The great power comes great responsibility, and in the case of Spider-Man: Homecoming, a whole new orchestral score.
Spider-Man’s first feature film adventures (unless you count the 1970s TV movies) were scored by Danny Elfman, whose operatic use of a string section prepared audiences for a rousing, dramatic crowdpleaser. Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man movies were scored by James Horner and, in the sequel, Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr and The Magnificent Six (a.k.a. Michael Einziger and Junkie XL), but those themes had less of an impact.
Spider-Man: Homecoming will have a new score by Michael Giacchino, one of the better musical storytellers working in the industry, whose credits include The Incredibles, the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Doctor Strange and Rogue One. So we expected something thrilling and classical.
What we didn’t expect… was THIS.
Who’s ready for your friendly neighborhood you-know-who?@SpiderManMovie @MarvelStudios pic.twitter.com/iSHk4IvVgk
— Michael Giacchino (@m_giacchino) May 19, 2017
Is it a joke? Listen bud, we don’t care. If this was actually the official score to Spider-Man: Homecoming we’d be happy, because it turns out that the brassy theme from the 1960s Spider-Man cartoons sounds fucking EPIC when filtered through the mind of Michael Giacchino.
We’ll find out if this really the official score of Spider-Man: Homecoming or just some sort of tease or Easter Egg when the film debuts on July 7, 2017!
Eight 1980s Cartoon Shows That Should NEVER Be Movies:
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Eight 1980s Cartoon Shows That Should NEVER Be Movies
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Beverly Hills Teens
Bevery Hills Teen was an animated teen soap opera about kids who were rich. Ridiculously, cartoonishly rich. That's the whole gag. Look at how much better, funnier and cooler they are because they've inherited their parents' wealth. Thanks, 1980s.
Photo: DIC Entertainment
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Denver, the Last Dinosaur
The last dinosaur has awoken, and he wears sunglasses and plays guitar and gets into wacky misadventures. Denver, the Last Dinosaur was trying so hard to create a marketable, "hip" character that it basically punched itself in the face.
Photo: World Events Productions
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Gilligan's Planet
The castaways of Gilligan's Island could build just about anything... except a boat. So this animated spin-off in which they built a wooden spaceship was just too absurd to exist. But exist it nevertheless did.
Photo: Filmation
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Laverne and Shirley in the Army
Hey, remember when Laverne and Shirley joined the army? You might, since they actually did that once in their hit sitcom, but there wasn't enough material there to justify a whole animated spin-off... even if The Fonz WAS their mechanic (and he was, he really was).
Photo: Hanna-Barbera
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Pac Man
Everyone knew that the best parts of the old Pac-Man video games were the characters and plot. So this, the first cartoon based on a video game ever, was exactly what we wanted. A weird sitcom alternate reality where Pac-Man and his Pac family routinely ate their local rivals, a gang of ghosts. Surreal and bad. Just bad.
Photo: Hanna-Barbera
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Paw Paws
Hanna-Barbera made a lot of strange choices in their long, storied, career. Paw Paws is right up there as one of the worst. It's a racially insensitive series about cute, cuddly teddy bears who are also Native American stereotypes, protecting their magical totems from evil villains. Not only should it never be a movie, but it should probably never be spoken of again.
Photo: Hanna-Barbera
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Rubik, the Amazing Cube
OH GOD WHAT IS THAT WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT
Photo: Ruby Spears
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Turbo Teen
In one of the stupidest things ever - not just tv shows, but things - a teenager transforms into a car whenever he gets warm. The transformation is kind of like An American Werewolf in London but more horrifying.
Photo: Ruby Spears
