Tag: film

I had run successful booths at a handful of buildings, and I’d closed out a building, but I never opened a building with AMC. I’d helped with a few shifts at the Woodland Hills opening (closed last year), but that was it. I signed up for Pacific with a...

This is vanity talking but projectionists were the theater SEAL teams in film and early digital years. The three- to ten-people cluster of mechanically inclined, take-charge, responsible types who can keep both equipment and schedules running. My first team was all that. Paul Koenig, Russ Quan, Chris Dixon, Jason...

I was watching ‘Wargames’ the other day, and it may very well have been the first time I ever watched it though decent speakers. I swear there were notes in those music cues that I’ve never heard before. “Wargames’ has always been a fun watch, if a little on...

One more “good” story before the fun ones. My dad worked for a while as a deckhand on a riverboat. It wasn’t 1920, just the midwest. That was the cool job in his life. Mine was in the projection booth. AMC has always been a massive thing, with resources...

I didn’t get the writing job, but that’s not so bad. It would have required a move to Minnesota, and Minnesota sucks. Instead circumstances have pointed me in a different direction entirely. Tenure’s only useful if it’s useful, after all. Two bright sides though- I helped save a bunch...

I’m interviewing for a writing job so I feel like I should be watching my mouth here. Luckily, race in America is no longer an issue, amirite? Falcon and the Winter Soldier has entered the rotation of shows that play well in my background. It’s actiony sure, but the...

I skipped over a question set from this module, the responses for Wag the Dog. The movie was only ok, and the writing didn’t really add anything to the experience so I gave it a pass. I’m liking the writing here though. “At least he’s not doing drugs” lol....

Weird- here’s another one where I remember doing the writing more than I remember the actual film. How are ratings portrayed as significant, and do you think your viewing practices affect a network’s decisions? Ratings are both a cash equivalent and a measure of professional stature in the broadcast...

Wherein Dave pisses you off a little bit by crapping on your favorite. But seriously, though- these were just bad. Like Star Wars’ Episodes 1, 7, 8, & 9, they’re all carried more by the momentum of what’s going on around them. That’s right, I went there too. Doctor...

This isn’t actually a love story, that was just a better title. But I do have a theory – and I think it’s a good one – that makes most of this shit make sense. To state the obvious up front, Endgame really did some weird shit with time....