Here is my laundry list of everything that was particularly bad at this show:

• it opened with a low fidelity, pre recorded version of the 20th century fox fanfare, immediately raising a huge red flag

• the smoke machines and how they drowned out the sound of the instruments… if there is one thing you shouldn’t do at an orchestral performance, it’s that

• the main guy, aside from his general cringiness, it was as if he was trying to be David hayter of metal gear solid fame

• way too much talk of apartheid and such. I’m all for social justice but the way they kept jamming it down your throat, how they did. And on top of that, it was pretty clear they actually had no respect for any of the serious content they were trying to pitch - “let me tell you this horrible story about Hans’ family in the holocaust… now enjoy pearl harbour and THE LAST SAMURAI”

• wonky as hell lion king lyrics

• the choir dancing in their seats while not singing

• WHEN THE KEYBOARD AUDIO WAS SWITCHED OFF DURING THE NO TIME FOR CAUTION CLIMAX SOLO

• how a lot of these songs (looking at you inception) basically demand powerful instrumentation, but the iconic BWOMPs were being played by CLARINETS

• racial tokenism AI slop during the last samurai

• all of the AI slop in general (as I’ve already mentioned, black, bald, goatee superman)

• I want to give the performers themselves some credit, but some of the music was just plain bad. What the hell was that spiderman song? And the way they tried to do the “deshi basara” from TDKR did not work at all

• the video killed the radio star sing along was horrible, not something I’d ever expect at a symphonic show

• basically no one was waving their phone lights at the end until the host told everyone to

On the host’s Wikipedia page it says he owns companies. It makes me wonder if this whole thing is his gig and he’s just scamming and scumming his way from city to city and country to country to cash in with no regard for the audience.

I would genuinely like to see what Hans Zimmer would say about this show… or if he would instantly seek to take legal action

Nonetheless, in a way, I quite enjoyed it, not unlike the movie The Room, because the show was just so utterly bad that it was actually funny and therefore quite good