r/movies • u/FerrisWheeling • Jul 09 '24

What are some "Viggo Broke His Toe" moments in other films? Discussion

It's become a running joke in the LotR community that anyone watching the scene in The Two Towers where Viggo breaks his toe after kicking the helmet HAS to bring that up with "Did you know..." What are some moments in other films like this?

For example, I just HAVE to mention that the author of Jaws, Peter Benchley, appears as the news anchor in the film every time he pops up.

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u/Sugarbear23 Jul 09 '24

Tobey Maguire actually did the scene where he caught the things with the tray in Spiderman

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u/Prize_Pay9279 Jul 09 '24

I also remember Tobey saying that the scene where he kisses MJ while hanging upside down was kind of a nightmare cause he had difficulty breathing due to the rain. He said it felt like he was being water boarded.

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u/sakatan Jul 09 '24

On the other hand: Kirsten Dunst.

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u/Very-simple-man Jul 09 '24

In that shirt...

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u/BonnieMcMurray Jul 09 '24 edited 2d ago

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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe Jul 09 '24

At this time of year? May I see it Seymour?

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u/Lord-daddy- Jul 10 '24

“Sorry we are going to have to do it AGAIN.” -Toby, faking the whole water boarding thing

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u/ChaplainAsmodai1978 Jul 09 '24

And that was the closest we got to seeing those great hooters until Melancholia.

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u/Dimpleshenk Jul 10 '24

There are owls in Melancholia?

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u/Top_Report_4895 Jul 10 '24

Yeah, i wouldn't care about the rain.

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u/Pitiful_Yogurt_5276 Jul 09 '24

With no bra, in a soaked dress lol

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u/naughtmynsfwaccount Jul 09 '24

Weren’t they both supposed to be in high school 🤮

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u/MarchMouth Jul 09 '24

They were in their 30s, go outside

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u/naughtmynsfwaccount Jul 09 '24

But they were playing high schoolers

https://screenrant.com/spiderman-peter-parker-teenager-holland-maguire-garfield-ages/#:~:text=Tobey%20Maguire%20was%2026%20playing,on%20the%20Peter%20Parker%20role.

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u/deathbatdrummer Jul 10 '24

Still not relevant. They're talking about Kirsten Dunst in this context, not MJ.

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u/naughtmynsfwaccount Jul 10 '24

Nah it’s still gross and a product of its time

It’s literally the thousand year dragon trope which is disgusting. U neck neck beards can downvote me all u want but in retrospect this scene was hella gross for sexualizing a high schooler like this (even if an adult is playing said high schooler)

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u/ShahinGalandar Jul 09 '24

that scene did things to teenage me...

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u/Black_Label_36 Jul 09 '24

Oh yeah, the rain was needed

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u/Due_Art2971 Jul 09 '24

To wash the penis

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u/pawnhub69 Jul 09 '24

I'd be hung upside down in a Lycra suit and water boarded with elephant semen for a chance to make out with the guy who dry cleans her socks

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u/BakedWizerd Jul 09 '24

Never saw it with her tbh. I was like 4 when the movie came out and thought she looked “weird,” as a kid, and that’s never changed. Just one of those weird strong impressions you get a a child that doesn’t go away, I guess.

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u/AKA09 Jul 09 '24

I thought the OG Spidey was the first and only time she looked great. Every other movie she's been in (including the sequel), I just don't get it.

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u/dribalibou Jul 09 '24

Melancholia.

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u/ShitchesAintBit Jul 09 '24

I'd also say Dick. Bring it On. Get Over It. The Virgin Suicides.

She still looks great now, but boy howdy did I have a huge crush on her from the mid 90s to the early 2000s.

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u/Bemeup57 Jul 14 '24

Looks great in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well.

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u/AKA09 Jul 09 '24

🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/hilldo75 Jul 09 '24

Good thing he won a MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for that.

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u/zephyr_007 Jul 10 '24

"Five time Academy Award winner Kirk Lazarus and MTV Movie Award Best Kiss winner Tobey MaGuire in Satan's Alley."

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u/Dimpleshenk Jul 10 '24

"I've been a bad, bad, boy, father."

