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500 Days of Summer did it. Granted it's not your typical comedy.

^^ Haha I like it.

I gotta say my two favorites are The Incredibles and A Bug's Life. Incredibles because I am a huge superhero fan and I can't help but love that film. Bug's Life mostly for the Seven Samurai references. And Kevin Spacey's voice work.

Retail. Plain and simple. Mind numbing, yet gives me time to think about the next screenplay idea.

Van Helsing's the top of my guilty pleasures. I love the action, VFX, score, cinematography, and some of the acting's good (albeit cheesy at parts). What I don't like is how they went almost nowhere with the titular character. He knew almost nothing from the start, and only knew a little more...

Sounds good. I'd watch that.

I will still use the term film maker so long as film is accessible and used. I'm a firm believer in using film as opposed to digital video (granted I've only used DV, but that's for cost effective reasons). But if someone offered me the option of doing film or DV (regardless of cost) I would use...

Hey I worked on that film. PA'd for them for a couple of days.

Winning an Oscar would be cool, but it won't make or break me. I hold the Spirit Awards and prestigious film festivals (Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, etc) in much higher regard than the Oscars.

No because Avatar was a cliched film, with a cliched plot, with cliched dialogue by cliched characters. Other than the impressive effects and the (pot induced?) imagination behind those effects, there really wasn't much to the film. It was all one big gimmick. I was surprised that it made it...

^^ please no more zombie films. I'm really getting sick of seeing those. How about a middle school film noir type film/ mystery/ suspense. A little maybe like "Brick" but with middleschoolers.

No, I was referring to how popular the Weinsteins are to the Academy, and their pull.

^^ I think maybe you could eliminate the first part before the comma, assuming you want it to be a contemporary story. Other than that, looks pretty good. Kind of a mouthful, but still good.

The script is usually the best way to start. But I would refrain from using the word "epic" when describing your movie. Epic can be viewed (at least in this day and age) as an opinion. For example I may think Star Wars is the most epic thing ever created, but you might say Lord of the Rings is...

Yeah the only ones that will catch my eye would be the screenwriting segment (because I'm a screenwriter) and the best score segment (I have a soft spot for scores). But yeah it mostly is a popularity contest which is probably why The Reader sneaked in last year. I just wish that instead of...

I don't care for it. Rather watch hockey. I rarely see the films I like nominated for anything serious. Besides, I don't need the Academy telling me what films are great. Last time I checked that's why I have an opinion. And some films that have been nominated and one are just utter crap when I...

Like with any other product. You think I, or anyone, gives a damn about the minimum wage fry cook that made my Big Mac? Or how about the five year old Chinese worker who made the majority of my clothes I'm wearing at this current moment? Save for the actors and director, no one cares about the...

Great, man. Saw the short a while back and thought it was pretty good. Look forward to seeing the feature. Do you have a facebook for this? I have a twitter account but I rarely use it. Good luck!

Gonzo, a lot of that money you brought up is much easier to obtain via scholarships and school grants than it is for funding a film. I think it's a good idea for people to go to film school given certain circumstances. With me, I happen to live in an area that doesn't have a sizable interest...

I have to be an eclectic writer. I can't be anything else for I would get bored and constrained within one genre for too long. It all depends on what I'm feeling and how I want to convey that feeling as a writer. One minute I can be writing a psychological thriller along the lines of Memento...