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One time I took my car in to have the oil changed when it said to do that and the guy there was like “are you sure? you could wait”

hey @iainnd.bsky.social did you see this

I always thought this was weird in movies, but working in a coffee shop I see somebody burn a bagel almost every single day

There’s not one moment in Halloween With The Kranks where somebody goes “didn’t this happen 20 years ago with Christmas instead?” It is never once acknowledged

I would 100% write it if I could get it made with as much of the original cast returning as possible

Instead of the umbrella scene at the market, Luther Krank goes to Spirit Halloween and gets a bucket of fake blood dumped on him, which seals his hatred of the holiday

So Luther is like "we spent 10,000 on Halloween last year! let's skip Halloween" and then Nora insists they still give to Halloween charities. After word spreads about them skipping Halloween a group of people led by Dan Aykroyd loudly sing the Monster Mash outside their house

Sitting alone in my house thinking about Halloween With The Kranks and laughing

I gotta get Hollywood on the phone

A 20 years later sequel to Christmas With The Kranks has so much potential. And by “potential” I mean it should be a near scene-for-scene recreation of the first film

The guy who directed Christmas with the Kranks is the guy responsible for changing the title of The Exorcist III to “The Exorcist III” and adding an exorcism to the movie

instead of Santa Claus suddenly turning out to be real it’s the Grim Reaper or something

A customer just told me he skipped Halloween this year and I thought “what if that happened to a 75 year old Tim Allen”

Just got an idea for a movie. Halloween With The Kranks

Yup! And I’m well-rested because of the extra hour of sleep

Yeah I’ve explained it to you before a few times and it hasn’t taken so

I get why Richard Fleischer doesn't talk about every movie he made though, and it's part of why I admire him so much as a filmmaker – it was just his job to make movies. Would you mention every single project you ever had to do at work in an autobiography? Probably not!

He directed 48 movies and he doesn't mention directing 20 of them. Even that's generous because some of the ones I'm counting as him talking about are "here's a quote my AD said on set" or "people like this movie" and nothing else

Insane bit in Richard Fleischer's autobiography where he's shooting a huge biblical epic with thousands of extras and he goes "whoa that extra has a really interesting face, let's make her a featured extra" and then it turns out she's Sharon Tate

He actually doesn't mention directing a lot of films he made, which is nuts to me, because if I directed 48 movies and wrote an autobiography I would definitely mention every single one

Just saw a George C. Scott movie where he acts alongside his 3rd, 4th, and 5th wife

One thing I don't get is when a director takes over a movie at the last minute (let's say a week or even during shooting) and then turns out a total banger. How'd they do that

I really like it, but more for the reason of when directors get old they make movies where their style goes further and further and the normal stuff that makes a movie comprehensible goes by the wayside. The actually good/better version of this is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but I like both

Somebody asked me if we turn into a bar later on in the night

Has anybody noticed that I have way more weirder actions than everybody else. Despite the fact that I’m normal

I hope when I open up the video he’s just talking about drive-in movies

A customer asked me a bunch of questions about the drive-in, which I had the answers to because I’m a movie-head. Then he handed me a piece paper with a picture of his name in the YouTube search bar and told me if I searched that I could find a video where he explains the mysteries of the universe

Using the Motern Method in the way other people use Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies

Thanks Cody!!

*me hearing about a creative conundrum* Matt Farley has explained this