I’m going to give them the get-out that Queen wrote two amazing tie in albums , but they werent composing a regular score for movies , so arguably its something slightly different . If there was a catagory for Artist that made an amazing album anyway themed around a new movie , then Prince (Batman) and Aimee Mann…

I really want to see someone recut the new Dune with the Toto score.  I don’t hate the new score but it felt like it only had one hook and it was that “Loud lady sings nonsense lie Yoko Ono” thing that go old after the tenth time it kicked in when Paul did something “mystical”

And Ladyhawke! [Dodges thrown rotten fruit]

Neil Young - Dead Man? Or does that maybe not count because the score is just him with a guitar playing along with the movie?

Give us one more NIN tour Trent

Sometimes I wonder why musicians like Knopfler stop scoring films (He also did Comfort and Joy, Last Exit To Brooklyn, and the exquisite Cal). Were they not asked any more? Did they say “thanks but no thanks”? Why didn’t Joe Jackson score anything after his ambitious Tucker: The Man And His Dream?

“Do these balloons blow up into funny shapes?”

Ah, The Mist. Most unnecessarily downer ending maybe ever. Even King was like “damn...”

I remember being annoyed at its theatrical release, which seemed weak-sauce compared to the build-up it was getting. Maybe the studio (Paramount?) got test audience results and got cold feet at the last minute. Portman, Thompson, and Isaac were all hot... they and the author were all out on a press tour. Garland was…

At least they brought in someone who’s used to being negatively compared to someone else.

I imagine someone with a broom handle off to the side nudging them and saying, “Show some fucking chemistry!”

You can just make as many films as you want, you know.

I sometimes work in kids TV and see no harm in this. The sets I’ve worked on have been safe and well managed, but it’s not uncommon for crew to forget that kids are nearby and, well, kids. So the normally harmless conversations on set between adults with swearing, jokes about getting wasted at the weekend, bitching…

I took a look at Robert Redford. Almost you know. Depends on how you feel about his #1... “Ordinary People.” Numbers 3 & 4 are all-time greats, though: “A River Runs Through It” and “Quiz Show.”

There are few better examples of, as the kids say, “fumbling the bag” in Hollywood today. She was a unicorn as a plus sized woman who was allowed to be characterized as both sexy, and fearsomely tough. She had the field all to herself, and would have had no competition until the arrival of Kali Reis the last couple of…

I remember back before the movie (or the Mandalorian) came out, quite a few comic-reading friends on forums kept insisting that she’d be a great pick to play Wonder Woman. A hearty lol in retrospect.

Perhaps a footnote but also indicative who just who he is day-to-day, moment-to-moment. It’s like finding out he’s one of those guys who puts five one-dollar bills on the table when he eats out and tells the server that’s the tip and he’s going to subtract one dollar every time something he doesn’t like happens. 

My personal favorite regular bringdown feature for Maher is that - no matter how “wise/pithy/deep” his big finish to New Rules makes him feel, he *has* to follow it up with “Hey folks, I’ll be at the Chuckle Hut in Yorba Linda and the Ha-Ha Room in Albuquerque next week...” It must drive him nuts.

Favorites: “Marion, we gotta get outta here... duck!” at the start of the Cairo Sequence. Nothing beats a punch POV filmed from the thrower’s elbow as the punch goes back in deep - center frame. This one is simple & perfect.

How do you do a list like this, and not include Back To The Future?