Bayesian

FFS, it's a photo of him in front of his own movie. Nothing "ruined" there.

Is it a new thing now for movie posters not to ever show credit blocks? Like as if the teaser poster style we’ve known for decades (in contrast with the “official” poster style with block) is now the only style studios now use to advertise movies?

Praise from Caesar, friends, is praise indeed!

Allow me to add, @Jean-Baptiste Martin that what you and your team have done to put this concert together, as part of a greater exercise to enshrine the memory and indelible contributions of an amazing film composer, is simply incredible. I can only imagine the effort involved to wrangle everything, to connect with so many relevant parties, to get venues and clear publishing and broadcast rights and God knows what else. What you're doing is a labor of love and the world will be the better for it. Thank you for this. I'll definitely be watching on YouTube on the 13th.

"Highly specialized nerd commando unit trained to do one thing... the J-Team, if you will." LOL that's awesome. Love it. While I couldn't in good conscience call myself part of the commando unit, seeing as I only absorb the wondrous material brought up here by the likes of Jay, Romao, Miguel, Falstaft, Thor, Stu, KK, and a dozen others I'm forgetting, I sure am grateful I'm here to enjoy it and it's surely flattering that people outside this group recognize the work you do. And J-Team has a nice ring to it, n'est-ce pas?

Ok, but even so… what was his point in linking him to the election? The two had nothing to do with the other, which makes Zimmer sound really transparently opportunistic. But hey, if it makes for a nice sound bite, what’s the harm, right. God, I really hate Zimmer. He’s a feel-good cancer on film music. I need to stay out of this thread.

That whole interview was pretty cringe-inducing. It’s clear he means well when he says things like that about his music, but, wow, trying to make something special about the fact that he recorded the Lion King just before the ANC won the first free election in South Africa is some next-level hubris. What exactly was his point there?

God forbid that should ever occur, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it did. What could be more insufferably hipster-ish (and therefore an instant must-buy) than vinyl pressings of that decidedly retro yet famous and one-of-a-kind box set? For once in my life, I’m gonna actually root for Disney being true to its grasping and rapacious nature and hope it’s the latter.

We’ll, Jokersaurus notwithstanding, this movie looks like a whirling dervish of escapism. I’m all in! Stray thought 1: does anyone find the mood of the trailer/featurette music in the first couple minutes reminiscent of the SW: TFA trailer? Stray thought 2: the adaptation of JW’s majestic, uplifting JP theme (or at least the first three notes of it) into something “epic-menacing” for the end of the featurette is truly artless and abominable. Stray thought 3: in the tweet showing the new poster, what is this about “new poster design” that folks are talking about? The poster looks like a teaser; is that supposedly the new way official posters are being designed, without a credit block?

Let this forever silence the doubters on this forum that Desplat doesn’t do all the work himself! I kept watching after the Desplat bit and it’s a neat interview. Another peek behind the curtain and a reminder how much film music production has evolved since JW’s heyday.

Yeah, this idea of an anarchist mega-vicious dinosaur makes no sense. Even in the counterfactual reality of Jurassic World, it makes no sense for a company to engineer a dinosaur it can’t control. What I fear most now about this new movie is that it’s just going to be a monster flick. I hoped that with dinosaurs in the real world, we’d finally get a sense of what it’d be like for humans to coexist with dangerous creatures who are fundamentally just trying to live their lives. That’s what made JP and TLW (until the San Diego scenes) work. But now it seems like we might get a bunch of dinosaurs-on-a-mindless-rampage bullshit with little thoughtful commentary or insight.

I think I’ve decided that the name Hans Zimmer will be treated in my mind as nothing more than a collectively agreed-upon pseudonym for the ad hoc team of composers that works on any given “Hans Zimmer” score. Kinda like the way the anonymous folks behind bitcoin hide behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. To judge a Zimmer score as a solo effort makes no more sense than judging the writing ability of a newspaper editor-in-chief based on the quality or content of the articles in his/her newspaper. It can’t be done.

Would it be the height of irony if I pointed out that the expression is typically distinction without a difference??

This is pretty much my lineup too, minus AMC (and substituting Xfinity for DTV). It’s all getting to be too much, especially with the price increases. $15.49 for Netflix, $14 for Disney+, $5 promo rate for Apple TV+ (eventually going up to who know what, or when), and $10-15 for Paramount+ after our three-month $3 trial. And my wife wants to add Starz for $10 so she can watch outlander.

This. So very this.

Agreed, a beautiful performance. Regarding the soundstage balance (or whatever the correct terminology is), that unfortunately doesn’t strike me as unusual. Doesn’t Sony always manage to screw up on JW releases one way or another?

Yours is the first post I’ve ever seen that managed to get every available reaction emoji! That’s got be worth like 500 experience points or something.

I am so f***ing going to this. Thank you for alerting us; l don't think I'd ever have learned about it until after all the tickets had sold. (Tix aren't actually being sold to this concert yet, but I'll be there when they do.)

Bizet’s Carmen surely must make this list, if only for the march of the toreadors. @Holko beat me to our beloved Ludwig’s Ninth, may it live and thrive forever. But I’d also add his Choral Fantasy, which I think is a hell of fun listen, especially the last four or so minutes when the choir enters, and served as his proving ground for the writing the Ninth years later. And if you like your music Impressionistic, there’s of course Debussy’s Sirènes from his Nocturnes. This one is most like the way film composers use choir—lots of ooh-ing and aah-ing. I’m not sure there are any actual lyrics in Sirènes.

He is?? That's almost worse in my mind than the slap heard 'round the world. jk, but kinda not really. How that batshit crazy religion ever got into the heads of so much of Hollywood, I'll never understand. As for all this talk about stripping him of his Oscar, it's stupid too. He earned that award with his work. People want to punish him? Get the LAPD involved. It'd be more damning if Smith were charged with a crime, like us ordinary unwashed masses would be. (If it were an Oscars producer who did that, we all know the guy would have been arrested on the spot.) Mind you, that would mean Rock would have to press charges, which he won't.

That was a beautiful and heartfelt speech and you could tell Spielberg was clearly quite touched by it.

If this thing blows over for Will Smith, it'll be in large part because of Chris Rock's class act response -- rolling with the punch (literally) and not making any kind of reaction to it (which, incidentally, allowed people to originally wonder if it was all being staged), managing to crack a joke to break the tension even after the show's producers did nothing, and then publicly stating he wouldn't press charges. Rock will come out the winner here, I feel, even if his joke was in poor taste. Which it was.

So Zimmer now has more Oscars for best score than James Horner, Georges Delerue, Danny Elfman, John Powell, JNH… god, who else am I forgetting? All of them far more talented than the man of the D minor chord and horn of doom. One more oscar and he’ll be in striking distance of JW—meaning he’ll be even more considered by the inane internet as JW’s equal—and it’s sickening to see how much of that he already gets. Zimmer fans are over the moon today, and I’m happy for them. But I’m absolutely dejected for every more-deserving composer in Hollywood waiting for their moment.

Yes, and this is exactly why Burton’s Batman films (and especially his second one) are the best filmed interpretations of the character. They don’t try to shove a square peg into the round hole of real life, as Nolan’s trilogy and Snyder’s godforsaken movies try to do.

After JW, Danny Elfman is by far the film composer I most dearly want to compose "classical" works. Considering the demoralizingly barren wasteland that Hollywood film scoring seems to be irretrievably turning into, I'd love it if Elfman one day decided to live off his existing royalties and go the JW route, scoring only Tim Burton's films and focusing on the far more fertile classical scene.