Blockbuster Aficionado Pillows

Best Special Effects Award

Australia: The Movie - 'I preferred the hype.'

George Lucas

Christopher Nolan caricature

"I wrote my essay specifically so that Hollywood could easily make a blockbuster out of it!"

Adult Courses. It's so hard keeping the information from different classes separate! I'm talking film history and psychology. I failed a test because I said a "psychopath" is the walkway Norman Bates took home. I also confused geography and aeronautics. I said the "great plains" are located at an Air Force testing base in the California desert. My worst nightmare was confusing the thinks ti learned in driver's education and statistics. But at least I now know it's driving where you must st

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Herman Mankiewicz

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

"Bloody hell!"

Kritik's Korner

Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup? A scene from an Esther Williams movie.

Canadian film production

'You don't want weather? Not a problem! How about sports, or maybe a nice movie? We can do that! Just put that thing down and let's talk, OK?'

Big screen TV falling through floor

Moby Dick

"We need to make it through at least one movie, so we have something to root for during the Oscars."

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

"You can tell it's a period drama because they're not wearing ozone helmets."

"Stick Figure" "Stick Figure II" "Stick Figures" "Stick Figure: The Reawakening"

'So no animals were harmed in that movie...but how about the audience?!'

Arnold's first day on the job - 'What do you mean...no director!!!...and who is going to tell me what to do?'

"I'm torn, Randy. I don't know what to think." "About what, little buddy?" "Star Trek. The last movie got rave reviews. Critics and audiences loved it. Therefore, I loved it too. But it didn't come anywhere close to earning $1 billion at the box office. And these days, any movie that doesn't earn $1 billion is a complete failure. Therefore, I must hate it. I'm in limbo until the hive mind comes to a consensus." "Except for honey, nothing good ever comes from hives."

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

"Want to deal with some unresolved issues or just get another movie."

Movies vs. Films

"Why don't you just go and see this summer's feel-good movie?"

Film Star Robert de Niro

'Nine national treasures in one film! Start writing your Oscar speech, darling.'

Script/Director/Producer/Decency Panel.

Hollywood Breakup