Movie stuff you only just realised... - Page 3

The Nick Cage/Volvo Connection

An old favorite of mine:

In The Rock, Stanley Goodspeed admits to being a coward and a square by revealing to Connery's John Patrick Mason that he 'Drives a beige Volvo.'

In Con Air, Cameron Poe writes Vince Larkin a secret memo on the doomed junkie 'Pinball,' and drops him from the plane, only to crash on Stargate SG-1's Don Davis' beige Volvo.

In Face/Off (Not a Bruckheimer film), Sean Archer (Wearing a Castor Troy flesh-mask) raids a valet's key box, and steals...a beige Volvo.

In Snake Eyes, Nick Cage acts in a horrible film. (No connection, I just consider it my civic duty to inform everyone I meet, and insist they never watch it).

the tv show "in living color" has produced two fine actors(Carrey and Foxx), and the wayan brothers, come on tommy davidson!!!!!

Rami is also one of the guys brainstorming names for the Hula Hoop in the Hudsucker Proxy.

I, Robot's title in Spanish speaking countries is Yo, Robot.

Which sounds more like a Will Smith movie.

He always sounds like he's trying to get rid of a particularly troublesome bowel movement.

As for the person who mentioned X2 script... I did not know that. As for the first one, I know there were a fair few uncredited "polishers", including Joss Whedon. I think the only segment of Whedon's that made it into the final movie is the Cyclops/Wolverine exchange where Wolverine says "You're a dick".

Another bit of trivia that may or may not be known: If you look closely outside The Winchester in Shaun of the Dead, you'll see a zombie "Tyres", the bike courier from Spaced. It the scene where they all walk toward the pub pretending to be zombies.

Up unti lnow, I had successfully purged KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE from my memory.

Thanks for nothing, guys....

Also the "toad hit by lightning" line. Whedon has defended it, saying Berry's delivery was all off.

Whatever, Joss.

Jason Patric's brother is Robin Lively's annoying sibling in TEEN WITCH

Adam Baldwin is NOT related to Alec, Daniel and William Baldwin!

You forgot Stephen.

I just got it! Bruce Wayne is.......

BATMAN!

Drew Barrymore's screen debut was not E.T..

Those made me laugh out loud far more than they actually should have

- Adam Baldwin of Serenity/Firefly is no relation to Alec, Stephen, William, or Daniel Baldwin.

Didn't know that.

Harvey Stephens, the little kid who played Damien in Omen hasn´t had much of an actors career, although in 1993 he appeared in I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney .
Which was directed by Ben Affleck(!).

ALTERED STATES was also William Hurt's film debut

The website www.fear.com has got absolutely nothing to do with the film Fear Dot Com.

There never was a Leonard Part 1 through 5.

X2 is a gay, gay, gay film.

Holy cow, you're right. That's a new one.

I just found out that the actor Jonathan Brandis who played the main character in "Neverending Story 2" and who was in the tv movie version of "IT" and the tv series "Sea Quest" committed suicide a couple of years ago. That is very sad news.

Rilo Kiley also has Pinsky from Salute your Shorts in it as well.

You know what's weird? I was just talking about this today at lunch.

John Turturro's first feature-film appearance was as an extra in RAGING BULL.

Connie Nielsen i guess

the chic that gets naked at the end of Devil's Advocate, and looks outstanding doing it, is the same chic who doesn't get naked in Gladitor.

Bodhi Elfman (Jenna's husband) was also in Collateral.

A number of sopranos actors had roles in Goodfellas namely, Pussy Bomponsiero, Paulie Walnuts, Chris Moltisanti and Larry Boy Barese.

The actor who played Walter Donovan in 'The Last Crusade' also played Gen. Veers in Empire.

Stuntman Pat Roach had roles in all three Indiana Jones movies.

In The Matrix during the scene where Morpheus is introducing Neo to everyone there's a shot of a plaque on the wall which has the year the ship was christened on it.

Robert Duvall was in 'Bullitt' as a cab driver.

Connie Nielsen was in 'Rushmore' as a really hot mom.

Charlie Sheen shows up in a cameo in Loaded Weapon 1, wearing a shirt with the name 'Gern' on it. He wears the same shirt, with the same name in The Arrival while he is hacking into his neigbor's satellite dishes.

Janek, The Mathematician from Sneakers? Donal Logue.

Jerry Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame) turned down Stanley Kubrick’s beggings for him to do the model work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, thrice.

Doug Trumbull must send him a Christmas card every year.

Okay, so I learned this a while ago. But it’s a neat story nonetheless.

In The Matrix: Revolutions, the bench the Oracle sits at has a plaque that says "In Memory of Thomas A. Anderson".

In each LotR movie, Peter Jackson makes a cameo.

Vincent Price appears in the Michael Jackson song Thriller.
He´s the spooky voice that starts talking towards the end of the song.

The actor who plays R.K. Maroon in Who Framed Roger Rabbit also plays a bum during the Skid Row song in Little Shop Of Horrors.

Jessica Rabbit's singing was performed by Amy Irving, actress ex-wife of Steven Spielberg.

Simon Pegg was in Band Of Brothers.

Bill Pope DP for matrix and spider-man had a cameo in Spidey 2

JK Simmons (Spider-man - J. Jonah Jameson) plays Buffalo Bill Cody in Hildago.

Mischa Barton played Kyra (*vomits* "I'm feeling much better now.") in The Sixth Sense.

Ron Rifkin (Sloane on "Alias) was in the movie JFK.

Ellen Degeneres is a thespian.

Dana Carvey is in Halloween 2.

The Shadow is in fact Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.

Oh, and David Spade makes his film debut in Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.

Jake LaMotta, the real guy, was in "The Hustler". He played the bartender. Maybe that's why Scorsese made "The Color of Money"

Willem Dafoe must suffer the indignity of having his ass kicked by Michael Pare in Streets of Fire.

I'm glad you finally realized that. I think Switchback is pretty good.

I just watched Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind again last night and noticed that George Michael Bluth from Arrested Development is the young Chuck Barris.

Oh, and Jack Black is the villian in Neverending Story III.

And Monk on USA Network. One of the only reasons I watch TV anymore. Tony Shaloub is facking awesome

He's also the voice on the CB in Joy Ride, but not the dude who we see at the end.

John Ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back, as Maj. Bren Derlin. I haven't the foggiest clue who this character is, nor have I ever noticed anyone looking like Cliff from Cheers (he's probably sans mustache, which would add to the confusion).

'There's nothing more we can do tonight. The shield doors must be closed.'

Paul Feig, creator of "Freaks and Geeks," co-starred alongside Ben Stiller in the Disney film "Heavyweights."

Marvin, the guy who got his head blown off the car in Pulp Fiction, is the voice of Static (from Static Shock), Green Lantern from Justice League Unlimited, and Samurai Jack, from Samurai Jack.

He was also in the first two Superman movies, in small (but noticable) roles.

Well, he's not wearing his postal uniform and he doesn't have a Boston accent.

The odd thing is that Maj. Bren Derlin does live with his mother.

Weird.

The geeky tech guy in The Pretender and the badass with the two whips in Rundown are both played by Jon Gries.

Virtually every cool line or scene from "Heat" was on TV 10 years earlier, verbatim, in Michael Mann's "Crime Story" TV show.

John Glover voices the Riddler in "Batman:TAS", plays Jason Woodrue the Bane-maker in "Batman and Robin", Lionel Luthor in "Smallville" and the creepy "Maybe he's fucking the dog too" hitman in "Payback".

Ron Perlman is the voice of Clayface. And he's really really good.