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Is this really what i'm working towards when i'm not drinking? (Yes it is)

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Tom Holland was performing in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre when he submitted his Spider-Man audition. Marvel specifically wanted someone with real gymnastics ability. His four years of ballet training on account of him being a girls blouse became the deciding factor.

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The New York magazine article that inspired Saturday Night Fever was largely fabricated. Writer Nik Cohn had barely spent time in Brooklyn. The central character, Vincent, was based on a London mod from the '60s. He later said: "My story was a fraud." 50 years ago today.

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Film critic Gene Siskel paid $145,000 at auction for John Travolta's white suit from Saturday Night Fever. He said it was his favourite film and had watched it 17 times. Siskel kept the suit for the rest of his life. It is possible, but unverified that he never took it off, even to have a bath.

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In Fight Club (1999), Tyler Durden appears on screen in single-frame flashes multiple times before the Narrator officially meets him. David Fincher hid these subliminal “Tyler flashes” early in the movie as a clever foreshadowing of the twist. A winkle also appears at one point which i'm not showing here for the sake of the kids.

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Mel Gibson had the opportunity of casting William Wallace as a giant animated lego puppet. He chose to play the role himself. Braveheart went on to gross over 200 million at the box office.

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@ATRightMovies Watching someone eat in a film is like chicken crisps. Nobody notices how weird it is. They wash their tongues around every corner of their mouth like 5 minutes after the last bite.

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I asked AI to show me what it would be like if Kendall Roy and Pablo Escobar weren't talking to each other. This is what it came up with.

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After Chronicles of Riddick underperformed, Universal owned the character. Vin Diesel agreed to appear in Tokyo Drift for free in exchange for the rights to Riddick. A couple hours work for a quarter billion dollar franchise. Acting certainly pays more than App development!

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There's an ACTUAL correct answer to this one and it's subtle. It's Gordon from Halt and Catch Fire.

You need to invest in the series to appreciate it fully but i noticed on a rewatched they'd been forshadowing it throughout the season with random spots of lens flare in the background.

I've never seen a death handled like this in any other film or show. This series is a serious work of art.

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@elonmusk I spent hours trying to coax Midjourney into creating a great loading animation for Buck The Critics. I sent the prompt to Grok Imagine and it came up with this within about 5 minutes. I immediately cancelled my Midjourney Subscription

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Will Smith turned down the lead in Ali (2001) until Muhammad Ali called him directly. Ali's pitch: "Man, you're almost pretty enough to play me." Smith trained for three years and earned an Oscar nomination. In later years he got completely cucked by his wife.

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@hillerykearl @TheCinesthetic Agreed. It's in the bin with 'About Schmidt' in a genre i label 'Menopause Comedy'. They we're both a terrible, terrible idea.

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@Alii_772 @BestMovieMom Exactly... I thought the whole point of bond was that he was supposed to have authorative presence and gravitas. You don't get either of those things from 20 year olds.

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@coldwright @BestMovieMom Not to mention in Sean Connery's day, the 32 year olds looked like 50 years olds because of all the fags they were smoking, and graft they were putting in down the docks!

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Riddick was written to die at the end of Pitch Black. During production, Vin Diesel and director David Twohy became so invested in the character they rewrote the ending. A $25M B-movie that wasn't supposed to have a sequel spawned a franchise.

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Production on Riddick shut down mid-shoot when the completion bond ran out. Vin Diesel advanced his own money to pay the crew and mortgaged his house to finish it. "If we didn't finish the film, I would be homeless."

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@80s_Kidz How about this smashing delight of a film nobody watched?

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@DiscussingFilm 'remake' = 'replace'. Nobody wants to replace Kurt Russel. We didn't get enough of him as it is!

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Woke up at 1:30am and decided to invent a completely new method of finding cool movies and shows to watch. Coming in V4.0!

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@CinemaTweets1 He also has galaxy spanning eyebrows