Gallery: Meet Justin Lin, the Most Important Blockbuster Director You've Never Heard Of
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The paintball battle in *Community*’s “Modern Warfare” episode (2010). Lin turned Greendale Community College into a paintball-splattered war zone in this witty, full-throttle episode. “Just 22 minutes but feels like 90,” show creator Dan Harmon says. “Like a little movie.”
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The 360 monster rampage in *Help* (2015). Lin went big with a blockbuster-caliber 360 interactive alien assault, in which a nasty little monster suddenly supersizes, then rips up downtown Los Angeles.
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Rio heist in *Fast Five* (2011). In this indelible sequence, thieves in two Dodge Chargers with cables attached yank a massive vault out of a police station. The cars speed through the streets of Rio, dragging the vault, causing catastrophic—and entertaining—damage.
