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loaded question: what movies beyond ‘Mary Poppins’ deserve a rethink of their official ratings?

Mon, Feb 26, 2024
3 comments

What older movies might warrant a rethink, either to acknowledge their suitability to audiences of all ages or to restrict them to more discerning adults?

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loaded question: what location, specific or general, inevitably makes you think of a line of movie dialogue?

Mon, Feb 19, 2024
2 comments

Like you’re constitutionally incapable of not muttering a line of dialogue to yourself when you’re in that particular place?

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loaded question: what are your memories of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ as we approach its 25th anniversary?

Tue, Feb 13, 2024
6 comments

It’s almost impossible to convey the level of excitement and anticipation if you didn’t experience it that spring and summer of 1999…

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loaded question: what’s an article of clothing from movies/TV that you covet?

Mon, Feb 05, 2024
5 comments

And would you actually wear it?

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loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?

Tue, Jan 30, 2024
5 comments

Mine is a dark earworm about actors and the characters they (sometimes) portray that I know is absurd, and I can’t not hear it.

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loaded question: are the Razzies — or any discussion about the worst films in any given year — worth our time?

Mon, Jan 22, 2024
2 comments

Punching down is totally uncalled for, but I do think there is value in talking about movie worsts, if they focus on the excesses of the big-budget movie machine.

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loaded question: what 2023 movie was the worst you saw?

Tue, Jan 16, 2024
3 comments

For me, this was School of Magical Animals, a desperately terrible Harry Potter family-fantasy knockoff out of Germany…

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loaded question: are American moviegoers getting more comfortable with subtitled films?

Tue, Jan 09, 2024
1 comment

Apparently folks are watching everything with subtitles on, even shows and movies in English, for a variety of reasons. Could that be a contributing factor?

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loaded question: how could the McAllisters afford that house and that Paris trip in ‘Home Alone’? (wrong answers only)

Mon, Dec 18, 2023
3 comments

I mean, obviously, Kevin’s dad is either in finance or in the mafia, but those are boring answers to the question. What are the bonkers possibilities?

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loaded question: are three-hour-plus movies damaging to the overall entertainment environment?

Mon, Dec 11, 2023
6 comments

Is there anything definitive that can be said about movie runtimes, or is it always a matter of It depends…

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