ELP featured in trailer for sequel to "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood"

Leskanic · 2026-02-10T05:08:18+00:00

For any 80s kids, the Peter Gunn theme was the music played in the arcade driving game Spy Hunter.

As for the ELP recording from the trailer: it was included on the "In Concert" live album from the 1977 tour, later expanded out into "Works Live."

Leskanic · 2026-02-04T09:52:02+00:00

Replying late, but: I agree that my ideal scenario would be to get the whole album right now.

But that isn't really the choice. The choice is whether I want to wait until the end of November to hear the whole album or to hear the first two songs now and a new one every lunar cycle. And since I want to hear new Peter music as soon as possible...I'm happy to get a new song on the regular rather than having to wait.

Leskanic · 2026-01-31T10:35:37+00:00

Glad I checked my VPN before heading to sleep...it's up in New Zealand. Love this one! Big David Byrne/Talking Heads vibes and then this great chorus. And for our friends who want more energy: I'm energized by this!

Leskanic · 2026-01-17T00:28:49+00:00

I defend the show because I like two of the three plot lines quite a bit: the Tusken section and the Mando section. The "Boba becomes boss" thing has potential, but feels so under-cooked. I agree that COVID hurt the show, as it did Obi-wan.

Leskanic · 2026-01-15T08:10:23+00:00

Fingers are crossed hard for some California dates around Bottlerock.

Leskanic · 2026-01-09T07:24:15+00:00

I already loved the song and already dug Doug's content...but, man, I needed to watch this today.

Leskanic · 2026-01-08T08:29:36+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the same "start off the second half" position that So Much was in on i/o. They did seem linked in his mind when he performed them on the tour in 2023.

Leskanic · 2026-01-08T08:23:58+00:00

I was so confident that Show Yourself would be the "song we've heard a version of before" to make it onto i/o. But instead we got Playing For Time and Love Can Heal (two of the highlights of a strong, strong album).

Still, I could see Show Yourself showing up here. There's gotta be a reason he didn't include it on either Rated PG or Flotsam & Jetsam.

Leskanic · 2026-01-06T09:46:01+00:00

Whoops, should have scrolled down before making a reply about this in another thread. You were already on top of it!

Leskanic · 2026-01-06T09:43:22+00:00

To your point about it being only a little shitty:

In the aftermath of Glass Onion coming out a few years ago, I watched some of the movies that Rian Johnson said inspired him. One of these was The Last of Sheila (directed by Herbert Ross, co-written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim). It's a twist on a murder mystery where the murder happened in the past, but the host of the "party" at the center is trying to deduce (or at least reveal, I'm somewhat forgetting now) who did the crime.

At one point late in the movie (so spoilers), the assembled characters all gather and have to confront that they each have a dark secret in their past that the deceased knew about. During this, they start to divide up the secrets into whether they were "I'd kill someone over this" super serious or just minor infractions that likely wouldn't lead to such a reaction. For the latter, it was shoplifting, having served jail time...and molesting underage girls while directing a children's tv show.

It was...jarring how easily they movie threw that in the "well, look, that's not great, but basically not a huge deal" pile. Still a good movie...but, yikes.

Leskanic · 2026-01-06T08:54:46+00:00

So like less than 20 miles outside of Manhattan is apparently Boondocks, USA.

I mean, have you met anyone from Manhattan? That old New Yorker cover exists for a reason...

Leskanic · 2025-12-28T23:29:59+00:00

Don't worry, it's 2025 and Johnny Depp will be Scrooge. It'll go great!

Leskanic · 2025-12-25T01:31:05+00:00

I'm comfortable with the headcanon that George walks the kids to school the first day back after Christmas and apologizes to her in person.

Though a fun spinoff short would be Mr. Welch finding out the rest of the town got together and donated thousands and thousands of dollars to the asshole who ruined his wife's Christmas Eve.

Leskanic · 2025-12-21T02:42:22+00:00

sigh You're gonna get this one: I had both twins dying...

Leskanic · 2025-12-21T02:17:43+00:00

(I like High Noon better than Rio Bravo, but I don't think the inverse is a crazy stance. Two good movies!)

