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All of these films have actors in key creative roles. Fairhaven was written and directed by actors, Celeste and Jesse was co-written by actors, and for Giant Mechanical Man , Jenna Fischer was involved very early on in the writing and development process.

How is that different? Is it different? It is definitely different, to some extent. Obviously, people would like these movies to sell and gain distribution and in turn make their money back and maybe turn a profit, but with creative people at the helm, it becomes more about the subject and substance of the film.

It was a very collaborative environment. And Lee, who wrote and directed, has acted before. It was run all by people who were contributing throughout. Your character in Fairhaven is wrestling with fatherhood, which I imagine you can relate to as well, being the father of young children. Yeah, Messina and I improvised part of a conversation in the film about fatherhood. He initially started off as comic relief, almost, but his arc feels more human now. But you know, if you look at an episode from early on in season one, and you look at an episode now, he certainly looks different — more than any other character on the show, maybe except Peggy — and carries himself differently, and speaks to Don and Roger differently than he did then.

I think he would have swung it around a bit more back then, too, but he would have gotten fired. They should have just stopped with Clue. I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Geek: You're absolutely on the right path. People can react harshly when they see a movie after reading the book it was based on.

Perhaps games as an interactive medium provide an experience that feels lacking when transferred to a passive medium? It kept you engaged with the multiple endings. My buddy Matt Peterson and I would play these constantly and they were awesome. It was like an interactive movie. Geek: So you obviously go way back here. Exactly how far back does your gaming history go? Sommer: This guy Matt Peterson was my best friend growing up and through all four years of college and we were always into games.

We would while away a Saturday flipping through the Hoyle book and playing any two-player game we could find. Then we graduated a little bit into board games with a lot of Monopoly. There was a chain, Games by James, were we would pick up new games,and we got CribbGolf , Shrieks and Creaks , and some other games that let us know there was something beyond the more popular games. When I was in Cleveland in grad school, I walked by a game store that was going out of business, right around the time in or where a lot of gaming nerds were getting into the hobby.

I went in and got Carcassonne and something else on deep discount. I looked them up when I got home and found BoardGameGeek. What pushed you over the edge to start a blog about gaming? Sommer: Well, what actually started it was this board game segment I do on Attack of the Show. I can only say so much in the three minute segments, so I wanted a way to say more about the games. Actually I put something up there last week or so, but literally every day I tell myself I should be writing something up there.

Sommer: Yes, definitely. With months and months of stagnancy. Hopefully once I get back to LA I can pick that up again. Geek: So if the blog game from the Game Night segment, where did the segment come from? Sommer: When I was in college, for some reason myself and a buddy of mine, Andy Zilch, developed a very serious, very deep obsession with the card game Uno. We would skip classes to play Uno. We took video and radio production classes together and we would sit in the back, surreptitiously handing each other cards.

We had an intermediary shuffle up a deck of Uno , number each of those cards on the back, and duplicate that deck twice. We each had a numbered deck, would shuffle, and report those numbers back to the other player. It was insane, it would take us forever to complete a game. We even had a blog where we would post the moves. Show all 6 episodes. Everybody TV Movie Jacoby. Del Hanlon voice. Jerry voice.

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