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Get to know the laws of filmming in your city. I've heard (from people on this forum) that Los Angeles can be quite unfriendly to us tiny-budget filmmakers (not just the laws but the general behavior of your neighbors). My home city of Seattle, by contrast, is very friendly. For example, if your...

Over the years, I've noticed that you and I tend to have different tastes in film (which is fine; this world would be boring if we all liked the same things). Anyway, this is one that we can agree on. I enjoyed the heck out of Tarantino's latest. I think I'd give it an "A", which is probably...

Some of y'all are FB-friends with me so you've already seen me gush over Tarantino's latest. My top-10 has been shaken up. I haven't figured out exactly where "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" fits in there but it's definitely in there, probably in my top-five. The movie is f'ing hilarious!

Yep, I'm brand-loyal. I'm a Canon person. Their cameras are super-affordable and since I've been using them a while I know how to get the best out of them. Switching brands would require learning a new way of doing things and I ain't got time for that. If I were a cinematographer I suppose I'd...

http://collider.com/marvel-phase-four-movies-kevin-feige-blade/ Also, I think it's pretty cool that they're bringing "Blade" back (albeit in phase 5). I think he and Deadpool would make a great duo. Only thing that confuses me about this news -- they're not gonna end phase 4 with another...

I respectfully disagree with the premise of this thread. I think Hollywood is putting out some wonderful movies. My opinion on why it's so common for people to think that Hollywood movies are worse than ever -- there's more of them. It's true that, a long time ago, many Hollywood producers...

I like it!

Sounds like a classic rom-com. I say go for it! Only critique I would offer is that I think they should meet within the first ten pages, and then the significant event at the end of act 1 is their admission to each other/themselves that yes indeed, they also like dudes, and in particular they...

Oel ngati kameia matsmuke! (That’s Na’vi for I see you, brother)

A follow-up to a previous convo a few years ago: back then, I really wasn’t in the mood for defending my affinity for “Avatar”. It weirded me out that I had to do that (even more often IRL than on here). Like, we don’t think it’s weird when someone says they like Thai curry more than pizza, we...

Some time has passed since I answered the OP's question. "Birdman" is now my #2. Sorry, "Pulp Fiction" but you're off the list. I probably need to find someplace on there for "Endgame".

I'm not really a fan of the video but the music is really catchy.

One of our mods will do it for a fee (or at least she used to). Not sure what she charges but it doesn't hurt to ask. For my first feature, I actually let total strangers (on this forum) read it and asked for honest critique. Some of the critique wasn't so constructive but some of it really was...

My thoughts exactly. As for your idea about mental illness causing someone to get violent, I happen to be very familiar with bipolar disorder (family members). Sadly, especially when combined with alcohol addiction (which it often is), a person can become very violent when having a manic...

Maybe it'd be best as a three-story anthology, each with it's own three-act structure? I don't know, it's just a thought.

Not even slightly. I was at a desperate time in my life when I wrote "Antihero". I had recently come off a couple of failed filmmaking projects and was feeling really discouraged about the whole thing. I was feeling so down on it all that I actually decided to quit filmmaking forever. That...

Quality beat me to it. If you’ve directed anything (as I see you have), you’re a director. No “wannabe” qualifiers needed. Welcome to IT!

Hey there! Welcome to the thunderdome! 😜

I finished my first feature on a very tight schedule and there were a few ways it suffered because of that. So I decided that my 2nd feature would have absolutely ZERO deadline. That being said, I thought I would've been done with it by now (a couple years ago, to be honest). But hey, life...

Music is a tool in a filmmaker's box just like any of our other tools and we are free to use it however we so please. Sometimes a big bombastic score is exactly what the audience needs and sometimes silence is golden. The hypothetical scenarios and how one might creatively approach it are...