Stop eating my Sesame cake!

Its from Family Guy when Mayor Adam West tries to gain super powers

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Silly...Yes. Idiotic...Yes.

"I am Munro Kelly, I am your Great white Hunter fot this trip

though I happen to be blacK"

Having read the novel and liked it very much (I tend to enjoy Crichton novels in general), it is becoming increasingly obvious that Crichton novels are very hard to film.

I can think of 3 off the top of my head (Eaters of the dead, Congo and Timeline) where exceessive (in my view) changes to the story line and characters have been made.

Congo is the worst example of this. The Karen Ross character was changed beyond all recognition as was the Travis character.

While the cliches of the sensitive feminine influence and the moral academic as opposed to the meglomaniac businessman may go down well in certain quarters, a lot of Crichtons more interesting work actually turns this on it's head, and his novels are far richer for that IMHO.

In the novel none of the characters are perfect and none are thoroughly unlikeable either, much like real life.

I don't know why the filmakers felt the need to dumb down the film to the extent they did...

Also writing out the Kigani sequences slightly disappointed me.

I shudder to think what will happen if and when they make a film of State of Fear

The "Sesame Cake" line cracks me up quite a bit, but one of my favorite lines is one that was a bit bigger in the book was when they Drugged Amy to get on the boats (a little before they start singing "California Dreamin'", which cracks me up to, By the way) Where Amy says that "Peter is S***ty. Boat S***ty" and I pictured that part in the book with the voice Amy has in this movie and it cracked me up.

In the movie, all you hear of that scene is Peter going "I know, I know, very very S***ty Peter". Laughed so hard.

Please Turn Me Over ~ Mr. Blue Sky

I actually just watched that scene a moment ago. It goes like this:

Monroe: Eddie, we need to switch airports.

Eddie: Oh, sh*t. Why?

Monroe: Bomb in the presidents car.

Eddie: That was the presidents car!?

Monroe: Yes.

Eddie: Did they get him?

Monroe: That's the bad news. No they didn't!

having watched this movie again recently, I realised that in the beginning of this scene the general doesn't just ask them to 'have some cake', but when they don't do anything, he shouts "Have some cake!". You see 2 of them then take come cake, but only Tim Curry's character is seen eating it.