question of the day: Who is your favorite hammy actor?
Let’s just call it a given that William Shatner is probably at the tops of many a list. Who else? Al Pacino? John Malkovich? Jim Carrey? Are there any actresses who could be called hammy?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What is your favorite cinematic turkey?
This could be a movie so wonderfully bad that you can’t help but love it. Or it could be a movie so terrible that you love to hate it. Or maybe you define “cinematic turkey” some other way…
question of the day: Can a Buffy movie be any good without Joss Whedon?
One fan suggests it’ll be like fan fiction, but not as interesting. Sounds about right to me, when Hollywood seems committed these days to generally distancing itself from any hint of cleverness or originality…
question of the day: What would a true joining of Hollywood and Silicon Valley look like?
Would be it about truly interactive movies, entertainment experiences that combine both intense narratives and gameplay? Would it be about movies created via a new technology, like a crowdsourced screenplay or something similar?
question of the day: How big a problem is it that Hollywood no longer makes movies about blue-collar, working-class people?
Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore.
question of the weekend: How do you feel about early Christmas decorations in public places?
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, and already Christmas is starting to feel old. Decorated trees and glittery things and blinking lights have been up in some stores for weeks already, and I was in more than one shop this week that was playing Christmas music nonstop already. I’m gonna be suffering from Christmas burn out before December hits.
question of the day: Are you worried about the new ‘Great Gatsby’ movie?
With Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrmann onboard at this point, is it worth giving this movie a chance, at least until we start seeing terrible trailers? Or should some novels simply be written off as unfilmmable?
question of the day: What is the point of ‘People’s Sexiest Man Alive designation?
Nothing against Ryan Reynolds, but can any one man be the Sexiest Man Alive? And if this can be, wouldn’t the editors of People have to at least meet all three billion or so men on the planet before coming to a conclusion that genuinely reflects all men alive?
question of the day: Has Hollywood made us so jaded that we no longer “give movies a chance,” and is that a bad thing?
It sounds like Hall is saying, however, that we should all have run out opening weekend to see Skyline — or any movie we suspect will be garbage — because we owe something to Hollywood! Which is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
question of the day: What’s the best — or worst — nonactor celebrity cameo you can think of?
Bill Clinton just shot a cameo for The Hangover 2 in Bangkok in — I’m guessing here — a scene in which a joke about what does or does not constitute sex will occur in the presence of an underage prostitute who may or may not be female. Can anything top this?
