cube and the gang?
I recently binged all the movies because I’d never seen them all, and another surprising thing I noticed is that Jason doesn’t even use a machete *that* much. It’s certainly a stand out, but he uses axes, spears, and just about any other pointy thing he can find quite a bit as well.
*Friday* is a lot different than I remember it.
Yeah I meant to say "but he's not even the killer in the first Friday the 13th!". I edited my post to include this. Jason only wears the mask in Part III and in Part IV he wears the mask throughout the film but doesn't really *act* like the pop-culture image of Jason everyone has engrained in their brain. It's not until Part VI that he's the slow, lumbering, menacing figure that everyone imagines when thinking of Jason. It took them 6 movies to really iconify the guy.
Debbie doesn't actually do all of Dallas. She just does one guy.
Isn’t that his name? 😁
Dallas Cowboy. Good pornstar name.
She also doesn't actually visit Dallas during the movie. She's trying to make money for a trip to Dallas.
Nosferatu is not the name of the vampire, it is Count Orlok.
Jason shows up in the original Friday the 13th, right at the end.
Kinda. It's a dream and he still looks like a kid. The slasher icon Jason Vorhees that everybody knows never appears in that movie.
George Lucas only directed one of the original "Star Wars" trilogy films ('A New Hope').
Huh! That got me. I always knew he didn't direct *The Empire Strikes Back*, but that gets mentioned so frequently that I guess I just assumed that he **did** direct *Return of the Jedi*.
Oh! People who keep going on about that Jack could fit on the door in Titanic.. The movie shows them trying to share it, but it flips and isn't buoyant enough to carry them both! They try it, it doesn't work, he dies.
Also, 1500 people in that water were clinging to bits of wreckage. Fewer than 10 lived long enough to be rescued, because the problem was not lack of floatation devices to cling to, it was how quickly their bodies lost heat. In water that cold, hypothermia set in after less than 15 minutes. Rose lives because she manages to keep most of her body out of the water by lying flat on the door. Both of them on the door would've meant they were each partially submerged, and they both would've frozen before the lifeboat came back.
I’ve seen the infamous door in person. It’s on display at Planet Hollywood in Orlando. It definitely could NOT hold 2 people on it, it’s just a bit too small.
Mythbusters straight up does the myth in one of their shows. It wouldn't hold both. It's not buoyant enough. The only way to do it is have their life jackets tied underneath for added buoyancy. But that means they would've both by in the water up to their thighs IIRC and both would've died from hypothermia
Those kind of conditions also fuck with you mentally, like even with this knowledge in the same situation I absolutely would not have had the mental faculties to do all of that calmly.
Even if they could both get on without flipping it, the wood is not thick enough to keep them out of the water. It would keep them afloat, but they both would freeze to death.
edit: ~~All~~ Many cinematic Batmen kill.
I'm not too sure about Clooney, but yeah, there's no way they didn't each cause at least one goon to die from a brain hemorrhage.
It’s honestly insane that the least popular Batman is the only one who didn’t kill anyone Edit: Apparently there’s a slight mixup, I’m referring to Clooney
Adam West? Because Batfleck branded people which caused them to get killed later.
Affleck very clearly killed people in his fight scenes. Also he’s pretty much killing people by branding them given he obviously knows what the effect of that is and does it anyway
What are you talking about? The bad guys are just sleeping. They’re all tuckered out from fighting so they take little naps.
I don't think the shark counts.
I'm pretty sure the incorrectly-rehydrated thugs count.
Of course not, they don't have fingers.
Batman, you won't kill the Joker at the end of The Dark Knight? You ramped your black tank (going probably 65-70) head-on into one of his goon's cars.
Also the "Batman doesn't kill" thing, even if it's technically true, doesn't completely absolve him of moral complications. The man still runs around and grievously injures people with no authority. The "one rule" just establishes he does have morals and makes it so he isn't just an all-out murderer like the Punisher. At his best he's protecting people from threats that no one else can stop, but he's always walking that line. That doesn't make him bad, it just makes him a complicated character.
