Joe Dante: A Statement of Purpose

Why Joe Dante?

Well, because doing this will surely get him the money together to make one more feature film, making my efforts at a definitive ranking a joke, like what happened with Clint Eastwood deciding to make Juror #2.

But more seriously, I was just running through lists of filmmakers who had risen to prominence in the 70s and 80s who weren’t working anymore, and his name just made sense. He’s got movies people recognize. I like what I’ve seen. I own a few of them (most notably...