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Gil Gerard and Erin Gray in vintage “Buck Rogers” television poster

In case you missed it…Did Nolan change Bane’s voice in The Dark Knight Rises? What’s Herman Munster’s favorite cereal? Which Doctor Who star will be attacking Thor? When did Batman visit a hospital? Who’s directing a new Masters of the Universe movie?

Find out the answers for these questions, get your motivational geek quote, geeky trivia and more in this week’s best geek bits.

Motivational Geek Quote

“Perhaps today is a good day to die! Ramming speed!” – Lt. Worf (Star Trek: First Contact)

News

We got another Liebster Award! This one is from Craig at “Let’s Get Out Of Here.”

Interesting trivia about this award. if you do a Google search for “Blog Award” you’ll find the most common question is “Who created the Liebster blog award?” No one knows, but it might be German for “darling.”

Craig hit us with 11 questions, but I’m shrinking the requirements down to five.

1. What is the very earliest movie memory you have?

Watching Superman III at the drive-in and being scared out of my mind on the trip home through the woods. That cyborg freaked me out.

2. Favorite moviegoing snack?

Popcorn with caramel corn seasoning. Thank you Harkins theaters!

3. Do you enjoy “so bad they’re good” movies?

I love them!

4. What celebrity would you most like to meet?

Tim Burton. They say he’s surprisingly normal.

5. Name a guilty pleasure in pop culture.

Johnny Mathis “Wonderful, Wonderful.” It was in the incredibly creepy X-Files episode

“Home” and I fell in love with it for some reason.

6. MST3K, Elvira, or Joe Bob Briggs?

Hard to choose, but MST3K.

7. Has a movie ever scared you so bad you had trouble sleeping; or made you nauseous?

The 1986 movie Night of the Creeps. I watched it in bed and couldn’t get out of bed for hours. I was scared those slugs were crawling around the room.

8. Give me your dream cast for a remake of anything.

Green Lantern. Anyone besides Ryan Reynolds.

9. What is the perfect breakfast?

French toast with sausage.

10. Police Academy – can’t believe they made that many; or why did they stop?

I’m surprised they stopped making them frankly. not that I liked them, but they were easy money for the studios. “Stealing?! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn’t hear anybody laughing! Did you?” – Homer (The Simpsons)

11. What is your favorite post at Let’s Get Out of Here?

I love Maniacal Movie Poster Monday.

Here are the rules:

1. Each person must answer 5 questions about themselves

2. Answer 5 questions posed to them by the person giving you the Liebster.

3. Create 5 questions for the people you are giving the award to.

4. Choose 5 blogs and link to them

5. Visit their sites and tell them

 The Questions

1. If you could be a superhero, who would it be?

2. What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?

3. What’s the greatest movie you’ve ever seen?

4. If you were a flavor of ice cream what would it be?

5. What’s your favorite post at The Geek Twins?

The Recipients

http://sivmaria.blogspot.com

http://feed-me-a-stray-cat.blogspot.com/

http://10minutes2breathe.blogspot.com/

http://pebblebedreactor.blogspot.com/

http://scifilounge.blogspot.com/

Trivia Question (Answer at the end of the post)

The Back to Future films starred Michael J. Fox, but he wasn’t the first to play the role of Marty McFly. Who was the first actor to play the character?

Last Week’s Bonus Trivia Answers

Easy: Name three actors that starred in The Dark Knight Rises and Inception

“[Tom Hardy], Joseph Gordon Levitt, and [Cillian] Murphy. Also Michael Caine, but you only said three” – Alex J. C.

“..Joseph Gordon Levitt, Marion Cotillard and Cillian Murphy” – Melissa B.

Hard: During the opening bank robbery, the Joker wears a rubber mask. Cesar Romero in the TV

show Batman wore a mask that was almost identical. Which episode was it and why did he wear it?

Cesar Romero wore an almost identical mask in the episode “The Joker Is Wild” when he was playing the operatic clown Pagliacci.

Links

Some of these may be familiar if you follow us us on Twitter @thegeektwins. We share news and fun stuff all week.

• Christopher Eccleston (former Doctor Who) will be the villain attacking Asgard in the Thor sequel Thor: The Dark World. He’ll be “Malekith The Accursed”, leader of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim
• Vintage Cheerios commercial with Herman Munster. Does he make it look delicious or creepy?
  
• Ever since I found out about Lenny B. Robinson, otherwise known as “Lamborghini Batman,” I’ve been a huge fan of the guy. His sick boy found comfort in Batman DVDs. After he died, Robinson donates his time and sizeable income to visiting kids in the hospital in a Batman costume and Batmobile. Here’s his latest sighting. The hospital said, “Patients are having a blast with his visit.” Can you keep from smiling?

• Alex has his August movie list up along with his thoughts on them.Total Recall is the only thing I’m looking forward to. And that’s a stretch.
• Compare Bane original IMAX prologue voice vs. The Dark Knight Rises in this video comparison. There’s definitely a difference. 
• When Batman joined Star Fleet the Borg gave up

• Producer Bryan Singer made a surprising statement this week. The X-Men: First Class sequel will be called X-Men: Days of Future Past. Then, he said that the time-traveling timeline will help tie in all of the X-Men movies. “I think there’s a strong desire to broaden out the universe. I mean, the X-Men universe is every bit on its own as big as the Marvel universe and I think it’s time to reach out and explore it and perhaps even bring some connectivity between the films,as Marvel’s done so well. You may see some of that, I don’t know (laughs).” Do you think they can tie all the movies together?
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s director Jon M. Chu is working on a new Masters Of The Universe movie. No word if Dolph Lundgren will be available.
• Best Iron Man costume EVER.

Trivia Answer

Michael J. Fox had always been the first choice for Marty, but he was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with his work on the sitcom Family Ties. “Family Ties” co-star Meredith Baxter was pregnant and they couldn’t afford to let Fox go. He was basically carrying the show without her.

Based on his performance in the film Mask Zemeckis and Gale cast Eric Stoltz as Marty. Four weeks into filming Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale felt that Stoltz wasn’t right for the role and Stoltz agreed.

By this time, Baxter had her baby and was back on the show, so Goldberg agreed to let Fox go off to make the film. But only on the condition that he had to keep his full schedule on “Family Ties.” Fox rearranged his schedule to work on both projects.

Every day during production of the film, he drove straight to the movie set after taping the TV show. He averaged about three to four hours of sleep a day. Most of the filming was done at night from 6pm to 6am. The the daylight scenes were filmed on weekends. He was not allowed to go on Back to the Future promotional tours.

Bonus Trivia Question

Easy: What car did Doc Brown turn into a time machine?

Medium: Name three actors who appeared in all three of the Back to the Future films

Hard: Why did Disney turn down producing the film?

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