Sam Strange
Sam Strange is the greatest filmmaker to come along since... Sam Strange is the greatest filmmaker ever. And 'ever' is exactly how long that title is going to last. Don't ever doubt it.
Currently, Sam Strange eats and sleeps in America. But Sam Strange can never know what tomorrow will bring. Excluding, of course, more fortune, glory, and best film.
Blogs by this Author
Sam Strange Remembers...3:10 TO YUMA
- By Sam Strange
- Published 09/1/2008
It seemed so simple. All I wanted to do was make a remake of 3:10 to Yuma. A little Western action, heroes and villains, pride: lost and found. The studio said, "Yeah, sure. Here's Batman, don't let h...
Sam Strange Remembers...AMERICAN BEAUTY
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/28/2008
In the late nineties, I happened to notice that fellas were not the awesome badasses they used to be. All the Rambos and Commandos were gone, replaced with Matt Damons and Ben Affleckseses. Seemed lik...
Sam Strange Remembers...BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/24/2008
A lot of people think Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (B:Ev.S) is just another dumb action movie. Wrong! B:Ev.S is an action movie yes, but it is so much more: a sequel to Assassins, an entry to the Batman ...
Sam Strange Remembers...CAST AWAY
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/21/2008
I was paid thirty million dollars to make a thirty second commercial for Fed-Ex. But guess what. My check came a day late. And guess who delivered it! So I took their stupid pile of cash, wiped my ass...
Sam Strange Remembers...WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/19/2008
Question: What's eating Gilbert Grape? Answer: Nothing. He lives at the end. I know a lot of horror film fans were misled by the title of this film. Sorry about that. The truth is, I wanted to call it...
Sam Strange Remembers...THE GOONIES
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/17/2008
Okay. The Goonies. Someone on my staff informed me that I actually made this piece of shit. I didn't want to believe it, but my old pseudonym is right there in the credits: "Directed By: 8-ball LvR." ...
Sam Strange Remembers...THE SUBSTITUTE
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/14/2008
Kids go to school to learn shit. And the number one lesson I can think of is don't fuck with Tom Berenger. Obviously the American government agrees, otherwise they wouldn't have funded half this film ...
Sam Strange Remembers...BIG
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/12/2008
When I was a kid I wanted to have sex with women, but most of them wouldn't let me. I thought, "Man, I wish I could skip all this growing up shit and get right to the screwing and cocaine." To pass th...
Sam Strange Remembers...THE DARJEELING LIMITED
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/10/2008
Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Robert Altman, and Tim Burton came over to my house one time and we all started talking about this new guy, Wes Anderson. The general consensus was, we were sick...
Sam Strange Remembers...RETURN OF THE JEDI
- By Sam Strange
- Published 08/8/2008
If you look at the top ten films of all time (aka the best of Sam Strange), six of them will be Star Wars films. This historical series has changed the life of every man, woman, man-child, child, and ...