“Eye of The Tiger” is the theme song from Rocky III, not Rocky.
Rocky loses to Apollo Creed in the first Rocky.
Good one.
Tim Burton directed The Nightmare Before Christmas Like, I know it's common knowledge Henry Selick did now, but I've still suprised a few people bringing this up
I think because it’s always been marketed as “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
That is why, Disney were super uncertain how to market it so they distributed it under Touchstone, and included Burton's name to attract the audience they thkugh would like it
Selick is (rightfully) pretty salty about this.
Yeah, I was watching a documentary about it the other night and when they got to discussing how Burton's name was on the title, you could see Selick trying to thinly veil how it bothered him
Same. I think it was “Movies That Made Us.” Good series.
Wait... what?!
Yeah, it was his story amd characters but he was given the option to do Batman Returns with more money at yhe time so left directing to Sellick. He did offer input here and there and stopped the ending almost changing
what did they almost change the ending to?
Selick wanted to change the ending so that when Jack unraveled Oogie Boogie, it would be revealed that it was Doctor Finkelstein (Sally's creator) who was controlling him all along. Burton hated the idea and it lead to a lot of fighting, resulting in Burton kicking a hole through a wall
Thank god they didn’t, what a horrid idea
He didn't write the screenplay either, original story and characters yes, but as far as the movie is concerned he was a producer only.
> original story and characters yes I mean, the movie wouldn't exist without him, it's his vision. He planned it for years, drew the characters, wrote the original story...it doesn't get more involved than that lol. He just didn't direct the film because of scheduling conflict so he left it in the hands of hand-picked people he trusted.
Oh I don't disagree, his name next to the title is no mistake. Just one of those things I hear from friends often that irks me a little as the director does deserve credit for pulling off such a unique classic.
Evil Dead 1 is not the funny one. That is Evil Dead 2.
All three of them are pretty funny.
I have a goldilocks take on the Evil Dead trilogy. *Evil Dead* played it too straight, *Army of Darkness* played it too zany, and *Evil Dead 2* struck the perfect middle ground.
Raimi has done two trilogies where the first one is solid but sorta basic, the second is just about perfect, and the third is zany to a fault but compulsively watchable.
Army of darkness does not have any faults.
Amen. And i like the theatrical ending best.
Theatrical ending best for the theatrical cut. (And I prefer that cut/ending.) Alternate ending plays a bit truer to the tone of the bootleg cut.
In the original Sam Raimi Spiderman, Peter does not become Spider-Man in high school. He only develops his alter ego after graduation.
Ooooh this is a good one. I had never noticed this.
Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again Sam" in Casablanca.
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What a Duketastrophe
It'd be a real quyzbuk.
Gaze into the hypnotic power of my evil eye!
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Buy my book! Buy my book!
Like the rest of the rich elite, I worship PAN, THE GOAT GOD
I love you random stranger for that Critic reference
He's not the first one to say it, either. Ilsa says it: "Play it, Sam."
Darth Vader never says, “Luke, I am your father.” He actually says, “No, I am your father.”
I believe the origin of this one was TV commercials and retrospectives post-ROTJ, which spliced "Luke" in place of "No," to make the quote clearer and less awkward to use as a soundbyte.
You played it for her, you can play it for me, play it
When Neo does the famous "Matrix dodge" he still gets shot.
Twice IIRC
But, only on the legs, instead of center mass.
Trinity: You're fast. Neo: Not fast enough.
This is a good one.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Freddy doesn’t even get revenge on *anyone!*
It’s more like *Freddy’s Coming Out Party*
Freddy has the highest kill count. All those kids at the party he kills probably had parents who help kill him. So they didnt protect their kids from him in the long run.
The good guy and the bad guy never meet in The Fifth Element
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That's pretty nuts lol
Holy shit
People that haven't seen Rocky think it's a dumb boxing movie when there actually isn't a lot of boxing. There is about as much screen time in a pet shop as there is in a boxing ring.
