Marian Schedenig

Much of it seemed believable, or even familiar. And then other parts felt like someone overshot by a dozen namedrops and ended up cliched instead of authentic (possibly without being aware of it). But then I don't think I fully grasped the film, so my perception may be off.

I felt it walked the fine line between authenticity and random name/technical term dropping very wobblily. But yes, always nice to see Glover.

I finally watched this a while ago after looking forward to it for a long time. I must say I didn't know what to think of it once it was over (and still don't). Blanchett's performance was very strong, but probably not among my favourites of hers, subjectively.

I'm confused now.

I hope so! What do you mean WotW is now older than CE3K was when I first discovered Williams's score!?

Ah. True then. Yes, the score always gave me strong Herrmann vibes. It's a fine score and works very well in the film, from what I recall. But I have the old album and I don't think I need more than that.

First one has to be What Lies Beneath. The bath tub and ghost leave little doubt. (A ouija board is missing, but maybe there's no emoji for that?) Don't really see Starship Troopers in the second one. What's a purple monster face, a drop of blood, Saturn (?), and that masked face got to do with it? (It's also not a horror film… but then I wouldn't really call WLB horror either)

Not of the anniversary remaster perhaps, but the original release was available on CD from GNP Crescendo: https://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/1808/Hellbound%3A+Hellraiser+II

And with today being Mancini's 100th birthday, let me again point to where I think its syncopations originate:

This is a nice clip to show to someone who thinks they don't know Mancini: And the new Williams & Co Supergroup Peter Gunn has a new trailer:

I'd like that, not least because I'm already doing playlists with trailers and commercials and automated light dimming when I have movie nights with friends, and I'd like to integrated the actual feature film with that. Only I've still got several issues with that: I haven't found a player that can play ripped Blu-rays smoothly and with full audio pass through and proper remote controls (on Linux; but when it comes to these things, any video players I've seen on other systems usually fare worse) (I can play downloaded multichannel videos just fine, but I'd really like to preserve the original compressed streams from the discs) I'd want full rips without re-compression, and ripping all my Blu-rays (about 800 now) would take dozens of terabytes of space, and then I'd have to double that to have a backup in case something goes wrong (because see next point) Ripping Blu-rays is incredibly slow - seems to take at least an hour for an average film. The limit seems to be the drive speed, and pretty much all drives seem to be equally slow (2x seems to be the usual speed for video Blus, the "video" suggesting that there's some sort of deliberate hardware throttling involved to inconvenience ripping) And when I finally transition to 4K, these problems will only get worse.

Tried wiping it with a microfiber cloth, and with water. The problem persists on all players and at the more or less same location of the disc. No visible marks on the surface. It has to be some degradation inherent to the material or pressing.

Sold.