Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140913190950/@comment-397235-20140918031039

I've been on this wiki since May or June, and been talking to Shane since June or July. Honestly, all our discussions end up there.

I love Hans Zimmer. My favorite composer, though, is James Newton Howard (I Am Legend, anything made by M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson's King Kong, and a bunch of other things). Bear McCreary, who did the music for Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, and The Walking Dead is also good, as is Michael Giaccino (Lost and other JJ Abrams projects, such as Star Trek, the two most recent Mission Impossible films, and Cloverfield; for me his best work is the fantastic score for The Incredibles). I'm also partial to Ko Otani, who did the music for four of my favorite Japanese films (the "Heisei" Gamera trilogy, and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah which is the finest Godzilla film ever made); you'll know him as the guy who wrote all the music for Another.

I was really bored by Platoon: all the characters were dull and unsympathetic, and the constant reuse of that same piece of classical music (Barber's "Adagio for Strings," which is a bitch and a half to play; my high school orchestras, one of the best in the country, tried and failed epically to do so) is really irritating. I give the director props, though: he made all his actors practice with real firearms so they knew how to handle them like soldiers. A lot of directors do that nowadays, so you'll see things like trigger discipline (your finger is never on the trigger except when shooting) and people actually aiming their weapons, in addition to the correct two-handed Weaver stance for handguns.