Shouldn’t that last one be Ethyl the Aardvark?

‘”It’d be nice if we got a proper adaptation of the Teen Titans to wash the Titans out of our memories.”’

And they had fuck-all budget, too. That little behind-the-scenes as to how they did it all is amazing. 35 people, almost no budget.

Godzilla swimming behind the boat and taking machine gun fire to the face is the scene that locked it up. That whole sequence was fantastic. There were other good bits, and some bits that (though great) were still Godzilla Movie boxes that needed to be checked. But the consistency of Minus One’s fx held throughout. 

They could have mentioned that Cillian Murphy also tried to kill Batman.

Starling?! You got that right. Lol. Also fucking Hoyt Curtin wrote every. single. Hanna-Barbera. cartoon. theme. ever. Like more than 200. Those two dudes scored my entire childhood ages 2 to 12, Williams took the baton after that.

She was good in Fahrenheit 451! She did what she could with a terrible script.

She stands out and is likeable every time I see her, but most of the time I see her she’s usually a side character. Hell, she was a side character in The Mummy despite playing the Mummy thanks to Tom Cruise Cruisifying the movie.

Still pulling for Sofia Boutella to get a win. 

that’s a very interesting point. Williams is the modern-day inheritor of Wagnerian leitmotif. Maybe the opera comparison was fair.

I can literally HEAR this gif. 

Yeah, if you’re looking for someone from Hollywood who’s exposed more people to a ton of classical (and not just orchestral music)...

I can’t agree, I absolutely believe his best work rivals and even surpasses the classical masters in terms of profundity and complexity. And to be clear, I’m not saying his achievements are greater or more important. The masters of today stand on the shoulders of their forebears.

But he is certainly more than just…

Depends if, in future conversations, the “Pop” structure of an album becomes thought of as equal to long form symphonies. Close Encounters, Schindler’s List, maybe E.T. and Jaws could be listened to as one full work that flows... Raiders and Superman are sort of like, “theme. theme. theme.” I’m not dunking on the…

Depends how you define classical music.

In the intro:

he has created iconic music (I am a mega John Williams fan) but is by no means worthy of comparison with the great classical composers. He writes great themes, but has never composed anything remotely as profound or complex as, say, a Beethoven symphony or Mozart opera. And I’ve listened to his non-Hollywood work too,…

Just effing listen to this without thinking it is from a dinosaur movie:

No one person in history has done more to expose more people to classical music than John Williams. You may think it might be Mozart or Beethoven, I think it is John Williams. Billions of people have heard his music and unknown numbers of people, moved by his scores, have gone on to love, play and or listen to other…

Superman theme is the greatest. It’s undiluted, unlike Star Wars.