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He can always take back his position that Kill Bill is one movie and call them two movies, which they are. In that sense he's already made 10, anyway.

I like em all tbh. Hateful Eight lives up to its title a little too well for me but it is hilariously disgusting except for the truly sad flashback reveal.

Love "Hymn to the Fallen," always have, essential John Williams. I wouldn't hesitate at all to put it in the pantheon of his greatest concert pieces. The score is effective, "Wade's Death" for me is what I really think about as Williams's most important contribution in context. His score is expressing a lot of stomach-churning feelings in the aftermath of that situation. Especially Miller crying in secret, it's like the sound of emotional repression. But it just feels weird to single out SPR as a masterpiece of film scoring, other than just always appreciating John Williams's musical and dramatic instincts. The film is obviously the Steven Spielberg/Michael Kahn show, D-Day is probably the greatest thing they've ever put together, maybe the greatest thing Spielberg's ever directed. I acknowledge the film is sometimes confused as to what it is really trying to say about the nature of war, but it's such a moving and harrowing movie, I love the whole ensemble and all four combat sequences are just astonishing.

Disney doesn't own The Beatles until they get the Anthology and the 60s movies up on Disney+ Granted Disney did buy ABC around the time they originally broadcast the Anthology documentary so maybe that already counts. I hate everything. Kind of funny looking back that 1997 crystallized three major male movie stars with Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic), and Will Smith (Men in Black; I know ID4 had already happened in 1996). DiCaprio is kind of the only one who still checks every box today and even he couldn't make Killers of the Flower Moon a blockbuster. Which wasn't entirely out of the question after The Revenant and his previous Scorsese collabs. Since then you do kind of have to put asterisks by most who have emerged as leading man material. They always fall short in some area, but of course we do have guys like Ryan Gosling and Joaquin Phoenix who can carry films. But they need a lot of extra help to make unqualified hits, whereas nobody but Leo could have gotten The Wolf of Wall Street and especially The Revenant into the hundreds of millions, $533 million is still insane for that movie. Dwayne Johnson has done a good job branding himself and he did have consistency on his side but Black Adam was embarrassing and nobody thinks he's a great actor. Right now if anybody can keep it up I guess it'll be Timothee Chalamet. I'm still not really getting the sense that Glen Powell is lighting hearts on fire.

He did literally say "I don't particularly want to do films anymore" but I think as it turns out, the word "particularly" was doing a lot of work when he said that. With the various qualifying statements he's given since, it's more accurate to say film scoring as a whole is not a priority. But he's also admitted to being protective and jealous about his film legacy, saying some version of "I did it because I didn't want anybody else doing it" about multiple projects now. And even though he can come off ambivalent and not-quite-kidding when he says stuff like "Steven expects me to work til I'm 100," he's obviously sentimental and proud about that. They are married after all.

If Steven Spielberg directs it and John Williams is alive and well at 93+, I think it'll happen. I wouldn't begrudge him saying no but of course I hope he does it. I don't really wanna think about it anymore until it exists.

I almost had a heart attack thinking that said "Todd Haynes"

Only found one source and I think you got April Fooled, bub

I just want Fantasia 3

I got to see Episode III again in a theater last year and went in fully jazzed and ready to give it 10/10 as a fan experience, and I'm gonna be honest, Lucas's direction did kinda make me miss JJ Abrams after awhile. I still think it's a better conclusion to its own trilogy than Rise of Skywalker, and even has more satisfying fan service as a farewell to the saga, in its way. But my memory of that movie was that it's pretty much a roller-coaster between its big moments and oof, all that stuff between Order 66 and the showdown on Mustafar, especially, I just wasn't feeling the urgency at all. I think of those 20-30 minutes as a crucial failure of that movie now, the circumstances of the story are so desperate and yet the movie feels weirdly meh about it because of how stiff it is.

I see it as "Who, me?"

Yeah Google Podcasts actually has direct mp3 links in the description for each of your episodes. Not sure if that's an oopsies.

Did Paramount release Hugo with the Nickelodeon label?

Never forget John Williams, Nickelodeon Legend