I knew that IMDb had been around a long time but TIL it predates the World Wide Web, as it was initially launched as Usenet group rec.arts.movies in 1990 and moved to the web in 1993. And it's been owned by Amazon since 1998, because of course it has 🙄
This evening's viewing: Modern Times. Been a long time since I last saw it, & while remembering the amazing & rightly famous sequence where Charlie is sucked into the cogs of the machine, I had totally forgotten about the equally amazing roller skate by the precipice scene, which still looks remarkable (the drop is in fact a glass matte painting, a clever bit of VFX for the era)
As I work today I'm listening to the soundtrack from the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film that was composed by Basil Poledouris. Things are feeling fairly barbaric at the moment here in the Arizona desert
@jake4480 Best damn soundtrack ever written. There are any number of composers who are better than Poledouris overall, but this particular score is the top of the heap.
@FredH I think I have to agree. It just TRANSPORTS you there. I'm such a huge fan of the movie. I've been working on a blog post about some of my favorite films, and I listened to a lot of different soundtracks after this one (They Live, Total Recall, etc) and there was some great stuff, but yeah, this one still stands out far beyond the others.