Jay

Yeah

I've decided to finish up my Switch collection sooner rather than later as physical games are only going to get harder to find and more expensive now. These have already arrived:

The biggest problem is that is it not even remotely complete (It is missing a cue, a ton of alternates, and all the source music). Also, the mastering is not ideal

Ford A Thaxton says, in the FSM thread, that an upcoming Varese title is "putting right what once went wrong". https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=159685&forumID=1&archive=0 For me personally, I hope that means improved editions of either Starship Troopers or Star Trek '09.

Andor 2x01 One Year Later I loved how this episode touched on so many of the themes from the first season! Starting with the imperial pilot who helps Andor steal the ship, the small acts that add up to the whole... and then the whole concept of there being different factions of rebellion that don't work together, and they will all only succeed if they do. Andor's escape in the new TIE ship was SO cool. The special effects were remarkable good, I'm sure tons of CGI was used but it looked better than average I would say. All the weapons that the ship has were so awesome, and the stuff used against the ship like the one trooper with the rocket launcher was great as well, as was the canyon chase. Fun, exciting way to start the season! It was nice to see Bix, Brasso, and the other Ferrix survivors on a new planet, and it was a bummer to see Bix having nightmares since her torture. I was expecting her to be in even rougher shape, though, so maybe she'll end up OK. Not much else going on with their story beyond this worry that they don't have visas and the Empire is arriving there now. So it was kind of interesting that we jump all the way to Leida and the Skuldun kid's wedding, skipping past how their initial meeting went, how the proposal happened, or even how each kid feels about the whole thing, let alone how Mon feels. Well, we do learn through context that the kid doesn't seem to be that into it (not wanting to hold Leida's hand), and that Skuldun feels like he'll have to make sure his son does his duty. Tay Kolma seems to be having money issues himself and is divorcing from his wife, I wonder how that will tie into things. It was great that Vel, Luthen, and Kleya were all here as well, though they didn't really get up to much this episode. Wowwee zowwee, the secret meeting led by Krennic was chilling stuff. Obviously modeled after the final solution meetings the Nazis had, they discuss they best way to relocate/terminate a species to get what they want that they control. Those two guys from the "Ministry of Enlightenment" were really pieces of work and I'm glad the show is showing all the tolls an authoritative government uses to suppress and rule. Dedra being quiet the entire time, Krennic noticing, and then getting her opinion out of her was a pretty great scene. She seems to always be the smartest person in the room. I think that just leaves Andor on the planet he takes the stolen TIE ship to, which were honestly probably my least favorite scenes of the episode. It was a good concept of course, being captured by "good guys" who don't trust him because they have no connection to his set of "good guys". But the problem is that scene after scene was just kind of the same thing repeated. And then when the action starts at the end, it cuts to the credits!

Sydney Sweeney to Star in ‘Split Fiction’ Film Adaptation From Director Jon M. Chu, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Writers

Old Tom Bombadil and Last Ballad of Damrod live in concert

Another Austin Wintory album came out this week https://music.apple.com/nz/album/towerborne-original-soundtrack/1807264180

There's already a second Fountain of Youth trailer only 3 weeks after the first

Agreed

Switch 2 US pre-orders are sold out Did anyone on JWFan get one?

House of the Dragon has added Tom Cullen (The Gold, Trespasses) as Ser Luthor Largent, Joplin Sibtain (Andor, Safe) as Ser “Bold” Jon Roxton, and Barry Sloane (Sandman, Revenge) as Ser Adrian Redfort

I dunno if I'd call it a good catch, the entire point of including the eyelid closing shot in the teaser is so you notice the logo

Gotta use your eyeballs Thor!

In the US, Switch 2 pre-orders begin at midnight tonight (EST, so 9PM PST) BTW. Sticking with the original $450 price tag.

Mancini version is SOLD OUT https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12633/.f

I don't understand. How do you know the music in that clip is from the upcoming score?

That's definitely Giacchino's Spider-man theme. I don't understand where the composers say they just snuck in it. If you use another guy's theme you have to pay royalties and do other legalese stuff. Is it credited in the end credits of the episode?

Badlands teaser

I thought a 3D Mario was a lock for the Switch 2 Direct since Odyssey was 8 (!) years ago now. Surely one is in the works and has been for years, I was just surprised it wasn't ready to reveal by then I guess since the Odyssey team did the new DK game, maybe the Mario game is pushed out to next year to not crib sales from that

Someone on Reddit made a nice chart of all the Nintendo-published games we know about for 2025 so far I think a big game will be coming out this holiday that they will reveal in a direct this summer Otherwise it's not a super strong launch year for a new system, especially when compared to Switch 1's launch year titles

‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Runtime is 2 Hours 51 Minutes

I never heard that before, that's fun stuff!

You can't make this stuff up Toys ‘R’ Us Live-Action Movie in the Works