Film Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

Garbo was dry and draughty, like an abandoned temple.

Charlie Chaplin's films are about as funny as to get an arrow through the neck — only to find a gas bill tied to it.

A movie star is no artist, he is an art object.

His acting has done for this film what King Herod did for babysitting.

I always thought Liza Minnelli's face deserved first prize in the beagle category.

This script was a job lot of Hollywood platitudes sewn together with the skill of Captain Hook trying to thread a needle.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

When stressed Woody's world speeds up like a Charlie Chaplin silent movie.

Like being a film star's fifth husband; you know what to do, the problem's to make it interesting.

( Below is an example of a mixed metaphor that loses literal meaning, but can be taken as funny. )

That's the way with those directors, they are always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Sam Goldwyn

Hugh Grant has the acting range of a paper airplane.

Quentin Tarantino has the vocal modulation of a railway announcer calling out the stops, and the expressive power of a fence-post.

Walter Matthau resembled a half-melted rubber bulldog.

Watching this film is like running through treacle with flippers.