Top 100 Useless Movie Facts You Don't Need to Know
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Are these facts useful? Not really. Are they entertaining? You know it! For this video, we’re listing 100 useless film facts you don’t need to know, but we’ll tell you anyway! Our video includes such facts as “12 Angry Men” was shot in only 21 days, The “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” crew couldn’t afford real horses, using coconuts instead, The wallet from “Pulp Fiction” belonged to Quentin Tarantino, and more! If you have a useless film fact, drop it in the comments, and we can all learn together!
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The 2017 film Life was the first Skydance Media-produced film not to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Instead, Columbia Pictures, through Sony Pictures Releasing, distributed the film.
@@Theonionofthedisneyjuniorlore Skydance became a household name after its collaborations with Paramount, producing films the likes of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. As such, we could guess Life being distributed by Columbia Pictures was a surprise for everyone in 2017.
In preparing for his role in Almost Famous, it soon became apparent that millennial Patrick Fugit had a lot to learn about 70s rock. Laughingly, he confessed to news cameras "I thought Led Zeppelin was one person!"
Little Mermaid was the 28th animated movie in Disney's canon.
Beauty & the Beast was the 30th.
The Rescuers Down Under was the 29th, but is often forgotten about.
Speaking of Eraserhead, the thugs who beat Jack Nance to death (after a heated spat) were unfortunately never caught. Also, David Lynch has said that Eraserhead was the most spiritual film he's ever done.
Also, the actor who whispers the famous "If you build it, they will come" line in the movie Field of Dreams has never been identified.
This is a more touching one: On the original Universal Frankenstein films, Kenneth Strickfaden received absolutely no screen credit for designing the lab equipment. So when Mel Brooks used the same lab equipment for Young Frankenstein he made sure that Strickfaden got full credit for it.
Mr. Strickfaden kept the equipment in his garage, much to the surprise of the enamored Mel Brooks.
I really appreciate these 100 facts ' lists. They are more informative than we think!
Me too
And these would come in handy, during a trivia contest or great "ice breakers" at a party 😜
These useless movie facts are pretty fascinating to learn. Somehow you're getting more information you didn't know you needed in the first place.
I guess you guys should continue this particular kind of videos, really turns on a comedic vibe in the channel
There's a channel that does this only 101. About everything.
@@nmv33 Do you know the name of it?
1920's The Daughter of Dawn is one of the first films to feature an all Native American cast. 300 of the actors were Comanche and Kiowa
In Kill Bill Vol. 1 Oren mocks The Bride saying you won’t last five minutes, from the cue of the music to the time Oren is killed, the scene last 4:59.
#12 Matt Damon was pretty busy around the time of Ocean's 12 and requested a reduced role. The filmmakers said no, finding Linus too important, and he's featured heavily. He asks Rusty for "a more central role," even.
Another useless fact that you could have put in is that Tom Sizemore was nearly dropped from Saving Private Ryan due to his drug problem. Stephan Speilberg was going to drop him from the movie if he failed a drug test once, he would've reshot the whole film with a different actor even if the film was overschedule.
In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, both Abraham Lincoln and the Thinker are voiced by Hank Azaria who also plays the main villain of the movie, Kahmunrah.
I love Dumb & Dumber, no shock John Hughes was involved. One if the greatest writer/directors ever
Sean Connery hated the scene in Goldfinger where oddjob crushes the golf ball. He thought it was ridiculous.
Hilarious, yet unsurprising.
@2:49: Rest in Peace, Miss Lansbury.
#33: The reason Monty Python and the Holy Grail ends so abruptly is because they literally ran out of money and couldn't finish the movie.
#73: While recapping the day, Ferris says "We ate pancreas". The "pancreas" scene was cut. The scene would have had them trying to order in the French restaurant and shocked to discover pancreas on the menu.
#76: At Katz's Delicatessen, a sign hangs from the ceiling above the table where Crystal and Ryan sat that reads "Where Harry met Sally... hope you have what she had!". (side note: a MUST stop on any tour of NYC. Their freshly cut hot pastrami sandwiches are AMAZING!)
