Random Movie Trivia - Forrest Gump

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Forrest Gump

• Bill Murray, John Travolta, and Chevy Chase all turned down the title role.  It makes you wonder how dumb the casting director was that Tom Hanks was their fourth choice.
• The Vietnam scenes were filmed on what is now the Ocean Creek Golf Course on Fripp Island, SC.  I only mention that because fellow Brainfart contributor Alex and I have played that course numerous times and pretended to be Bubba and Forrest while playing.  Also, the scene where Forrest's boat, Jenny, crashes into a dock was shot at a nearby fishing company and that boat is still sitting wrecked in that dock to this day.
• David Alan Grier, Ice Cube, and Dave Chappelle all turned down the part of Bubba.  While I could see Grier and Chappelle doing okay with that part, but Ice Cube?  Are you serious?
• Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim Hanks doubled for him in most of the running scenes.  Other than having no hair, Jim looks just like his brother.
• As I've mentioned before, this movie is actually base on a novel and in the scene were Lieutenant Dan tells Forrest that the day Forrest becomes a shrimping boat captain he will be an astronaut is actually a reference to that book.
• When the microphone is unplugged during the Vietnam Rally, Tom Hanks' inaudible line is "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without legs.  Sometimes they don't go home at all.  That's a bad thing.  That's all I have to say about that."
• Tom Hanks' daughter and director Robert Zemeckis' son are two of the extras on the school bus at the beginning of the movie.
• One scene that was left out was a run-in with Martin Luther King Jr where Forrest inadvertently saves MLK from an attack by some dogs.
• While her last name is never actually spoken, Jenny's full name is Jenny Curran which can be seen on the back of an envelope in the scene where Forrest receives all of the letters he wrote to her during Vietnam.
• Forrest's hometown of Greenbow, Alabama is fictional.
• Sally Field plays Forrest's mother even though she is only ten years older than Tom Hanks and actually played his girlfriend in the movie Punchline which was released six years before Forrest Gump.
• Kurt Russell provided the voice for Elvis in the movie.
• Following the success of the movie, the author of the book wrote a sequel called "Gump & Co" in which Forrest lives in a world where the movie was released and Forrest calls it inaccurate and even meets Tom Hanks.

"A bald Tom Hanks?  Nope, just his younger brother Jim."

Best App Ever?

Alternate Title:  Goals Make Me Horn-y.  Okay, that one was bad.

In the digital age the new frontier is apps.  Whatever you think that you originally thought of, someone else has already though of it and made an app for it.  Every now and then between the "Let Your Cat Fish" app or the "What Butterfly is That" app someone strikes pure gold.  Budweiser did just that with this app.

First off let's address the main problem of this thing - it's for Hockey/Canadians.  Gross.  For this short discussion we need to make believe that Budweiser will not be stupid and extend this to at least football and hopefully all sports; although basketball would be annoying.  For those of us that have to do work around the house or aren't interested in watching every minute of every game, this is the tits.  The scenarios of fun are endless.  You can be in the other room or having a party but when that light goes off and that horn sounds your house will go to meltdown - and who doesn't love that (not girls).

The next step - the app lets you enter in your fantasy teams and the light and buzzer go off when someone on your team scores.  Imagine watching Jeopardy with your buddy you are playing that week.  He brings over his light.  You have yours.  Let the games begin!

"Bill Gates' horn light."

Kate Upton

Sports Illustrated released their annual Softcore Porn Issue, I mean Swimsuit Issue this week and for the second straight year Kate Upton was the cover model and for the second straight year I don't know why.  First off, let's look at the cover of the this year's Swimsuit Issue:

She's not bad looking, but I just don't see why people think she is so hot.  Sure, she has a nice rack, but she is kind of thick and her face is 'meh' at best to me.  The only thing I can figure is that because she is only 20, it ramps up her hotness factor a few too many degrees in everybody's minds.  I've brought this issue up with my friends and I seem to be in the minority on this, but I'm sorry, she is just not hot enough to garner gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue two years in a row.  So, I looked at the other models featured in this year's issue and found a model that I thought is way hotter than ol' big boobs up there.  Her name is Izabel Goulart.  She is a 5'10, 28 year old Brazilian model and I am already in love and think she is every bit as deserving of the cover as Kate Upton.  I don't know or really care if anyone agrees with me, so decide for yourself.  Check her out and decide for yourself who the real winner should have been (the answer is not Kate Upton):

NOKW - Jumanji

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Jumanji

Basic Plot:  A kid finds a board game and when he and a friend play it, they find out that it is much more than just a simple game.  Monkeys, rhinos, deadly plants, and a big-game hunter all descend upon a small town and havoc reigns until the game is over.  Whoa, that actually sounded legitimate.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Sam Parrish (Robin Williams' dad) fired the only black guy in his factory for barely damaging one of his machines.  The fact that that black guy quit on his dream of making sneakers so easily when he is idea would have been worth millions.  The fact that Judy and Peter's aunt seems to be wealthy enough to afford that mansion but other than talking on her phone a lot, we are never clear how she could afford it.  The fact that the National Guard isn't called in when the town is overrun by stampeding elephants and plants that can destroy cars.  The fact that a pelican is able to pick up and fly with that bulky board game with such ease.  The fact that when Robin Williams and Sarah finish the game and go back in time to when it started, they would be completely different people with some truly traumatic emotional scars and it would be amazing if either of them is ever able to go to school again, let alone get out of bed.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Robin Williams's character is stuck inside of the Jumanji jungle for 26 years without anyone but a guy that is trying to kill him for company and when he is finally released, he is relatively normal.  Bullshit.  I'm fairly confident that no one could be as sane as he was when he came out of that jungle after 26 years, let alone one.  Not only would he be completely insane, but he was kid when he went in there, so all those awkward teenage years where he was supposed to learn social skills didn't happen, so he should also be impossible to talk to.  Sure, he did run away as soon as he got out, but he also came back, took a shower, probably a dump on a real toilet, and then went right back to playing Jumanji.  If I was him, not only would I be crazy as shit, but I also would never go near that game again.  I would know what was in that jungle and I would know that it would start showing up in real life and I wouldn't want anything to do with it, but Robin Williams was "Cool, let's start playing again".  I am not okay with that.

