Here at Screengrab headquarters, our snack of choice is Dippin’ Dots, the ice cream of the future. Not only do we enjoy the taste of Rocky Road flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen, but we’re also fascinated with the philosophical implications of the futuristic dessert. After all, Dippin’ Dots booths have been taking up their sad little corner of the mall since the ’80s. Are they still the ice cream of the future? If so, how far into the future? Isn’t it possible that the future has come and gone, and Dippin’ Dots are now the ice cream of the past? Or are they simply the ice cream of one possible alternate future that now seems unlikely to ever arrive?
Yes, we’re quite the intellectual giants, but it took the folks over at Best Week Ever to apply our rigorous level of questioning to the realm of scientific fiction in motion pictures.
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