Tallguy

Yeah, try and watch 28 Days Later at the moment. (At least in the USA.)

Ahsoka (and Chopper) has been added to Star Tours.

I call this my Plex server. Streaming is well enough for titles that we say "Hey, what's on?" But I'd never rely on it for titles that are important to me. (Yes, I'll buy the Strange New Worlds discs eventually.) Well. I suppose there is a certain amount of complacency on my part. I don't have Person of Interest or Rebels on disc. I should really be taking a more adversarial approach and grab things while I can.

We reach. Although I found KotM far more enjoyable than G14, so flip those for me. Skull Island might be the best RIDE of all of the modern US monsterverse movies. The one scene that I remember that grabbed me in GvK was the fight on the aircraft carrier. But it was SO amazing and visceral that I found it realllllly hard to watch. And that was just watching it on TV!

Fixed fixed.

When Netflix started they just bought discs just like we would and rented them out. (So it seems anyway.) Then as they got bigger they started getting the same kinds of discs Blockbuster would get, i.e. movie only, no extras. Often with an annoying message that you could get the extras if you went and bought the discs. I don't know anybody who said "Goodbye cable, I've got VHS." Those would be two separate media services. VHS for movies. Probably not shows - even I wasn't paying the kind of money it would take to get all of Star Trek on VHS. Nevermind the shelf space! And for taping things off of TV. Then cable / TV for watching what was "on". Hell yes I said "Goodbye VHS / Laserdisc, I've got DVD now!"

I hated it. But I haven't seen it since 1995. Maybe the things that made it seem ridiculously self indulgent in '95 will, with nearly 30 years of far worse cinematic indulgences to compare it with, seem charmingly quaint and old fashioned. My expectations were high as it seemed like the kind of niche film aimed right at me that nobody else was going to like. And then I didn't like it. So very sad.

That's because you're not looking at my bank statement and bills for the month.

Oh no! People on the internet are cranky about Star Wars!

Oh, I still haven't listened to the score separately from the film, but this was a tremendous sequel score. The first of the Spengler Films leaned very heavily on Bernstein quotes and did it very well. But this one? Wow, it actually managed to live in the same musical space without hardly ever directly quoting EB.

Wow. That's tempting. But I still don't have the 4K of The Abyss...

Just saw it. Loved it. Really bummed that it's doing so poorly. It deserves better.

TBF there are better examples to pick from Ant-Man. I'm sure MODOK looked EXACTLY as stupid as they wanted him to.

I can see that. The parts that were bad or dumb can be outweighed by the parts that are awesome. And there is a lot that's awesome. Face it, this is the Bond we wanted to see after OHMSS. Nice timing: Sam's description of the camera work is perfect. "blubedyblubedyblubedyblubedyblubedyblubedyblubedyblubedy!" Although I disagree about the "mistake" with the camera on the car crash. I think it has that "found footage" look that the filmmaker was going for. I LOVED the camera work in the opening scene because it was disorienting and confusing. I HATED the camera work in the rest of the movie for the exact same reason. (I should keep a spreadsheet or something for this thread because I'm almost certain I've said this before.)

Quantum of Solace is the Bond movie Arnold wrote when he'd finally gotten Barry out of his system. It's so good. If only the movie was as good as the score.

I made it through Dune 2 and only had to go once. I'm waiting for it on home video so I can see the scene I missed.

I've got this going through my head for some reason.

Still can't watch the first one anywhere.

There's no "Glaring but admiring" emoji.

It's not good.

The second TMP theme (the one used in the film) is mostly an extension of the first. So when it turns up in Ilia's theme or The Enterprise it sounds like a nod to the finished theme rather than "an unfinished theme we don't hear anyplace else". I'm sure there are Jerry scholars who can put this better, but the two themes really feel like a crossing from 60's and 70's Jerry to later day Jerry. As for The Rocketeer's theme that is heard in Jenny's theme, it's also a variation of the main theme rather than a straightforward statement. I love it! I love when two character's themes can play together like that. Like how Short Round's theme harmonizes with both Indy's theme and the Children's Crusade.

"Take away this pudding! It has no theme!" But... We're talking about Jenny's theme, right? The one that I'm humming right now? How is that not a theme? It's enough of a theme that this is kind of his third go at it. (Battle Beyond the Stars and Krull being the other two.)

This!

I don't know about Williams but it plays that way to the audience. I know there are people who just think it's Otis' theme. They just notice the goofy bouncy part with Beatty and don't notice the part where Lex pushes someone in front of a train by remote control. (That freaked me out SO bad when I was 11.)