#97: "That's 'Frahnken-steen'. My name, it's pronounced 'Frahnken-steen'".
Another Katz's fact: it was later featured in an ep. of Impractical Jokers (the one where they play busboys).
Slimer in OG Ghostbusters, 1&2.
Was "nicknamed" Onionhead by, the crew 😜
Both Black Wolf in Ralph Bakshi's _Wizards_ and Rasputin in _Anastasia_ are very likely based on Eisenstein's _Ivan the Terrible_ played by Nikolay Cherkasov.
The shark in Jaws was originally called "Bruce" by film crew members about Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer 😜
That would explain the name Bruce in Finding Nemo :D
In the movie "Jailhouse Rock," Elvis choreographed the jailhouse scene.
#38
The twin sister plays Sarah's reflection in a mirror as well. It's a famous scene added back into the long cuts.
The "Russian Ark" was the only featured film that was made on a single shot of 1h39 minutes.
Although when they shot it, four takes were captured, the first three ending around the ten minute mark. There are also three Picture Editors credited which they wouldn't need if the completed movie was that fourth take
On Jack Nickelson axe sceen they did not know that he had trained as a fire captain so the prop door broke too easily. They had to have multiple real doors brought in and multiple takes until Nicklson was so tired and pissed off he voiced his iconic line "Here's Johnny"
Love this video. Oh WatchMojo, please make more of these. In every topic possible. 😁
Here's some that I know: (Spoilers for some)
the hurricane footage in Jurassic Park is footage of a real hurricane that hit Hawaii while they were shooting
Micheal J Fox replaced Eric Stolz halfway through production in Back To The Future.
Sylvester Stallone refused to sell the script to Rocky unless he played the part
The Terminator was actually shot without a permit
Heath Ledger kept licking his lips in scenes throughout the Dark Knight because of his makeup
The crew brought in a torture instructor to help Jim Carrey pain through the prostetics of The Grinch makeup
Alan Rickman shows a genuine face of fear in Die Hard because the rope was cut earlier than it was supposed to for his character's demise scene
When Derek repeats the question "Why Male Models?" over again is because of Ben Stiller forgot his line
James Cameron had the option to do Avatar or Alita: Battle Angel. He decided to do Avatar and Battle Angel would envantually be made but Cameron didn't direct. Robert Rodriguez did
Keanu Reeves had the flew the same day he shot the nightclub shootout scene in John Wick
James Caan actually beat up an actor during one scene from The Godfather
Steven Spielberg was supposed to direct Interstellar
Robert Zemeckis considered having Tom Hanks play every role in The Polar Express. But this idea was ditched when Hanks became so exhausted in doing so. Hanks plays five different characters in the film
Will Smith was supposed to be Django in Django Unchained but left because Django doesn't kill Calvin Candie
Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw constantly gave each other a hard time on set that one time Shaw stood in front of Dreyfus off camera with a hose while Dreyfus was doing a take.
So many lines of Freddy Vs Jason were cheesy that the writers stressed that they didn't write them
Tony Todd got a few bees in his mouth despite wearing a guard for the scene in Candyman(1992)
Scream orgianly got an NC-17 rating due to violence but managed to get an R rating when one of the producers told the MPAA to view it as a comedy and not a horror movie.
Speaking of Jurassic Park, in the scene where the kids are hiding from the approaching dinosaur in the car, the sound of its rumbling footsteps (which make the car vibrate as a result) was accomplished by somebody lying under the car and plucking the strings of a bass guitar.
1. The woman in the "Alameda" scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was an extra who initially didn't have any lines. When she accidentally ad logged her reply to Captain Kirk's question, Leonard Jimmy liked it so much that she was asked to apply for a SAG card so she could be paid a speaking actor's wage.
2. In the closing credits to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Uhura's name is misspelled.
3. Sean Connery was asked to play Spock's half brother Sybok in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. When he turned it down, the script was slightly rewritten and the "God planet" was named Sha Ka Ree after him.
