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My ranking is pretty close to this, too, except I'd maybe swap the positions for Rogue One and Solo.

Unless I'm mistaken, 2010 appears to be the only year since the 1950s without a JW composition. That's remarkable!

Exactly. We might one day get to the point where cinemas are mostly art house or repertory and as common as playhouses. In larger cities (or, more likely, in the suburban ring outside of larger cities) multiplex theaters with nothing but imax screens or Dolby theater experiences with those huge recliners and seatside food/drink service will thrive, but they will be fewer of them (making them true “destination” venues). Those places will still offer a moviegoing experience people can’t replicate at home. Moviegoing could almost become literally like going to an amusement park, something you do once or twice a year, knowing you’ll spend a shit-ton of money but worth the time and effort for a movie like Avatar. Other than that, you have no problem watching ordinary new release fare at home on your 80” TCL tv that costs next to nothing.

Smart man, this Alex Astier!

The fact that that was 1989 and we live in the now. So take what’s good where you can find it—even if it won’t quite compare to what we all remember. (We sure won’t find good with Snyder or his ilk.) WW84 is going to be a fun movie experience.

Yeah, that is a pretty stacked year, even with just the first three.

What is it exactly that you’re looking for in a DC movie? 1989 ain’t coming back and Snyder and Whedon aren’t rescuing shit, so Jenkins could well be the last best hope. Besides, WW was actually a fun movie—better and more engaging than any Avengers episode, er, movie.

I watched Cool Runnings on Disney+ this morning. I forgot how good this movie was and, watching it for the first time since it came out on vhs, I didn't realize Zimmer wrote some pretty good score for it. I love this. It hits all the marks: it's uplifting, melodic, catchy. Zimmer, you used to be good! Can't you write like this again??

Probably the best source for material like this is YouTube videos and old interviews. None of it, unfortunately, is readily compiled in anything you can buy at a store. But with enough time and patience, such content could be collected onto a hard drive and then given as a gift. For ex., one could give as a Xmas gift a USB stick of JW video interviews, featurettes, and the like collected from around the web. I have no idea if a 12 yo JW fan would be excited at the prospect of a gift like this, though.

I need to make this too! It’s brilliant! For those interested (and living in the U.S.), I priced out parts for both of Marian’s brickheadz a few months ago and the total came to a little more than a hundred dollars. Not complaining, just a friendly heads-up.

If this Live Edition comes to Amazon US and I buy it (which, for this completist, is gonna happen), I'll have quadruple-dipped on this album. For the sake of my wallet, DG had better have no other plans up their sleeve for this cash cow.

Lucasfilm celebrating their 50th anniversary like it was their 25th!

Lyrics are often unintelligible to me, but I think it’s more because I never learned to pay attention to them as a kid. Growing up, the music I was exposed to was mostly instrumental and symphonic. If I heard lyrics, they were often sung in German, Italian or French, which I never understood and never bothered to learn. In popular music, I learned to focus on instrumental color, rhythm, melody, key changes, choruses, bridges, etc. and tune out lyrics, even perfectly understandable ones. (This is a good deal of the reason why I find nearly all popular music from the past decade to be utter shit—it exhibits virtually none of those traits.) it’s nice to know there are lots of others out there like me, even if they arrived that way for different reasons. Makes me feel a little less outlier.

Yup. I wonder if the $200-300M budget blockbuster is not finally past its prime generally. Not only do most of those films tell silly, forgettable stories, but they usually only make 3 to 5 times their budget at the box office if they hit it big. If I were a studio exec, I feel I’d be more interested in low to mid-budget films that have a chance at revenues at much higher multiples. We all know the most worthwhile filmed storytelling over the past decade has been found on television/streaming. When your budget doesn’t allow for hiring an army of computer artists to render your eye candy, you’re motivated to tell better stories that can entertain without that candy. Filmmakers might move in that direction again, who knows.

I’m in Idaho for thanksgiving, where it’s 12:22 am. Hoping I can stay awake for another 40 minutes...

I likewise ordered a copy (kudos to @Jurassic Sharkfor telling us the best way to order it!). Mine came to $10.60; an extra penny to get it to California, maybe?

I’m excited for this; more Desplat is always a good thing, and it sure seems like he’s not going to get the hook this time!

Man, that would be nice. I didn't know that was in the pipeline.

For the love of God..

Wet blanket chiming in! I don’t really get the appeal of these types of questions, which are excessively moot. If they try hard enough, people are going to find ways to argue every step on the gradient between 100% yes and 100% no. Which is another way of me saying, why bother with this exercise? Maybe it’d help to give some parameters. Was Bach the JW of his time based on personality? Productivity? How much money he made? How lauded he was while alive? How many things he wrote? Technical competency? Give us a boundary!

I'm pretty curious about the first one. Only 1,000 units? I can't recall any releases that pressed less than 1,500. It must be super niche if they think they'll only be able to move that few units.

JW once again joins some pretty rarified company. It’s great that he continues to be recognized like this. (And it’s also wonderful to see, in his video recordings, that he continues to be in great health.)

I'm happy I came across your post; I didn't realize he recorded a complete set! I just added it to my Amazon list as a reminder to buy it soon. Have you listened to any of it? What are your thoughts??

@who cares gets it. I planned to drop out of this thread but we need to dial down the temperature and, to my chagrin, I appear to be have been a big part of the reason it blew up. So allow me to try, because I’d like to avoid being painted as a villain by users whose content I truly enjoy (e.g., @Arpy). I’m still not convinced klee251 is a real person—or at least is a retired white collar female who spent her career writing technical documents, as she professes to be. Too little adds up—the unnatural phrasing and spelling in klee’s posts from the get-go, the weirdly blunt request, the instant and repeated passive-aggressive, petulant reaction against the entire forum after her request met with suspicion from two people... it all sounded to me more likely to come from some weird AI programming than an actual human. To that, I’ll add that something really seems off about the things she responded to—my problem with Congress was not that I didn’t “like” it, but that too many races were up in the air, so why ask us to write to people who might no longer be seated in January? Or that she was being “facetious”—regarding what, exactly? Did she mean to use that word? A professional writer would know. Having said all that, the way I came at her was too forceful. I dove too deep into explaining my suspicions—if I’d just left it at “are we sure it’s not a bot?”, we might have had a different thread trajectory and learned the truth faster. Instead, the focus turned onto my harsh reaction. And for that, I apologize. Klee, don’t abandon this forum, you’ve already got a bunch of folks on your side, and you did it over the course of a single weekend. That’s pretty darn good in anyone’s book—and much faster than it took me 😅. And a CGM would be a lovely recognition for JW, no matter when or how he was to receive it. So thank you for putting the idea into our heads.

This is the most surreal thread I've ever seen. "Kathy," for someone who spent 45 years writing things, you missed the obvious fact I was not paying you a compliment (although I'll admit the quality of your writing noticeably improved over the course of 3 hours, so that you now sound like a real person). If you've spent as much time on these boards as you say you have, you'll have surely seen that we've been attacked by bots in recent days. That you would come at us with this request at this specific time is just weird... and that you'd automatically dismiss the entire board as unhelpful when it was clearly just me making the biggest fuss is weirder still, especially coming from someone who's read this board a lot and who's simply old enough to know better how to respond to situations like this. In any case, I'm dropping the whole thing. I wasn't looking to make trouble. Good luck tilting at this particular windmill.