We have a Discord server!

Just in case that title wasn’t obvious enough, Flick and Mix now has a Discord server that’s open to everyone.

If you’re interested in joining a fledgling forum of flick fans, click the link below.

https://discord.gg/gnQXC5XE

For those who join, all I ask is that you be respectful to others. Don’t go being a twat, now.

The whole point of this server is to get us all together in one place so we can wax intellectual about our favourite movies, games and TV shows. There are text and voice channels for you to share your thoughts in. Anything from spoiler discussions to recommendations, even interesting facts that you’d like to share, the floor is yours.

There’s precious little meat on this bone yet but it’s early days. Eventually I’d like to branch out into podcasts and live community watchalongs, but the first step is to get you lovely people through the door.

Hopefully I’ll see you in there.

That time an actor needed a bodyguard to protect others from himself

John McTiernan’s Predator, apart from being a sci-fi masterpiece, boasts arguably the beefiest cast of all time.  So much so that Sonny Landham, a rather large and intimidating man himself, is dwarfed by some of his co-stars. 

Landham actually had a bodyguard on set, but it wasn’t to fend off the other alpha males on set, it was to protect the rest of the cast from him.

That time a director made a movie so violent he was arrested for murder

WARNING: Contains graphic images

An early example of the found-footage genre, Cannibal Holocaust caused quite a stir upon release as viewers were convinced that the savagery they had just witnessed was real.  So convinced were they, in fact, that the director, Ruggero Deodato, was arrested for murder.

That time Jesus was struck by lightning

It’s incredibly rare for anyone to be struck by lightning.  You could chalk it off as mere bad luck if it happened to you, but if you were dressed as Jesus Christ at the time then you might think it was divine intervention.  This is precisely what happened to Jim Caviezel while filming The Passion of the Christ.

The Stormtrooper blooper that was so funny it was left in the film

The original Star Wars movie was a tightly scripted masterpiece that spawned one of, if not THE biggest movie franchises in history.  It’s the last place you would expect a humorous little cock up to make it past the editing phase, but that’s exactly what happened.

Big Trouble In Little China: 4 Things you probably didn’t know

Is there a better director/actor combination than John Carpenter and Kurt Russell?  If there is, then I’m struggling to think of it.  This particular duo have graced us with such classics as The Thing, Escape From New York and of course, Big Trouble In Little China.

While we’re on the subject of Big Trouble, here are four things that you didn’t know about it.  Probably.

Pumbaa was the first character to fart in a Disney movie

Before 1994’s The Lion King, no Disney character had ever broken wind on screen.  Then Pumbaa, the red warthog most famous for singing the Hakuna Matata song, let rip and the rest is history.

Alost every Terminator movie was shafted by its own trailer

Trailers are the best marketing tool a movie can have. Within a couple of minutes, a good trailer can give you a feel for what an upcoming movie is going to be like, hint at interesting plot elements and showcase the main characters.  What a trailer should never do is reveal plot twists, which is something that the marketing department behind the Terminator franchise just can’t grasp.

Indiana Jones and Chewbacca were inspired by the same dog

The brains behind both Star Wars and Indiana Jones, George Lucas, was inspired to create two of his most endearing characters by his four-legged friend.

That time a Bond villain parody became a real life villain

Random Task was one of the more memorable characters from the popular spoof spy film, Austin Powers.  An obvious parody of the notorious Bond villain, Oddjob, Random Task was a deadpan bad guy with devastating shoe-throwing abilities.