wweed-1

Joined Aug 2006

I am a filmmaker who spent 20 years slugging away in Los Angeles. I got sick of LA and moved back to the Midwest, where filmmaking became fun again. I made a feature film called SHADOWLAND and have formed a distribution company to help get it sold. I hate the way the IMDB works, but until I have enough influence to change it, I'm going to tolerate it, begrudgingly.

I have a personal vendetta against an idiot named Mrrockstone.

My regular bio follows:

Some of Wyatt Weed's earliest memories are of the movies. He vividly remembers seeing 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY at age 4 and shortly thereafter turning his living room floor into a moon base. Although his parents indulged him in drawing, sculpture, and photography classes, it was the release of Star Wars that inspired Wyatt to pick up a Super 8 mm film camera. Soon after, an obsession was born.

Moving from his hometown of Springfield, Illinois to St. Louis in 1980, Weed attended Webster University for film production, Meramec College for still photography, and Southern Illinois University for acting. He dabbled in American Cablevision's "public access" opportunities, introducing him to the growing field of video as well as live television. After a string of short film and video projects, Wyatt landed his first film job in 1986 on the St. Louis portion of the Taylor Hackford-directed HAIL, HAIL, ROCK AND ROLL.   

Longing for bigger and better opportunities, Wyatt took the trek west to Los Angeles in 1988 and soon found himself working as a jack of all trades in a variety of television shows and feature films, including FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, LORD OF ILLUSIONS, JAY-JAY THE JET PLANE, MUPPETS FROM SPACE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2, and RED PLANET.

Wyatt soon moved from building miniatures and art department work into second unit directing and visual effect supervision on the features KUNG FU RASCALS, GUYVER: DARK HERO, and DRIVE. He also directed STAR RUNNERS, a science fiction television pilot. The pilot was purchased by Universal but unfortunately was never aired.  

Wyatt met fellow filmmaker Robert Clark while working on long-time friend Ted Smith's GUARDIAN OF THE REALM, and joined Pirate Pictures after the completion of that feature. He recently returned to St. Louis permanently, writing and directing the short film TIMELINE, the music video RECAP, and the award-winning 48 Hour Film Projects BAG OF TRICKS and LOVE BYTES. He is currently finishing up distribution duties on his feature directorial debut, SHADOWLAND.

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World War Z

7.0

Jun 17, 2013

This is the film Zero Dark-Thirty wanted to be

I haven't read the book, and yes, I hear it's brilliant, but the people I know who have read it think it was unfilmable. There are also critics who suggest this is a fine film that should have been called something other than World War Z.

Maybe so.

Regardless, I thought this film was tense, smart, real, and thoroughly engrossing.

The action starts about 3 minutes after the opening credits and doesn't let up. Brad Pitt reminded me of John McClane from Die Hard in his inventiveness and smart, straight-ahead thinking. He is very practical and logical in his actions - he just doesn't have the clever one-liners.

This film has a high opinion of the human spirit - higher than I do - and a keen sense of politics. It doesn't feel rushed, even though it clocks in at a brisk 116 minutes.

I enjoyed Star Trek, This Is The End, and liked Man Of Steel, despite that film's problems. This is the only summer film so far that I have admired.

The Master of Disguise

3.4

Oct 2, 2010

This has become one of my guilty pleasures!

Relax - enjoy this film. It isn't sophisticated, it isn't art, but everyone involved goes for it full speed, and it is really pretty funny. You either get the joke or you don't, but it isn't the horrible train wreck that some are making it out to be, one of the "third worst comedies of all time", as has been quoted. And contrary to some other reviews, Dana Carvey does spend a good amount of time in disguise throughout the film. My particular favorites are the Turtle Man and Gammy Num-Nums.

I will admit that some of the disguises will go over the young one's heads, but the adults will get it and the kids will still laugh.

This film is best described as being many of the things you never thought someone would have the guts to do - and then did. I can't wait for my son to get a little older so I can show this to him.

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