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Fun Movie Fact I Learned Today: Part II

post #1 of 55
10/9/05 at 4:16am
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The previous thread was getting a little long-toothed so I figured with this new forum and the updated board, it was a good time to start fresh.

10.9.05 - In Back to the Future: Part II, Michael J. Fox not only plays Marty McFly and Marty McFly Jr. (his son in the future), but his daughter in the future as well.
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post #2 of 55
10/9/05 at 4:18am
How did you not know that?
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post #3 of 55
10/9/05 at 4:32am
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He wears a lot of make-up, and I still don't think that's his voice. Yeah, his daughter always looked weird to me, but it never occurred to me why he would play that role. I just finished watching it and it's the first time I actually read the end credits.
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post #4 of 55
10/9/05 at 5:03am
That's his voice. I mean no offense, seriously, but I can't imagine that you didn't pick that up.
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post #5 of 55
10/9/05 at 5:05am
I agree Matt...that is pretty ridiculous that you didn't realize that on your FIRST viewing of BTTFII
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post #6 of 55
10/9/05 at 5:12am
I think they just pitched the voice a bit but, yeah, that's Alex P. Keaton.
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post #7 of 55
10/9/05 at 5:14am
They actually do a big reveal, where he comes down the steps in the outfit and dramatically turns to face the camera and pushes the hair out his face.
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post #8 of 55
10/9/05 at 5:31am
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Originally Posted by devincf
That's his voice. I mean no offense, seriously, but I can't imagine that you didn't pick that up.
None taken. Like I said, something always struck me as odd about "her", but I didn't really worry about it.

And this explains why I never go to Drag Ball.
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post #9 of 55
10/9/05 at 12:30pm
Wait....

Soylent Green is what? PEOPLE?!

Fuck, I never got that.
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post #10 of 55
10/9/05 at 12:42pm
Didn't the trailer have a big play with 'starring Micheal J Fox' repeated three times each over a different character....his old self, his son and then his daughter?
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post #11 of 55
10/9/05 at 1:13pm
It was pretty damn obvious to me, although I didn't realize until recently that that's not Crispin Glover as Marty's dad in the sequel.
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post #12 of 55
10/9/05 at 1:36pm
"Rabbit" from Supertroopers is in "The Sweetest Thing," a godawful movie with Cameron Diaz.
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post #13 of 55
10/9/05 at 1:39pm
Gina Torres - Zoe from Firefly/Serenity - was in the Matrix sequels, and is married to Lawrence Fishburne.
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post #14 of 55
10/9/05 at 1:51pm
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Originally Posted by Jesse Custer: Carnivale Roustabout
Gina Torres - Zoe from Firefly/Serenity - was in the Matrix sequels, and is married to Lawrence Fishburne.
She'll always be Anna Espinosa from the first couple of seasons of Alias to me.
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post #15 of 55
10/9/05 at 2:26pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
They actually do a big reveal, where he comes down the steps in the outfit and dramatically turns to face the camera and pushes the hair out his face.
"I'm Edward Kimberly!"
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post #16 of 55
10/9/05 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by fall
Didn't the trailer have a big play with 'starring Micheal J Fox' repeated three times each over a different character....his old self, his son and then his daughter?
Never saw the trailer, probably because I was four when the film came out.
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post #17 of 55
10/10/05 at 3:02am
A well-known fact...

Steven Spielberg planned a sequel to ET for a long time called DARK SKIES, set in a farm.

From what I read of the synopsis, it sounded very close to what SIGNS became.
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post #18 of 55
10/10/05 at 1:35pm
Grease was on TV yesterday and my fiance informed me that the jock guy is in fact THE Lorenzo Lamas

I also noticed once that the credited screenwriter for Stuart Little is one M. Night Shamalan

Can anyone back me up on these?
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post #19 of 55
10/10/05 at 5:47pm
edited, nevermind.

I'm cooled off now.
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post #20 of 55
10/10/05 at 5:49pm
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Originally Posted by benfortenberry
Grease was on TV yesterday and my fiance informed me that the jock guy is in fact THE Lorenzo Lamas

I also noticed once that the credited screenwriter for Stuart Little is one M. Night Shamalan

Can anyone back me up on these?
I could but don't wanna. You're right.
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post #21 of 55
10/10/05 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by Hogan
She'll always be Anna Espinosa from the first couple of seasons of Alias to me.
To me, she'll always be Jasmine, Cordelia's human-eating, maggot-faced goddess baby who brought utter serenity (no pun intended) and peace to all mankind before being smote by Angel's angsty teen son, Conner, in Season Four of Angel.

