Wreck-it Ralph contains so many video game cameos that listing them all take an entire article by itself, so we’ll just make everyone day a little easier by saying there’s a lot. Curiously, the most difficult part of cramming all these famous video game characters into the movie wasn’t securing the rights to them, it was animating them in a way the respective rights holders would be okay with.
That time someone updated a game to remove a fedora
By all critical metrics, DMC was a competent action game and middling commercial success with a number of memorable set pieces. To fans of the original game it was a reboot of however, it was the video game equivalent of a wet fart. A response the developers of the game initially dismissed. Initially.
That time James Cameron poured acid on Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Terminator is a film often held up as one cinema’s finest example of guerrilla filmmaking. Filmed on a comparatively limited budget of $6 million, James Cameron somehow managed to stretch it thinner than an angel’s g-string thanks to his experience working on shitty B-Movies throughout the 1980’s.
Hugo Weaving hated being Megatron
As hard as actors would have you believe acting is, you have to admit it’s probably a pretty sweet deal to be paid millions of dollars to pretend to be, oh say, an unkillable robo-badass. Oddly, Hugo Weaving doesn’t share this view as he had nothing but bad things to say about his time pretending to be fucking Megatron.
That time they rewrote Star Trek, to add a beard
Jonathan Frakes is an actor known for a singular role, William T. Riker. Luckily for Frakes the character he will forever by synonymous with is a space-cruising, alien trim crushing walking slab of man with a beard so legendary they rewrote his character’s backstory to justify it.