4. Carrie Henn, who played Best in Aliens, never made another movie. She grew up to become a schoolteacher.
5. PetervOstrum, who played Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never made another movie. After discovering a live of horses, he became a veterinarian.
6. Space War was the first arcade video game to be shown in a mivie. It appear d in Soylent Green in 1973.
7. Soylent Green was Edward d G. Robinson's last movie role. He was profoundly deaf during filming and had to read lips for his entire role. The last scene he filmed was his character Sol's death, and he died ten days later.
Also, Peter Ostrum hated chocolate.
The octopus that was used in the original King Kong vs Godzilla was not only real but later eaten by the film’s director Ishiro Honda.
That makes me mad
@@fab3laundry if that makes you mad, you should hear about how one of the producers on the original king Kong John Beck stole the idea from Willis O’Brien and screwed him over.
Originally it was going to be King Kong versus Frankenstein before Beck. Sold the rights to Toho.
Wow
I got a few good ones…. Linda Hamilton’s (Sarah Connor) is also in the scene where she is fixing Arnold’s head in terminator 2. She’s in the mirror. The wicked witch in Wizard of Oz was severely burned in the opening scene when she disappeared in the red smoke and flames. Dorothy in Wizard of Oz had a strict diet of soup and cigarettes to keep her body slim so as to appear as a teenage girl.
IIRC that mirror scene wasn't in the theatrical release of _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_ - it was in the Director's Cut.
I didn't know Linda Hamilton had a twin. This is new information...smile
Hershel Gordon Lewis (the director) became a millionaire, but not from films, but by inventing direct mail marketing.
Why are we watching this video then? 🤨
Good question
Because we have no life
If u didn't like the video then maybe u shouldn't have watch it. It's as simple as that 🤣
Uselessness
@@margaret91 Nah I meant that the video is about "useless facts that we don't need to know" but the whole video becomes useless too
When Daniel Stern screams with the spider on his face, it was actually dubbed in post production. Daniel Stern had to mime the scream on set because a real scream would have scared the spider and made it run away.
Actually it was a Tarantula and Tarantula doesn’t have ears, so they wouldn’t be scared
I had no idea that the guy that played Gimli also voiced Treebeard. Thats crazy and I just got done watch the trilogy.
I needed something good to watch after watching Rings of Power lol
I always enjoy these Useless Fact Videos. 🤓
Another fun fact about John Rhys Davies, to make Treebeard's voice, he inhaled while speaking.
The corpses used in the pool scene in Poltergeist, were real.
In Superman the movie Marlon Brando read his lines from cue cards on the floor.
The little aliens in Close encounters of the third kind, were girls from a dance school
Peter Jackson made cameos in the two trilogies of Tolkien’s The Hobbit & LOTR.
As Hitchcock in his movies
Batman & Robin played by Bill Murray & Eddie Murphy?!?!!? Love those two, BUT NO!!! Michael & Jack were absolutely 💯 perfect!!
I have a useless fact. Apparently Keira Knightley had a massive spot on her head in the film Love Actually. That's why she is wearing a hat in a shot of the movie.
What was the spot? A zit?
@@kaydawgy1999 yes!
I would say it different way, it was useful movie facts!!!
Another fact about Home Alone is: Daniel Stern didn’t know a real Spider was going to be used in the movie, so his reaction and screaming you see in the movie is REAL, not acting. Enough said.
The original 60s version of Little Shop of Horrors was filmed in just 2 days
I don't know why but I love useless facts
Some of these I already knew 🤔🤔
Let me learn y'all a thing about CLOTHESPINS real quick. Clothespins are invaluable on film sets, they're the best thing for clamping screens and gels (mesh and colored filters, respectively) to lights. The legend goes that one day, ages ago, a film crew presented a budget to their producers with clothespins listed at a small, but not insignificant, fraction of the budget. The producers, not understanding their utility and thinking people were trying to do their laundry on set, denied the budget allocation for clothespins. So the crew members got creative, replacing the term "Clothespins" with "C-47s," which was glanced over as it was thought to be a technical piece of film equipment. Thus, clothespins are referred to generally as C-47's on set.
Side note, this story has a few iterations, but I was part of a senior thesis film that was titled "The C-47s" so this was the story I heard while working on that set, though the film itself had little to do with clothespins at all lol
#33 Recall also the scene in which the Bridgekeeper and any who fail his questions get flung magically into the chasm. To (as it were) jumpstart this effect, each actor crouched way low for a head & shoulders portrait shot. He could then deliver the line "I don't know that!" and propel himself up and off camera.
Another silly trick they used: toward the end, Arthur gives up on shouting back at the Frenchmen and he storms off. Cut to next shot, in which he's waded almost all the way across the moat. Only thing about that is YOU CAN'T WADE ACROSS THE MOAT! It's too deep. All he did was wade in from the bank to start the shot, then trudge back out in character.
I had no idea those coconuts weren't really horses, though.
That Forest Gump one wasn't useless. I wanted to know what he said for years
5:43 30. In _The Shining_ (1980), there's a scene where another character reveals that Jack's been typing the same thing over and over and over for dozens of pages. Stanley Kubrick had an assistant actually type all of those pages; they weren't Xeroxed.
Ryan Gosling has played piano for longer than since la la land. There's videos on youtube of his band
i love that the directors weren't sure whether people would like Lion King, yet it became a big part of thousands of children's childhood.
Need to file this away for the next time I play Trivial Pursuit Movie Edition.
Edward Norton's Narrator in "Fight Club" really hit Tyler Durden during their first fight. Brad Pitt's reaction was genuine surprise.
2:41 15. Dustin Hoffman was "the younger man" to Anne Bancroft in _The Graduate_ (1967), yet in real life Hoffman (30) was only 6 years younger than Bancroft (36) was.
Tony makes upgrade to his armours after watching them fail on people that he loves, because......................Tony learns from his mistakes
As a cinephile & having cinema loving homies this are conversation starters
I think everone in the whole wide world knows Luke Skywalker was going to be Starkiller.
I guess it depends on how deep your fandom gets. Some people don't know that Snow White was once considered to be "Disney's folly".
I remember hearing that m and ms was tapped to be the candy in ET. They turned it down, thinking that the movie was going to be a flop…
Rest in Peace, Angela Lansbury.
that was cool! more of this please and great work :)
In DIE HARD, the reason Alen Rickman looks so shocked and surprised before he looks into the camera before he plumges to his death is because when director Richard Donner told him they were going to let him go at the count of three, thwy let him go earlier at the count of two, thats why he looks so shocked!😊
I feel your pain in the last one. I really do v-v
Halloween 2 was filmed in 2 days
Do you know that the first Halloween movie, the mask Michael Myers has is a molding of William Shatner's face...
Miles Teller knows how to play piano but he had to learn how to play Great Balls of Fire for Top Gun Maverick
I absolutely loved this and even knew a few of these. I just love useless information. More please!!! 😊
The Social Network, As Good as it Gets, The American President and Soapdish are among PG-13 rated movies that have at least an additional F-bomb that would usually give a movie an R rating.
Running on Empty had 10 uses of the F-word and was rated PG-13 on appeal.
Tom hanks's speech was very important to know (not useless)
Glad that #3 happened
There are only 3 Americans in Casablanca. The rest are mainly Jewish actors fleeing the Nazis.
Kim Novak’s wardrobe for North by Northwest was purchased at Bergdorf Goodman. If you look closely, during the train car scene when she is talking to Cary Grant, when she snaps her purse shut, the ‘Bergdorf Goodman’ monogram can be seen.
My useless movie fact is kind of an art imitates life scenario: In Heathers, Heather Chandler asks Veronica if she “ate a brain tumor for breakfast”. The actress who played Heather C, Kim Walker, died in the late 90’s of a brain aneurism. Also, Jeremy Applegate, who plays nerd Peter Dawson who “couldn’t handle suicide” at Heather C’s funeral, actually did kill himself in real life.
