Questions tagged [movies]
Use this tag when questioning something about the movies, not when being skeptical of something seen in a movie.
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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 ...
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Is the skeleton in the grave in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” that of a recently deceased actress?
In one of the final scenes of the movie “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the titular characters dig up a grave in a cemetery to reveal a skeleton.
Several sites online report that this is a real ...
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At Chernobyl, did someone see the fuel channel caps bounce shortly before the explosion?
The well known 2019 show Chernobyl mentions an operator who happened to walk through the reactor hall of Unit 4 seconds before the reactor exploded. He allegedly saw this:
If this story seems ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Did Kamala Harris ignore anti-pedophilia California Child Protection Act of 2012?
An Open Secret (anti-pedophilia, anti-Hollywood film) posted on Twitter the following claim which was retweeted 1k+ times:
Did you know?
California Child Protection Act of 2012
Requires adults ...
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Was Donald Trump's scene from Home Alone 2 removed by the CBC in 2014?
Comicbook.com recently reported that Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2 had been cut from the version of the film aired on the CBC.
The CBC responded that the cuts were made back in 2014:
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Did actors playing different ape species refuse to eat together during the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967?
According to Futility Closet (attributed to Planet of the Apes Revisited, 2001):
During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton Heston noted “an instinctive segregation on the set. Not ...
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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 ...
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Did Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot earn ~1/40th of Man of Steel's Henry Cavill?
According to a recent Fox News article, Gal Gadot earned much less money for starring in her DC movie, Wonder Woman, than fellow actor Henry Cavill did for starring in Man of Steel.
“Wonder Woman” ...
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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
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Did 50% Americans believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews" in 1964?
Joel Stein wrote an article on Los Angeles Times in which he claims:
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are ...
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