Best movie trivia of 2003

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Bruce Almighty picture

Trivia: In Egypt, the film was banned by the state-run censorship body because it felt the comedy mocks God's sacredness.

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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd picture

Trivia: In the scene where Lloyd is eating dinner with Harry and they're talking about the pie, Lloyd says "I like it alot" which is a phrase used in the first Dumb and Dumber movie.

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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star picture

Trivia: For some of the movie Dickie is wearing a shirt that says "I Didn't do it" which was a catch phrase of Bart Simpson, another "Child Star."

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Trivia: In Greek mythology Persephone was the wife of Hades, ruler of Hell. Persephone is the wife of the Merovingian, ruler of the Hell Club.

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Elf (2003)

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Trivia: Originally, the store Buddy and Jovie work in was supposed to be a Macy's. However, Macy's quickly dropped out of the project when they got the script and saw that there was a scene where Buddy confronts a fake mall-Santa in the store for not being the real Santa. Reportedly, Macy's representatives indignantly told the studio that "Macy's Santa is the REAL Santa!"

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Trivia: When the narrator asks George what happened to the original George, George states that the studio was too cheap to re-hire Brendan Fraser. The studio did want to bring back Brendan Fraser for the sequel, but he turned down the role.

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Hulk picture

Trivia: The face of The Hulk is a computer generated image of Erik Bana, Jennifer Connelly, and director Ang Lee combined into one.

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines picture

Trivia: When John turns on the magnetic field, the equipment he uses to turn up the power is the throttle of the Saitek X45 with a Cyberdyne plate over the base. (01:22:55)

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Trivia: When Sands buys gum from the kid on the bike, he tells him, "I never want to see you again." The next time the kid shows up in the movie, Sands has had his eyes taken out. (00:27:30 - 01:10:30)

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Freaky Friday picture

Trivia: Marc McClure, who plays the delivery driver named Boris actually played Anna's (she was then called Annabelle) crush, Boris, in the original "Freaky Friday" (1976).

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Trivia: In scene 32, Katsumoto and Algren ride through the line of troops and as Algren dismounts, his horse kicks out at the soldier to the right of the camera and hits him in the groin. The soldier bends over with the impact, backs up, then bravely straightens up again as the scene continues. (01:53:55)

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Trivia: Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the grown up version of Jenny (from the town of Spectre), also plays the witch. She was at the time in a relationship with and eventually married director Tim Burton from 2001-2014.

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Trivia: California Govenor and former action star Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a special guest appearance in this movie. When Beck first arrives at the night club, Arnold walks right by him and tells him to "have fun." Arnold had just become Govenor and knew he would not be acting for awhile so this was his way of passing the torch to someone he felt would take his place as the future of action movies.

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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle picture

Trivia: None of the Angels carry or use guns in this sequel because actress Drew Barrymore is a known gun control advocate.

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Wonderland picture

Trivia: Filming of this movie took only eighteen days.

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Trivia: The saddle worn by Seabiscuit for some of his races is, in fact, the same saddle worn by Phar Lap, who was Australia's, if not the world's, greatest racehorse ever. Billy Elliot, who rode Phar Lap to victory in the Agua Caliente (the world's richest horserace at the time), gave the saddle to George Woolf after Phar Lap died (under mysterious circumstances) in California.

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Trivia: No digital- or special effects were used in the film. The actors were in the water with real live sharks.

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Suggested correction: You can see the edges of the pool the actors are in when there are "ships" on the horizon.

Not true. The film was shot on location, for three weeks, off the coast of The Bahamas. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2004/08/open-water-sharks-fear-real/#close.

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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out picture

Trivia: The film is based on the true story of a 1997 holdup of a North Hollywood Bank of America building.

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