You fool, July releases don't win awards. Best Picture will be another mid-level passion project drama that happens to line up with the sensibilities of Oscar voters, who are disproportionately actors, and had the good sense to only get a limited December release in New York and LA. It's the law!

Well, traditionally an IMAX camera can't be used handheld because it's so massive. This is the first ever to do so.

I was a featured extra in an interior effects sequence. I can't say more until Friday.

I was only in one scene and had no idea how it would turn out. I was imagining a 2010s A Bridge Too Far. . Glad to hear it's a much more unique experience than it could have been.

Indeed. It's what NASA would call a "successful failure."

Of all the people, that sounds dreadful. Give me Ginsberg and Scalia any day!

The Battle of Dunkirk was a complete tactical German victory but a profound propaganda victory for the British. Sort of like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Although the Germans had totally conquered Western Europe, British resolve to fight to the last man convinced the Americans to get more involved in aiding the…

I don't know.

Isn't he in the air in the whole movie? I wouldn't be surprised if he spends the whole movie alone.

Not to my knowledge, and I would guess no. Chris Stuckmann's review really emphasizes that the movie does not follow typical war movie characterization tropes. He made it sound kinda like Black Hawk Down, a movie that fundamentally redefined what war looks and sounds like on film, but didn't have as much of an…

Okay, I worked on this movie. I said I'd answer questions; here I am.

Historically accurate nudity?

There is bush.

It's weird, but the traditional movies considered the worst, including Glen or Glenda and Plan 9, do have a spark of creative genius limited by a lack of budget/professionalism. I'd rather watch a bad movie try to be good than ever see Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour ever again.

This. I first read The Disaster Artist while making a short film of my own with a needy, inscrutable, mentally deranged, unreliable but unconditionally supportive European and was like "oh God, I'm in an abusive friendship."

Maybe it's like Rescue Dawn, where he realized he couldn't nail the accent and eased off to avoid being distracting.

Damn straight it isn't! I was saying I proudly DIDN'T grow up in Los Angeles!

I was living in Pasadena, thank you very much, and it was all black mourning clothes for 9/11, Silicon Valley wire rims, and flat heroin-chic vampire hair. Like a little slice of Real America.

More notably, he wanted to have a flying car because he's a vampire. And as we all know, vampires drive flying cars.

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