> It admittedly feels crass to speak about the impact of the COVID-19
> pandemic purely from the perspective of
> entertainment, given the economic and social upheaval it wrought as well
> as the immense loss of life across the globe.
Considering this is a series going over the history of an entertainment production company, I think it's fine.
> If the midpoint between Hannibal and Black Hawk Down in 2001
> was when Hans stopped looking like a young man and started looking like he
> was in middle age, his appearances during the promotional onslaught for
> the music of Dune showed that he was starting to look old. You’d
> think a man in his mid-60s might start to take it easy. But he wasn’t
> acting his age, and he showed no signs of wanting to slow down. He was
> back on the road in 2022 with his concerts tours and still juggling
> multiple film score assignments, and even betrayed some anxieties about
> becoming obsolete in a 2023 piece on 60 Minutes. “When you start out,
> you have all that stuff that you’ve never done before. Now it becomes
> harder because I’ve used up so much ammunition. What if [my next movie
> score] is a complete disaster? People are going, ‘Are you going to
> retire?’ I’m just getting started! I really think that.”
Even if I don't like everything the man does or think his overwhelming influence on our beloved genre has been all together good, I dearly hope Zimmer sticks around for as long as he can doing what he loves.
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> His Dark Materials Series 2 (2020) - ****
> Hillbilly Elegy (2020) - ***
Really need to revisit HDM: S2 but looking back at my Catch-Up review I definitely agree with your rating. Remember next to nil about Hillbilly Elegy, though, outside of trying to watch it and giving up like 35 minutes in or so.
> Cherry (2021) - ***
For some reason YouTube was being a jerk about putting the full album of this up so I never got around to it. Might try investigating again....
> Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) - ***
> The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) - ***
These two I didn't care for as much. Ron's Gone Wrong was cute and fun while Falcon... was more of a slog. Never got around to covering either of these, which should probably speak volumes on my interest.
> Red Notice (2021) - ****
I feel like I reviewed this one but looking back on Soundtrack-Universe I apparently did not... Anyway, rather fun (if uneven) movie and the score definitely helped with the entertainment value (and Gal Gadot...). Don't remember specifics about it, though.
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> Next time: “I said let's not do an orchestral score and he said thank
> God!”
..... Dune?
