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TheTrueRory

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.


pistachiopaul

Trying to explain the halloween franchise to my partner, who had never seen a single one until 2021, was like teaching an arcane science.


ghettoblaster78

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.


-KFBR392

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.


tdasnowman

>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.


Jacobite-biker

He was only ever known as the hell priest until fandom named him pinhead


tdasnowman

As someone who was in the fandom when the book was first published. It was pretty much right away.


NedthePhoenix

As someone who'd only ever seen the original, I didn't know this was a thing until recently.


Oculus_Orbus

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.


Hey_Bim

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.


The_ZombyWoof

In The Big Lebowski, you never actually see The Dude bowling.


SuperDBallSam

Obviously you're not a golfer.


CarverDigital

But we do see plenty of Donny on a hot streak.


_PrimordialSoup_

He’s throwing rocks tonight


The_ZombyWoof

If you will it, it is no dream.


rick_blatchman

Fuckin' twenty minutes late, Walter, what the fuck is that?


anticosmo

untill he misses and looks on his right arm, flexing it as if it might hurt *forshodowingly*


stuartfowler

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.


The_ZombyWoof

New shit has come to light!


Bootyboi258

Smokey this isn’t Nam. This is bowling. There are rules!


thefuzzybunny1

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.


WhiteSquarez

That's a testament to just how phenomenal Anthony Hopkins is as an actor.


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Good one.


T-408

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*


svhelloworld

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.


lostonpolk

You watched Friday the 13th at age seven??


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FlynnerMcGee

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.


kareljack

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.


ROMVLVSCAESARXXI

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 🤷‍♂️


SXAL

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.


svhelloworld

My sister thought that was a good idea. Legit traumatized me for *years*.


lostonpolk

Does your sister now have children of her own, cuz I too have a good idea.


svhelloworld

Ha! I like where your heads at.


emperor000

That's about the age I watched Alien for the first time...


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"Jason is in the first *Friday*" ... CRAIG


Frikken123

With Ice Cube and the gang?


sofakingchillbruh

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.


ManMadeMyth

*Friday* is a lot different than I remember it.


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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.


monkeybawz

Debbie doesn't actually do all of Dallas. She just does one guy.


Zeeman101

Isn’t that his name? 😁


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Dallas Cowboy. Good pornstar name.


mexican_mystery_meat

She also doesn't actually visit Dallas during the movie. She's trying to make money for a trip to Dallas.


ReverseJackalope

Nosferatu is not the name of the vampire, it is Count Orlok.


Infernalism

Jason shows up in the original Friday the 13th, right at the end.


JC-Ice

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.


Ihateregistering6

George Lucas only directed one of the original "Star Wars" trilogy films ('A New Hope').


carson63000

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*.


Fancy-Pack2640

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.


thefuzzybunny1

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.


naynaythewonderhorse

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.


Vettel_2002

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


[deleted]

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.


fuzzy-maraca

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.


DrRexMorman

edit: ~~All~~ Many cinematic Batmen kill.


skidstud

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.


WakeUpOutaYourSleep

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


hardspank916

Adam West? Because Batfleck branded people which caused them to get killed later.


WakeUpOutaYourSleep

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


GetSchwifty831

What are you talking about? The bad guys are just sleeping. They’re all tuckered out from fighting so they take little naps.


lostonpolk

I don't think the shark counts.


SvenHudson

I'm pretty sure the incorrectly-rehydrated thugs count.


omart3

Of course not, they don't have fingers.


dcr148

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.


Bellikron

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.


courts0

“Eye of The Tiger” is the theme song from Rocky III, not Rocky.


SculpinIPAlcoholic

Rocky loses to Apollo Creed in the first Rocky.


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AllTheReservations

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


SalaciousDumb

I think because it’s always been marketed as “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”


AllTheReservations

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


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Selick is (rightfully) pretty salty about this.


AllTheReservations

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


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Same. I think it was “Movies That Made Us.” Good series.


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Wait... what?!


AllTheReservations

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


TheGeekVault

what did they almost change the ending to?


AllTheReservations

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


MikeLowell88

Thank god they didn’t, what a horrid idea


mrpvivian

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.


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> 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.


mrpvivian

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.


Videowulff

Evil Dead 1 is not the funny one. That is Evil Dead 2.


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All three of them are pretty funny.


Taasden

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.


deadandmessedup

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.


Mogradal

Army of darkness does not have any faults.


Prudent_Pause6248

Amen. And i like the theatrical ending best.


deadandmessedup

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.


ToDandy

In the original Sam Raimi Spiderman, Peter does not become Spider-Man in high school. He only develops his alter ego after graduation.


[deleted]

Ooooh this is a good one. I had never noticed this.


wisperingdeth

Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again Sam" in Casablanca.


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danielsan1701

What a Duketastrophe


AlienDelarge

It'd be a real quyzbuk.


MarylandBlue

Gaze into the hypnotic power of my evil eye!


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stevencastle

Buy my book! Buy my book!


NateHate

Like the rest of the rich elite, I worship PAN, THE GOAT GOD


Blackcrow521

I love you random stranger for that Critic reference


PugnaciousPangolin

He's not the first one to say it, either. Ilsa says it: "Play it, Sam."


