question of the day: Are Pixar movies released too close together for each of them to get classic status?
Is Pixar working too fast? Is its talent stretched too thin? Or is Pixar doing just fine?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What is the best way to honor the life and work of a filmmaker who dies too soon?
Does an untimely death change our perspective on the work? (Should it?) Should how a filmmaker’s work was received during his or her life change how we honor them after they die?
question of the day: Is the NC-17 rating doomed?
It seems to me that the problem isn’t with what the adults-only rating is called — the problem is how American culture deals with adults-only movies… ie, it doesn’t want to deal with them at all.
question of the weekend: If your birthday could be a special commemorative day, what would it honor or raise awareness of?
Any suggestions for my own birthday commemoration would be most welcome. Turn Your Brain On Day? Hug a Movie Day? Drink More Wine Day? I can’t decide…
question of the day: Will DVD bonuses disappear as streaming and on-demand get more popular?
Will they perhaps move elsewhere, maybe to their own streaming or on-demand services? Or will we one day see them as an artifact of physical media?
question of the day: What DVD bonus material has helped you appreciate a film (or TV show) more than you otherwise would have?
Do you usually make a point of watching bonus material, or do you skip over it?
question of the day: What are your favorite examples of amazing actors’ chemistry?
I’m not talking necessarily about onscreen romantic chemistry, though sometimes that’s certainly part of it. It’s about that instant zing of that ineffable magic that sometimes happens when two actors simply mesh really, really well…
question of the day: Is there too much music in movies and TV these days?
Which movies or TV shows would have benefitted from less music?
question of the day: Has the Olympics been a break from the excesses of reality TV, or just another example of the same?
Maybe the absurd kerfuffle over gymnast Gabby Douglas’s hair suggests that today’s audiences will gin up a reality-TV-esque catfight no matter what…
question of the weekend: Do you have trouble being alone?
If you do, how do you cope with it? If you don’t, do you find that people are surprised to learn that about you?