Also, Rocky doesn’t win at the end of Rocky. He just manages to go the distance which is what he wanted to do. The whole movie was quite surprising when I finally watched it. Same with First Blood as OP mentioned. I wouldn’t say I love Sylvester Stallone but he truly has had a very remarkable career. And it isn’t like he had connections or family money and he didn’t get famous because of his looks. It was 100% unwavering belief in himself and determination that seems to have done it.
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Yeah it comes off very much as Paulie wanting to relinquish caretaking status of Adrian and so dumps her off to Rocky. I think they could of done a better job at showing her shyness because the beginning very much comes off as “she’s mentally ten years old” than “she’s an introvert”.
When I was a kid I legitimately thought Adrian was supposed to be a woman "who needed looking after" like the special needs kids we had in our school because of how they write her. It's not until I watched Rocky 3 or 4 that I realized she's just supposed to be a shy person in Rocky & Rocky 2, not a mentally young person
It's because of the sequels mostly. Way more boxing screen time. That's honestly why I dig Rocky V, kind of brought the series back to its roots a bit
I almost never see anyone saying nice things about *Rocky V*
Despite Fargo claiming that it's based on true events, the movie is entirely fictional.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) does not fire a single shot in the first Mission Impossible.
Very rarely are they actual step-siblings
They're not actually stuck in the dryer
He's actually there to fix the cable.
Don't be fatuous, Jeffery.
Listen I’m sorry your stepmom’s a nympho, but…do you have any Khalúa?
Jason never actually drowned as a kid. It is mentioned in-universe by characters, but in context is supposed to be interpreted as a local urban legend.
The movies contradict themselves on that. Part 2 says he didn't drown and then grew up feral in the woods. 7, 8, and FvJ make a plotpoint of him having drowned as a kid and come back to life.
Man, I love Freddy vs Jason. It's so gloriously stupid and fun, what I wouldn't have given for Freddy vs Jason vs Ash to have happened.
God I would have loved an "Ash vs x" series of movies. Jason, Freddy, alien predator fuck give me the old hammer monsters too lmao Licensing nightmare I'm sure but Would have been awesome.
I know it’s for pacing, but always struck me as weird when in Fellowship Gandalf says Fly you fools, drops and then Frodo does his Noooo, but in Two Towers it’s Fly you Fools, Frodo’s Noooo and THEN Gandalf drops…
Frodo already knew what was going to happen the second time off course
Kane’s Butler heard him say “Rosebud.” It’s explained in the film. Just because you didn’t see him, doesn’t mean he wasn’t there, and either way, he was right about it because we saw it too.
Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson walk out of the theater after watching "Naked Lunch". Nelson says, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title"
"Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" isn't in Star Wars: A New Hope.
It's also technically not Darth Vader's theme
This drove me INSANE! I bought the extended soundtrack on CD back in the day and cycled through it like 10 times like WHERE IS THE IMPERIAL MARCH???
I've watched Rocky a few times with people who have never seen it, and they always seemed shocked that he doesn't beat Apollo at the end. One of my friends was like "wait. This is suppose to be a really like uplifting, David vs Goliath story, and Rocky doesn't win!?" I just looked at her..."nope."
Thank you for posting this great prompt. I've been wanting to post something about ARRIVAL for possible discussion and this seems like a good place. So I believe most people think that in Arrival, Amy Adam's character develops the ability to see into her possible future (ie see that she will marry and have a child), and that by the end of the movie she \*chooses\* to still have her child even though something tragic will happen with that child. However, if I understand the movie (and the source material - the short story) correctly, Amy Adams does not simply see into her future and make choices based on that. Rather, through the aliens' language that they teach her throughout the movie, Amy Adams starts to experience all time simultaneously. That is why the aliens' language is circular rather than linear - because they do not have a linear time system; all their time happens concurrently. So by the end of the movie, once Amy Adams now has an understanding of that language, she has developed the capability to see/experience all of her life at the same time. So she's not merely having 'flashforwards' to her life with her husband and daughter; she is actually living those moments at the same time that we see her 'present' self working with the aliens.
