Use this tag when questioning something about the movies, not when being skeptical of something seen in a movie.
Questions tagged [movies]
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Did Bruce Lee have to slow down his punches to see his movements on camera?
Fact fiend, for example, maintains that:
Bruce Lee himself had to slow himself down before the camera even started rolling because when he punched as fast as he could, or as fast as he was allowed to before physics asked him to stop taking the…
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Did Marilyn Monroe say that she could stop giving oral sex after signing her first contract?
This my first question here. I hope it is appropriate for this site.
I recently saw here (I am translating from Greek) that Marilyn Monroe after signing her first contract said something like
"Finally I can stop [oral sex]"
Did Marilyn…
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Was the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” gamed by “trolls” and/or bots?
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was recently released and some professional journalists are attributing a discrepancy between the low Rotten Tomatoes audience score—when compared to the relatively universal critical acclaim—to a coordinated effort by…
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Was Alan Bradley named after Alan Kay?
Alan Bradley is a character in the 1982 film Tron, the software developer who wrote Tron, a security program and the eponymous protagonist of the film. Alan Kay, on the other hand, is a pioneer of object oriented programming and graphical user…
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Did John Nash decipher code from a large board in the Pentagon?
I was watching the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", in which John Nash walks into the Pentagon, looks at a board having codes and deciphers them.
I am quite skeptical about the way the scene is portrayed in the movie. Did Nash actually decipher such…
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Did Sandahl Bergman lose a finger during the filming of Conan the Barbarian?
Further, the actress playing Valeria had her index finger severed during a fight scene where they inexplicably used a real sword instead of a prop, and then even more inexplicably gave it to an extra instead of a trained stuntman. The random dude…
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Could the diphtheria antitoxin (vaccine) have been flown into Nome, Alaska in 1925, but was chosen not to?
I just finished watching Togo on Disney+ last night, where the plot of the story is centered around a musher, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo. They make a very long trek across the Alaskan landscape in order to deliver diphtheria…
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Did David Prowse do the lightsaber duel in Star Wars?
Per Wikipedia:
Vader actor David Prowse explains that he did his own swordplay in Star Wars, but when the movie became a hit deserving of sequels, “having one of the principals do his own stunts made (the filmmakers) very weird from an insurance…
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Does the average American watch 5,000 movies in their lifetime?
Here is a snippet from an article on the Utah Statesman:
According to a Redbox study, Americans watch more than 5,000 movies in their lifetimes, an average of about seven per month.
I cannot find the original source of this "Redbox study". I can…
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Are movies with aircraft incidents not shown on planes?
CinemaSins (a YouTube channel of movie critiques) often points out movies that 'instantly make themselves unavailable for in-flight viewing due to plane-crash sequence' (e.g. their review of Fight Club).
Is this true; are there guidelines that…
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Did David Prowse know his voice would not be used for Darth Vader?
A Star Wars fact I have seen a lot of times is that the original actor for Darth Vader, David Prowse did not know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones.
Wookieepedia claims this, with a note that there is no source:
He would…
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Did Emma Watson's movie The Colony gross £47 in its UK opening weekend?
According to Breitbart1, Emma Watson starred in a movie which they claim grossed approximately US$61 in the UK:
After having spent years starring in the blockbuster Harry Potter film
franchise, Emma Watson’s latest film, The Colony, pulled in a…
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When James Cameron pitched the movie ALIENS did he draw the S as a $?
I've heard this story that James Cameron pitched the sequel of ALIEN by simply writing ALIEN$ on a piece of paper, and instantly getting the project greenlit for millions of dollars. I tried tracking down the article I originally saw it on and was…
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Did John Nash Jr. write equations on the windows of a Princeton library?
I know that the pen ceremony at the end of the film, A Beautiful Mind, to announce that he had won the Nobel Prize in economics was completely fiction.
What about the scenes in the movie that showed him writing mathematics on the windows of one of…
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Has Francesca Marie Smith written any episodes of Hey Arnold?
Migrate to movies se if need be please.
It says in this reddit post here
TIL Francesca Marie Smith, the voice of Helga from Hey Arnold, actually started writing episodes of Hey Arnold when she was only 11 years old. She wrote a total of 10…
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