Tallguy

Happy Star Trek day everyone! I started my day with a 50th anniversary viewing of the TAS episode The Pirates of Orion. Mmmmm good. Then I finally got around to watching DS9's Tribunal a couple of months late for its 30th anniversary. (Also good.) I'm about a week from the 30th anniversary of the THIRD season of DS9. I listened to The Enemy Within, The Corbomite Maneuver, and Friday's Child. Followed by the original CD program of Star Trek V. Oh, and Side 2 of The Wrath of Khan. I wrapped up the day by making my family do a 35th anniversary viewing of Star Trek V. I have to say it was better than I remembered it. There are two TOS movies where the Enterprise scans an unknown destination and Kirk takes a landing party to explore. Jerry scored both of them. The funniest part was when Kirk said "I lost a brother once". I mean, this line always rubbed me the wrong way because I'm a big ol' nerd. But now that Sam is a big part of SNW even my kids know that Jim Kirk had a brother. Uhura's fan dance went over just as well with a new audience as it did back in 1989. Cripes. Although I have to say I've come to appreciate the song more recently. It's certainly better than Beyond Antares.

Don't you have to hack your drive to get Make MKV to work with 4k? I tried it once with the wrong drive and I bricked my drive. I haven't tried it again. I still want to get my Start Trek TMP onto my Plex server.

I have a feeling that Fantastic Four will disappoint you in this regard.

Now who's being naive? Also: Don't mention the war. Mark Hamill has some REALLY shitty views, IMHO and for example. Very little demonization. I think the only creative who I have made the decision "Never again" regarding his or her material is Roman Polanski. And I still play Jerry's score to Chinatown from time to time. Oh, and I didn't go see The Flash, but that was pretty easy.

The Kelly Marie Tran thing still has my head spinning.

Dragging it back to Marvel, but still focused on internet outrage somehow, I have been amazed at the Joss Whedon meltdown. I don't know that all of it was overblown at all. I remember being shocked at Charisma Carpenter's dismissal on Angel. And you only have to look at some of his bad guys to know the man has some demons. But he's kind of run of the mill Hollywood bigwig in many respects. Why was he suddenly unique? What I have always been confused by after the rather enormous outpouring of outrage from big chunks of his Buffy, Angel, and of course his Justice League casts (ground zero, really), I have never heard a peep from anyone on Firefly and NOTHING from Marvel. And if anyone has F U money in the Whedon projects it would be his Avengers casts. What the hell? (And he used to write for Rosanne Barr. It's alllllll connected! Here, I have a cork board.)

Kudos on both halves of your post. I emphasize I don't think that Dis' decision was GOOD but it was theirs to make. It still cracks me up that people were outraged that the wrong people had somehow forced Disney's hand with Gunn. Look, it's either true or it isn't. It's either something you fire him over or not. It doesn't matter where it comes from or what dastardly motives the people had. Good grief. Every high profile firing / canceling in the last ten years has been at least a little convenient for somebody. Except for Ezra Miller and the studio hung on by their fingernails with a whole cinematic universe dangling by a thread. Kind of the opposite of Gina Carano. Anyway... Avengers is the impossible movie. It should have been enough. And then they gave us Infinity War (which, honestly we should just be grateful that it was COHERENT let alone GOOD) and then they managed to stick the landing with Endgame. It still seems to be the most unlikely events in Hollywood. Say what you want about Superhero Fatigue or "it's not cinema" (it sure as hell is) but how lucky are we that so many of the MCU flicks are actually good, and a few are great? Hackman quit. Brando had his own problems. Williams managed to get off the picture without really making a fuss. If I have the history right.

It wasn't that it made light of the holocaust. It was that she raised the importance of the culture war to be comparable to the holocaust. And IIRC her co-workers DID come to her defense. (I specifically remember Weathers.) She just hadn't directed two of Marvel's most profitable movies. She was OK in Mandalorian. But she wasn't the star and she was disposable. Which is Disney's right as an employer to dispose of her. She didn't piss off the audience, she pissed off her boss. The payoff is when Strange is holding back the wall of water and signals to Tony "One". With a hesitation that says "I'm totally not sending you to your death. It's fine." Also the REAL payoff is from back in Avengers. "You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." And "Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

Grrrrr.

And now they're here! (It's a very very pretty movie.) There are times you realize he's probably underrated. EDIT: I just realized that when I think of Dunkirk I think of the airplanes and I think of Branagh. After that the rest of the movie is only just terrific.

Clearly this is an obvious through line directly to The Secret of NIHM and Mulan!

You swear you've heard it before as it slowly rambles on. No need in bringing 'em back 'cause they're never really gone.

This is Jerry we're talking about. The man was riddled with bullets. And the quality of a movie has never determined the quality of a Jerry score.

Man. I love JNH. And I'm sure I'll listen to this eventually and love it as much as everyone else does. (Wyatt Earp is one of my favorite discoveries of the last five years.) But the idea that we could have had a THIRD Jerry Goldsmith animated score is a heartbreaking loss to me.

He MIGHT like the movies. He doesn't like US.