63. Not only was the fake snow in the poppy scene of _The Wizard of Oz_ made from pure asbestos chrysotile fibers, so was the Scarecrow's costume and the Wicked Witch of the West's broom.
The silver paint that was applied to the Tin Man contained aluminum powder which the original actor for the role (Buddy Ebsen, who later played Jed Clampett in _The Beverly Hillbillies)_ was severely allergic to, causing him to be hospitalized. That's why the role went to Jack Haley. But Ebsen's singing is still in some of the songs in the film since the parts he sung before being hospitalized were never re-recorded.
And the studio kept poor Judy Garland hopped up on adrenaline shots to keep her up during the day, Seconal to help her sleep at night, fed a constant diet of coffee, chicken soup, and cigarettes, and mercilessly corseted to make her more childlike in her costume.
Oh okay!
If I don't need to know, I don't need to watch. Thanks for saving me 20 minutes.
I dont need it but i want it!
The Michael Douglas one, i already knew that when i watched OFOTCN, and I thought it might've been a different person but it turns out he actually produced it
Spooky fact The little boy in Child’s Play is named Andy and the little boy in Toy Story is also named Andy and their both movies about talking dolls
All information is useless, until you need it
Disney wouldn't distribute Back to the Future which then went on to beat Clue, the Breakfast Club and The Goonies for film of the year in 1985.
The voice actress of "Monster Inc.’s" Boo was an actual toddler. She was only two years old at the time.
Lion’s with personality will always trump a cartoon human. Anyone who thought differently was not thinking like their target audience. The closest thing to a human I liked as a main character in a cartoon was inspector gadget. He looked human but really wasn’t entirely human. I assume he’s part robot due to his “gadget arms and legs”.
Very interesting on some of these , thank you , quite entertaining.
Eddie made the best choice. He'd have gotten overshadowed by Bill Murray & Dan Aykroyd.
Did you know in Aladdin 1992 opening song means I'll cut off your ear
More of these videos #Watchmojo
Specially movie stuff 👏
Woody from "Toy Story" was originally going to be a ventriloquist dummy.
In "A Letter to Three Wives" the voice of Addie Ross (she never appears on screen) was played by an uncredited Celeste Holms.
Regarding #75, the ones about the “Harry Potter”, & the L.O.T.R. adaptations, the books were better.
Attny Joh Kirby was the inspiration for the Nintendo game Kirby
#95
And the Beverly Hills Cop was once set to be played by Stallone.
Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in the biopic. When Ali died in 2016, Will was one of the pallbearers.
Kirby was actually named after the lawyer that won the case
More useful than school.
Fun fact: My Grandma helped build the furniture used in the Church of Die Hard 2
Hey WatchMojo, can you do a similar video to this but this time, the subject itself will be music?
I mean yeah. You can talk about universal suing Nintendo over King kong. But if it's interesting facts. You should probably talk about how the lawsuit founded neither party owned the rights to a Kong name
Useless fact, Disney turned the project down to make the Ice Age movies so it was later produced by Blue Sky Studios and then Disney acquired the rights to make Ice Age now.
Hans Solo tho...lmbo
Sean Connery wore a toupee in every "James Bond" movie.
The only one I found actually useless was the toilet flush.
I may "not need" to know these, or "other" facts.....BUT, I LIKE TO "KNOW" things I DIDN'T "KNOW", before I came across them......the more i know, for a fact,....usually,....THE "BETTER" I FEEL......FACT!! I'M ONE....WHO IS....NEVER....."AFRAID" TO KNOW THE GD "TRUTH"!!!!👍😁
#18 Also; that name would have been too on-the-nose since he fires the death star killshot. Only way it could have been moreso is if his last name was Star Destroyer...
So cool what Katherine Hepburn did...smile
O.J. Simpson was considered for the lead in "The Terminator.”
"E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
Thanks 😀