Best movie trivia of 2005

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The Transporter 2 picture

Trivia: The scene where the drunkard sees the car go above him and thinks it's just his imagination is a homage to the Bond movies "The Spy Who Loved Me", in which a character has the same reaction when the car drives out of the water, and "For Your Eyes Only", in which that same character has the same reaction when Bond skis overhead.

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Into the Blue picture

Trivia: In the American version of this film Jessica Alba's bikini bottoms were digitally extended to cover her buttocks. In the European version they remain the same.

Scrappy

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Fun with Dick and Jane picture

Trivia: Watch the deleted scene when they rob the toy store, the music is unmistakably from Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events movie (which also starred Jim Carrey).

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children picture

Trivia: In the FFVII game, Cait Sith rides on a giant white stuffed animal. The reason it didn't appear in the movie is because there was already a rendered wolf and Red XIII; the filmmakers absolutely hated rendering fur, and thus Cait Sith's ride was scrapped.

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Land of the Dead picture

Trivia: The writers of Shaun of the Dead are in this film as a cameo. They are the zombies in the photo booth (around the time when Riley is in the gambling pit run by the midget).

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Goal! picture

Trivia: The free-kick goal scored by Santiago (actor) against Liverpool in the movie was actually scored by the real Newcastle United player Laurent Robert in the real game against Liverpool which won them the game 1-0.

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Munich picture

Trivia: In this film, the word 'Sabra' is used a few times. Sabra means a Jewish person who was actually born in Israel, and not one born in another country who then later moved to the Holy Land.

Allister Cooper, 2011

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Good Night, and Good Luck picture

Trivia: Check out the scene in which the elevator opens out into the Columbia Records Co. office. On the wall is a picture of George Clooney's Aunt, Rosemary Clooney, who was a famous actress/singer in the 1950's.

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Stealth picture

Trivia: After the credits roll out, there's an extra scene about E.D.I.

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Elektra picture

Trivia: Ben Affleck actually filmed a scene with Garner as a cameo of his "Daredevil" character Matt Murdock. But because they were in a romantic relationship at the time, the studio wanted to avoid any "Affleck/Garner" type publicity and cut the scene.

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Two for the Money picture

Trivia: Since they where not allowed to use NFL footage, the football footage is a mix of USFL, Canadian, and Arena league.

pross79

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The Upside Of Anger picture

Trivia: While the radio station (101 WRIF) and the DJ, Arthur P are real in the Detroit area, Arthur's show is depicted as starting in the late morning after Denny's show (10-11am). In reality, Arthur P's show has had the 3pm time slot for the past 35 years - something the Detroit resident/writer/director, Mike Binder, would know.

Ral0618

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Herbie: Fully Loaded picture

Trivia: When Crazy Dave is putting the chain on Herbie at his yard, Herbie squirts oil all over his foot. This is a reference to the 1968 film "The Love Bug", in which Herbie did exactly the same thing to Thorndyke (David Tomlinson).

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Are We There Yet? picture

Trivia: In the extra features on the DVD the director is talking about looking all over the country for the kids in the cast. The little girl was actually a regular on Disney's "Out of the Box" for some time.

EMTurbo

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The Bad News Bears picture

Trivia: Buttermaker gets a gentleman's club for the team's sponsor but one of the many sponsors he looks into first is Chico's Bail Bonds which was the team sponsor in the 1976 version of the movie.

William Bergquist

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The Fog picture

Trivia: Filming was often delayed because, according to Selma Blair, "we had too much fog to shoot sometimes, which really made me laugh. We had to wait for the fog to clear out."

OneHappyHusky

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The Ice Harvest picture

Trivia: The ice that Vic dies in is only wax over water made to look like ice.

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Left Behind III: World at War picture

Trivia: In the limousine scene, the guy driving the limo is the stunt coordinator.

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