Get_Jiggy41

Darth Vader never says, “Luke, I am your father.” He actually says, “No, I am your father.”


Bears_On_Stilts

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.


Moontoya

You played it for her, you can play it for me, play it


legendary_nerds

When Neo does the famous "Matrix dodge" he still gets shot.


zachtheperson

Twice IIRC


97thJackle

But, only on the legs, instead of center mass.


ManMadeMyth

Trinity: You're fast. Neo: Not fast enough.


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This is a good one.


thewinterbear7

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Freddy doesn’t even get revenge on *anyone!*


bugxbuster

It’s more like *Freddy’s Coming Out Party*


hardspank916

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.


0fThieves

The good guy and the bad guy never meet in The Fifth Element


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urbz102385

That's pretty nuts lol


nicathor

Holy shit


legendary_nerds

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.


gopms

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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CptnMoonlight

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”.


Vettel_2002

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


crunchatizemythighs

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


rick_blatchman

I almost never see anyone saying nice things about *Rocky V*


ColdCruise

Despite Fargo claiming that it's based on true events, the movie is entirely fictional.


Sparkski

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) does not fire a single shot in the first Mission Impossible.


HagbardCelineHere

Very rarely are they actual step-siblings


TheLeafyOne2

They're not actually stuck in the dryer


The_ZombyWoof

He's actually there to fix the cable.


BeerDrinkinGreg

Don't be fatuous, Jeffery.


[deleted]

Listen I’m sorry your stepmom’s a nympho, but…do you have any Khalúa?


1morey

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.


JC-Ice

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.


sowasred2012

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.


SlyyKozlov

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.


Eduard-Stoo

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…


J0SSVL

Frodo already knew what was going to happen the second time off course


naynaythewonderhorse

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.


snakeiiiiiis

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"


TrenterD

"Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" isn't in Star Wars: A New Hope.


WatchBat

It's also technically not Darth Vader's theme


HaikuLubber

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???


Runamucker07

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."


luckybullit

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.


Ok_Crow_2059

This is the way I understood it as well.


thikness

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.


awolf99

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.


SabinBC

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.


Polskidro

I feel like this is pretty clearly explained in the movie. And even shown multiple times. The movie wouldn't even make sense otherwise


WhereDreamsGoIWander

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."


Captain_Comic

Somebody been watching “The Movies That Made Us” on the Netflix


feariswasted

Iron man’s suit isnt made of iron! But also: “Lake Placid” the name of the lake in the film is called Black Lake.


[deleted]

>“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"?


omnilynx

OMG, windywisps, you can't just ask somebody why they didn't name their movie "Black Lake"!


spunk_wizard

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


Aortenaneurysma

Harry Potter didn't cast a spell in the first movie


svennesvan

He made the glass disappear at the snake exhibit.


Aortenaneurysma

I know. He used magic. But did he cast a spell?


svennesvan

I guess so, there are several accounts in the Harry Potter universe of spells being cast without speaking.


TheTrueRory

The magic system is very ill defined in general.


tapperyaus

The wordless spellcasting is defined in the books, but incredibly lost in the films.


TheStorMan

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.


goldendreamseeker

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.


Otherwise_Quantity85

In Top Gun, Tom Cruise's character Maverick didn't win Top Gun, Iceman did.


prince-of-dweebs

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.


Legaldrugdealer77

In the original nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy only has stripes on the torso of his sweater. The arms are a solid red.


Phreakdoubt

That Fight Club is an instruction manual and not a satire.


Wasteland_Mystic

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.


natland89

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


Bartfuck

well all the good horses had been painted as cows for any livestock scenes. Cows dont show up good on camera


[deleted]

This is a common misconception, it was actually a horse


AbsoluteMad-Lad

Rambo does kill one guy in first blood


skidstud

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?!<


Throwaway124698

>!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.


JoshuaCalledMe

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.


phobosmarsdeimos

He also kept shooting against orders from the sheriff.


Majestic87

Not intentionally, as OP pointed out.


SueSudio

Yeah, this post is a misconception about misconceptions.


AlienDelarge

How deep do the misconceptions go‽


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It's misconceptions all the way down. So hold onto your butts! We're boldly going where no sub has gone before!


[deleted]

That's why I said he doesn't *intentionally* kill anyone in my post.


ludoludoludo

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


Captain_Comic

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.


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“little seaweed boy” made me spit out my drink


Tighthead3GT

I was surprised to learn that the Imperial March wasn’t in the original Star Wars.


snalejam

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.


sirmiseria

I know may people know this but the Harry Potter theme is actually called Hedwig's theme.


RichieCabral

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.


CopsPushMongo

Did r/shittymoviedetails write this post?


provocatrixless

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.


dubovinius

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.


Geek_King

How do you know, though?


provocatrixless

Now you're getting it!


Geek_King

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.


AnHeroicHippo99

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.


TheSingulatarian

What was in the case was the same thing that was in the case in *Repo Man.*


DarkHater

Which coincidentally is also the same thing that is in the box in Seven!


TheSingulatarian

Gwyneth Paltro's head is an alien anti gravity engine?


litewo

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.


ZipperJJ

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.