question of the day: What nontraditional Christmas movie traditions do you have?
(Apparently some folks think Die Hard is a “nontraditional” Christmas movie…)
questions
question of the day: Which Christmas song makes you want to stab an elf when it pops up during the holidays?
“Christmas Shoes” is the one that makes me go nuclear-critical. That horrific little ditty has the highest schmaltz quotient ever achieved in a creation of humanity…
question of the day: Why are so many Christmas movies so terrible?
Now we come to that time of year when the cinematic faithful find ourselves pondering a great mystery…
question of the weekend: What do you want for Christmas?
Me? I just want the usual: world peace, a pony, and George Clooney.
question of the day: Who is the entertainment person of the year for 2012?
Please don’t say Honey Boo Boo or I will have to kill myself.
question of the day: Is our storytelling culture tyrannized by the “happy ending”?
Audience once embraced tragedy as readily as the happy ending. So what happened? How and why did this change?
question of the day: What do you think Hollywood movies tell the rest of the world about America?
I don’t mean just in relation to violence but in all aspects. Idiotic romantic comedies. Alien invasion movies. Everything Adam Sandler. What do such movies say, if anything?
question of the day: Why do we find villains sexy?
Am I overthinking this? Does it bother you that you find some very bad people — even if they are only fictional — attractive?
question of the day: Who are the sexiest movie and TV villains?
We’re months and months from the release of Star Trek Into Darkness and we don’t even know what character he’s playing, but general Internet consensus seems to be that Benedict Cumberbatch will be pretty much the sexiest villain ever. But whom will he knock off the sexy-villain throne?
question of the weekend: Have you ever handled or shot a gun?
I have never been close to a gun, but it might be instructive and interesting to shoot a gun at a range, just to get a better sense of the reality of them…
