It's the Kurosawa one where the story's told four times from four different points of view.

"Filmmaking is essentially the art of sustaining the suspension of disbelief: from shot to shot, scene to scene."

At the end of the day, real-world constraints of making movies > diegetic consistency.

"Ager’s thesis seem to be: Since Kubrick was a perfectionist, anything that seems like an error in Kubrick’s work must not be an error, but must instead be a deliberate choice... I’m sure there is a more official name, but let’s call this situation the genius fallacy."

Commence using the term "the genius fallacy".

Nice roundup of the Pixar references in Pixar films.

"Carrey can only play it straight when the rest of the world is crooked."

I am in love with this site.

"In the Navy, they teach us to wash our hands."

"In the Marines, they teach us not to piss on our hands."

The Wilhelm scream is a frequently-used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums.[1] The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games.[2] The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.

"George Lucas has acknowledged the key influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. This influence remains particularly evident in the technique of telling the story from the points of view of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2. Kurosawa's use of frame wipes (sometimes cleverly hidden by motion within the frame) as a transition device also influenced Star Wars."

"They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It’s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that’s not the best thing for making quality films.”

By far the most comprehensive collection of inconsistencies in Jurassic Park that I've ever seen.

“With Forrest Gump, there was no product, just the Apple logo,” Forlenza recalls. “They called up and said, ‘We have a kind of wacky idea—what do you think?’ They wanted to use our letterhead for the part where Forrest Gump finds out he’s become a millionaire because he’s invested in what he thought was a fruit company.” Paramount used the Apple letterhead, and 78,873,439 people saw it.

Jakob Nielsen rants about usability of computers that appear on the silver screen.