Fellas, has Wallace Shawn ever appeared to you in a waking nightmare

Albert Brooks is unrecognizable in Critical Care. I couldn't even place the voice until the end of the scene

boys school

Just heard from a very reliable source that corn is going to be a major plot point in the next Motern movie

There's an Elvis Costello song called This Town where he had to make a radio edit so he badly dubbed on top of the part where he sings "bastard" with the word "sweetheart" but he intentionally made it sound terrible and didn't even mix "bastard" down

There's an unreleased Brian Wilson/Frank Ocean duet

Sometimes you watch an old movie that nobody knows or cares about and go "pretty good" then you look up contemporary reviews for it and they're all reviewing the marketing and not the movie

Do you ever sit down at a restaurant and think something like "if I were filming this, here's where I would put the actors at the table and here's where I would put the camera"

Interesting way to cover this scene with minimal shooting. Two-shot on Connery and Broderick and single medium shot on Hoffman. Gives a lot of control in editing, and then Hoffman’s single eases into a shot with all three of them as the conversation develops

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Whenever I plug my phone to my computer it tells me I need to update my phone to make it connect. But it just connects anyway. So why would I do that

These people don't know the difference between good and bad

I had Humphrey Bogart and Marx Brothers illustrations on my wall as a kid. But I don't think that's normal

I should delay my film so I can buy this and put it in the movie

The Goonies had an entire subplot cut out where two gorillas escape from a zoo, drive a car around, and get chased by cops. Spielberg came up with it, and all the scenes were entirely directed by him instead of Richard Donner because Donner thought it was such a dumb idea

The guy who wrote Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Paris Texas looks exactly like a guy who would have written those two movies

Sometimes teens rooms in movies have giant posters of Charlie Chaplin on the wall. Is that realistic? I'm not sure

Sidney Lumet is so good at what he did

Christine Lahti isn't in enough stuff. She should be at the Oscars every single year to the point where people get tired of seeing her, like Meryl Streep

*drunk Matt voice* you ever think about the Beatles

I walked into the record store and they were playing Look Now by Elvis Costello. One of his best albums!

My brother called me on my birthday to complain about Star Wars 9

There's just enough time in the day for me to fit in a watch of The Walking Dead (1936)

"Where in Alaska are you" is such a beautifully crafted replyguy phrase

Nobody moves the camera quite like Michael Curtiz

They're remodeling Fred Meyer, and just for fun they're making it worse and more difficult to navigate

Guy ordered a latte and I made it. Everything was normal. Then he opened the door to exit and the moment before he left he yelled out “I NEED AN ATTORNEY!! I’M GONNA NEED AN ATTORNEY!!!!”

It's unfortunate but unless I'm constantly looking at the script while storyboarding I always end up rewriting it with the boards

Saw the boom shadow in a movie from 1950. Calling everybody I know to inform them

No, Steven! NO!

Oh, I spilled some wine on my pants. Or maybe… I killed someone

They made a whole tv show about Darth Maul

Walked by my neighbor’s house and saw they were watching a Bill Plimpton film

Incredible end to tonight's stream

Sometimes I hear a Beatles song and then I think "they really were the best to ever do it"

Thread on the Old Man Forum called "What are the most underrated albums in rock history?" and the guy who posted it says he thinks it's Please Please Me by the Beatles

Matt Johnson gets distracted remembering a bubble tea he had almost a decade ago and tells a lengthy anecdote about it

I hate it when you look for special features for a movie and it's stuff like "blu-ray has a menu!" or "presented in HD!"

I thought about taking the magnets off of my car for the short but what if the main character was just a fan of The Beach Boys and Elvis Costello?

Customer told me he just started working as a barista and asked if I had any advice. But at the time I was working on like 6 drinks, so I started it with “well I’ve been a barista since 2019-“ and then he went “oof! 💀”

Customer told me they were using AI to help plan their wedding

I joke a lot about Brian Wilson songs have bizarre lyrics, but this is one of the only ones that makes me go "what did he mean by this"

Watching a Kiyoshi Kurosawa picture and going "hey, that's a pretty interesting camera move, let me go back to the beginning of this shot" only to realize that the entire scene was a moving master

9:45pm school bus. Where’s it coming from. Where’s it going to

I had a professor in school who said you should always film characters entering and exiting a scene, which never made sense to me at the time. Still don’t understand it

I'm like 90% done storyboarding, but I think after I'm done I'm gonna redo most of it and cut the amount of shots in half

I'm discovering more and more Nirvanna the Band related esoterica

I'm being informed that the Alfred (from Batman) tv show is actually a prequel to V for Vendetta

Baby Yoda shouldn’t be in a movie. Baby Yoda should be in prison.