Best movie trivia of 2019

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Trivia: When Roy McBride is reviewing a top-secret message regarding his father and the LIMA mission, the message filename is "6EQUJ5," which is a very obscure easter egg in the movie. The filename 6EQUJ5 refers to the real-life "WOW Signal," a deep space radio signal received by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University in 1977. The alpha-numeric designation "6EQUJ5" was a printed readout of the signal's duration and intensity. This signal lasted 72 seconds and was 20 times stronger than background radio noise, causing a surprised astronomer to circle the printed 6EQUJ5 readout in red ink and make the handwritten notation "WOW!" in the margin. While the signal was an anomalous one-time event that was never repeated, and there is still no proof that 6EQUJ5 was alien in origin, it has stimulated debate about extraterrestrial radio signals for decades. Ironically, the movie "Ad Astra" concludes that there are no alien radio signals and that we really are alone in the universe.

Charles Austin Miller

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Trivia: The antiques store has the date 1986 - the same date Pixar was founded.

oswal13

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Trivia: During one epic car crash near the start, just after the shooter gets taken out by the digger, if you know what to look for you can see Ryan Reynolds in the background, filming a post/advert for social media. Not a mistake, because it's just a tiny figure at the back of shot, but pairing the film and the post together it's fun to look for. (00:14:42)

Jon Sandys

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Trivia: "Child's Play" creator Don Mancini has no involvement in this remake, and has openly stated that he's against it, as the original movie series is still going. Several other key cast and crew members from the original series have also expressed their disapproval of the film.

TedStixon

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Trivia: Ella Balinska performed many of her own stunts in this movie.

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Trivia: The third act was completely changed after reshoots. The final battle originally took place in space, and was then relocated to a train.

Jon Sandys

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Trivia: There's an homage to Beauty and the Beast as Timon starts singing: "It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite you to relax let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents your dinner!" They then show Pumba as the dinner to the hyenas. Pumba was the distraction when Simba came back to the Pridelands. (01:45:00)

Tricia Webster

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Trivia: The director only came across Jonathan Pryce because he was searching for photos of Pope Francis, and the two people were frequently being compared as they look so similar. He looked into Pryce's body of work and realised he'd be an excellent choice for the part.

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Trivia: The Vesps are at least partially based upon Goblin Sharks, with their strange jaws.

Erik M.

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Trivia: When we see Abra's house, the number on the front is 1980. That was the same year the original Shining was released.

Gavin Jackson

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Trivia: Towards the beginning of the movie, we see that Los Pollos Hermanos has become a restaurant called "Twisters." This is also what happened to the filming location in real life, and is still in business as Twisters to this day.

jshy7979

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Trivia: The "new Danish author" that Prince Agnar is reading is most likely Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote "The Snow Queen", the basis of Frozen.

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Trivia: When a rabbit thug crashes through the last window during Snowball's superhero daydream, he yells a Wilhelm scream.

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Trivia: The film had a surprisingly fast production schedule. While the movie was announced shortly after the previous film, filming didn't begin until the end of January, 2019. The movie wrapped in May - only seven months before the release. By contrast, the previous film, "Welcome to the Jungle," wrapped filming a full year before release.

TedStixon

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Trivia: Samuel L. Jackson has no dialogue until about an hour into the film.

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Trivia: At Dreamland before Dumbo gets in action for first time the girls make some bubbles in an elephant shape - that's a reference to the original film where Dumbo gets drunk.

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Trivia: The final major theatrical film to feature Bruce Willis before his retirement from acting in 2022 due to Frontotemporal dementia. (While he starred in several films after, they were primarily direct-to-video and streaming films with very limited theatrical releases).

TedStixon

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Trivia: Original "Hellboy" film series director Guillermo del Toro tried for nearly ten years to get a third film made in the series. However, due to a variety of circumstances, including budgetary concerns, his original vision for the third film was unable to be made. This movie was then written by series creator Mike Mignola and writer Andrew Crosby, with the intention of following on from the first two films. However, del Toro and original star Ron Perlman declined to be involved, feeling they should not make the film as it wouldn't pay off the storylines set up by the first two movies. Mignola and the producers then decided that rather than trying to make a direct sequel to the first two films without del Toro and Perlman, it should be rewritten to be a stand-alone reboot. References to the other films (and certain characters like Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman) were removed, and replaced with new concepts to set it apart from what came before.

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