Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is one of the only Star Trek films not to have a centralised villain.

Gene Hackman was first choice to play Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch series but was rejected because he was considered unknown, he then was chosen for the movie The French Connection and rest was history.

The character Riker has appeared on four different tv shows of Star Trek, his of course been in Star Trek The Generation as William T Riker and as Thomas Riker, his appeared in DS9 as Thomas Riker, he appeared in Star Trek Voyager as William T Riker in Ep 18 Season 2 titled “Death Wish” and Star Trek Enterprise in the Season 4 finale as William T Riker and if you wanna be technical in Star Trek Picarc which I guess is five shows lol.

The robotic sound of Robocop moving not the waking, but when he either opens his leg to take his gun in and out, turning, moving his head and arms is actually the sound of VHS and Beta recorder loading a tape and when the tape gets stuck in the recorder and the gears loading or getting stuck. Also Robocops targeting cross hairs and targeting someone is actually hand drawn and animated.

Remember in Robocop 3 when he set alight, the original idea was his face which his still skin would be so badly damaged that he would need new skin for a face there for explaining why Robocop wouldn’t look like Peter Weller but the idea was dropped.

Any role that Tom Welling is given he refuses to wear primary colours because of role as Clark Kent in Smallville.

The late great John Hughes wrote the script for Ferris Bueller’s Day off in 6 days.

The reason why Robocop 2/Cain looks different to Robocop/Murphy is actually to do with ED 209. People were making there own models of ED 209 so for the Robocop 2 character they tried to make him look as different as possible and harder for people to copy the figure. It’s only you can get figures of Robocop 2.

In the Thundercats cartoon the crash and end up living on a planet called third earth what most people don’t know is it’s exactly are earth but it’s the third age hence the term third earth.

Here's trivia for you:

I saw Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) in the cinema on first UK release when I was 11 years old.
(With my mother obviously, bored out of her mind.)

OK, slightly more general info of possible interest:

Apparently it was certificate "A".

In those days, films were rated "U", "A", "AA" and "X".
"A" was "advisory - may not be suitable for young children".
"AA" was over-14 year olds only.

Apparently the shot of the slugs crawling out of the ears was cut to ensure it was not given an "AA" certificate, and this footage was only reinstated for the VHS video release, which was originally given a "15" rating, and that was only reduced to "12" for a re-release in 2002.

38 years later and as an adult in a household without children, I cannot watch this film on TV before 9:00pm without entering a PIN number.
Hollow laughter.


Trivia - I believe the category 12 was introduced specifically for Tim Burton's "Batman" in 1989, to avoid box-office calamity if it was given a 15.

There was a similar brouhaha over Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984) which featured a living man having his heart ripped out of his chest and then it being held aloft and bursting into flames. It received a PG in the end. Ho hum.

Intersting to compare what kinds of levels of violence (CGI generated or otherwise), swearing and general innuendo and general "disgusting-ness" is allowed in films these days compared to these two fairly tame examples.

(All the original Star Wars trilogy films were "U", any of the duff prequels or Disney sequels rated as innocent ?
Ahem.)

Just shows.