Oh, thing I never knew before: Harry Potter's Uncle Vernon is one of the terrorists trying to blow up the Eiffel Tower with a nuclear warhead in the beginning of Superman II.
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post #22 of 55
10/10/05 at 6:08pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
A well-known fact...

Steven Spielberg planned a sequel to ET for a long time called DARK SKIES, set in a farm.

From what I read of the synopsis, it sounded very close to what SIGNS became.

It was not a sequel. DARK SKIES turned into ET, in fact. You have it very backwards.
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post #23 of 55
10/10/05 at 6:40pm
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The movie) at the basketball game when the Hawks are down and the one kid on the team is a vamp, he goes up to a guy on the other team and hisses at him. If you pay attention to the kid who got hissed at, it's Ben Affleck!

If you don't pay attention, it's not.
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post #24 of 55
10/10/05 at 6:42pm
Then what is Keep Watchin' the skies? Besides the title of a good doc on sci fi, I thought that was what morphed into ET. Is it the same thing?
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post #25 of 55
10/10/05 at 6:46pm
Eddie Murphy was going to star IN STAR TREK IV as the lead character who helps the crew in San Francisco but Paramount eventually decided they didn't want their then 2 biggest properties (TREK and Murphy films) crossing over.
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post #26 of 55
10/10/05 at 8:22pm
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Originally Posted by Balmudo
Then what is Keep Watchin' the skies? Besides the title of a good doc on sci fi, I thought that was what morphed into ET. Is it the same thing?

It's a line from a 50s scifi movie that I can't recall offhand.
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post #27 of 55
10/10/05 at 8:36pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
It was not a sequel. DARK SKIES turned into ET, in fact. You have it very backwards.

Twas intended to be a sequel to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, no? My bad.
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post #28 of 55
10/10/05 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
Twas intended to be a sequel to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, no? My bad.
No.
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post #29 of 55
10/10/05 at 8:50pm
I'm pretty sure "keep watching the skies" is the final line from the original Invason of the Body Snatchers, it was also touted as a possible title for what became Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Dark Skies I ain't never heard of.
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post #30 of 55
10/10/05 at 9:08pm
Dark Skies & E.T.
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post #31 of 55
10/10/05 at 9:16pm
It wasn't a sequel, though. It was just another alien movie. The aliens in DARK SKIES - I have seen the designs - look nothing like the CE3K aliens.
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post #32 of 55
10/10/05 at 9:19pm
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Originally Posted by Seamus
Dark Skies I ain't never heard of.

Well, ok, I was off. Regardless, though...

Anyone remember that NBC show DARK SKIES? It premiered on NBC's Saturday nights with PROFILER and PRETENDER, and died while those shows went on to successful runs. It was actually pretty good sci-fi stuff.
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post #33 of 55
10/10/05 at 9:24pm
Wasn't "Watch the skies" or "Keep watching the skies" from THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD?
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post #34 of 55
10/12/05 at 8:59am
One of the ewoks in Return of the Jedi was played by Luis De Jesus, who is probably most well know for his role as the rapehappy dwarf Ralphus in Bloodsucking Freaks!
You gotta check it out, it´s truly a weird, sick film.
(Bloodsucking Freaks that is, not Return of the Jedi )
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post #35 of 55
10/13/05 at 9:40pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
How did you not know that?
holy shit dude, seriously...
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post #36 of 55
10/13/05 at 9:48pm
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Originally Posted by tommy five-tone
Wasn't "Watch the skies" or "Keep watching the skies" from THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD?
Yeah, and thusly homaged by John Carpenter with Adrienne Barbeau's speech at the end of THE FOG.