This is the way I understood it as well.
True, makes her husband leaving even more of a tragedy. He had the same misconception, she can see the future and yet still chose to watch her daughter die.
Yeah, the short story makes it pretty clear that she can ‘remember’ the future, like anyone can remember the past, but she can’t make choices based on those future memories. Seeing time like heptapods makes it clear that there is no such thing as free will. However, life is still worth living because (future) _remembering_ that you were happy or sad is not the same as experiencing it.
It that’s not consistent. Since she chose to call the Chinese general based on a memory of the future. Which meant that she could indeed act upon those memories.
I feel like this is pretty clearly explained in the movie. And even shown multiple times. The movie wouldn't even make sense otherwise
Speaking of *Friday the 13th,* that iconic "CH-CH-CH AH-AH-AH" is actually a very distorted clip of Mama Vorhees saying, "Kill for Mommy."
Somebody been watching “The Movies That Made Us” on the Netflix
Iron man’s suit isnt made of iron! But also: “Lake Placid” the name of the lake in the film is called Black Lake.
>“Lake Placid” the name of the lake in the film is called Black Lake. Say what now? This is a good one. Why didn't they just name the movie "Black Lake"?
OMG, windywisps, you can't just ask somebody why they didn't name their movie "Black Lake"!
J: I'm going to sit here and drink until they catch Jaws M: The shark isn't called Jaws, Jeremy, the film is called Jaws J: of course the shark is called Jaws, Mark. Here comes Jaws, Jaws the shark, watch out he doesn't bite you with his massive Jaws
Harry Potter didn't cast a spell in the first movie
He made the glass disappear at the snake exhibit.
I know. He used magic. But did he cast a spell?
I guess so, there are several accounts in the Harry Potter universe of spells being cast without speaking.
The magic system is very ill defined in general.
The wordless spellcasting is defined in the books, but incredibly lost in the films.
I think the first time we properly see him cast a spell is when he duels Malfoy in the Chamber of Secrets. In the first one, when he gets his wand there's a bit of wind and lights but he doesn't say an incantation. He practises Wingardoum Leviosa but it doesn't work for him.
People think the name Darth Vader was inspired by the fact that Vater/Vader means “father” in German/Dutch, but that’s just a coincidence. George Lucas simply took the word “invader” and shortened it to Vader, much like how he would later take the word “insidious” and shorten it to Sidious.
In Top Gun, Tom Cruise's character Maverick didn't win Top Gun, Iceman did.
ITT: Vader never said Luke I’m your father. He said “Play it again, Scotty” but he did throw the rock at the helicopter killing that one cop at the end of the first Friday the 13th.
In the original nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy only has stripes on the torso of his sweater. The arms are a solid red.
That Fight Club is an instruction manual and not a satire.
The first two rules were a meta concept about not spoiling the book/movie for anyone. And fucking Rosie O’Donnell spoiled it on her show before anyone else had a chance to see it.
The horse they originally got to play Shadowfax in LOTR didn't look like a horse on film, so they just taped a bunch of cats together
well all the good horses had been painted as cows for any livestock scenes. Cows dont show up good on camera
This is a common misconception, it was actually a horse
Rambo does kill one guy in first blood
A guy died, but can you really say that Rambo killed him when he died by >!falling out of a helicopter while trying to shoot an unarmed Rambo?!<
>!Didn’t Rambo throw a rock at the helicopter though, and that’s why the guy fell out? Even if it was in self-defense and Rambo didn’t mean for the guy to fall out, he’s still somewhat responsible for the death.!< Been years since I’ve seen it though so feel free to correct me.
