question of the day: What’s the most preposterous casting concept you can imagine?
Have you heard? Snoop Dogg wants to play Benny Hill in a movie. What could be more ridiculous than that?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: How could Green Lantern more imaginatively — and effectively! — use his powers?
Reason No. 1,643 to hate Green Lantern: Hal Jordan is so unimaginative with his superpower!
question of the weekend: What is the most romantic pop song ever?
Last weekend when I was goofing around with my iTunes collection (warning: do not attempt unless you’re prepared to be up all night), it occurred to me that perhaps the most romantic pop song ever might be the early Hall & Oates hit “Wait for Me”…
question of the day: What comic book that has never been adapted for the big screen deserves that opportunity?
And whom would you cast in the lead(s)?
question of the day: What is the finest, wisest, or most useful life lesson you’ve learned from a movie?
Perhaps it can be expressed pithily in a single line of dialogue. Perhaps it cannot. Even the very wisest cannot see all ends.
question of the day: What fictional boogeyman — zombie, vampire, Giger Alien, Oompa Loompa, etc — do you need to protect yourself against?
It just now bubbled up to my conscious mind that I cannot let my feet hang over the edge of the bed lest I lose a few toes to the monster under the bed. Someone could make a pretty penny designing a monster-under-the-bed-proof bed.
question of the day: What’s the grossest food or eating-related movie or scene?
Does ”Soylent green is people!” or chilled monkey brains put you off your food?
question of the day: What is your favorite foodie movie, or foodie scene in a movie?
I think my very favorite is the prison cooking scene in GoodFellas: “He had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil…”
question of the weekend: What’s your perfect meal?
Mine would be a big bloody steak, a pile of nice green veggies — perhaps spinach or asparagus — and a glass of red wine. Something chocolatey for dessert. Yum…
question of the day: If Chuck Norris and Jennifer Love Hewitt aren’t the worst Hollywood actors, who are?
Have you seen Slate’s Hollywood Career-o-Matic? This hilarious tool collates data from Rotten Tomatoes to assess who is a great actor, actress, or director based upon the Freshness ratings of their films. Its usefulness is questionable, though…
