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- Almost every action-scene where the principal
actors are not seen up-close, are re-used
material from the movie Tobruk. - Olav
Westerman
- The "German" tanks, half-tracks
and trucks are of American origin, the tanks
and trucks beeing post WWII models. - Olav
Westerman
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In the scene where Gale and his brother
just escaped from prison and are combing
their hair in the gas station bathroom,
the door behind them has O.P.E. and P.O.E.
written on it. This is from Dr. Strangelove,
the recall code (purity of essence). (Source:
The Coen Brothers biography) - Saucy
- The names of the repo men characters, Bud,
Oly, Miller and Light- notice a common thread.
(Source: script) - bear
- During the film Miller is talking to Auto
and mentions a "plate-o-shrimp",
later on, when the Rodriguez brothers are
standing outside a convenience store, you
can clearly see a sign in the stores window
advertising a "plate-o-shrimp" special.
(Source: Watching the film really close!)
- Mr.
Eliminator
- When the two mice fly through the
city in a sardine box, you can spot
an image of a topless woman in a window.
- kyara
- Correction:
It's not a window, but a flyer or
a poster on the wall. (Source: Snopes.com)
- marcera
- Snopes.com
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Chuck Yeager, who was the
first man to brake the sound-barrier in
the X-1, and who is portrayed by Sam Shepard
in the film, was technical adviser and
actually flew some of the aircraft during
the filming. He also did a cameo as a
bartender at Pancho Barnes "Happy
Bottoms Riding Club", the bar where
the pilots used to relax. - Olav
Westerman
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Originally someone came
up with the idea that the X-1 mock-up
should be built flyable. It should actually
be dropped from the B-29 and glide to
the ground, piloted by Chuck Yeager. Yeager
refused to do it, and the idea would anyhow
have been too expensive to realize. -
Olav Westerman
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When Yeager near the movies
end takes off with the F-104 Starfighter
that almost causes his death, one gets
the impression that it is an unauthorized
flight, just for fun. In reality the plane
was a highly modified NF-104, built to
train astronauts for the X-20 Dyna-Soar
program. Yeager was leading the training-program,
and was testing the aircraft. He tried
to set a new high altitude record when
he lost control, due to the virtually
non-existing atmosphere on the high altitude
of 104,000 feet. - Olav
Westerman
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The scenes with the X-1
hanging under the B-29 bomber are comprised
of old films taken during the real flights
and new scenes employing models, since
the FAA refused permission for the moviemakers
to fly the real B-29 with the mockup X-1
hanging under it. Therefore the real B-29
(owned by Confederate Airforce) is only
seen on the ground. - Olav
Westerman
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The girl who plays Samara,
Daveigh Chase, also voices Lilo in Lilo
and Stitch. (Source: Self) - mronimusha
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In the 1959 movie Rio Bravo
starring J. Wayne & directed by Howard
Hawkes, Dean Martin and Rick Nelson sing
the song "My Rifle, My Pony & Me".
The melody of this song is the same as one
used in the score of the movie "Red
River" starring J. Wayne and directed
by Howard Hawkes in 1949. (Source: observation)
- Singinman
1
- Was there a scene cut from Road House? When
Dalton (Swayze) first comes to the new town
and buys his car to drive to work...he goes
to the junk yard dealer to buy tires. He knows
they will be sliced and diced nightly, but
we at that point do not and it just shows
him putting one last one in the trunk and
the dealer counting up the money. At the theatre
when I first saw this, I thought I remembered
watching Dalton (Swayze) picking out a bunch
of tires, and with each one making us wonder
what he's doing... and then having the junk
yard dealer ask him what he there reckons
he's gonna do with all of them. He just kind
of smirks and salutes and drives off and that's
when you just see him counting the money.
Am I imaging this, or was it a director's
cut?? - Karen
- The gentleman that owns the general store
that gets blown up, is Red West; one of the
original members of Elvis Presley's Memphis
Mafia. Red and his brother Sonny helped Elvis
out of a fight in high school. (Source: Personal
knowledge) - cjlooney256
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Paul Verhoeven (the director
of the movie) appears in the car commercial
with the dinosaur. - David
- In the director's cut version of this movie,
the scene where the ED209 is shooting the
guy in the boardroom in front of all the big-wigs
goes on for a few more seconds than in the
theatrical version. This is because the censors
thought that the scene was too violent. What
they succeeded in doing is to make the scene
seem more violent. The complete scene takes
on a more humorous look with the added footage.
- Cathy
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Kurt Cobain was one of the
guitarists in the Chris Cole band at the
end of the film. - Glam
Addict
- Mark W. is really singing in most of the
film. - Ryan
- Correction: Contary
to what was posted, Mark W. did not sing
in most of the film, he sang the hesitant
lines at the beginning of the song We
All Die young, but the rest of the song
was sang by Mike Matijevic who sang for
the band SteelHeart. The rest of the songs
were sang by either Mike M. or Jeff Scott
Soto. (Source: jeffpilson.com and the
DVD) - Roadie
- In this movie there are many appearances
of true "rockstars" such as Third
Eye Blind's front man Stephan Jenkins who
plays the lead singer of Chris Cole's Steel
Dragon cover band after Chris is told to leave
the band. He also picks a fight with his future
band near the beginning. Didn't recognize
him with that flamin' long hair. Check out
the DVD to see what other rockstars make an
appearance. - Kid
Dragon
- The scene where Rocky tells Adrian that
all he wants to do is go the distance with
Apollo, almost wasn't shot but Sly felt it
was necessary, so the director and the producers
gave them one take to do that scene and that
is the scene in the movie. The director later
went on and said that this scene is his favorite
scene in the movie. - Devo
- According to Sly he was offered over $400,000
for the right to film his script for Rocky.
