As cult classics go Thirteen Ghosts has pretty much everything needed to be considered a classic. A premise cheesier than foot thick pizza, terrible special effects and Matthew Lillard over-acting in a pair of sex goggles. Weirdly, despite seeming like a cheap remake of a campy 60’s movie a lot of work when into realising the film’s eponymous ghosts. Not that any of that made it into the movie.
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Saw Was Literally The Cheapest Idea the Creators Could Think Of
Much like the Jigsaw killer the Saw series has seemingly returned from the grave a number of times. Impressive considering the franchise started life as, according to it’s own creators, the cheapest idea possible for a movie. An idea they never anticipated would become synonymous with a genre of movie they didn’t even know existed, torture porn.
That Time Studios Combined Two Movies Just to Set Them on Fire
Studio rivalries aren’t exactly rare and near enough every summer you can find two or more billion dollar companies swinging their dicks at one another at the box office. But have you ever stopped to think what would happen if the studios stopped the bickering, put their dicks away and combined their resources to create a singular genre-defining super-movie? Well as weird as that sounds, pretty much that exact thing happened in the 1970’s with The Towering Inferno.
That Time an Apple Computer Called Someone an Asshole
Apple, as a company, are well known for, shall we say, borrowing the imagery of renowned intellectuals and thinkers to bolster the view of their own brand. Newton, Edison and Einstein to name but a few. But there’s only one intellectual heavyweight we’re aware of who took an exception to being associated with the Apple brand. To which Apple responded by calling him an asshole.
That Time a Bird was Banned From Pokémon for being Racist
At the time of writing this article there are approximately 40,000 Pokémon, most of which are next to useless from a competitive standpoint. That isn’t to say these Pokémon aren’t good in, other way, it’s just that if you want to get your Ash on and become a Pokémon master, you probably don’t want to be using a Pidgey. Likewise you’d be unable to use a Chatot, not because it’s overpowered or anything, but because it’s racist. Or at least, it can be.
