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 (cl...
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Tag: film
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...
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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’v...
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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 th...
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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 entirel...
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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 rotat...
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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 ...
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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 netw...
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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 th...
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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 obv...
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