Movie stuff you only just realised... - Page 14

So you've never seen Bang Bros? I think what you're looking for is "gratuitous nudity"

I just realized that Kurosawa's "The Bad Sleep Well" is NOT pronounced "The Bad Sleep WELL", as if there is a sleep well somewhere that is bad. It's pronounced "The BAD Sleep WELL", as in bad people sleep well at night.

Obscure.

The term is from the DVD cover, so I guess that's what the MPAA believes.

I also learned that Edward Norton agreed to do the movie The Italian Job, at a reduced salary, to fulfill a three picture deal with Paramont, so he could do Fight Club. He didn't really want to do The Italian Job at all.

Frankly, it shows in his performance.

The Italian Job is four years after Fight Club. How do you mean?

Edit: Never mind. Interesting read. (Fincher was on board M:I 3??)

I had heard something like that, that Norton was contractually obligated to do that one (or, "Prince'd"), didn't know it was for Fight Club.

I read about it on Wiki. The "You Got it All Wrong" article on Fight Club got me interested on learning more about the film.

Another fun read Russell Crowe as Tyler? Reese Witherspoon as Marla?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29

I only recently realized that Tom Jane was a real actor and not just an Arrested Development character.

*never mind* (for now...)

I just realized that 8MM, of all movies, has one of the most awesome casts ever. I've never been in the camp that says Nicholas Cage is a great actor, but Joaquin Phoenix, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, and Chris Bauer is a supporting cast that would get me to watch...well, a snuff film.

Cillian Murphy is very pretty.

In Fight Club, when Marla storms out of the diner right before getting on the bus is playing Seven Years in Tibet (actually, Seven Year In Tibe, according to the sign). I never considered it before, but it adds another layer of pathetic-ness to the narrator's alter ego if you think of it taking place in a world where Brad Pitt is an actual actor and celebrity, and he just cast him directly in his fantasy.

Also, Ed Norton is quite a physical comedian. His squirrelly escape from the police station is a pretty hilarious counterpoint to Pitt's cinematic posings.

See also the scene where he beats himself up in his boss's office. Brilliant.

I just realized that the truck driver that had his vehicle taken by Tommy and Henry in the beginning of Goodfellas was in on it.

"Two N---ers' stole my truck!"

I always thought he was a victim who overreacted.

Pacino and Scorsese have never collaborated on a film together.

William H. Macy appears in Inland Empire.

YE GODS! As a child I (of course) watched a few eps of that horrible Spider-Man tv show linked in Jeremy's latest Hulk article, but never did I recognize or even suspect that Peter Parker was Friedrich from The Sound of Music!

Yup - Nicholas Hammond. He couldn't have done any worse for himself in the Spiderman series if he'd been skipping around like Friedrich Von Trapp.

What's even funnier about that is that the look of that late 70s Spider-man was then imported into the mid-90s animated series. That and Martin Landau was the voice of The Scorpion.

You know, looking back at the fact... Samuel L. Jackson as a Jedi Master in three Star Wars movies is nutty as fuckin' hell casting.

Then again, maybe I'm just underestimating Sam here...

The Departed wasn't the first time Jack Nicholsan and Leonardo DiCaprio were on screen together...they fought to the death waaaay back in Celebrity Deathmatch.

Speaking of The Sound of Music, I had no idea that Christopher Plummer played Capt. von Trapp.

Watching the new Clone Wars trailer, it's pretty amazing how the lightsaber sound effect has progressed over the years. It's no longer just a "Zit Zit.... Clash!" It's a hell of a "Whump" with a lot of bass. Lends a lot more power and awe to the weapon. All hail Ben Burtt.

I'm watching Scorsese's A Personal Journey Through American Movies and I'll be damned if Vincente Minnelli's The Bandwagon wasn't a huge influence on MJ's "Smooth Criminal" video.

I dunno if that's common knowledge or not, but still.

Watched almost all of the film again today and I definitely agree. His timing is prefect, and although I love Pitt in the film, I think it's sad that the first thing someone says when you mention FIGHT CLUB is "Brad Pitt is awesome in that movie."