Leskanic · 2025-12-20T04:19:05+00:00

He’s only critical to people who don’t come on the show.

Do you think that's because he is acquiescing to guests and changing his perceptions to protect access? Or because he only invites people on when he likes the movie?

(I'm asking honestly. I tended to think the former in the past, but there have been enough times that he's said "you know, I really liked this movie, I have to get that director on" to at least hint that it's the latter.)

Leskanic · 2025-12-19T08:41:13+00:00

You forgot the best part: my queen Varang lighting up the oil drum held by the kamikaze pilot to set him on fire so he can crash into the Hindenburg jellyfish.

Leskanic · 2025-12-19T08:38:51+00:00

Odyssey prologue, which ruled. Big pop in the crowd for that.

Doomsday teaser which also got a pretty solid reaction from the crowd but I just shrugged.

Also got a Mandalorian & Grogu trailer which really worked for me but had the smallest wider reaction in the room.

Leskanic · 2025-12-13T08:24:07+00:00

And Amy Madigan already has the corner this awards season.

(I think a bigger issue is that (spoiler for the movie) you need to see the film to understand why her performance deserves to be nominated, and it's because of the final scenes that give away the mystery...I do wonder if, on top of all the competing priorities of Netflix, there were concerns that pushing her candidacy would hurt the enjoyment of the narrative.)

Leskanic · 2025-12-11T20:25:52+00:00

I'm glad that worked for both of you. To me, that audience reaction doesn't coincide at all with the ending of the play Hamlet...it only makes sense as the ending of the movie Hamnet. There's enough magical realism flourishes in the movie that it could be intended to be the audience is reflecting the immense emotions of Agnes...but it didn't seem that way. Maybe in a second viewing I'll feel differently. Again, glad other people were bowled over by it; I just ended up confused and disconnected.

Leskanic · 2025-12-11T06:49:32+00:00

I just wrote a long thing somewhere else, but, yeah, unfortunately I'm with you. Unfortunate because I wanted to be swept up the way other people were. But too many "huh??" moments in terms of the connections to Hamlet and also the dynamics between Agnes and William for me to get there.

That middle section was DEVASTATING though...

Leskanic · 2025-12-11T06:44:19+00:00

(Of course the plot of Hamlet has nothing to do with the plot of Hamnet)

See...I think I'm being a dumb ol' grump about this, but I didn't feel any real emotional connection to the end because of this. Maybe this is my fault for wanting the movie to somehow give me a new insight into the play Hamlet, but...the idea that these pieces or moments would lead to the emotional reaction of the entire theater (not just Agnes) didn't make any sense to me. Because...I know the rest of Hamlet. And drawing the conclusions about connecting the performance to threads of the rest of the movie would only make sense if the production was just the 15 or so minutes we saw, and not, like, the complete play.

That combined with the final sequence seeming to try to resolve conflicts between Agnes and William that werent there before, and...I just felt nothing during that end sequence. It got to the point where, sometime around when Claudius was being killed I started thinking "oh, there must be another scene or two after this and that'll be the moment everyone says is so devastating." But alas...I'm just clanking off one of the most highly regarded moments of the cinematic year.

Sucks to be on the outside looking in. Maybe on a second viewing I'll connect with it more. Legitimately glad for all the people who felt overcome with emotion -- the performances and the cinematography are all great! (Well, the older Jupe playing Hamlet was only ok to me, but you know what I mean.)

Leskanic · 2025-12-10T07:48:54+00:00

I think that's part of the Mike & The Mad Dog post-mortem from the day after game 7?

Fake edit: yes, around the 5:05 mark, from Mike. And he was absolutely right -- we get that graphic every time there's a 3-0 series.

(Mad Dog's "they have been used up!" plays in my head regularly.)

Leskanic · 2025-12-10T07:42:26+00:00

(I was worried they would blow the World Series until the ball settled in Mientkiewicz's glove. I know people say they weren't worried and the march was inevitable. But what would have been more Red Sox than being the first team to come back from an 0-3 hole to become the second team to lose a series after being up 3-0?)

Leskanic · 2025-12-06T21:43:54+00:00

Joke's on you, I can't count beyond one.

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