question of the day: What movies have standout opening credits?
In recent years, nothing has blown me away the way that Watchmen’s opening sequence does: it brilliantly sets up the alternate reality the story takes place within…
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question of the day: What do you think of last night’s Oscar ceremony, and what do you think of the winners?
I felt a lot of disdain rolling off the screen for the very people that the Academy is allegedly honoring for actually finding that truth this past year…
question of the weekend: Do you have a favorite color?
Quick and simple question for a lazy Saturday…
question of the day: How many of the Oscar-nominated movies have you seen?
Do you typically, from year to year, make a point of seeing as many as you can? If you haven’t seen all or many of them, will you later try to see at least those that won?
question of the day: Should creative industries be allowed to discriminate on the basis of age, gender, and so on?
Female BBC presenter sues when she’s fired, claiming age and gender discrimination, and wins. But Rowan Atkinson says it’s unfair to hold film and TV producers to the same standards as other employers…
question of the day: Are the Oscars an ever clearer indication that Hollywood *knows* it makes crap?
Because the divide between the movies Hollywood makes for popular consumption are increasingly not the ones Hollywood honors as quality work…
question of the day: What’s your favorite movie ending?
I might have to go with the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with the ark being packed away into a warehouse, presumably never to be seen again…
question of the day: Is 500 episodes of The Simpsons too many?
Did you watch the 500th episode? Are you still watching either regularly or occasionally?
question of the weekend: What words do you always misspell?
I can never ever remember how to spell occasion, for instance: I always want to put two s’s in there, and it never looks right with either one or two.
question of the day: Will capitalism itself take down the copyright lobby?
Movies and TV aren’t dead, entertainment startup funder Y Combinator takes pains to note, only the Hollywood paradigm of making and distributing them. Is it inevitable that someone will come up with new ways of making money off entertainment that Hollywood either can’t see or is afraid to use?
