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* ExecutiveMeddling: A kiss scene between Creator/DenzelWashington and Creator/KellyLynch was cut due to [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt fears that a interracial romance]] would hurt its box office.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The computer graphics used to create SID are very dated.
** SID wears a very baggy, double-breasted suit and round tea shades, all fashion trends that died in the 90s.
** Barnes needs to explain what an emoticon is. In the film, it's because they fell out of favor by 1999, but in the real world, it's because the filmmakers didn't trust everyone in the audience to know what they are.
*** This happens with most of the internet/computer references. Clearly the filmmakers largely expected internet culture to stagnate or even die out like a fad, as was a prevalent belief in the eighties and early nineties. There's zero effort to imagine it as having flourished and become ubiquitous.
** The film's version of the UFC is very inaccurate and sensationalized, obviously coming from the "dark age" of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts when the sport was considered an unsavory, underground spectacle and not widely understood.
** The oddly [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant]] grunge rock song that plays when Barnes escapes from the prison truck.
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*** This happens with most of the internet/computer references. Clearly the filmmakers largely expected internet culture to stagnate or even die out like a fad, as was a prevalent belief in the eighties and early nineties. There's zero effort to imagine it as having flourished and become ubiquitous.
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** Creator/RobertDowneyJr met with the director to discuss the possibility of playing SID 6.7, but problems with his drug addiction and erratic behavior caused the director to decide to look for someone else.

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** Creator/RobertDowneyJr met with the director to discuss the possibility of playing SID 6.7, but [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor problems with his drug addiction and erratic behavior caused the director to decide to look for someone else.else]].

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* FakeAmerican: Russell Crowe, at least accent-wise.

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* FakeAmerican: Russell Crowe, Creator/RussellCrowe, at least accent-wise.accent-wise.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The computer graphics used to create SID are very dated.
** SID wears a very baggy, double-breasted suit and round tea shades, all fashion trends that died in the 90s.
** Barnes needs to explain what an emoticon is. In the film, it's because they fell out of favor by 1999, but in the real world, it's because the filmmakers didn't trust everyone in the audience to know what they are.
** The film's version of the UFC is very inaccurate and sensationalized, obviously coming from the "dark age" of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts when the sport was considered an unsavory, underground spectacle and not widely understood.
** The oddly [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant]] grunge rock song that plays when Barnes escapes from the prison truck.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MichaelDouglas was the original choice to play Barnes, but had to drop out after sustaining a bad knee injury. With his mobility limited, he decided to make ''Film/TheAmericanPresident'' instead.
** Creator/RobertDowneyJr met with the director to discuss the possibility of playing SID 6.7, but problems with his drug addiction and erratic behavior caused the director to decide to look for someone else.
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* TheCameo:
** Traci Lords cameos as a singer in the club SID 'visits'.
** Michael Buffer and Wrestling/KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.



* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Detective Mark Hoffman]] has a fatal run-in with Sid in the opening.
** "Matthew Grimes" is one of those actors who's been in everything, most notably as Dean Rivers in ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}''.
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* FakeAmerican: Russell Crowe, at least accent-wise.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Film/RoadHouse Dr. Elizabeth Clay]] became a police psychiatrist.
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** Michael Buffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.

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** Michael Buffer and KenShamrock Wrestling/KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.
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** Creator/TraciLords cameos as the singer in the club SID 'visits'.
** MichaelBuffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.

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** Creator/TraciLords Traci Lords cameos as the a singer in the club SID 'visits'.
** MichaelBuffer Michael Buffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.

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* TheCameo:
** Creator/TraciLords cameos as the singer in the club SID 'visits'.
** MichaelBuffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.



** [[CryFreedom Steve Biko]] is an ex-cop imprisoned for murder.
** [[ABeautifulMind John Nash]] is a homicidal VR program.



** TraciLords is a singer in the nightclub.

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** TraciLords is a singer in the nightclub.* RetroactiveRecognition:



** MichaelBuffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.

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** MichaelBuffer and KenShamrock appear "Matthew Grimes" is one of those actors who's been in everything, most notably as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.Dean Rivers in ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}''.
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* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/VirtualCombat'' (also 1995). Both feature the protagonist facing off against a virtual bad guy with whom he faced off in VR who gets himself a physical body and plans to plunge the world into chaos.

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* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/VirtualCombat'' (also 1995). Both feature the protagonist facing off against a virtual bad guy with whom he faced off in VR who gets himself a physical body and plans to plunge the world into chaos. In both cases, the bad guy uses his experience with the protagonist as an advantage.
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* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/VirtualCombat'' (also 1995). Both feature the protagonist facing off against a virtual bad guy with whom he faced off in VR who gets himself a physical body and plans to plunge the world into chaos.
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** [[RoadHouse Dr. Elizabeth Clay]] became a police psychiatrist.

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** [[RoadHouse [[Film/RoadHouse Dr. Elizabeth Clay]] became a police psychiatrist.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[CryFreedom Steve Biko]] is an ex-cop imprisoned for murder.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: HeyItsThatGuy:
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[[CryFreedom Steve Biko]] is an ex-cop imprisoned for murder.
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*HeyItsThatGuy: [[CryFreedom Steve Biko]] is an ex-cop imprisoned for murder.
**[[ABeautifulMind John Nash]] is a homicidal VR program.
**[[RoadHouse Dr. Elizabeth Clay]] became a police psychiatrist.
**TraciLords is a singer in the nightclub.
**[[Franchise/{{Saw}} Detective Mark Hoffman]] has a fatal run-in with Sid in the opening.
**MichaelBuffer and KenShamrock appear as themselves when Sid attends the UFC match.

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