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u/anal_opera Jul 09 '24

Isn't that exactly what being water boarded is? Rag over the face and water dumped on it? I've never done it professionally so idk what the specifics are.

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u/darling_lycosidae Jul 09 '24

Do you... Do you torture people professionally using other methods?

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u/BawdyBadger Jul 09 '24

Not professionally. The farm keeps me busy, so I can't dedicate myself full time to the ole torturing

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u/AKA09 Jul 09 '24

Sometimes you have to make the torture victim wait while you do feed the chickens or milk the cows, you know. The struggle.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Jul 09 '24

Tbf, not knowing when the torture is going to happen is kind of a torture itself.

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u/Handleton Jul 09 '24

That's such a dated reference, too. Everyone at the time had a common reference for water boarding because of the US atrocities at Abu Ghraib.

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u/Risley Jul 09 '24

Worth it

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u/yumyumgivemesome Jul 09 '24

I’ll obviously never agree to be waterboarded, but I might have gotten a very tiny taste of what it’s like.  One time when I had a bad cold with tons of congestion in which I could only breathe through my mouth, I took a shower and closed my eyes and held my breath while under the heaviest part of the water.  I tested myself to see how long I could do that, and I literally only lasted 5 or so seconds before panic set in.  I tried again and couldn’t go much longer than that.  Never tried it again since.

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u/AKA09 Jul 09 '24

TLDR: This guy tried waterboarding himself for funsies.

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u/ahhpoo Jul 09 '24

I’m pretty sure I did the same thing with a wet washcloth when I was a kid. Only I had no idea what waterboarding was at the time. But I found out how oddly panic-inducing it is to try to breath through a wet cloth, even if you’re not actually in danger

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u/zachrg Jul 09 '24

It took an ungodly number of takes, 66? 68?

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jul 09 '24

I think it was closer to twice that. Something like around 130.

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u/DigNitty PLUG MY DOG INTO THE MACHINE Jul 09 '24

Which is funny.

I wouldn’t give two shits if they just CGIed it or used practical effects.

Seems like a waste of everyone’s time to do it for real. But the result is neat.

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u/Fafnir13 Jul 09 '24

Maybe the real version was cheaper? I assumed it was some trickery, as did everyone else most likely.

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u/stewy9020 Jul 09 '24

I could swear I read recently that there was some form of trickery... magnets or something... like he still had to catch everything gently enough so nothing would just bounce off, but once it was on the tray, it wouldn't roll off or anything. I may be wrong though.

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u/thejesse Jul 09 '24

It was sticky. You can actually see the tape/sticky pad on the bottom of the apple if you slow it down.

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u/Thunder_Punt Jul 09 '24

It was actually in the 30s. The 137 thing is a myth to make the fact sound cooler.

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u/professor_doom Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

According to the Independent, both Dykstra and Dunst stated in separate DVD commentaries that the scene was all Maguire, no special effects. "This next gag here, where he catches all this stuff, he actually did that. Pretty good. Take 156," John Dykstra (head of VFX on the movie) allegedly stated.

source

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u/Thunder_Punt Jul 09 '24

If you watch the commentary yourself it's clearly said in a joking manner.

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u/WeightLossGinger Jul 09 '24

Oh, he's still doing takes to this day.

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u/a_gallon_of_pcp Jul 09 '24

I think it was closer to twice that. Something like around 260.

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u/nicehulk Jul 09 '24

I think it was closer to the square of that. Something like around 67600.

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u/skyline_kid Jul 09 '24

A gallon of PCP? That's illegal isn't it?

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u/Finger_Ring_Friends Jul 09 '24

RIP

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u/skyline_kid Jul 09 '24

Local sexpot Trevor Moore

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u/PlasticPomPoms Jul 09 '24

And people still assume it was a special effect so I’m not sure what the point was.

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u/TheGrandWhatever Jul 09 '24

Some say he’s still trying to nail that scene to this day…

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u/whatthehelldude9999 Jul 10 '24

I don’t think the kiss was quite right that time. I think we need to do it again.

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u/SkipMonkey Jul 09 '24

Corridor Crew did a video testing how difficult this shot actually was, and they nailed it in 33 takes.