The studios wanted Ryan O'Neil to star, as
ludicrous as it may seem. Well Sly held out,
and on to his dream to star. The studios relented
giving Sly $50,000 and 10% of the movies gross.
It went on to gross over 150 million and made
Sly very wealthy! (Source: Interview) - Scottman
- A lot of other movie companies wanted to
film the movie Rocky, but didn't want Stallone
to play the part even though he wrote it.
So no matter how much they were willing to
pay he refused until paramount bought and
gave him the part. - TAZ
- The name of Rocky's dog is Butkus. - Webmaster
- The name of Rocky's two pet turtles are
Cuff and Link. - Webmaster
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According to a series of
trading cards produced by Topps to coincide
with the release of Rocky II, "Rocky"
is the character's nickname. On one of the
cards (which was Not in a scene in the movie),
Rocky is speaking at what appears to be
an auditorium. The banner above him says
"Welcome ROBERT "Rocky" Balboa.
- SlimJim
- At the end of this film it was originally
written that Rocky would die, But Sly Stallone
changed it at the last minute because he thought
that the movie should have a more uplifting
message. (Source: Box-Set Booklet) - Chickmagnet
- This movie with all its camp lives up to
the old cliche that the butler did it. Riff
raff the bulter is played by Richard O'Brien
the playwright of the show. - billbard
- One of the original concepts was to have
the movie start in black and white and burst
into color when we meet the Transylvanians
in "The Time Warp" as an homage
to "The Wizard of Oz" - you can
view it that way on the DVD edition too. -
Andrew
- In the film, Dr. Scott breaks through the
laboratory wall in his wheelchair and Brad
shouts, "Great Scott!" The only
reason the character (played by Jonathan Adams)
breaks through the wall is because the carpenters
forgot to put a door in the lab. - Nate
- The house that they use is the same one
as all the Hammer Horror films were made.
(Source: Knowing My Movies!) - Amy
- I just saw this movie for the first time
yesterday and I know that it is a very sexual
movie, but did anyone notice that all of the
handles on the machinery are shaped like penises?
(Source: The movie) - roseprincess
- Throughout the movie, easter eggs can be
seen because the crew had an easter egg hunt
the day before filming. (Source: The Great
Big Bathroom Reader) - jamie
- The editors of the film were forced to slow
a large amount of the fight scenes down because
Jet Li's actions were too quick to be seen
properly, and were slown down so the audience
could see what was going on! (Source: knowledge)
- Monkeyrama
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In the opening scene of
this Dennis Quaid-starrer, we see a man
(actually, just the legs of a man) walking
in the desert and stomping his foot on the
ground. This guy is played by Randall Wallace,
the writer-director of Mel Gibson's WE WERE
SOLDIERS. (Source: DVD) - tochi
- Joshua Jackson of the mighty ducks was casted
to be on the movie rookie of the year but
he quit due to he got in a fight with Gary
Busey. - #1GTUstunaCotti
vinsman
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When Jackie jumps on
to the red cargo ship, he brakes his ankle.
He was quite mad about this and insisted
on continuing on with the movie. He had
a specially made shoe so that his ankle
would heal while doing his own stunts.
- Vic Cherubi
- Correction:
There is no specially made shoe that
Jackie wore after he broke his ankle,
it was just the cast but they painted
a shoe on the cast. They talked about
it in a Jackie Chan documentary. -
Gohan
- Correction:
It is not a painted cast, it is
a normal cast, but it is a sock
that is painted like a shoe that
Jackie wore over the cast. - woody
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In this Jackie Chan starrer,
there is a scene where Jackie and a girl
are strolling in the park with a kid on
a wheelchair. Watch out for a Chinese ice
cream vendor. This guy also appeared in
another Jackie Chan movie, Mr. nice guy,
reprising his role as an ice cream vendor.
The actor's name is Emil Chau, one of Jackie's
associates. - tochi
- WWE Owner Vince McMahon was the executive
producer. (Source: End credits) - Taz
- Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a cameo in the
movie when Beck (The Rock) is trying get money
from the football player. Arnold's character
just walks but in from the camera and says
something, I couldn't get what he said. Also
he got that cameo when him and The Rock were
having lunch when Arnold stopped by and the
director asked The Rock and he then asked
Arnold if he would like to have a cameo and
which Arnold said yes and shot right away.
(Source: site) - Taz
- Sean William Scott had gotten a scar from
filming. When The Rock cuts ropes attached
to Sean with a knife, the rock accidentally
cuts Sean's arm aswell. (Source: Behind the
scenes) - Taz
- The Rock has a huge fear of spiders, so
during filming the cast and crew put a fake
spider in The Rock's pocket and when he put
his hand in his pocket he got pretty scared.
(Source: Behind the scenes) - Taz
- During filming in the jungle, a poisoness
spider was on The Rock's leg and no one realized
it but him, he told them get it off. The Rock
was freaked out since he had a fear of spiders.
(Source: Behind the scenes) - Taz
- Jackie doesn't actually do all of his stunts
himself. In Rush Hour 2 for example he had
a stand in for the end bit where they slide
down the lamp wires. I know this as the stunt
man was awarded an award at the stunt movie
award. (Source: Stunts Movie Award) - Jinx
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