Adam Rehmeier

1 sketch, 7 claims, and 3 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! (guest)

A former camera operator and DP who grew up on low-budget horror (Madman, The Grim Reaper) and classic studio movies. He loves sincere, heart-forward stories and early-80s studio variety, and is a sucker for Jackass in a packed theater.

Stances

  • Movies used to have heart
  • Shoot chronologically so the actors can find the ending
  • Didn't write Carolina Caroline but wanted it to be a 70s-style romance

Humor: Dry and self-effacing, confessing he almost conned a gas-station clerk for research.

In their words

  • “it's it's beautiful and and now with Sam and Kyle in this movie.” (2:01:06)
  • “I almost did it and I prevented myself from.” (2:16:20)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–7 of 7 claims.

  1. people (casting): Dinner in America → Kyle Gallner. Rehmeier cast Gallner off a single photo after the project fell apart; Gallner then found the script that had been in his inbox for 2.5 years.
    “I would cast anybody off of a single image if it showed me their soul.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:06:47 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dinner in America → Kyle Gallner. After the first DP and cast fell away, the replacement DP, who was working with Kyle in Romania, told Kyle about the project, which is how Kyle came back to the script.
    “I found a new DP, and he was working with Kyle in, like, Romania on a project, and he was like, hey, there's this movie that I'm attached to.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:07:24 · Adam Rehmeier (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (ensemble benchmark): True Romance → Dennis Hopper. A supporting performer in Carolina Caroline is likened to Dennis Hopper's sequence with Christopher Walken in True Romance.
    “There's no weak links, and I feel like almost like Kira's almost like the Dennis Hopper of that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:52 · Adam Rehmeier (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (editor collaboration): Snack Shack → Justin Crone. Rehmeier edited earlier films himself; Snack Shack was the first with Crone, and Crone chose most of Carolina Caroline's country needle drops.
    “It was my editor, Justin Crone.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:11:01 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (scoring approach): Carolina Caroline → Dinner in America. Each of Rehmeier's films pairs a score against a different music world: EDM against punk in Dinner in America, pretty score against pop in Snack Shack, synth score against country here.
    “dinner in America had this sort of EDM, big thing against the punk aesthetic.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:13:19 · Adam Rehmeier (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. craft (score comp): Carolina Caroline → Heat. The score's driving quality in the robberies is closer to Heat than the country needle drops.
    “You've got something driving it too at times that's, you know, more akin to heat or something like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:13:47 · Adam Rehmeier (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (theater-comedy comp): Jackass movies → Borat. Only some Sacha Baron Cohen has pushed comedy the way Jackass did; Borat was great in a theater.
    “maybe some Sasha Baron Cohen stuff, like I, I, you know, um, Borat in the theater was amazing with people.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:20:30 · Adam Rehmeier (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–3 of 3 fun items.

  1. fun, about The Money Game: Rehmeier's $13,000 microbudget feature, co-made with Rod Lean, sold to territories and got banned in the UK.
    “it ended up getting banned in the UK.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:49:50 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Dinner in America: Kyle Gallner had been sent the script 2.5 years earlier and ignored it; when it fell apart and a new DP mentioned it, he found it in his inbox.
    “He read it and like the next day we're talking on the phone.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:08:01 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jackass 1 and 2: Rehmeier saw both at the New Beverly with Knoxville, Tremaine, Lance Bangs, and Rick Kosick present and got to talk to Tremaine.
    “And Johnny Knoxville was there.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:19:47 · Adam Rehmeier (0.80 sure it was them)