So we're all set then, Brett Ratner has the gig and meanwhile they're spinning and spinning so the fans don't show up at Paramount with pitchforks and torches!

I completely agree, and never mind the way that the saga came out, what's astonishing is the grandiosity of vision Lucas maintained for so many years (even with the slump period after the third Indy film came out.) He decided he wasn't going to be at the mercy of the studio system, which led to compromises on A New…

Legend had it that the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" was recorded in the studio crapper as it was the only way to get the reverb the way the producer wanted it.

That story has always amused me. The fun and joy of working in primitive sound effects.

A natural gift for music, period. He was a damn good jazz and abstract composer as well — in my opinion, that was his biggest strength over the first half of his career.

I disagree on John Williams and the prequels, alas — "Duel Of The Fates" is a great piece of music, but the majority of the underscore for the prequels is bland, dull, and very very armed over; my understanding of the scoring process for II and III especially is that Lucas and Williams had the orchestrator develop the…

It was and it wasn't — you should probably look for a copy of J.W. Rinzler's The Making Of Star Wars (it's curiously bargain priced in Kindle format), which gets into the process, nuts, bolts, mistakes, moments of genius and all. For one thing, getting the film produced at all was an uphill battle that Lucas won…

All stored up in Marin County at Skywalker Ranch, in fact.

Ben Burrt, and later on Burrt and his sound crew, pretty much went everywhere and recorded everything they could for the Lucasfilm sound library, and damn near revolutionized the art of film soundscaping in the process, taking things up a level from where the BBC Radiophonic Workshop had already taken them.

*owly head tilt*

Marvel's most iconic characters are transformed into personality-free puppets. Spider-Man does not quip. The Juggernaut does not roar. Cyclops doesn't accidentally kill his mentor and become a pariah to a community filled with mutants who've done far worse on purpose.

*rrrrrripppppp*

Frankly, any number of cultures would like a word with me on this point...! Trust me, you don't want a full-size walking Hopi Kachina knocking at your door....

It my be the simplified overview, but I find it fascinating that this particular symbol (and variations of it) has persisted from pre-history. As another poster's graphic reminds me, it's even been a Hopi symbol (which I'd forgotten.) There's some degree of tragedy thatg these days all it means to most of us is…

It was a Buddhist symbol *long* before the Nazis co-opted it.

The Napster Solution!

It's an existing mirror, not a new domain for TPB. There's quite a few of them scattered around; they copy and cache the data from the main site periodically, have only partial search functions (if any at all), and the only new upload come from the site operators but it's not available to the users. In other words,…

That's a mirror site, one of many, not a new domain for the active site — if you look you'll see it's old content, no search function, and nothing new uploaded. The links work, but that's in part because there's no central tracker — you'll find that all of the old TPB torrents still work too, as they're all…

This is reminding me that I need to start on the next Bond rewatch (especially as the last one was interrupted.) I had hoped to pick up the Blu-Ray set first, but it'll wait.

You're an ass, sadly, and you're haring off right down the path of wrong-headedness in your response; you're not responding to what I actually said, chump. The dismissiveness is a particularly charming touch.