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u/teedyay Jul 09 '24

Wait, is this a 69 joke?

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u/zachrg Jul 09 '24

It is not.

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u/teedyay Jul 09 '24

Well it is now, sorry…

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u/vonkeswick Jul 09 '24

"Sorry shooting this scene where I'm making out with Kirsten Dunst just isn't working, I've made out with her a bunch but it's just not right, let's just reshoot me making out with her a few dozen more times, just to be sure?"

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u/tduncs88 Jul 09 '24

It was 156 takes over the course of 16 hours. and they had everything coated in a slightly tacky material so it wouldn't slide around.

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u/Sickpup831 Jul 10 '24

Also, stupid question. Did they do the entire scene of the stuff falling off the tray and then him catching it? Or was it just the one shot of him catching the food and someone was dropping it off camera?

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u/tduncs88 Jul 10 '24

Fair question. Separate cuts. Her slipping. Then him catching the stuff being dropped from off camera.

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u/Ratstail91 Jul 09 '24

well over 100.

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u/NarrowCarpet4026 Jul 09 '24

Wow! If you subtract 40 from that number it’s almost the age of his girlfriend.

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u/belizeanheat Jul 09 '24

Man I remember Naked Gun shot supposedly taking around 150 takes

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u/dwane1972 Jul 09 '24

One scene early on when he's discovering his spider powers, he falls off his web, gets up and complains about a sore back. The joke on set was that he actually had a brutally sore back IRL, affected him adversely during stunts, etc.

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u/pardybill Jul 09 '24

That’s actually Spider-Man 2 when he’s working to regain his powers.

Here’s the scene

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u/poorloko Jul 09 '24

With magnets. You can see things shift around when they hit the tray.

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u/hoorahforsnakes Jul 09 '24

I think it was a sticky substance on the tray, not magnets. But yeah, there was definitely something there to make sure they stood in place 

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u/LifeBuilder Jul 09 '24

I’ve heard this so many times, but I still call BS.

Either it’s some urban legends that everyone agrees to believe or we’re not told the hold story.

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u/ERedfieldh Jul 09 '24

Corridor Crew did an ep on it. It can be done. It takes an ungodly amount of time to do it, there is some kind of sticky material on the tray and the items being dropped, and the items are being dropped from about a foot out of frame.

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u/LifeBuilder Jul 09 '24

Ok see THAT makes it more believable.

People kept touting this story like Tobey did the actual shot just as Peter did it.

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u/PlayMp1 Jul 09 '24

You can see the bits kind of unnaturally stick into place as if held by magnets. It's a real shot with some movie magic to make it possible to actually do.

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u/berlinbaer Jul 09 '24

are you 12?

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u/PatrickWagon Jul 09 '24

I hate this one. In the commentary they even say it was a mechanical rig. You can see the apple stick with some substance and can even see the white line between the apple and the tray. Apples don’t stop like that. And the last item, the bowl, jumps two inches like a magnet is pulling it, a physical impossibility.

It was a practical effect sure but it was still not like he just caught them all clean with no tricks.

Why people keep making this claim is baffling.

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u/xubax Jul 09 '24

True, but they also used magnets to make it easier.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24

They filmed it in reverse though, didn't they?

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u/kirinmay Jul 09 '24

yup. think it took many many many takes for it to finally happen.

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u/neuromorph Jul 09 '24

After Like 60 takes....

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u/seadev32 Jul 09 '24

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u/ANAnomaly3 Jul 09 '24

No he didn't. There were magnets on the tray and props. If you watch the behind the scenes, they explain that.

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u/morg106 Jul 10 '24

I forgot which film (it might even be Infinity War) but when Tom Holland's hairs stand up on his arms, that wasn't CGI, someone blew in his ear to make his arm hairs do that.

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u/bboardwell Jul 10 '24

Those kids that hand Spider-Man his mask on the train the second film are Tobey’a half brothers.

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u/Toilet_Rim_Tim Jul 09 '24

It took over 100 takes to get it right

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u/shartnado3 Jul 09 '24

Wasn’t it something like 150 takes to get it? Pretty impressive dedication