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Wrong headline. 
 
"Robert Pattinson tests positive for Covid 19"
 
Similar, but not the same. 

I have READ reports from the NEJM, WHO, CDC.
All agree; COVID is spread in " crowded , indoor , spaces, with poor ventilation" The risk of contracting it outdoors is minimal.
That's the SCIENCE ! Mandatory mask wearing outside is a POLITICAL decision. Decide for yourself what you feel comfortable doing. But, don't tell me I'm " selfish" or endangering your health .

The meme " I wear a mask to protect You, you wear a mask to protect Me" is idiotic
How can a mask protect me but not you? Absurd!  If masks work, they Prevent the wearer from.contracting it.
Before the mandatory mask requirement , most people didn't wear masks outside and were not AFRAID of contracting it from a person who was at least six feet away.
The next day, people approaching me on a sidewalk started detouring into the MIDDLE OF THE STREET - just to avoid me! These folks are wearing masks, are just quickly walking past me, several feet apart. Politicians and the media are promoting fear and suspicion. Turning neighbor against neighbor. Needless destroying lives and livelihoods.
Far more than than the disease itself.
 
This is very BAD for society, and prevents NOTHING!

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PEOPLE are wearing masks because they are afraid for themselves.
Not to protect me. That's pyschogolical propaganda.
Pure self-interest.
It's every man/woman for themselves
Sadly😞

Speaking of YouTubers... When did the trend start of every half witted YouTuber setting up a Patreon? "Hey fam, I have 51 subscribers watching my ugly face react to YouTube videos better than mine, be sure to subscribe and check out my Patreon, it would really help me out!" 
 
Setting up a YouTube Patreon must be barely one step up from outright asking people for money on the streets. 

These Hollyweird clowns know they're losing.

I think eventually that is what cinema is right - they call the director the auteur  in France. It is the skill and talent of the director to tell you a story, to grip you and compel you and involve you and move you - to take you through an experience by the end of it - to take you to a place from where you started. And everything in the movie feels like it is contributing to that in some way, to take you to the eventual destination that the director wants to take you too.
 
I never get that sense with Watchmen or with other Snyder movies. It just seems a randomized mish-mash of things that he finds cool or wants to throw it in. I don't detect coherence and a unity in vision or a true command of the story or tone or narrative.
 
I got all of these things in 300 - less than 2 hours long - but I did not in any of his other movies with BvS being the absolute worst where literally from scene to scene the movie barely made sense.
 
I think you could eventually lay this down to the actual script but that's skirting the issue. It is the director that eventually has to bring the movie home.
 
Snyder in some ways is more of an illustrator rather than a story-teller. He is excellent at creating individual moments but doesn't know how to unify them coherently into a gripping story that engages and interests the viewer. That seems like a fatal shortcoming to me.

Hopefully, we also will be getting THE DONALD IS DEAD- in November.😉

A series set in Gotham City without featuring Batman seems completely pointless to me.

I can happily deny two of those!

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Well, people who don't live in the real world are more prone to adapting ideologies to fill that void. And ideologies inevitably lead to unreasonable hate towards those who don't share it. 
 
I mean, if you want people to die because they don't think what you think, you pretty much need to lock yourself into a dark closet, until you get priorities right. 

Why has Hans Zimmer become so homicidal?

I'm very thankful for these kinds of movies.
Because I can't stand the overworked look of the Hobbit, but then, looking at this conglomerate of bad CGI, shitty lighting, blurring, unnatural animation, and perverse grading that makes everything look like claymation, I can proudly say The Hobbit is like Kubrick compared to this hazy blur that looks like someone jizzed on the film for 3 hours. 

How is it possible... Holy shit, how do you make Batman like this? If you thought Nolan was too depressing, how about a Bruce Wayne that looks like shit and a deranged meth addict? 
Pass. 
 
Also, barf. 
 
Batman isn't supposed to look like Scarecrow. 

Great, a Flash movie with two versions of Batman played by a 70 year old Michael Keaton and disgraced Ben Affleck. Just what everyone wanted.

It's not that they don't know of the use of that term, but many aren't familiar with the Rings scores per se, so they have to guess at what's being called for. Fortunately, as performances circulate more and more, these scores are becoming part of the modern repertoire, and so percussionists are better prepared. 
 
Size is left to the performers. It's not specified. But I've never seen drums larger than 16 inches being used, I don't think. 

The passage you're referring to has four side drums* and timpani. No taiko.
 
*The term "side drum" can direct percussions toward a number of different instruments. It's a sort of fuzzy term that requires a knowledge of a composer's intentions. Shore's concept is of a deep drum -- a field drum -- with no snares. That last bit throws a lot of orchestras off. I've seen Howard ask percussionists to please the snares off, I've seen Ludwig Wicki ask it, and I've asked it. Howard and Ludwig tend to be nicer about it than I am. But I'm usually the most jet-lagged of the three of us.  

There are playable glissandi in Berlin Strings, no? 

Is this really the new generation of actors to influence a future generation? A bunch of narcissistic assholes? 
 
I totally expect dumbshits on the pedestrian side of the internet to behave like this, but a fully grown dude and actor going on a rampage about "trolls"? Good god man, have some class. 

Have you done your share of snogging today? 

Well no, that would have made no sense. It represents the dwarves' journey to the mountain. Not even halfway through DoS, that's over. There's no place in the story for it either. 
 
I just listened to Battle For The Mountain. What a brilliant piece of music this is, especially the first 3 minutes.
The desperate and heroic House Of Durin theme in the buildup, then the full Dain theme with the chilling trumpet counterpoint. 
The Necromancer descending thirds in full brass. Then it's not really heard again because Sauron's gone, then decades later, it creeps back in through the backdoor in The Black Rider. 
Then at 2:30 the Return Of The King Battlefield Heroics theme with choir. 

Well no, that would have made no sense. It represents the dwarves' journey to the mountain. Not even halfway through DoS, that's over. There's no place in the story for it either. 
 
I just listened to Battle For The Mountain. What a brilliant piece of music this is, especially the first 3 minutes.
The desperate and heroic House Of Durin theme in the buildup, then the full Dain theme with the chilling trumpet counterpoint. 
The Necromancer descending thirds in full brass. Then it's not really heard again because Sauron's gone, then decades later, it creeps back in through the backdoor in The Black Rider. 
Then at 2:30 the Return Of The King Battlefield Heroics theme with choir. 

The pensive Shire theme developed into the Hobbit's Understanding theme, the History of the Ring theme developed into the Evil/Ring hybrid, Evenstar theme developed into Twilight and Shadow theme, the Silver Trumpet theme developed into Gondor Reborn, and Misty Mountains developed into House Of Durin theme. 
There's no difference. 
Stop thinking of Shore's Middle Earth scores as standard film scores with standard "obligatory main theme" approach.