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Question: SPOILERS: When Sonic and Shadow land on the moon, they have a heart-to-heart conversation and appear to be breathing. But there's no air on the moon. Are we to assume that the Chaos Emeralds (which have given them both powers) are giving them the ability to breathe and speak in the environment?

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Answer: Hey, it's a video game movie. Logic may not necessarily apply here.

Rob245

This isn't a valid answer. Logic doesn't have to apply; the question is, what in-movie or in-game reason is there? If there's no explanation given, that would be a valid answer. Pointing out the obvious is pedantic at best.

Bishop73

Trivia: SPOILERS: There are two credits sequences. In the first sequence, Sonic encounters a group of Metal Sonics that try to kill him. However, he is saved by Amy Rose, a character from the games. A post-credits scene shows Shadow's feet walking up to a crater where one of his gauntlets landed, revealing that he survived his apparent demise.

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Trivia: Dr. Robotnik's main ship is shaped like a crab. In the video games, Robotnik creates multiple enemies that resemble crabs.

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Trivia: The mascots at the restaurant are based on the Chaos, a race from the video games.

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Trivia: During the race at the start of the film, Sonic runs by a goal sign, making it spin. He did the same thing at the end of every level in the original video games.

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17th Dec 2024

Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Trivia: Prior to release, the film was seen as something of a "last hurrah" and last hope for Sony's Spider-Man cinematic universe after a string of critical and commercial failures, leaving the future of the franchise up in the air. Unfortunately, the film ended up having one of the worst opening weekends of all time for a big-budget comic book movie, with only $11 million in domestic sales.

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17th Dec 2024

Madame Web (2024)

Trivia: During the final montage, when Cassandra says the line "standing up for what you believe," we see a shot of a camera swooping upwards towards a building's rooftop. The shot of the building is actually reused footage from the movie "Spider-Man 2," in a scene where Peter suits up and swings upwards in an alleyway. The only difference is that "Madame Web" sped up the shot ever so slightly.

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Trivia: When Jim Carrey announced he was considering retiring from acting, he jokingly said he would consider returning to act if "angels" delivered a script "written in gold ink." In order to get Carrey back for this film, director Jeff Fowler had a copy of the script made that was printed in actual 24 karat golden ink to show how serious he was about the movie and the character.

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Trivia: Director Jeff Fowler, who directed all three "Sonic the Hedgehog" movies, actually worked on the game "Shadow the Hedgehog" as an animation director. Given his past with the character, he was excited and honoured to be the one who got to introduce Shadow on the big screen.

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Trivia: Following the release of "Sonic the Hedgehog 2", co-star Jim Carrey stated that he was considering retiring from acting, as he felt he had "done enough" in the film industry and was becoming somewhat burned out. However, he eventually agreed to star in this film because he loves playing the evil-genius Dr. Robotnik. Carrey also laughingly admitted that the huge paycheck he got was one of the deciding factors, especially because he "buys a lot of stuff."

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Trivia: Abel Ferrara, director of the film "Bad Lieutenant," was incredibly angry with the filmmakers, as he felt like they were stealing his concept and assumed it was a straight-up remake. He even went as far as to publicly say he hoped everyone involved in this film would be killed in an explosion. He later met with "Port of Call: New Orleans" director Werner Herzog, and they almost immediately made peace, with Herzog saying they spent most of the meeting laughing about the situation.

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Trivia: Though sometimes billed as a sequel or remake to the movie "Bad Lieutenant," the films are not connected in any way beyond featuring a corrupt law-enforcement officer as the lead character. Director Werner Herzog tried to get the title changed because he didn't like the idea of it being compared to the original film since it was completely unrelated... and also because he hadn't even seen the original film.

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6th Dec 2024

Spider-Man (2002)

Trivia: Future comedy star Bill Hader was a production assistant on the film and was the one who hit James Franco on the head with the piece of "rock" that knocked him out during the Unity Day battle about midway through the film. Years later, Franco hosted SNL and immediately recognized Hader as the guy who hit him in the head.

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Continuity mistake: When Lydia first meets Delia, there's a man in the glass box behind her walking around. Between cuts, he suddenly moves back about five feet.

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Continuity mistake: When Rory is first seen at the studio, suddenly an extra production assistant appears behind him when it cuts from the medium shot to the extreme wide shot.

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Continuity mistake: When Lydia introduces the guests on her show at the start of the movie, the way the woman is holding her dog "Taco" changes between cuts. (The dog goes from facing Lydia to facing away between cuts.) This sort of mistake happens several more times over the scene.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Beetlejuice is first introduced, right before we see him, the camera rotates around the model and the sign above the grave lights up. Right before the sign lights up, you can ever-so-subtly see a part of the camera's shadow move over the model. It's subtle and easy to miss, but once you see it, it's pretty obvious.

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4th Dec 2024

It Chapter Two (2019)

Trivia: The director has stated that the first cut of the film was over four hours long and that over an hour of material was cut to get it down to just under three hours.

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4th Dec 2024

It Chapter Two (2019)

Trivia: In order to show that Eddie has severe hang-ups about his relationship with his mother, both his mother (in flashbacks) and his wife (briefly seen in the opening) are played by the same actress, Molly Atkinson, albeit in significantly different makeup and wardrobe to make it subtler.

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