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I was watching Disney's Peter Pan with my kid (in fact, the very first time I have ever watched the movie), when the Crocodile appears and his theme is first heard: And this tune was instantly familiar, although I have had never watched the movie nor listened to the soundtrack. Now, reading it, I realized the tune came from a deleted song that has been covered several times by different artists and in different shows, but I already was deeply familiar with that tune in its instrumental form as soon as I heard it in the movie and it definitively wasn't from its song version. Can anyone help me find out where I might know that theme from? I was wondering it if was quoted on some Monkey Island game or something, because it sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it. Help, please, it's driving me crazy.

I don't think it's even the best action cue in Minority Report. Everybody Runs! is fantastic

I don't disagree. I think there was little there in the toys to justify a kids cartoon, let alone a live action adaptation. Still, I think it would be a fascinating challenge for a genuinely talented director. It could be, at the very least, a fascinating failure. The silly names, silly looks and silly concepts. But you're right, seems an impossible balance to pull off. It's the sort of movie that will make me really, really curious if it manages to get good reviews

The ideal scenario would be for someone to try to make a completely earnest and serious MOTU movie, for the inherent silliness and campiness of the material to sink the whole thing, and then it would become a sort of cult classic 10 years down the road even though it was disowned by the filmmakers in the meantime. I would absolutely love to see Verhoeven tackle this material. I even love Showgirls

Ah, but a tonal mash-up is an art in itself. I'm not saying MOTU is the most fertile ground for a great exploration of that approach. But stuff like Twin Peaks did a brilliant juggling act between soap opera sensibilities, melodrama, quirkiness and genuine terror. it's so hard to pin down. Or even a lot of Verhoven stuff. You can't make Conan the Barbarian with characters called He-Man, Evil-Lyn, Stinkor, Duplicat or Man-e-Faces running around. But if just go for straight up camp, it just loses all its silly charm. Like the difference between watching a genuine bad movie (made with the best intentions and aspirations) and one of those Asylum mockbusters. You took MOTU seriously when you were a little kid (the amazing box art of the toys did a lot of the heavy lifting in that regard), but you can totally see the absolute silliness of it all when you grow up. And it's so silly, so slight, it's not even watchable as an adult. The 60's Batman TV Show this is not. I would never try to tackle this property myself. It's a nearly impossible balancing act. If someone could pull off the tonal mash-up, it could be quite something. But I do strongly believe that tonal mashup (without being meta or self-aware) really is the only possible way to even try to begin to approach this. And the audience must be 6 years old and 40 years old at the same time. It's nearly impossible to juggle.. I'm pretty sure Amazon's mandate was "make a male version of the Barbie movie". Seems like something straight out of The Studio.

The right tone for MOTU is really hard to achieve. The whole thing is inherently very silly: the whole storyline was created after the toys were first released and every character is named after their one defining gimmick, followed by the suffix "or" or some word pun. But it did have, at least on a visual sense, a really cool blend of sword & sorcery and sci-fi tropes. Probably the best way to tackle is to play it straight, with the characters taking the whole thing seriously, while at the same time leaving no doubt to the audience that it's silly and camp. Just don't let the characters be on the joke

I've seen every single Spielberg film in the theatre that have been released since 1993 and I'm hoping to keep that streak. I've also watched every JW scored film in the theatre since 2000

I find it incredibly generic and actually annoying. There's a sort of minor/major mode change at the opening ostinato that is the only mildly interesting thing about it (I'm probably getting my music terminology all wrong, I'm a layman) If that's as good as a TV theme gets, that would be a really bleak scenario. I can understand people liking it and having a fondness for it that is also carried by having a fondness for the show, but I just can't hear anything remarkable in that theme

That theme? Really? Off all TV themes ever written?

At this stage, I think using an orchestra is what would actually subvert expectations

Gizmo, Baby Groot and Grogu are pretty much the same character. And they all have names that start with a G

My bad, didn't see it in the previous page

Looks interesting. Like a more Cronenbergian take on the great Batman TAS Clayface origin episodes

I've now realized I haven't seen a single thing from that list. I had no idea I was so far behind. I think the last Marvel movie I watched was the first Ant Man

Zimmer confirms that it is indeed Chalamet singing in that new Fremen Chant