I think Norton's performance most definitely rivals Pitt's.

I'm gay for Norton, so this is biased, but I think he's better than Pitt in Fight Club.

Also, just after the car accident, Pitt climbs out of the passenger's seat, and pulls Norton out of the driver's side, when Pitt was clearly driving before the accident.

Thought that was cool.

Actually, it would have been impossible for Pitt to have been driving the car. That was one of the little clues that pop up during the movie to let the viewer realize that Durden is a figment of "Jack's" imagination.

Or they just messed up the continuity.

As far as someone else's comment about Brad Pitt's movie being on the facade during one scene, all three primary actors had a facade with one of their most notables films on it:

Pitt - Seven Years in Tibet
Norton - American History X
Carter - The Wings of the Dove

I'm pretty sure in a commentary or something, somewhere it's mentioned the car thing was intentional.

Right.. just the mere fact that Pitt pulls Norton out of the drivers side window. Knowing Fincher, I'm sure that's all intentional.

George Lucas was a cameraman on Gimme Shelter.

Might be in here already, and I know I was told that in passing before, but it was still a pretty weird moment to see him in the credits.

The best is seeing Hugh Hefner in the credits of Polanski's Macbeth.

One I forgot, the band in the bar in Forgetting Sarah Marshall plays "Jungle Love" at one point when they cut away to a conversation, you can kind of hear it in the background.

Remember the long pull back from Saruman in The Two Towers that goes through the Uruk-hai army seemingly forever? I was watching The Adventures of Baron Munchausen yesterday, and it sure looks like Jackson lifted his shot from Gilliam's similar shot that pulls back from the Baron through the Turkish army. Except Gilliam's seems about twice as long.

I noticed that too. Exact same shot from Two Towers.

Heh, ditto.

Jan from the Office is the singer at the South Seas club in "The Rocketeer."

Not only did Ken Davitian work in movies before Borat, he was in S.W.A.T.! I figured he was a big unknown who had no prior acting experience. Foolish me!

The late Michael Hutchence was in the running to play Vaughan (eventually played by Elias Koteas) in Cronenberg's CRASH.

Ben Burtt used the sound of a Winchester 30-30 for Indy's pistol in the Raiders films. That really makes me giggle for some reason.

Caught the second half of Last Action Hero on Friday. During the scene where the angry, cliched police Captain is yelling so loud, steam comes out of his ears, one of the near-intelligible things he yells is "Tiny Tim stepped in a jelly doughnut". I had to go back and listen again to make sure I was right, and I'm pretty sure I am. Made me laugh more than anything else in the film.

I also realised that it would have been a good film with a completely different cast and director. Austin O'Brien is horrible, but really its the fact that its a big Arnie film that sinks it. If someone like Bruce Campbell or Robert Downey Jr had been playing the part of the Big Action Star and someone other than straight action maestro John McTiernan had directed, we might have noticed the near brilliance of parts of Shane Black's fingerprints on the screenplay. Charles Dance owns, though.

Except that Gilliam's shot was real.

I am watching Apocalypse Now for the billionth time and recognized a voice in there during the big helicopter attack. Sure enough, R. Lee Ermey is one of the pilots. He's only got one line though.

Shit, thats too rich. Gives new meaning to AUTO-erotic asphyxiation

Alan Arkin played the dad in Edward Scissorhands.

That's a great bit. I think he also screams out "DIARY OF ANNE FRANK!" in there as well.

Only just now found out/realized that the guy from Mallrats isn't the guy from Dazed and Confused, they're twin brothers.

Bill Fichtner voiced Ken Rosenberg in GTA Vice City and San Andreas.

Ellis from Die Hard is the voice of the Councilman in Batman: Mask of the Phamtasm.

Mind = blown. That is awesome. Guess what I'm putting on tonight?

Danny Trejo is a replacement killer. He has two lines, which is two lines more than the other replacement killer I think.

Yup. And the other one is german beefcake "actor" Til Schweiger, who is not -I repeat- NOT Thomas Kretschmann.

Even though their H'Wood roles may certainly be interchangeable.