I'll never again be as excited for a movie like I was for this in 1997. I was 14 years old and I went with my best friend Phil and his new girlfriend Sara on opening night. When the dinosaur stepped on a guy I lost my mind and looked over at him expecting to share a moment of mutual appreciation and instead just saw him sucking face. Totally unserious person.
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Meek's Cutoff 2010
Could have been a perfect movie if not for the miscasting and lamentable performance of Bruce Greenwood.
The part where Michelle Williams fires and reloads her rifle to fire again in a wide shot is cinema!
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Little Fish 2020
Hey! I directed this movie. We shot it in the Spring of 2019 and had hoped to play at film festivals and get released in 2020 but a pandemic happened and changed everything. For a while, we weren't sure if we could release the movie at all. It was all of a sudden something completely different than we ever intended it to be now that the world was actually experiencing what was meant to be science fiction in our film.…
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The Lives of Others 2006
True story:
When this film first came out, I was in a long distance relationship and we decided to see showings of it at the same time in our separate cities as a "movie date" and call each other after to talk. I hated the film so much, I walked out after 40 minutes and patiently waited another hour before calling. When I did, my girlfriend answered the phone sobbing, having been completely emotionally shattered by it. In fact, she…
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