Question: Why does Michael Moore give special thanks to Ken Starr in the credits? Did they have a good relationship in the 90's? From what I know of Moore, it would seem that Starr would be a guy he blames and hates. Yet the special thanks doesn't seem to be sarcastic since everyone else listed seemed to deserve the thanks.
Bishop73
5th Mar 2015
Canadian Bacon (1995)
5th Mar 2015
Jurassic Park (1993)
Question: How long would it take for some of the bigger dinosaurs to reach their size? Was there any indication (movie or book) how long the Jurassic Park project was going on before everyone came to the island? It seems many of the larger ones were adults and that it would take decades to get that size, yet the park wasn't fully ready (Hammond mentions rides coming on 6-12 months) after all that time?
Chosen answer: The breeding and growing of the animals, as explained in the second movie, took place on a different island. It's never mentioned how long it takes for the larger specimens to full grow, but it could indeed take a decade but I'm sure they used all kinds of genetic manipulation to accelerate the growth, or else Hammond would not witness it all in his lifetime. The Island with the park was only later utilised for that purpose, long after most of their animals had already fully grown. Also told in the second movie Hammond experimented with different ideas for a park before, like building an amphitheater in San Diego. So the park was fairly new.
Answer: The park project was initiated about 4-5 years before Grant and the others visited the island. All the dinosaurs were genetically modified with increased growth and development hormones. It took most species 3-4 years to mature. Roughly 0.1% of specimens survived. There were roughly 280 dinosaurs on the island. 238 were accounted for by the system. Source: Novel.
5th Mar 2015
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Kabral: The black guy always dies. Think about it, man. Unforgiven. Alien. Rocky IV. The Shining.
Roy: Star Trek II. Forrest Gump. Witness.
Bud: Annie Hall. Not Annie Hall.
Roy: No, Night of the Living Dead.
Bud: That's the one!
Kabral: And what about that brother in Jurassic Park, man?
Bud: There were two black guys who died in that one. That was a twofer. You must be really pissed off at that one.
4th Mar 2015
Jurassic Park (1993)
Ellie Sattler: What's so wrong with kids?
Alan Grant: Oh Ellie, look, they're noisy, they're messy, they're expensive. They smell. Some of them smell, babies smell.
3rd Mar 2015
The Last Man on Earth (2015)
Trivia: When Phil Miller is sadly looking at the calendar with the 3 stars on the day, it's Will Forte's actual birthday; June 17th.
3rd Mar 2015
The Last Man on Earth (2015)
The Elephant in the Room - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Phil storms out during dinner and comes back in, he closes the door (we even hear it latch). When he proposes to Carol, the door remains closed until after she says yes, then in one shot it is open and stays open, with no one touching it.
3rd Mar 2015
Misery (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Buster flies over Annie's house, there's a shot of the house from outside and the roof is covered in snow. The shot from the helicopter, the amount of snow changes, including a couple sections being nearly void of snow. There are also a lot of extra tire tracks. (00:38:00)
2nd Mar 2015
Star Trek (2009)
25th Feb 2015
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Continuity mistake: When SpongeBob sees the kandy machine, the front of the machine is facing the road, but when he runs over to it, the front is now turned away from the road.
25th Feb 2015
Bob's Burgers (2011)
Character mistake: The math test Tina gets a D on has #5 marked wrong. However it is correct. (Additionally it seems improbable she would actually get #3 and #4 wrong since she obviously understood the concept of how to do the problem and only had a problem with the division for some reason, and these questions didn't require division).
25th Feb 2015
Bob's Burgers (2011)
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy Jr. Comes up to Tina, Gene's lunch tray has no hot dog or milk, but when it cuts to the other angle, there's now a hot dog and milk.
23rd Feb 2015
Die Hard (1988)
Chief Dwayne: Now you listen to me, mister. I don't know who the hell you think you are or what you're doing, but you just destroyed a building! Now we do not want your help, is that clear? We don't want your help. I've got a 100 people down here and they are covered with glass!
John McClane: Glass? Who gives a shit about glass?
20th Feb 2015
Celtic Pride (1996)
Jimmy Flaherty: Prison won't be so bad. I can became a born-again Christian. And that'll be good. Because nobody wants a born-again Christian as their bitch.
19th Feb 2015
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Harry and Lloyd are in Big A goofing off, when Lloyd says "invisibility shield", the store clerk is seen moving and bending over a bit to put something down on the shelf, but in the next shot, he's back in the upright position.
18th Feb 2015
Futurama (1999)
The Six Million Dollar Mon - S7-E7
Trivia: The graffiti in Alienese on Yuri's building translates to "If you lived here, you'd be homeless by now."
18th Feb 2015
A Thousand Words (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Jack calls Sinja in Bolivia, he's holding his cell phone in his left hand, then in the next shot he's holding it in his right hand, and then back in his left.
17th Feb 2015
Archer (2009)
Continuity mistake: In "A Going Concern", Archer has the microchip implant removed that Nikolai had put in in "Dial M for Mother." When they put it in, they drilled a hole on Archer's left side and put the microchip in there. But now, the band-aid shows they removed the microchip from Archer's right side.
17th Feb 2015
Night Court (1984)
The Trouble is Not in Your Set - S6-E14
Trivia: Marion Ross guest stars as a woman who watches a lot of TV, but believes the characters are real people. In one scene she references the following show by naming people/characters: Oprah, Donahue, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Cosby Show, Dynasty, M.A.S.H., Dallas, Leave it to Beaver. The last character she names is "The Fonz", from Happy Days, which Ross also starred in as Mrs. Cunningham.
16th Feb 2015
Last Man Standing (2011)
Trivia: In Ed Alzate's basement is a "Toy Story" poster, which Tim Allen starred in. In one scene, you can see Mike Baxter (Allen) standing in front of it, looking at it.
4th Feb 2015
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Store Clerk: Enough! You're it! And no touch backs, no do overs, no erasies, and this whole store is home free!
Harry: Lloyd, can he do that?
Lloyd: Oh yeah Harry. He can. He did. And now...it's on like Donkey Kong. Pay the man.
Harry: Pay the man.
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Chosen answer: Michael Moore's disdain for Ken Starr is clear, and continues. As recently as May of 2013, Mr. Moore referred to Ken Starr on Twitter in a negative light ("'Bring Back Ken Starr' And you said Bill Keller couldn't write anything stupider than his column backing the Iraq war"). As such, I suspect his acknowledgement of Mr. Starr is both sarcastic and genuine. He isn't showing respect for or gratitude to the man as much as he is acknowledging the fodder Ken Starr, his politics and his tactics provide to the concept of a film like "Canadian Bacon."
Michael Albert