Lots of people. Because he (used to…sniff) plagiarise himself and classical composers all the time. It doesn't really bother me, but it does bother some.

My criticism is not so much Zimmer himself. I think he used to be a more interesting composer back when he was actually writing tunes, but that is neither here nor there. What I meant was his sound has basically been adopted as the go-to sound for blockbusters. I object to the second-rate copies of Zimmer that are 95%…

It's in the article but Yost said in an interview that 98% of the dialogue in the finished film is Whedon's. Be curious about any other changes as well but I'm not sure if that info is out there.

I kind of like Under Siege 2. I mean, I guess it's bad, but it's fun, exciting bad. A quality of movie that seems to have mostly disappeared.

The soundtrack to the Rock is great, but it's also Exhibit A in the homogenisation of film scoring towards becoming the Zimmer-factory it is today. Sure, there's your Desplats, Giacchinos and John Williams still writing, but blockbuster scores are almost entirely derived from what Zimmer and his goons were doing in…

Snyder's a bit of a step down from Riefenstahl. Aside from anything else, she at least knew how to make a movie.

Edgy.

I mean, it kind of was a student film. Edwards essentially did all the effects himself on his laptop.

The third principal being Nestor Carbonell?

The killing is very slow to begin with. He has blackouts where he presumably kills one or two people in the first few seasons (but he doesn't know what he's doing). The rate of death really only kicks into gear later. The squicky Norma-Norman relationship (which is legit fascinating) was enough to sustain the show…

Dumb and boring side plots (in season 1 and 2) helped pad it out. But it became a really rich psycho-drama (heheh) from season 2 onward when it focused on Norma and Norman. The Farmiga and Freddie Highmore stuff was legitimately great.

Are you nuts? Emo Wesley is the best Wesley.

Caught up on some movies:

Though there's some argument that could be made that that was also a product of opiate withdrawal. We'll probably never know for sure.

Shoutout to Giacchino's pretty impressive (I thought) John Williams pastiche, which rarely quotes themes but got the sound down pretty well. That said, I'm still curious as to what Desplat did, and I hope it gets released one day.

They're Spits.

And almost all of those are stage musical adapations. They are a different beast to the musicals of the 30s/40s/50s most of which were original concoctions for film. The latter are the ones I'd like to see.

It was in the comic.

Seinfeld not rewatchable? Madness. It was virtually on every night as a kid. I've probably seen some of the episodes half a dozen times and it never gets old. But hey, you know, opinions.

I would quite happily rewatch seasons 1-3 (and maybe 4), and have done so. But I think I'd skip the rest. After Ted-Robin and Ted-Stella the show got drastically less interesting.