If Amateurs Wrote The Best Movie Lines

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• Don’t laugh. What is the WGA to do when amateur generated content which is dominating the internet, youtube and facebook for example? So I ask again, how do WGA members hope to get a nice wedge of the internet pie, not just crumbs, when so much of the big buzzy sites are based on user content?

  Comment by realnumbersplease — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 12:25am PST  Reply to this post

• Luke, I’m waiting for the results of the DNA test.

  Comment by ReelBusy — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 12:46am PST  Reply to this post

• My mama used to tell me life was like a box of chocolates – you stick your finger in the bottom of each one so you can see if it’s one you hate before you put it in your mouth and then have to spit it out. Maple cream – yuck!

  Comment by Pat — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 4:05am PST  Reply to this post

• That’s nice that you “really, really” love me and all, but I was like ready to come with you the minute you said hello.

  Comment by epg — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 4:20am PST  Reply to this post

• Please allow me to introduce you to this large caliber machine gun.

  Comment by sd — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 8:00am PST  Reply to this post

• What crazy coincidence brings the ex-wife I’ve never gotten over into my bar halfway across the world?

  Comment by Jet — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 8:31am PST  Reply to this post

• A Census taker was bugging me. I ate the fucker.

  Make Him an offer. He’ll Take it. We’re the mob

  What is Happening, Dave. Stop it Dave.
  Go screw yourself, Hal.

  Comment by JasonTHX — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 9:03am PST  Reply to this post

• I see Ghosts. And you might be one too.

  Comment by nick — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 9:48am PST  Reply to this post

• “My name is James.” – Dr. No

  “Good luck on your important endeavor.” – Star Wars

  “Stop touching me, you unclean primate!” – Planet of the Apes

  “Pay attention to your friends’ needs and assist them when you can so that they will support you and be loyal to you when you must rely upon their assistance, but pay even more attention to what your enemies are doing so they don’t surprise you and kill you.” – The Godfather

  “Greed, for lack of a better word, isn’t really that bad.” – Wall Street

  Comment by Not James Bond — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 10:10am PST  Reply to this post

• “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just clench your oral sphincter and… exhale.”

  Comment by Donald — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 10:38am PST  Reply to this post

• What is the WGA going to do when indie writers bring their scripts in to bust the picket lines? This video just shows that the WGA is afraid that that will happen.

  Here’s one for you:

  Show me the script! Oh, you can’t cause your on strike!

  Comment by Rod F. — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 11:07am PST  Reply to this post

• Use the sort of intangible spiritual feeling inside that’s trying to tell you what to do instead of relying on rational thought, Luke!

  Comment by Somebody — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 11:33am PST  Reply to this post

• Yahoo Jim Dandy – you big fat jerk!

  Comment by AmyW — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 11:44am PST  Reply to this post

• “Kmart is not terribly fashion forward and its shelves are stocked with poorly made merchandise.”

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 12:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Amateur lines

  let’s see

  anything from “Striptease”

  “and den” from Dude Where’s My car

  Pauly Shore’s litany of lines

  Point – Lots of the prose by pros sucks.

  It’s the inflated value of self that is ruining the image of the WGA. When members go on the news saying they can last a couple years without working you’ve lost 99% of the people. They can’t fathom such financial independence. You just became the rich babies you don’t want to be portrayed as.

  Think before you speak.

  Comment by someone — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 2:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• “I could have been someone who was in the running for the top spot.”

  BTW from my earlier post – “Yahoo Jim Dandy -you big fat jerk” is supposed to be from Die Hard – not sure if anyone got that.

  Comment by AmyW — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 2:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yabba dabba do, motherf___er!

  Comment by tdog — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 2:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• You want me to be honest with you, but I don’t think you equipped to hear how things really are.

  I think our boat might be too small for what we’re trying to do.

  That’s a cool song, Samuel. Can I hear it one more time, please.

  Make sure you’re belted in, the road up ahead really sucks.

  Proper credentials? I pretty sure it won’t be necessary for us to have proper credentials.

  It’s really nice to wake up to the scent of lethal explosives as the sun comes up.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 2:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• You know, Ben, my gut tells me that given society’s increasing appetite for cheap, disposable items, a young man such as yourself might stand to make a good living in the semisynthetic polymerization products business.

  Comment by colinsmith — Tuesday November 13, 2007 @ 2:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• better make sure your seat belt is on because the road ahead looks sort of, like, uneven.

  my last name is Tibbs. That is what they refer to me as, really.

  i think what is happening here is we aren’t really communicating like we should, sort of a failure, i guess, Luke.

  Butch, judging by the damage, i think you used far too many explosives.

  Comment by Monika — Wednesday November 14, 2007 @ 6:31pm PST  Reply to this post