> Our biggest difference of opinion is on The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I think it's one of his most effective and fun scores in the past decade.

I came into the rundown never having heard a note of it and expecting not to like it that much. I was happy to be wrong.

> The gap between TLK original and redux also seems strange, but maybe I'm just worse at separating the two in my mind.

The score portions are comparable, though the marginalized presence of the 2019 score on its album doesn't help matters.

But that separation is mainly driven by the gap in the quality of the songs.

Lion King 2019 was also one of the films I watched because of the rundown. Sometimes that worked out pretty well; I was very pleasantly surprised how the Madagascar series improved with each sequel. Lion King was the antithesis of that experience, somehow turning out to fall below even my very low expectations, though it at least avoided the distinction of being the worst one I saw thanks to this.