NIGHT SKIES, IIRC, was written by John Sayles and had Rick Baker designing creatures.
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post #37 of 55
10/13/05 at 9:53pm
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Originally Posted by Balmudo
Then what is Keep Watchin' the skies? Besides the title of a good doc on sci fi, I thought that was what morphed into ET. Is it the same thing?
WATCH THE SKIES was what eventually became CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Probably the best proof is in Spielberg-produced GREMLINS, where the titles WATCH THE SKIES and A BOY'S LIFE are on the billboard of Kingston Falls' theater (ABL being the working title of E.T.).
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post #38 of 55
10/14/05 at 11:49am
I'll set this up for someone else, but does anyone know the significance of "See You Next Wednesday"?
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post #39 of 55
10/14/05 at 1:50pm
So I'm watching American Werewolf in London the other night and it strikes me that I seem to recognize the cadence of the taxi driver's speech patterns (towards the end of the flick, David and the nurse jump into a cab and the driver starts talking about the "demon barber of fleet street"), and then it hits me... the cabbie is Bricktop from Snatch.

Hey, I thought that was interesting.
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post #40 of 55
10/14/05 at 2:27pm
Michael Biehn played one of the jocks in Grease. He gets shoved by Travolta in a game of basketball.
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post #41 of 55
10/15/05 at 1:15pm
Christopher Lee and Ron Perlman where in the same "Police Academy" movie.

I want to cry.
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post #42 of 55
10/15/05 at 2:25pm
In the wake of the international huge success of the first Hercules movie, Steve Reeves was the original choice to play James Bond in Dr. No, but lost the role once producers discovered that his actual high-pitched chipmunk of a voice was dubbed in Hercules by another actor with a much deeper and rich bass. Not true. Reeves was, yes, the first choice for the 007 role, but was passed over not becuase of his perfectly normal and mascuiline voice but because he was a complete dullard of an actor. Instead they went with another bodybuilder turned actor, Sean Connery.
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post #43 of 55
10/17/05 at 10:58am
Fun movie fact I learned last night from watching C.H.U.D.-

IT RULES.
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post #44 of 55
10/17/05 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
I'll set this up for someone else, but does anyone know the significance of "See You Next Wednesday"?
Yes, it's a strange tribute to Kubrick's '2001'...it's said during Frank Poole's mother and father calling him on the Discovery to celebrate his birthday...she signs-off with, "See you next Wednesday..."

Why Landis used this line in background posters or actually verbally in virtually all his films until the late eighties remains a mystery...possibly the ultimate in-joke: that due to the passage of time NO ONE can remember what was funny about it...

But I expect you knew that anyway...

edit: And for 'shits and giggles', I typed that into google and came up with THIS!!
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post #45 of 55
10/19/05 at 7:15pm
I was recently surprised to find out that Eckhart from Tim Burton's first Batman movie was also Porkins from Star Wars ... blew my mind. But yeah, I knew Michael J. Fox played his daughter in BTTF2 right away.
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post #46 of 55
10/19/05 at 7:23pm
Other Batman cameos - Paul Ruebens plays The Penguin's father in the opening scenes of BATMAN RETURNS.

Never noticed.
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post #47 of 55
10/20/05 at 8:20am
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Originally Posted by Werbal_Kint
Other Batman cameos - Paul Ruebens plays The Penguin's father in the opening scenes of BATMAN RETURNS.

Never noticed.
Diane Salinger who was "Simone" in Pee Wee's Big Adventure played his wife/Penguin's Mom as well. A little homage to Burton's first hit.
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post #48 of 55
10/20/05 at 9:03am
Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy was certified Dogme 95 even though there was one aspect of the film that was falsified, actress Chloe Sevigny's pregnancy. In his Dogme confession written upon submission, he admitted she was wearing a pillow under her shirt, because he was unable to get her pregnant in time, he claimed he had been "shooting blanks."
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post #49 of 55
10/20/05 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by Jesse Custer
Gina Torres - Zoe from Firefly/Serenity - was in the Matrix sequels, and is married to Lawrence Fishburne.
Did not know that. I'm gonna have to look for her next time I watch them. In trying to see who her character was (someone named Cas, which does sound familiar for some reason) I found that she also did the voice of Niobe in The Matrix Online PC game.
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post #50 of 55
10/20/05 at 3:57pm
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Originally Posted by Zeroillusion
Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy was certified Dogme 95 even though there was one aspect of the film that was falsified, actress Chloe Sevigny's pregnancy. In his Dogme confession written upon submission, he admitted she was wearing a pillow under her shirt, because he was unable to get her pregnant in time, he claimed he had been "shooting blanks."

I think Lars Von Trier and Tom Vinterberg have fully admitted that NONE of their films were 100% Dogme.
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