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Terry Matalas explains what went wrong with season 2, and also reveals some things that didn't make season 3. Some quotes that stuck out for me: Source

The weird thing there is that, by the rules of time travel that Dark Fate established (Skynet future stuff arriving into a timeline where Skynet does not exist any more for years afterward until the REV-9 and Grace appear) they actually had a way to sidestep John's death. All they'd have to have said was nobody else volunteered to be a protector, so John went back himself. Not that it matters now anyway. The next film looks to be a total reset, without any of the characters or settings of the previous films.

And since that post makes it seem like she genuinely didn't like it, here's the relevant quote: She doesn't say she hates it, just that she can't say she loved the film, and she's happy she got to do it anyway, even if it was a lot of hard work for her.

Wouldn't this just be a 'prequel', and not a 'prequel to the Kelvin films' given it's supposed to take place decades before? Therefore, it'd be a prequel to all Star Trek series bar Enterprise.

The Star Trek Prequel film is going ahead, aiming to release for next year. Filming starts later this year. Source

NGL, I have not had much luck with Bandit on MVSEP.

Yep. All I got to say to Sony about releasing it when they did is...

It was a huge mistake for Sony to release it when they did.

Well, that'd be better than the last guy they got, especially since there's 0% chance they get Don Davis back at this point. What's even more surprising is Lana agreeing to even be involved after the clearly miserable experience she had on Resurrections, and that WB would let her given the neon-illuminated middle finger the film gave them.

I really like KOTM. Far from the best film in the franchise for sure, but I like it. Godzilla Vs. Kong by comparison had great fight scenes but a lousy score and suddenly we're forgiving of bad human characters. The KOTM holdovers were way, way worse than they were in KOTM! This was their chance to fix those issues, and Adam Wingard blew it. Godzilla x Kong does make some pretty good improvements, but some of the issues from the previous film persist, like the lousy score. The human characters are hit-and-miss but at least the holdovers from GvK weren't made dumber than they were in their debut movie. I definitely prefer it over GvK. Godzilla Minus One is IMO the best Godzilla film. And that's taking into consideration the original. As for the worst film in the franchise... I'm gonna take flack for this, but fuck it: Godzilla Final Wars. The only Godzilla movie I can say I hate outright.

They said yes to the Wrong John.

And let's not forget it's Disney. No way they would release exapnded ST scores of any variety.

Just another day.

I'm gonna need a bigger external drive 😅

Frozen Empire expected to lose 68% of its audience on its second weekend as Godzilla x Kong surges ahead. Put right in between Dune Part 2 and Godzilla x Kong - both crowd draws - it becomes harder to see why Sony didn't move this movie to a less popular spot.

Welp, I guess it's not a leak any more now that a Chinese poster has confirmed it for certain. Also spoiled in the trailer (thumbnail doesn't spoil)

He can't take all of the blame. Wingard is on record as saying this: Source I should mention that the Godzilla fanfare first appeared in King Kong Vs. Godzilla, and the main theme never scored Godzilla itself until Terror of Mechagodzilla. Very tragic, indeed. By that very metric, wasn't Ifukube himself being 'insincere' for using it for the Showa Godzilla in the end, since Godzilla had effectively become a superhero at that point and not the original tragic allegory for nuclear weapons?

More I've heard Junkie XL defenders saying Bear McCreary 'just copied the old themes', which is really reductionist. Yes: he borrowed and updated both Godzilla's theme from the 1954 film, and Yuji Koseki's Mothra theme, but he also wrote a lot of new material that fits alongside these new interpretations of those themes. I can remember quite well the motifs he established for Monarch, Serizawa's goodbye, Bear's original King of the Monsters theme that both opens and closes out the film etc. Beyond the main two themes, I cannot recall one note of GvK's score.

Hmmmm I wonder to whom/what this track is referring to EDIT: Yes, indeed, that is a track containing an obvious knock-off to that theme. I honestly wish I could say "I don't know why I expected different", but the truth is I didn't expect any different, and that's just plain sad. Was using that theme 'insincere' too, Wingard and Holkenborg?

The thread was originally about the film, we just happen to be talking about the score here too, so I'll probably add him in.

I definitely feel a bit more subtlety in the reprised material here than in Afterlife's soundtrack, but overall I think I like this one just as much as Afterlife, and I reckon it will grow on me more with repeated listens.

That's basically how I'm looking at this. Coupled with the fact I've never heard this composer's work before (similarly, I had never heard any of Simonsen's before Afterlife) I'm going into this with an open mind.

The moment we knew Peter Bernstein was coming back, it was kind of obvious this was the route they were going to go. However... the "dropping whole cues or cutting and pasting different cues together and dropping them over the film" does give me hope the OST will have more original material.

Ah, then there's no way for me, since I do not get paid until the end of the month 🙃 Pity.