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Because the topic is memorable vs. forgettable scores?

Well, remembering it certainly seems to be significant in this case.

Music doesn't have to be hummable to be good, but the sorts of memorable melodic themes being discussed here are, I would argue, universally hummable.

That the Phantom Menace score was wasted on The Phantom Menace the movie is a crime.

Can you even hum Rey's theme? I just remember it as a fluttery line of flutes, but there's not much of a theme there. Nothing like, say, the love theme from ESB, the Force Theme, the Asteroid Field, the Imperial March… Jesus, the ESB score is a masterwork.

Of course, Star Wars was temped with Wagner…

Why is it that human emotions—which we evolved to allow us to protect ourselves, find mates, rear our helpless young, collectivize resource gathering, etc. all in the interest of reproductive success in our own particular ecological niche—are continually put forth by science fiction writers as some inexorable ideal

The big selling point of the AirPods is that they take the hassle out of pairing. Maybe this will spur the Bluetooth consortiom to deal with this problem in future versions of the technology.

I'm a total animation snob, but I've got to say, minions was surprisingly watchable. Not a classic, but tolerable.

I don't think I ever had a reason to plug headphones into my RAZR, because it was pretty much useless for anything but making phone calls.

If you didn't think they needed to be charged, how precisely did you think they worked?

Wired earbuds come with the phone. The wireless ones are an optional accessory. It seems like this not-so-minor point is escaping a lot of people?

Um, you were ALWAYS paying for the phone, you just paid higher rates on your phone bill. The whole thing is much more transparent now, which is a good thing.

You monster.

"It may be the most annoying song ever,"

I have a neighbor who named their kid after an even higher-profile comic book character. It's like getting a pop-culture tattoo, but on your child.

Maybe we could all just volunteer to attentively watch a nonstop hour of ads each week and use the proceeds to pay these people to go away?

Just how young were the kids in the audience? Even the theatrical cut is pretty dark and violent, with a fair amount of profanity. I haven't seen the Seymour/Audrey death scenes from the dirctor's cut, only the plant rampage sequence on YouTube, but I have a hard time imagining it getting much darker than the

I'd call C&D more of a kids' spy movie/paranoid thriller than a detective story, but they're tonally pretty similar.

And weren't you the person best suited to make that choice?