"When someone looks like that, you know they are 'eat their own feces' crazy." 

Stupid State Laws - New Jersey

Here comes another post about a state law that still exists on the books and why it is ridiculous (to see them all, click here):

New Jersey

"It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon."

What in the hell is a homing pigeon?  Well, I looked it up and basically they were used to send messages long distances back before telephones and Twitter.  If you have read or watch Game of Thrones and its sequels (none of which are also called Game of Thrones like HBO wants you to believe), then homing pigeons are exactly the same birds that they use in that series to send messages.  So, I guess this law was either made during wartime or in a parallel universe where America was populated by power-hungry crazy people with British accents and dragons.  And if it was made during wartime, why would you ever follow this law?  Isn't disrupting your opponents communications key in winning a war?  Instead, New Jersey should have outlawed spray tanning, that would have been a much more sensible law even if they didn't know what spray tanning was at the time.

"Did you know HBO is splitting the 3rd book in the series into two seasons? The child actors will be 40 by the time they finally finish this thing."

Really, SNL?

Do you know who is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight?  Fucking Justin Bieber.  Why, SNL?!?  This truly makes no sense to me.  Do they think that by having that twerp on the show it will bring in a younger (female) audience?  That answer is no.  Those teenage girls will watch that one show and then never watch it again because they will see something shiny and get distracted like everyone under the age tween.  Do they think he is funny?  I hope not.  Do they think that their current (dwindling) viewers will actually enjoy seeing a no-talent ass-clown hosting the show?  Well, maybe, they have let Lindsay Lohan host the show four times and one of those times was after she became a Hollywood outcast.  Basically what I'm trying to say is that SNL has grossly misjudged Bieber's popularity with their show's audience and I for one will do what I always do when I disagree with their choice of host - fast forward to Weekend Update and then delete that episode from my DVR.

And since we are here, I want to give SNL a couple of much better choices other than that lesbian-looking kid to host their show:

• Nathan Fillion - the title character on the ABC show Castle and former star of short-lived Firefly would make the perfect host.  He's funny and charming, what more could they ask for?
• Weird Al Yankovic - somehow the parody king hasn't even been the musical guest on the show.  He can sing, he can dance, and he knows how to play numerous characters.  Fix this injustice, SNL and make him a host!
• Olivia Wilde - I love making lists that allow me to mention the super sexy Olivia Wilde.  Plus she is engaged to current SNL cast member Jason Sudeikis.
• Robert Downey Jr. - did you know that Iron Man used to actually be a cast member on SNL?  So, why haven't they invited him back to host since becoming a superstar?  Because they are idiots and chose Bieber instead.
• Alec Baldwin - he is hilarious and this would extend his hosting record to 17.

"Start a 'Weird Al to Host SNL' Facebook page now!  I'd do it but I hate Facebook."

Random Movie Trivia - Pulp Fiction

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Pulp Fiction

• The bible verse that Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) quotes at the beginning of the movie before killing that guy is mostly made-up, Quentin Tarantino and Jackson wrote it themselves and only one line of it even resembles anything from the bible.
• Samuel L. Jackson's character was originally supposed to wear a giant afro but after a crew member found a jheri curl wig and Jackson tried it on, Tarantino stuck with it.
• In the scene where John Travolta plunges a syringe into Uma Thurman's chest, they actually filmed him pulling it out and then playing it backwards.  Also, the board games "The Game of Life" and "Operation" are seen on a table in the background during this scene.
• Two-time Academy Award Winner (and probably will win a third soon) Daniel-Day Lewis really wanted the part of Vincent Vega but Tarantino turned him down in favor of the (at the time) washed-up John Travolta.
• Things speculated to have been in the briefcase that Jules and Vincent received at the beginning of the movie:  Elvis's gold suit worn by Val Kilmer in True Romance, Marcellus Wiley's (Ving Rhames) soul, diamonds, just a light bulb, and "whatever you want it to be".
• The word "fuck" is said 265 times in this movie.
• Sylvester Stallone was considered for the role of Butch.  Luckily they went with Bruce Willis.
• Jules's "Bad Mother Fucker" wallet is actually Quentin Tarantino's and is a reference to Shaft, a part later played by Samuel L. Jackson six years later.  Fun Fact - Christian Bale played the villain in that movie.
• Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Halle Berry, and Michelle Pfeiffer were all considered for the role of Mia Wallace.
• Courtney Love claims that Tarantino wanted her and Kurt Cobain to play Lance and Jodi (the couple that robs the diner at the end), however, Tarantino denies having ever meet Cobain, let alone offering them the part.

"Yup, someone actually owned this wallet and that person directed this movie."