Willa Harlow Ross
@willaharlowross.bsky.social
Filmmaker. A Sheik main called Worst. 🏳️⚧️
I'm increasingly convinced that filmmakers, including really great ones, have almost totally disengaged over the past 50 years from the idea that movie music can have an intricate, developing superstructure.
Thus people like Jonny Greenwood, Ross&Reznor, Z****r vaunted as masters of film scoring.
Thus people like Jonny Greenwood, Ross&Reznor, Z****r vaunted as masters of film scoring.
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I'm increasingly convinced that filmmakers, including really great ones, have almost totally disengaged over the past 50 years from the idea that movie music can have an intricate, developing superstructure.
Thus people like Jonny Greenwood, Ross&Reznor, Z****r vaunted as masters of film scoring.
Thus people like Jonny Greenwood, Ross&Reznor, Z****r vaunted as masters of film scoring.
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My copy of @bcwallin.com's monograph - featuring an essay about Danny Boyle's use of digital formats by yours truly - arrived today. Very excited to see it released tomorrow.
January 24, 2026 at 12:50 AM
My copy of @bcwallin.com's monograph - featuring an essay about Danny Boyle's use of digital formats by yours truly - arrived today. Very excited to see it released tomorrow.
Gosh I really did save my own life in a pretty courageous way, huh. That’s pretty great. I’m pretty great.
January 22, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Gosh I really did save my own life in a pretty courageous way, huh. That’s pretty great. I’m pretty great.
GET BACK might be the most aesthetically unbearable-to-look-at movie for me personally that I’ve ever laid eyes on. Whole range of factors both contextual and immediate. Been assured there’s oodles of historical fascination and great editing going on, but I still suspect I’ll never finish it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
GET BACK might be the most aesthetically unbearable-to-look-at movie for me personally that I’ve ever laid eyes on. Whole range of factors both contextual and immediate. Been assured there’s oodles of historical fascination and great editing going on, but I still suspect I’ll never finish it.
It's very very important that every one of us goes on some talk shows
January 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
It's very very important that every one of us goes on some talk shows
The most time-consuming part of my TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME edit combining it with THE MISSING PIECES is easily recolouring those deleted scenes to match FWWM.
Despite being widely recognized as canonical and essential, THE MISSING PIECES was very obviously not given much of a colour grade.
Despite being widely recognized as canonical and essential, THE MISSING PIECES was very obviously not given much of a colour grade.
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The most time-consuming part of my TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME edit combining it with THE MISSING PIECES is easily recolouring those deleted scenes to match FWWM.
Despite being widely recognized as canonical and essential, THE MISSING PIECES was very obviously not given much of a colour grade.
Despite being widely recognized as canonical and essential, THE MISSING PIECES was very obviously not given much of a colour grade.
When people like a work of art, they’re often not very good at engaging critically with the elements outside the absolute best 10-20%.
Visual highlights, florid musical passages of score, elaborate set pieces get cited without regard to the majority of the total experience and structure.
Visual highlights, florid musical passages of score, elaborate set pieces get cited without regard to the majority of the total experience and structure.
December 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
When people like a work of art, they’re often not very good at engaging critically with the elements outside the absolute best 10-20%.
Visual highlights, florid musical passages of score, elaborate set pieces get cited without regard to the majority of the total experience and structure.
Visual highlights, florid musical passages of score, elaborate set pieces get cited without regard to the majority of the total experience and structure.
Related to this: I think that, broadly speaking, people should be much MUCH less patient with games wasting their time.
(I'm not sure how consensus broadly landed on "grinding is fine" [grinding here defined as "mandatory repetitive actions with little-to-no space for skill improvement"])
(I'm not sure how consensus broadly landed on "grinding is fine" [grinding here defined as "mandatory repetitive actions with little-to-no space for skill improvement"])
Broadly, people who claim to be deeply invested in video games as an art form need to become much more amenable to undergoing styles of game design that are painful to get accustomed to (eg difficulty, slowness).
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
December 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Related to this: I think that, broadly speaking, people should be much MUCH less patient with games wasting their time.
(I'm not sure how consensus broadly landed on "grinding is fine" [grinding here defined as "mandatory repetitive actions with little-to-no space for skill improvement"])
(I'm not sure how consensus broadly landed on "grinding is fine" [grinding here defined as "mandatory repetitive actions with little-to-no space for skill improvement"])
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I agree, Lucy Liu.
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I agree, Lucy Liu.
It’s inconvenient but everyone should be comfortable having multiple messaging apps and knowing exactly what they’re all for. And right now one should be Signal.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s inconvenient but everyone should be comfortable having multiple messaging apps and knowing exactly what they’re all for. And right now one should be Signal.
Broadly, people who claim to be deeply invested in video games as an art form need to become much more amenable to undergoing styles of game design that are painful to get accustomed to (eg difficulty, slowness).
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Broadly, people who claim to be deeply invested in video games as an art form need to become much more amenable to undergoing styles of game design that are painful to get accustomed to (eg difficulty, slowness).
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
It’s recognized a key trait of deep appreciation for pretty much all other art forms!
AVATAR 3 gives us the first unambiguous, in-universe assertion that yes, human beings find Na'vi hot
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
AVATAR 3 gives us the first unambiguous, in-universe assertion that yes, human beings find Na'vi hot
AVATAR FIRE AND ASH spoilers i guess
It's very funny to me that James Cameron has found a way to make multi-billion-grossing blockbusters where you pump your fists as eldritch squid monsters scurry past the heroes on their way to consume screaming humans into their abyss of tentacles.
