question of the day: What’s the most inexplicable appearance by a big star in a crappy movie?
Inspired by Movie 43, which distinguishes itself in this regard merely by the sheer number of incomprehensible movie-star appearances in a single film…
questions
question of the day: Why are sequels so often unimaginatively named?
How might you rename some sequel titles to ramp up the fun? What sequel titles would you invent for films you’d like to see?
question of the day: Is fandom a good model for teaching kids how to be good Netizens?
What aspects of fandom would you want kids to understand and appreciate?
question of the weekend: What do you think is the secret behind all that dark matter out in the universe?
Is it the elusive 110 percent dark chocolate? Is it the accumulated weight of all the socks that go missing from washing machines?
question of the day: What movie would you inject into your bloodstream?
(Because science can now encode a movie into DNA.) Just to be ironic, I would have to inject Fantastic Voyage.
question of the day: What makes someone a “film snob”?
Do you consider yourself a film snob? If not, what term would you use for your film fandom?
question of the day: What’s geeky about musical theater?
Why does it seem to appeal to the same people who love science fiction and fantasy? What does musical theater have in common with the things we more traditionally think of as “geeky”?
question of the day: What films best celebrate dignity at the end of life?
Inspired by that powerful final scene of Les Misérables…
question of the day: What’s your favorite snow-related scene or sequence from a film?
I’m gonna go with all the Hoth stuff in The Empire Strikes Back. There’s a ton of humor and just plain human desperation connected to the cold setting — the weather and the environment isn’t just sci-fi dressing.
question of the weekend: Is the Internet killing organized religion?
Note that I’m not asking if the Internet will kill all spirituality, just the way we see spirituality co-opted and corralled by the major and minor organized religions.
