Yeah, I actually did want to see Gone Girl, just have yet to actually make the time to see it. Good to hear re: Tattoo, since I didn't have any interest in actually seeing that one.

Heh, I've actually still not seen either Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo, or Gone Girl, despite loving those soundtracks. I expect I'll continue my trend with this one. (Didn't realize the soundtrack was already out, actually - I should check that out.)

I'm pretty late to this party, just picked the album up yesterday. I'm actually enjoying it quite a bit, and I'm glad that they're finally doing something a bit different. By Bitter Rivals, I'd found that I sort of liked Sleigh Bells more in theory than practice. I'd listen to the few tracks that really grabbed me,…

I went into Wilderpeople expecting a nonstop rollicking comedy along the lines of What We Do In The Shadows, so was a bit underwhelmed at the time, when it turned out to be a far more sentimental movie than that. Quite enjoyable regardless, though; I should give it another watch without that expectation in place.

Ha, right after the opening number, my wife leaned over and said, "I feel like I should clap," and I had to agree.

Yeah, I just got home from seeing this, and I'd agree, especially about their not being enough songs; there's a bit in the middle which sort of sags, IMO, when you've really only got that recurring theme coming up again and again. I think it probably could've stood to be maybe 10 minutes shorter, to boot.

Seriously, this review is solid gold.

I know that folks like me (and, I guess, your friend's dad) have already basically lost this battle, but I'm absolutely with him on that. I know that even when you DO have a download, or a physical CD, you don't really legally "own" the music in many ways, but I do want some degree of ownership in the things I like…

I think I've still got a few hanging around as well, since my music partition is still effectively the same one I started in the 90s. Remember when there were so many encoder implementations available? I recall programming myself a blind "listening test" thing so I could figure out which encoders actually sounded…

Oh, heh, you beat me to this by like twenty minutes, and I didn't notice and posted it anyway. Alas! But yeah: total bullshit.

Yeah, his whole thing about 24-bit 96KHz audio being at all useful to a consumer is bullshit. I'm absolutely onboard with lossless audio - I buy FLACs whenever possible - but unless you're actually editing or mixing, there's just no reason to have anything beyond 16-bit 48KHz.

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Counter-counterpoint: I also thought Ghostbusters 2 was pretty funny, and re-watch it occasionally.

Counterpoint: the remake was great - one of my favorite movies this year, actually.

He's mentioned in passing a few times over the years that he at least sometimes provides folks with more detailed not-edited-for-publication answers to their questions, much like the questions themselves go through a shortening/editing process before they end up in the column. I agree that it'd be frustrating to just…

Looks like the first ones were released in 2015, but the most recent ones were just from October, which isn't too far in the past, at least.

I keep wishing that they'd release a version of this movie which just cuts out all audible dialogue. Keep all the sound effects and music and stuff. You'd have people flapping their lips at each other occasionally but that way you could just make up your own plot and still be able to take in the sound/visual design…

I generally prefer it when "adaptations" of books-or-whatever just take the characters and put them in a brand new story. I'd much rather have something fresh that can live or die on its own merits rather than barging into my headspace for some beloved book.

I hate how, in the movies, basically every single spell ever cast in a combat-type situation is just "knock the other person over with invisible force." They even did it with expelliarmus, or however the hell you spell that. Come on, movies, get a little bit of imagination!

I always love the pervasive ™ symbols on that kind of marketing sheet. Wrecker™!!