> Interesting observation, Jon: Your entries are becoming longer and more in-depth. Is this coincidence, or is there simply more interview/background info (perhaps as a function of these latter entries coming from the now-Internet era?) to draw from for your essays?

It's a mix:
- More background info & quotes available (Gladiator I pulled from something like 10 different sources, including comments made around the Ghent concert).

- More interesting stories about the making-of (The Pledge took a good bit of sleuthing).

- In the early days, and even the first few years of Media Ventures proper, it was really just Zimmer and maybe one or two other collaborators writing scores. Now there are a lot more people in lead roles, and as a result a lot more music.

- I started writing some intros about the films themselves (we're getting into time periods where I've either seen most of the films or am at least familiar enough with them).

- I just can't help myself; mad ambition perhaps.

- If this were to be memorialized in some future format, it probably has to be better than the 'heard this and I think X, heard this and I think X, heard this...' approach I took on the very first post.

It won't get any better lol. Pirates is impossible to talk about succinctly. Bad Boys II I thought about skipping, but the stories were too good to ignore it.