Home Theatre stuff
Home Theatre stuffOnce you're set up you'll want some slides. They're easy to make yourself - which will allow you to personalize your theatre. And you can also download them from other home theatre enthusiasts around the web. Check out the ones I'm working on listed below.
Please note: All images, logos, etc... are copyright their respective owners. These slides are for personal home theatre use only and should not be sold or used in commercial settings.
Unofficial Rifftrax
UPDATED! These are my favorite slides! If you've never heard of Rifftrax stop reading this and go to their website now! Then next time you hear they're doing a live show in theatres, you be there! You can thank me later!
One of the best parts of a live Rifftrax show is their hilarious custom pre-movie slides. These slides are lovingly recreated (read as "copied almost directly"!) from them. Obviously these are fan created by me and not officially from the folks at Rifftrax, who hopefully won't mind!
The last set I posted back in 2013 had 161 slides in it. But over the last eight years I've continued collecting the joke slides from before live Rifftrax shows, and now this new set includes almost 600 slides! And I still haven't gotten through all of what I've collected yet! And there are even more live shows coming! So check back soon for more.
Box Office Champs
UPDATED! Using data from Box Office Mojo, these slides show the box office champion for every year since 1980. Also included on the slide are the rest of the top ten for each year and how much each film made in its initial domestic theatrical release.
There are two versions of these slides: one with the Box Office Mojo logo and one without. Personally, I like having things like third-party logos on slides I use in my home to make it seem more "professional" - almost as if these companies actually were buying ad-space in my theatre! But I know others might disagree, so choose your favorite.
Taglines
UPDATED! These slides highlight some of the best movie taglines of all time. Each tagline comes with three slides. One includes the tagline with the film title and year of release. Personally, these are the slides in this set I use.
However, for those that want something a little more interactive, there are also two other slides, one without the title, and one without the title and year, allowing you to make a two or three step trivia contest out of the taglines.
Critic's Corner
These new slides are some of my favorites to research. They feature the funniest lines from reviews of bad movies. I'll definitely be adding to this set!
While everyone posts their favorite Ebert lines, quotes from other critics are harder to find. So feel free to forward any really good ones.
(Bloom County fans will find a nice surprise in here!)
AFI 100 Movie Quotes
In 2005, the American Film Institute selected the top 100 quotes in American film history - and eventually all will be featured on one of these slides! For those of you with question/answer slideshows, I also plan to make slides that just have the quote so your audience can guess the film before it is revealed. But until then, here are half of the hundred quotes ready to go. The design might change so be sure to re-download this set when the rest are ready.
Major thanks to all the people online who have posted screencaps of these movies, without which this project would be impossible. Unfortunately not every movie has great shots easily available. If you see a bad one and can make a better version of it feel free to let me know!
Double Takes
I was recently discussing with a friend the fact that occasionally two movies with very similar plots will come out in the same or back to back years. While it seemed to occur more often back in the 1990s, it's happened a few times in the past couple of years. Apparently my friend and I weren't the only ones to notice. Someone on Reddit posted a thread about the phenomenon and it received over 5,000 comments! This set immortalizes these Hollywood copycats! Slides that let you guess the two films are included for those who like to run trivia slideshows.
• Pixar fun facts - Almost 200 slides with information on every Pixar release to date.• Unofficial Coca-Cola ScreenPlay - These 1,265 slides are styled to look like the Coca-Cola branded ScreenPlay slides shown in actual theatres.
• FT Depot - Amazing site with high quality video scans of "random and occasionally interesting things from the past when cinemas ran actual film".• Free stock images and backgrounds - There are several sites available for finding free images you can use to create slides, including: Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels.