question of the day: What is the ideal cineplex showtime?
Is there an ideal time? Does it change on the day of the week? (Maybe there’s a different time you’d prefer to see a movie in an after-work scenario than on a Saturday evening.)
talk amongst yourselves
question of the weekend: Are we becoming more rude as a culture?
Or is it merely that our definition of “good manners” is changing? Is “I’m good” an acceptable substitute for “No, thank you”? Is “You bet” a perfectly polite response to “Thank you”?
question of the day: What is the unlikeliest pop-culture influence from childhood on your mindset today?
I suddenly realized recently that Scooby-Doo contributed to my skeptical mindset, by always unmasking its spooks and specters as something having a rational, grounded explanation…
question of the day: Is TV better than film these days?
If you think so, do you see this changing anytime soon?
question of the day: Who are the unlikeliest action heroes ever?
I’m gonna go with Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings. Wood doesn’t spring to mind when thinking about action heroes, and even within the context of the story, a homebody hobbit is the last person anyone expects to be an action hero.
question of the day: Why have the works of Isaac Asimov had such a singularly bad record of getting turned into movies?
I’d venture to guess that Asimov’s name is synonymous with science fiction even among the general public who don’t read. It seems like a no-brainer for Hollywood to glom on to Asimov’s reputation to pre-sell films. So why hasn’t it?
question of the day: Which fictional robots belong in the Robot Hall of Fame?
Which robots that have most impacted entertainment, as well as our ideas about what robots can and should do?
question of the weekend: Do you like to drive?
If I have to drive, it’s a pain in the ass. I would hate to have to drive to commute to a job, for instance. And driving in big cities is pointless and exhausting. But an open country road? Bring it on.
question of the day: Do you turn on the TV out of habit, hoping to find something to watch, or only when you know there’s something you don’t want to miss?
Or maybe it’s something in the middle? When I want company, for instance, I’ll leave an all-news channel on… at least till it starts annoying the hell outta me.
question of the day: Why does British TV (and film) seem so much more comfortable depicting interracial couples than American TV?
I’ve seen far more mixed-race couples with their mixed-race children in London than I ever saw in New York, and that is absolutely reflected on British TV…
