I think we’re approaching the Pop Culture Singularity. With everything equally available with a click of a button, and the market so segmented that there isn’t really a market any more, then there is no present, no past, no future. Just playlists.

I think the Batman bit was possibly made even better by that ascot Michael Keaton wore, which just made him look like ‘60s-era Bruce Wayne.

And yet it was nominated for Sound, traditionally the worst technical aspect of a Nolan film.

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. 

Sure but using the word “snubbed” gets clicks.

911 managed to convince people that the Patriot Act was a good thing and not Big Brother writ large.

Podcasts are theater. Gotta get them clicks and likes.

TSA, like most security, is like IT.

...and which sucked.  Very few legacy sequels or reboots work at all.  Maverick is probably the only one I can think of that elevated its source material.

It’s like COVID. No one wants to be the entity that was perceived as not doing enough. The shoe bomber guy, one person and unsuccessful at that, created this shoe-off nonsense. Buy hey, can’t be seen as not going the extra, extra mile.

A 9/11 style takeover became impossible once they started locking the cockpit doors. That was the only real change they needed.

Maybe it’s the webbed toes.

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

honestly this is kinda average stuff for a comedian

Add JFK (91) to that list. One of the best of the non-Spielberg soundtracks from that time period.

It’s his own fault for climbing up on that roof, really.

It’s a bit tough with movie scores to divorce the quality of the score itself from the memories it brings up from watching the film (or the qualities it furthers in the context of the film itself) but there’s no doubt Williams is one of the greatest film composers, and arguably the greatest still living. I think he…

I would go so far as to say that his score for “The Empire Strikes Back” is one of the 100 greatest musical works of the 20th century. He absolutely should be considered as one of the great composers in history. 

Hook, Schindler’s List, and Jurassic Park (91, 93, and 93) are peak John Williams for me.