It's very funny to me that James Cameron has found a way to make multi-billion-grossing blockbusters where you pump your fists as eldritch squid monsters scurry past the heroes on their way to consume screaming humans into their abyss of tentacles.
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
AVATAR FIRE AND ASH spoilers i guess
It's very funny to me that James Cameron has found a way to make multi-billion-grossing blockbusters where you pump your fists as eldritch squid monsters scurry past the heroes on their way to consume screaming humans into their abyss of tentacles.
It's very funny to me that James Cameron has found a way to make multi-billion-grossing blockbusters where you pump your fists as eldritch squid monsters scurry past the heroes on their way to consume screaming humans into their abyss of tentacles.
Just in awe that "This new Game Boy is made from attack drone metal" is a real sell being made with a real product and not as a provocative art piece
They really just thought "this is rad"
They really just thought "this is rad"
December 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Just in awe that "This new Game Boy is made from attack drone metal" is a real sell being made with a real product and not as a provocative art piece
They really just thought "this is rad"
They really just thought "this is rad"
It’s fucked that there are things that we’ll never know the answer for. “Oh well, guess we’ll never know.” What the hell?! But I want to!
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It’s fucked that there are things that we’ll never know the answer for. “Oh well, guess we’ll never know.” What the hell?! But I want to!
dang my new face is way better than that old purple face
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
dang my new face is way better than that old purple face
Critical aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have made people overconfident in estimating critical consensus for many reasons, but an important one is their non-measurement of contemporaneous vs evolving critical responses. (Also numbers are a VERY limited tool for this ofc.)
December 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Critical aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have made people overconfident in estimating critical consensus for many reasons, but an important one is their non-measurement of contemporaneous vs evolving critical responses. (Also numbers are a VERY limited tool for this ofc.)
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but the sequence of like. Monhun, Mario Kart, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden 4 all unconsciously apologizing for the name of the game on the box by reverting towards some imagined mean (open world, metroidvania, suck-to-target, high storytelling focus, etc etc take your pick) just really was disheartening
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
but the sequence of like. Monhun, Mario Kart, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden 4 all unconsciously apologizing for the name of the game on the box by reverting towards some imagined mean (open world, metroidvania, suck-to-target, high storytelling focus, etc etc take your pick) just really was disheartening
this game sucks
December 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this game sucks
I realized I haven't posted this since doing it back in August. My first 1CC, M.U.S.H.A hard mode on the Genesis
(If you want to be a pedant and say this is a no-continues run, fine. Also I effed up and recorded at 30fps, but look at that sweet hand-cam action!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2S...
(If you want to be a pedant and say this is a no-continues run, fine. Also I effed up and recorded at 30fps, but look at that sweet hand-cam action!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2S...
M.U.S.H.A./Musha Aleste Hard Mode 1CC
YouTube video by Worst's Trophy Room
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I realized I haven't posted this since doing it back in August. My first 1CC, M.U.S.H.A hard mode on the Genesis
(If you want to be a pedant and say this is a no-continues run, fine. Also I effed up and recorded at 30fps, but look at that sweet hand-cam action!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2S...
(If you want to be a pedant and say this is a no-continues run, fine. Also I effed up and recorded at 30fps, but look at that sweet hand-cam action!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2S...
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I wrote about MINORITY REPORT for @letterboxd.social, diving into how Steven Spielberg's cyber-noir masterpiece exposes a world doomed by the hyperreal simulacra of screens and images:
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
Through a Glass Darkly: The punishing digitopia of Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report out now on 4K UHD Blu-ray, Brendan Hodges looks back on the brain-teasing cyberpunk thriller that exposes a world dominated by the hyperreal allure of screens.
letterboxd.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I wrote about MINORITY REPORT for @letterboxd.social, diving into how Steven Spielberg's cyber-noir masterpiece exposes a world doomed by the hyperreal simulacra of screens and images:
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
Playing METROID PRIME 4: BEYOND and rn the single thing that just completely bewilders me about so many modern mainstream games and the way they're received is the preponderance of cutscenes. So damn many cutscenes ranging from 5 seconds to a minute or two, the vast majority completely unnecessary.
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Playing METROID PRIME 4: BEYOND and rn the single thing that just completely bewilders me about so many modern mainstream games and the way they're received is the preponderance of cutscenes. So damn many cutscenes ranging from 5 seconds to a minute or two, the vast majority completely unnecessary.
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while social media narratives seem to be driven by top players and figureheads bemoaning the decline of majors, the reality for most is that local/weekly Melee has never been better
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
while social media narratives seem to be driven by top players and figureheads bemoaning the decline of majors, the reality for most is that local/weekly Melee has never been better
I really like when I've seen "ports" that are based on an entirely or at least mostly new code base for more limited tech as "demakes".
The arcade and NES versions of GHOSTS N GOBLINS fundamentally AREN'T the same game, but the language of "port" has encouraged otherwise in public consciousness.
The arcade and NES versions of GHOSTS N GOBLINS fundamentally AREN'T the same game, but the language of "port" has encouraged otherwise in public consciousness.
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I really like when I've seen "ports" that are based on an entirely or at least mostly new code base for more limited tech as "demakes".
The arcade and NES versions of GHOSTS N GOBLINS fundamentally AREN'T the same game, but the language of "port" has encouraged otherwise in public consciousness.
The arcade and NES versions of GHOSTS N GOBLINS fundamentally AREN'T the same game, but the language of "port" has encouraged otherwise in public consciousness.
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I've never been so excited. It's happening. #ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
www.starwars.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I've never been so excited. It's happening. #ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...