There’s also the fact that the work he did with artists that are still somewhat culturally relevant/recognized today — The Beatles and The Ramones —- are consistently used in retrospective pieces (now obits) to buttress his production bona fides, while the albums he made with them are among the most notoriously…

Because it’s a Sunday and I don’t feel guilty for being contrarian about a murderer: How brilliant was it though? I mean, don’t get me wrong, Spector produced some all-timers and could write a song; the man wasn’t without talent (as a part-time producer myself, his expressive use of reverb has been very influential,…

Which brings up a good point: I don’t think enough attention gets paid to how people who worked with Spector and suffered his abuse get sort of double-victimized by his disgrace.

Goodbye to another garbage human celebrated for outdated accomplishments.

Well-said all around.

I hope he died knowing that he doesn’t rise to the level of grave to piss on.

The sheer brilliance of “The Wall of Sound” can’t be overstated but it did wear out its welcome well before the sixties were over and Spector dragged it out waaay too long (see “Death of a Ladies Man.”)

This gets a definitive “ok, thanks for letting me know.”

Also, the refrain of “Making Christmas” from Nightmare Before Christmas is almost a 1-to-1 interpolation of the melody — like this show’s motif, another good use of the tension between the comfort of familiarity and the almost subconsciously dark undercurrent carried by the world’s first musical meme.

I’ve only watched the first episode so far, and I know that this is a point that nobody else is likely to care about, but on the topic of “subtle/heavy techniques”, there’s one thing I caught on to that I felt somebody had to point out, but that I’ve not seen anyone else mention here - sorry if I’ve missed it - and…

Definitely wishing they’d released the first THREE episodes to start then, the first two were a little thin. My bet is it has to do with Loki and the reality stone, because...well...he has his own series coming up. Also didn’t mention the obvious HYDRA sticker, somewhere that it wouldn’t have been.

Was just listening to Free Radicals by The Flaming Lips and had it happen to me

Also I might have put too much thought into this lmao

After being blown away by the original Goblin mask footage that came out, I’d venture to guess the final version we got in the movie is a combination of the “he’d recognize him” and Raimi killing his prosthetic baby for the better of the movie’s aesthetic....

One of my best friends at the time completely refused to see Spider-Man because he hated Goblin’s look so much. He said it looked like Power Ranger armor. I wonder if he ever gave in and watched it...

I read in another forum that if Dafoe’s Goblin used his real face, then Spider-Man would have recognized him as his best friend’s dad.

I’m guessing it wouldn’t have been too difficult to have an in-movie reason for Norman to be wearing a latex mask (or have his skin turn green). Alas we’ll never know.

I know they conceptualized a Green Goblin that looked more like his comic book appearance and for whatever reason couldn’t do that, but I wonder why Willem wasn’t just given a latex mask or had his face painted green?

So a fun thing to do is watch scenes from any of the Raimi movies with the sound off... and since they clearly didn’t have the actor/stunt-person in the suit saying any of the lines, what you get is an image where people are clearly talking at Spider-Man, but Spidey himself... just stares at them in the creepiest…

I haven’t seen this in years and at the time I really dislikes all the actors speaking with their faces covered up. Less so Spider-Man than Willem Dafoe. The Green Goblin mask looked bad. And it was hard to watch the mask not emote after that brilliant scene (Oh man. He is really chewing the scenery. In the best Willem…