evening clickbait: how’s the weather in the Shire today?; fake nerd guys; Paul Rudd’s years-long practical joke
Stuff I found on the Net today.
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evening clickbait: *cough* Homefront *cough*; good news for women filmmakers; a six-year-old boy is wise about Frozen
Stuff I found on the Net today. (Well, actually, yesterday.)
question of the day: Why have cable networks divorced their programming from all semblance of connection to their branding?
It’s all shark attacks on Discovery, ice road truckers on the History Channel, and Honey Boo Boo on what used to be known as The Learning Channel. WTF?
question of the day: What unfilmmable book would you nevertheless love to see on film, if it could be done justice?
This was inspired by my still ongoing catchup of Jasper Fforde’s brilliant novels about Thursday Next, Literary Detective. It’s impossible to see how they could work in a visual medium, but still…
Matt Smith and Nathan Fillion together again for the first time at Comic-Con (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Does livetweeting while you’re watching TV ruin the experience?
I think it does, but clearly many people don’t feel the same, because there are so many people live-tweeting.
question of the day: What is your favorite movie scene ever?
Of course it’s almost impossible to narrow it down to one scene in one movie, so feel free to pick a couple…
my outrage over the TechCrunch AOL ‘Source Code’ mess (aka: this is why we can’t have nice things)
Or, Why not to be a whore for the studios, even though lots and lots of folks are doing it.
what he said: Dustin Rowles at Pajiba…
…on what critics can do about the tragedy of crap such as Life as We Know It scoring very highly with audiences and doing well at the box office…
because our culture is so far beyond satire it’s terrifying
Christ, it’s more like a Just Shoot Me Thought for the Day, and the only thing that is saving my sanity here is that unless God exists and he’s even more of a cruel bastard than we already thought, this is a premature April Fool’s joke (via Pajiba): 20th Century Fox is developing a film … more…
