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QOTD: How much does a sense of mystery surrounding a movie impact your desire to see it?
Cuz people are speculating what Brad Bird’s new flick Tomorrowland might be about, and then speculating how much folk will be upset if it turns out to be something else entirely…
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 do Hollywood execs suddenly love Lindsay Lohan again?
It’s cases like this that make me question the conventional wisdom that Hollywood only gives audiences what they want. It appears that the public does not want to see Lindsay Lohan onscreen. Something else must be going on.
inconsistent embargo ugliness rears its ugly head again with ‘X-Men: First Class’
I have not seen X-Men: First Class yet. I’ll see it tomorrow evening. Right around 24 hours from now, I will have an unbearable urge to send a tweet out to the Net as I emerge from my screening, to let you all know what my inital reaction is. And I will have to strangle that urge in a way that other critics haven’t had to…
