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horrorfan89 said:
another thing about Gremlins, its a pretty depressing Christmas movie what with the people getting foreclosed by mrs deagle who doesn't care, and pretty much everyone but the main characters being total jerks but keep in mind it could have been much darker.

there are several deleted scenes that show why deagle was foreclosing on everyone, apparently she and the bank Billy worked at were planning on running people out of their homes to develop a toxic waste dump on the land. and that's what was filmed but cut. The original script by director Joe Dante would have been a lot closer to his previous works like the howling. With the gremlins being straight up graphically murderous. Scenes never filmed included: Mrs. Peltzer's severed head getting thrown down the stairs, Barney the dog getting full on eaten by the gremlins, billy and kate going into a Mcdonald's only to find untouched food but signs of eaten people. In fact it's speculated the scene where Kate recounts the story about Christmas was originally filmed first, when the cast and crew believed the film was going to be much darker and more violent.
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There's a sign in the background of Hoyt Axton's workshop that reads 'Toxigen-30 in frequent use!' which was a holdover from the original script.


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There's also an artichoke hooked up to electrodes and being used to power a speaker next to the Peltzer's early Keurig machine. Joe Dante jokes about it on the DVD commentary.

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Gwyneth Paltrow saw the script for Shakespeare in Love on Winona Ryder’s desk in 1997. She took the script without telling her and got the part. They haven’t been friends since then.
 
the sun is approx. 91 to 93 million miles away from earth and will stay within this distance for as long as the sun lives even up until its burnout into a supernova or white dwarf star. Conversely the moon is two hundred and fifty thousand miles away from earth and is constantly drifting away out of orbit at a very slow rate. In fact, from the Cambrian to the Mesozoic era the moon would have been 50,000 larger and more visible from the earth then it has been in the age of modern man.
 
In the Brady Bunch Movie during the scene when Jan runs away and hitchhikes the truckdriver lady is played by Ann B. Davis. She played the original Alice.

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Swagstika said:
The human muscles are actually stronger than the brain allows them to be, so if you are in an "altered" state where your brain isn't in complete control you can do things that normally would be impossible. The brain stops your muscles from doing things that could hurt your body. Your jaw is strong enough to chomp a finger off, but your brain won't let you. A sudden out of control sneeze can break your ribs. People high on various drugs can do weird shit like peeling their faces off. I once saw a male patient pull his Foleys catheter out before he came to completely (look it up and cringe) Adrenaline can make people do the craziest super human things. Also, this makes super strong zombies believeable because they should be in a weird, altered brain state.
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I remember seeing a guy on meth lift a washing machine up a flight of stairs.
 
Don't remember if I mentioned this already, but in It's a Wonderful Life, the scene where Uncle Billy wanders away and crashes into something was unplanned. The actor actually crashed into some garbage cans off the stage and went with it.

horrorfan89 said:
Drew barrymore named her daughter Olive after the character she voiced in Olive the other reindeer.
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Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter) is her relative.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:
Don't remember if I mentioned this already, but in It's a Wonderful Life, the scene where Uncle Billy wanders away and crashes into something was unplanned. The actor actually crashed into some garbage cans off the stage and went with it.
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Actually a stage hand accidentally dropped a tray full of props off camera and Uncle Billy saved the scene by yelling, "I'm okay!" The stage hand got a $10 bonus for improving the sound.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I remember hearing when I was younger that the amount of force needed to chomp a finger off is the same amount needed to bite into a carrot. It's one of those things I'm morbidly curious about but would never want to try because I like having fingers.
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Biting through bone would be hard even if it's just fingers. Biting through the joint shouldn't be much of a problem if the teeth align right, cutting a chicken thigh from a raw chicken can be done with a spoon if you find the right place and apply not even a lot of force.
Goofy Logic said:
When Origin released Ultima 8: Pagan, they received a ton of complaints from gamers who didn't like the inclusion of real-time action elements that were in a traditionally turn-based RPG. Curious, they decided to create a purely action-oriented game using the engine, and Crusader: No Remorse was created.
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The predecessor, Ultima 7, was real time combat as well and it's considered by many to be the best game in the series. What made people had meltdowns over in Ultima 8 was the platforming. They added jumping puzzles. They sucked.



They also fixed the deranged perspective* of the older games. Ultima 8 looked great when it came out and it's still interesting to look at.
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On the set of the Titanic, some hooligans laced the catered clam chowder with PCP and possibly LSD. James Cameron claims he spit out the chowder, but once it touches skin, you're tripping. Crew assumed it was food poisoning then realized they were tripping their balls off. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were not on set the day of the dosing because they had no scenes to film at the Nova Scotia location.
 
There was an old 1980s cartoon some of you know about based off of the Dungeon's and Dragons pen and paper RPG. The thing is there was a wizard named Eric, I think, and one of the writers of the show came out years ago online and confessed they were given specific orders to humiliate that character. The terms was that many times Eric would be 100% right about something, but group consensus would drown him out. The premise was to teach kids that you can be 100% right, but if you don't have the will of the people, fudge off. I don't remember him liking that assignment. I forget where I read the interview. Someone on 4chan had it over a decade ago I think.
 
the original cut of the Scooby doo movie was not only much darker but would have include content that would have pushed the film into a pg-13 rating. including more blatant references to Shaggy being a stoner and a lesbian relationship/ love triangle between Velma/Daphne/Fred. some of these ideas can be seen on the deleted scenes such as Velma in the locker room and a musical number where she sings cant take my eyes off you seemingly to Daphne. Warner not only cut these scenes to not only only get a PG rating but also to trim the film to just barley feature length. at only 70 mins Scooby Doo just barley qualified for a theatrical release
 
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