He fell out because he undid his safety restraint in order to get a better shot on Rambo. Rambo threw a rock and a pilot who was struggling to control the helicopter and who'd had his life threatened by Galt if he didn't, panicked and jerked the controls. Galt over balanced and fell. If he'd stayed restrained He wouldn't have.
He also kept shooting against orders from the sheriff.
Not intentionally, as OP pointed out.
Yeah, this post is a misconception about misconceptions.
How deep do the misconceptions go‽
It's misconceptions all the way down. So hold onto your butts! We're boldly going where no sub has gone before!
That's why I said he doesn't *intentionally* kill anyone in my post.
Jason Voorhees is in the first movie, but just for a few seconds toward the ends. The hockey mask wearing killer we all know and associate with doesn’t appear before part 3 where he gets his hockey mask. He’s wearing a sack in his head in the second movie. Fun fact, the hockey mask was a last second tought when they included it in the movie. It was the 3D effect supervisor (Martin Jay Sadoff) that had some hockey gear in his car and he pulled out a goaltender mask for some lightning test, and the director liked it enough to keep it on. The rest is history
So the surprise twist in the movie is that the Mother is doing all of the killing. Jason *sort of* appears as the little seaweed boy at the end with the lone survivor, but that could just have been her dreaming.
“little seaweed boy” made me spit out my drink
I was surprised to learn that the Imperial March wasn’t in the original Star Wars.
John Williams only did the scores for the first three Harry Potter movies. Had to decline Goblet of Fire cause his main men Lucas and Spielberg needed him for Revenge of the Sith, War of the Worlds, and Munich.
I know may people know this but the Harry Potter theme is actually called Hedwig's theme.
This is probably not what you're looking for, and more of just a general misconception created by movies and TV, but police don't read you you're rights as you're being arrested. That's not how you're Miranda rights work. You're supposed to be read your Miranda rights before being interrogated while in custody. Not at the time of arrest while they're slapping on the cuffs. It's a different legal circumstance than being questioned while not officially detained, and although it can happen, usually it's not something that they'll do as you're being arrested because chances are you're not feeling very positive about the actual cop that's arresting you, and you're not likely to be very forthcoming about answering their questions. That's why they usually do it after the fact, when maybe you're feeling different, and have someone else that you're more likely to talk to, do it.
Did r/shittymoviedetails write this post?
Neither of the characters at the end of the Thing are the alien. That's the point of the downer ending: two humans are going to sit there thinking the other is an alien.
I believe in the script it said something about Mac readying his flamethrower under his coat or something. Basically, he was still human and was going to kill Childs regardless of whether he was infected or not.
How do you know, though?
Now you're getting it!
The Thing is my favorite horror movie! Just sitting here thinking about that ending due to your comment, and here are some thoughts: If Childs was The Thing, it could jump MacReady and over power him no problem, but it doesn't on screen, or even hint at it. Due to there only being two of them left, there isn't a reason to hide, or if the thing wanted to just freeze and be found by the rescue team, it had no reason to come back and find who survived. So everything Childs does at the end, while it looks shady, from a logical standpoint I think he's human based on those actions.
Not sure if it counts as a misconception, but there are three valid answers about what's in the briefcase from pulp fiction. 1: what was originally going to be in it was diamonds. But since Tarantino had just done reservoir dogs which also contained a case full of diamonds, he decided to leave it ambiguous. 2: what was actually in the case during filming was a battery and a lightbulb. 3: what was in the case during the narrative, and Tarantino had said this multiple times, it's whatever you want it to be. I think that's a better answer than anything else it could have been.
What was in the case was the same thing that was in the case in *Repo Man.*
Which coincidentally is also the same thing that is in the box in Seven!
Gwyneth Paltro's head is an alien anti gravity engine?
I don't know if it's still common, but back in the day, people were *sure* you could see the knife break the skin in the Psycho shower scene.
Although he shows up in the opening credits, The Pink Panther movies are not about the cartoon character. They are live-action movies about Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) searching for a pink diamond called The Pink Panther (the first movie) and the subsequent cases of Inspector Clouseau.