Unanswered Questions
1,954 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a connection between the movies Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and All Through the Night?
Does anyone know if there was a conscious borrowing of content or scenes from the Humphrey Bogart movie All Through the Night in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
For example:
In All ...
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How much of the video compilation made for Lilly's memorial was actually Amanda Seyfried?
In S1E4 ("Wrath of Con") of Veronica Mars, a memorial fountain is dedicated to Lilly Kane. Logan, her ex-boyfriend, is assigned the task of creating a video montage as a tribute to be viewed during ...
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Did my grandfather get a shoutout in Shazam?
Okay, so first a little family history. During the 1940's, my grandfather had a job working for Fawcett Comics answering fan-mail. Specifically, whenever a kid wrote a letter to Captain Marvel, he ...
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Was there an intentional reference with the quote "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo"?
In Die Hard with a Vengeance, John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis) quotes a line from the song Flowers on the wall by the Statler Brothers while speaking to Zeus Carver (portrayed by Samuel L. ...
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In Ocean's Twelve, how did the Night Fox make the switch?
At the end when the Night Fox is explaining that he actually stole the Golden Egg on the first night it arrived, there's a flashback montage of how he got through the randomized lasers. He stole the ...
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Why is the US version of the first Austin Powers film different to the international version?
There are several scenes present in the international version of Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery that aren't present in the US (and Australian) version of the film. Overall they total ...
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Why hasn't Extremis filled the gap in Killian's brain?
In Iron Man 3, Killian shows Pepper a live feed of his brain [1]. He then claims to show her evidence that the human brain hasn't finished evolving--there is a clear gap present [2], a gap which, when ...
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Watching Stewie sleep and rubbing knife against face reference?
In the Family Guy episode about Stewie's play, there is a scene in which Brian sneaks into his room to steal the manuscript of the play and destroy it out of jealousy, and there is a strange man in ...
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Was the "Monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday through Friday plane" dub edit Samuel L. Jackson's idea?
The 2006 film Snakes on a Plane had a version edited for US television that censored profanity, often with hilarious replacements. The most famous is Samuel L. Jackson's line:
Enough is enough! I ...
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Do the The Hobbit films deliberately quote The Lord of the Rings?
My wife and I are well versed in the dialogue from the Lord of the Rings movies. We are not quite so enthusiastic about The Hobbit movies, but recently we noticed something odd while watching the ...
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First appearance of the walk down a black hallway with evenly spaced circles of light?
What is the first film or television show to employ this trope: character walks away down a blackened hallway with overhead light fixtures creating evenly spaced circles of light on the floor?
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Why did Curtis Chen try to do this in Continuum?
In the season 2 finale of the Canadian science fiction show Continuum, Alec Sadler goes back in time, which leads to the creation of a new Green Timeline and the subsequent destruction of the original ...
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Possible disease of Kramer?
Throughout all episodes of Seinfeld, we've seen that Kramer might have a neurological disorder, which could explain why he falls so frequently. However, the writers did not clarify which disease that ...
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Are there two separate versions of Hugo Stiglitz's background in Inglourious Basterds?
I've seen Inglourious Basterds a few times. I recall that the Samuel L. Jackson voice over, which gave a background of Hugo Stiglitz, stated
As a German enlisted man, he managed to kill thirteen ...
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Why was Serefina Pekkala's daemon changed?
In His Dark Materials Episode 4 on BBC/HBO we are introduced to Kaisa, the daemon of the Queen witch Serafina Pekkala. He appears as a
However, in the books his form is settled as a
Does anyone ...