Best adventure movie trivia of 2011

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Trivia: Some of the members of Captain America's wartime elite squad are taken from Marvel Comics WWII based "Sgt Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos" - such as Dum Dum Duggan and Gabe Jones.

ComicBoy

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Trivia: The Pizza Planet truck is visible cheering on the right side of the track at the World Grand Prix in Radiator Springs at the end of the movie. (01:37:45)

AJ Aneres

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Trivia: Hang around right until the very end of the credits for a scene which further ties in Thor to a future Avengers movie.

GalahadFairlight

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn picture

Trivia: The newspaper where Barnaby leaves his fingerprints is Le petit vingtième, an inside joke to the children's supplement newspaper where Tintin's adventures were first published.

Sacha

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Trivia: When Raven is making a pass at Erik in his bedroom he brushes her off by saying that she would need to be a little older. She then makes herself look older - this older woman is Rebecca Romijn, who played Mystique in the original 3 X-Men films.

ComicBoy

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Trivia: The music being played at the bar that Graeme, Clive and Ruth go to is the same song being played in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

THGhost

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Trivia: When Philip comes to the defense of the mermaid that was captured by saying that she has a name, Blackbeard asks him to say what it is. Philip responds that her name is Syrena which is spelled similarly to sirena, the Spanish word for mermaid.

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Trivia: Johnny Depp's character Rango says "interesting" a few times throughout the movie and while that isn't trivia in itself, the fact that Johnny Depp says it in "his way" in a lot of his movies at some point or another.

Poisonsparrow

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Trivia: The final chess match between Moriarty and Holmes is based loosely on a famous chess match between chess masters Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian. The match involved the sacrifice of a queen and a surprise checkmate, thus mirroring Holmes' apparent sacrifice of himself to stop Moriarty.

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Trivia: Masters Storming Ox and Ferocious Croc, and the wolves that are Shen's henchmen all make a brief appearance in the opening of the first Kung Fu Panda.

Friso94

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Trivia: The film was originally written as a sequel to "Leon: The Professional" (also known as "The Professional") that would follow a grown-up Mathilda. However, due to rights issues, the movie was reworked to be a stand-alone film focusing on an original character.

TedStixon

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Trivia: In the scene where Hagrid has dropped a "dead" Harry Potter, look quickly at George. He turns his head to the right and yells "Fred!" Fred has already been killed by Bellatrix Lestrange so it seems he may have forgotten this in a moment of grief.

Tricia Webster

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Trivia: The director was not able to find a suitable Scottish Gaelic-speaking actor to play the boy of the tribe of Britons, so he cast Thomas Henry who is a native speaker of Irish Gaelic from Belfast.

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Trivia: Shortly after Hugo drops a piece of metal from the suspending clock to the ground of the train station, the Station Inspector, assuming that Claude dropped it, loudly asks him if he is 'drunk, inebriated, shikker, etc.' The work shikker is from the Hebrew word shikkor for 'drunk'. Shikker actually means drunkard.

Allister Cooper, 2011

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