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Happy birthday to the man.

I agree. If the Switch fails, and I'm not say it will, I think they're destined to start putting software on other systems.

The conference didn't really do anything for me. Mario and Zelda looked great, but of course they did. And even if all the first part games are great, which they probably will be, it's not enough for me to want to get the console. I need third party support, and the hardware looks like it'll have some detrimental limitations.

That girl's talent is out of this world.

I wasn't expecting anyone to die in VIII after having Han go in VII, fulfilling the mentor role who gets killed ala Kenobi and Qui-Gon in Episode I. It always happens during the first part of a trilogy. But now it's up in the air. I could see Leia dying in VIII. If they change some things around it could be the cleanest, best way to close up that character's arc without having to do any questionable CG gimmickery.

It is possible to have different opinions to RLM. I understand their points about Rogue One but I liked it a lot more than they did.

Oh, God. Prayers to Billie Lourd and the rest of the family. Just devastating.

You can't just write that character off the screen. There has to be something more than that, assuming Leia was planned to be in IX.

This sucks.

Got this for Christmas this morning. The packaging is outstanding. Very impressive.

I have. As a big fan of Team Ico's other two games I was looking forward to it for many (many) years. And I think despite its frustrations, some intentional and others not, I found it to be an ultimately rewarding experience. If you're a fan of Ico and/or Shadow of the Colossus I'd definitely recommend it, but it falls more on the Ico side of design and requires a lot of patience to get the most out of it. The score is phenomenal.

I don't anticipate there being many existing themes used. The force theme will obviously be there, as well as the Imperial march and the main theme. Other than that I expect new thematic material.

^ One of the very best tracks from TPM.

The unused choral version of the original track is a bit much for me, personally. Especially considering its companion piece, "You Are the Pan", is so heavily choral anyway.I This is a really lovely arrangement. I too miss the extended brass interlude but the greater complexities in the orchestration kind of make up for it. I do prefer the theme as it exists in the OST, though. The fifth note being extended has never quite sit right with me. The original is more simplistic.

The Phantom Menace is a truly great score.

DC/WB can't claim they're making director-focused films. It is demonstrably untrue.

As far as books go, Cormac McCarthy's The Road probably had the biggest impact. I read it in my senior year of high school and it completely shattered what I understood book writing was. Here was something that had no character names, no chapter markings, little punctuation. Even the supposed prerequisites of storytelling like exposition seemed barely present. The method made it all about the prose, the power of the words, in a way I had never experienced. It was a kind of revelation and it set in me a renewed affinity for language the medium as a whole.

Yeah. They are relatively few, but there are smaller moments of intimacy peppered through the score. And moments that are more ominous or more elegiac. It's very restrained in the early scenes in the film, appropriately becoming larger once entering Neverland.

Hook is pretty much wall to wall music, but I don't think it's a bad thing. The music carries the film in a lot of ways and elevates it. It's a remnant of when the project existed as a possible musical for Spielberg.

In the first half of the year, I went to the theater quite often for me, much more than I normally do. It was a little more than monthly, nearly ten times in total. Since then I've only been a couple times, and there are only a few movies coming out in the rest of the year that I anticipate I'll see in the theater. I do really enjoy going, but it does tend to be expensive and can be difficult to coordinate.

That's odd. That is probably the worst statement of the theme in the series for me. Really should not have been there that early.

That whole concert can be found on Youtube. It's pretty fantastic; one of the best game concerts I've seen in terms of the performance and set list.

That is one exemplary lineup. Chrono Trigger is one of those few games that I'd consider to be essentially flawless.

I'm a fan of Giacchino and I'm looking forward to what he does, but it is disappointing to me that Desplat's gone. I feel like I can expect what a Giacchino Star Wars score would sound like, but a Desplat Star Wars score would've been something harder to predict. The prospect of that was exciting, and it seemed inevitable that Giacchino would come around anyway.

I'm surprised this has never happened before. Indy seems like something that could work well in animation, as long as it's allowed to have a comparable level of bite to it.