IF IT'S STUPID, it better be REALLY funny.
IF IT'S ACTION, it better be plausible.
IF IT'S DRAMA, it better be believable.
MY TOP 10 MOVIES
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Groundhog Day
3. Matrix
4. Aliens
5. T1/T2
6. In Country
7. Shawshank Redemption
8. Amelie
9. Boyz N the Hood
10. Seabiscuit
OTHER MOVIES I LOVE:
GREAT FOREIGN FLIX:
12 Angry Men
Amelie
A Christmas Story
An Everlasting Piece
A Few Good Men
Bend It Like Beckham
A Fish Called Wanda
Billy Elliot
A Very Long Engagement
Blow Dry
About a Boy
Calendar Girls
Alien
Cinema Paradiso: Director's Cut
All the President's Men
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
American President
East Is East
American Splendor
Eat Drink Man Woman
Antwone Fisher
Englishman Who Went Up a Hill...
Apollo 13
Full Monty
Bend It Like Beckham
Greenfingers
Bill & Ted 1
La Femme Nikita
Blast from the Past
Legend of 1900
Bowling for Columbine
Legend of Drunken Master
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Malena
Cadillac Man
Maria Full of Grace
Calendar Girls
Miracles (aka Mr. Canton & Lady Rose)
Casablanca
Monsoon Wedding
Catch Me If You Can
Mostly Martha
Chocolat
My Life as a Dog
Cinema Paradiso: Dir Cut
Not One Less
City Slickers
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Constantine
Run Lola Run
Crimson Tide
Saving Grace
Crumb
Shadow Magic
Dave
Shall We Dance?
Dinner Rush
Shower
Dirty Pretty Things
Seven Samurai
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Shine
Erin Brockovich
Tampopo
Ever After:Cinderella Story
The Chorus
Forrest Gump
The Closet
Girl, Interrupted
The Color of Paradise
Glory
The Dish
Gosford Park
The Dinner Game
Green Mile
The Road Home
Grumpier Old Men
Waking Ned Devine
Grumpy Old Men
Wedding Banquet
Hero
Whale Rider
Hoosiers
Wild Strawberries
Hotel Rwanda
Yi Yi
Hunt for Red October
I Love You to Death
It's a Wonderful Life
Kung Fu Hustle
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lost in Yonkers
Maria Full of Grace
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Million Dollar Baby
Moonstruck
Ocean's Eleven
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Parenthood
Paths of Glory
Quiet American
Rear Window
RoboCop
Roger & Me
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Seven Samurai
Shadow Magic
Shrek 2
Sideways
Simon Birch
Sixth Sense
Sling Blade
Spider-Man 2
Stand and Deliver
Stir of Echoes
Super Size Me
The Closet
The Dinner Game
The Italian Job
The Matchmaker
The Road Home
The Rookie
The Wedding Banquet
Thirteen Days
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story 2
Two Family House
Two Weeks Notice
Unforgiven
Usual Suspects
Waking Ned Devine
Whale Rider
What Dreams May Come
MOVIES THAT I REALLY DIDN'T GET
(that a lot of other people seemed to love)...
Napolean Dynamite, American Beauty, Austin Powers, About Schmidt, Meet the Parents, Ghost World, Most Adam Sandler movies, Blue Velvet, Best in Show, North By Northwest, Gladiator, Legends of the Fall, Raging Bull, Spinal Tap, Taxi Driver.
OK, I'm a film dork. If you're a member, check out...
MY NETFLIX PAGE.
Television
LOST
Books
RANDOM BOOKS I LOVED
"Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need"
by Blake Snyder
"Making Movies"
by Sidney Lumet
"Rebel Without a Crew"
by Robert Rodriguez)
"What They Don't Teach You at Film School"
by Tiara White, Camille Landau
"The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers"
by Christopher Vogler
It's not a standard music video...in fact, the band never even appears in it.
If you like it, I would totally appreciate you telling your friends about it!
Thanks, Lance
After getting his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and spending 6 years as an engineer in Silicon Valley, Lance said to himself, "Self ... why have a respected and lucrative career in engineering, when you can go make movies?"
"But I don't know anything about making movies" he retorted.
After pondering his dilemma for a while, it occurred to him, "Hmmm ... why not go back to school and learn how to make movies?"
Eventually, he finally said, "Dude, why are you talking to yourself so much? People are starting to look at us funny."
Lance then packed up the family, moved back to Las Vegas, and enrolled in the Film Studies program at UNLV. He has not talked out-loud to himself since.
Fortunately, his lovely wife since 1996 (you do the math) warmed up to the idea of a possible career change, and eventually started speaking with him again.
After taking all of his required film classes at UNLV, Lance kind of stopped going to school, and worked as an editor/producer, trying to do as many things in video production as he could.
He decided that it was a bad idea to completely run out of money, so he went back to Engineering and started paying the bills again.
Lance's goal is to finish writing and shoot a full length feature by the end of the decade-ish. Give or take.
In 2005, Lance's first short film, Family Values, showed at the Spring Flicks and CINEVEGAS film festivals. It also has shown at three UNDERGROUND VEGAS FILM events, and the newfound notoriety won him wide acclaim among his friends and family.
CHECK OUT "VDE FILMS"
Who I'd like to meet:
Gary Ross, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Gondry, & James Cameron
