"Akira Kurosawa's shit didn't stank."

Courtesy of Michael Jeck in the "Seven Samurai" commentary track

Still the best commentary track ever recorded, though...

I just learned tonight that Shatner's father died while they were filming the "horta" eps... strangly enough I learned this in a Stargate SG1 commentary (when Peter DeLuise was talking about having to work around Anderson's father dying while filming a particular eps).

Having Richard Donner point out Christopher Reeves Grope in Superman.

Are you sure? Surely the 'Full Stop' belongs to the sentence, not the word.

Grammar rules differ from place to place. In Europe the period (or "full stop" as they call it) goes outside the quotation marks. In the US it goes inside them. The latter method looks neater but doesn't make much sense.

If you found this all just fascinating I'd recommend picking up a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. You'll never look at an apostrophe the same way again.

If there's a sentence inside the quotes, I put the puncuation there:

I was at Wal*Mart the other day, browsing their DVD rack. A fellow comes up to me and asks "Hey dude, what's the difference between Widescreen and Fullscreen?"

But if it's just a word or phrase, I put the puncuation outside:

I was at Wal*Mart the other day, browsing their "DVD rack".

Then you're following British grammar rules, not American.

Either way, though, there's no need for quotes around the phrase "DVD rack" in your sentence.

Shouldn't this be moved to the book forum?.

Yeah, no kidding. It's an Internet forum. Spelling/grammar shouldn't be of much concern. Let it go!!!

Interesting, because that was how they taught us in elementary school...Of course this was in Florida as well, so there you go.

The point of doing that was to mock Wal*Mart's DVD rack, to show that's it's one in name only.

Seems like theirs a lot of need to explain jokes around here!

My favorite commentary has to be Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead pointing out "Now see the monster in this scene hanging upside down? ...See that stuff running out of his ear? That's not a special effect! It's sweat running out of the mask earhole!!!"

There are so many nuggets of trivia like this in the Evil Dead series of DVDs it makes viewing them a real joy.

that's pretty cool. do you remember what scene?

its actually on display right now in los angeles at the grove at 3rd and fairfax courtesy of TCM. they have the front doors to rick's cafe, the letters of transit, victor and ilsa's passports, and sam's piano and bench.

its during the final shootout at the house. he has a huge mustache and hat but he is recognizable if you know to look for him.

I learned that Siskel & Ebert can go f**k themselves if they don't like Terry Gilliam's movie (Brazil- Criterion Collection).

The events in the Return Of The Living Dead actually did happen.

I missed the joke, I guess, because I never shop at Wal-Mart. Actually, there aren't even any Wal-Marts close to where I live, thankfully.

Also, I'm stupid.

And I learned from the same commentary that one can only have 1 1/2 "butt thrusts" in a sex scene to receive an MPAA rating of "R". More butt thrusts than that and its NC-17. The thrusts in question were Ryan Phillippe's, if I remember correctly.

On the topic of Butt Thrusts, I believe the same topic on number of allowable thrusts was brought up in the American Pie commentary during the pie-humping scene.