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Trivia: The Navy only authorized two actual missiles to be fired for the film. Thus a couple of the missile shots are obviously repeated, and they're easy to spot. The rest of the missile shots were done with miniatures. The company responsible for the miniatures did such a good job that an investigation was done by the Navy to see if more than two missiles had been fired.

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Trivia: As was custom with a lot of films at the time, this movie makes some extensive use of rear-projection. Several scenes were shot in a studio but used filmed or still backgrounds to make it appear like they were shot on location. A lot of the scenes that take place while characters are on a horse-drawn carriage use the technique, except the shots behind the characters are moving. The biggest use of rear projection is during the horse race on the beach.

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Trivia: The scene where Will Smith climbs aboard the crashed craft ("Welcome to Earth") was accomplished by using forced perspective, an in-camera technique that is as old as cinema. The ship is much closer to the camera than Will is, but it gives the illusion he is climbing aboard this massive craft. The technique is also used elsewhere in the film but this is one of the best examples.

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Trivia: The train the main character is on at the end is numbered 081, which backwards is 180. In the first film, the flight number was 180.

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Trivia: The film is loosely based on true events, however the real cocaine bear is not known to have attacked anyone and died as a result of the cocaine. The bear is on display in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Trivia: Although the film was set in Tennessee, it was mostly shot in Ireland. The real forest seen in the movie is in northern Georgia in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Trivia: Red's son Deke is playing the Playstation 1 port of "Doom" (1995) in the scene where Jeff enters the house.

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Trivia: When Jeff tries to get Red to pull over on the road, he almost misses an RV and has to swerve at the last minute. In front of where he swerves is a big rock looking thing, right frame. It is there to hide the camera filming the lower angle shot we see in this sequence.

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Trivia: For the film, a real radio tower was built, albeit significantly shorter. The film was shot on a tall mountain, to give the illusion that the tower was much taller. A blue screen was placed below it. The two main female characters did their own stunts.

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Trivia: One of the bad guys is playing the video game "Doom", which was released two years prior to the film for MS-DOS.

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Trivia: The hotel chase and horse in the elevator scenes were actually filmed in two hotels in Los Angeles as opposed to Washington D.C. where the film was set. The building with the elevators is the Westin hotel near downtown, and the lobby chase was filmed at the now-demolished Ambassador on Wilshire.

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Trivia: When one of the Comanche warriors is fighting the predator, he gets thrown over a large log. He lets out a Wilhelm scream. (00:51:33)

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The Big Question / The Big Answer - S3-E11

Trivia: At one point in this episode, Hefer says "please put me down Mr. Crabs." Most of the crew from this show went on to make SpongeBob SquarePants a few years after Rocko ended, which has a character named Mr. Crabs.

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Trivia: Most of the intro was shot in Dallas, Texas, while the remainder was filmed in Austin.

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Trivia: Recycled footage from the first film is used in the intro, specifically when the spaceship arrives.

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Trivia: Members of the band Guns N Roses appear in this film. They're visible in the funeral scene, and they are working on the boat when the director fires the man. Slash, the band's guitarist, is the one who fires the harpoon through the window.

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Trivia: Nolan North, who does motion capture in the games for Nathan Drake, is on the beach at the resort. He asks Nate and Chloe what happened, and they say they fell out of a plane. He says that happened to him once. He's referring to the third game in the Uncharted series where similar events happen.

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Trivia: The license plate of the vehicle with hydraulics is "Dufus." The license plate of the truck that gets hit by the plane in the cornfield is "Uh Oh."

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Trivia: Laura Linney's police radio is tuned to channel 37. She would've been the 37th victim of the bridge collapse had she not been saved.

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Trivia: Composer Phillip Glass reworked some of his compositions from an earlier film he worked on, Candyman, to fit this film.

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