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Yeah, people like to look at waveform comparisons and imagine they can hear major differences. Triggering audiophiles is a favorite pastime of mine

La La Land - Justin Hurwitz Still in my regular rotation, still as brilliant as when I first heard it, and still mostly underrated by the film score enthusiast community. Hurwitz is an incredibly talented melodicist, an ability sadly lacking in most film composers today. I really just hope he starts scoring films for directors other than Chazelle, I want to hear him take on other challenges!

Have you done any blind listening tests? Oh wait.....

Oh great and mighty John Williams take this offering, my firstborn son! I give so I might receive! Recording sessions, complete, every take, all! Hallowed be thy scores, complete and chronological! Forever and ever.

Also used in Star Wars VI: from 1:04.

Always the risk of looking a right idiot posting in this thread, but:

Macca needs the money perhaps. Will we see him with a peg-legged blonde?

Couldn't have said it better myself. While I have a hard time picking a favorite between the two, I have no trouble identifying the superior flow of TLW. That being said, I do find that the finale of the first score leaves a better taste in my mouth. The end of TLW feels a little abrupt to me, though I really like all the material. I feel more satisfied after JP.

It's an insanely rich film in terms of subtext and intertextuality -- almost on the level of PROMETHEUS (which was slightly more focussed than COVENANT, because it didn't have to deal with many horror tropes). The whole David thing has several layers -- the etymological meaning of the name itself, and then all the parallells to the biblical David which the Michelangelo statue portrays. And don't even get me started on the "Entry of the Gods Into Valhalla" piece by Wagner! Or the "Ozymandias" poem which actually has double or perhaps even TRIPLE intertextuality.

Star Trek has always been a product of its time. And Discovery looks no different. I'll still happily give this a chance when it airs (streams). It certainly looks expensive. Still can't fathom a reason for another prequel. Its such a limiting concept. Especially if this does take place in the Prime Timeline.

I'm sure people defended the old black/white TV as well when colour came around.

Speaking of other art history infused in the film, I can't believe I only just picked up on this one. Seems rather obvious in hindsight, considering the appearance of Michelangelo's David in the prologue. Surely the name itself is no coincidence, nor is this pose of an Engineer's corpse in the workshop. David so desperately wishes to consider himself a creator of life and superior to the Engineers, that he keeps the cadaver of one in the same pose to remind him of his aspirations. It's pretty fun how Ridley's contorted these pieces into a deranged, disturbed, Gigerian nightmare. I wish he'd pushed it even further, rather than resorting to action schlock for most of the third act. I guess that was Fox's influence. Still though, even artwork like The Fall of the Rebel Angels were used as inspiration for the theatrical poster, which is cool.

I saw this in the Alte gallery in Berlin a couple of weeks back.

I am SO happy I haven't jumped on the lossless bandwagon. MP3 it is here.

Is that the one with the humongous screen and smoking seats? I've seen the third Star Wars movie there. Very impressive theatre with amazing analog projection quality in those days. I thought the theatre was better than the movie. I saw Alien in Ciné Rubens, of course. You can see the top of of the curved screen in the first pic. Movies seen in this theatre are: Star Wars 2001: A Space Odyssey Alien Blade Runner Et cetera It was my favorite theatre even though the seats were painful.

Talking of Phil Collins:

Just you wait, soon it'll be The Lorne Balfe Fan Network

Powell is too good for anyone to associate him with RCP

First thought: "Chaac's back! Yeah!" Second thought: "No!"

This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

What does that 3rd disc contain. There is not enough material in the score itself, not even if you couple it with the original OST material. There are two discs!

CBS (and Paramount) simply have no idea how to handles this franchise. They screwed up the 50th anniversary, they screwed up the last film, and now they're screwing this up. It just looks terrible. And what is it with the "Before Kirk and Spock" stuff in that trailer....as if the idea is something bold and new. Ugh. There's nothing bold and new about looking back...looking back in the timeline of the franchise, and looking back in that they've done this before with Enterprise. Star Trek is supposed to be about the future. I can only assume they wanted to make it as close in time to JJ's movies as they could, and some studio execs probably thought no one would want to watch if they couldn't cameo some classic Trek characters in it. So we get something that's a bad clone of those movies that were simply average to begin with, themselves a clone of something far superior. Zero boldness, zero creativity. Yeah, I know it's just a trailer, but the troubled production history of this thing doesn't give me any confidence either.

Very bad (or sick) writers!

I would crash my fighter jet into the primary weapon so you could all enjoy the recording sessions.

FSM is a garbage community.

The Alien Trilogy (Goldsmith/Horner/Goldenthal) performed by RSNO/Eidelman Karol

Good boy! I saw it five times in the theatre (including two separate press screenings, one in 3D and one in 2D), and have probably seen it some 5-6 times on BluRay since then.

Yep, it's been made clear and agreed upon. She acknowledges that I do everything for the dog. I accepted the responsibility, but doing 100% of the responsibilities is not what I signed up for. Well, if I had to go home and tell the wife that I traded in the dog for some film music... we would all learn the true meaning of sacrifice. It was a silly poll question, pet was one of the options, I went with that one. Jeez people, my dog isn't actually going anywhere. And if you think I'm "cruel" you have no idea how pampered that dog is. I got more flack for giving up a dog than you did a human being.

It's kinda amazing how there's already a very Phil Collinsy track on Selling England By The Pound (1973): Same kind of love hurt lyrics can be found on his debut album Face Value

People willing to give away their pet(s) for unreleased music don't deserve to have pets.

Nothing whatsoever. But if it were the recording session VIDEO footage that Spielberg has shot over the years, it would be another matter altogether. I'd love to see that.

BloodBoal

My John Williams CDs.

Among my top 5 Newman scores for certain. I have a personal fondness for the main title theme that is one of those brilliant effortless Newman compositions and it is a shame it is ever used on one other track on the album (and I think in the show as well). On the Beach by Christopher Gordon: Well I took my time discovering this 1999 score but after a couple of listens I have to say I think I have should have gotten this sooner. Pretty much terrific all around this music is in turn sombre and elegiac, energetic, sprightly and soaring, boasting excellent and very trademark Gordon orchestrations that have very classical feel and bring to mind the bright British film and concert hall music. While the subject matter of the film might bestow its definite elegiac and sombre imprint on the music, Gordon finds great inspiration from it to depict both the horrific grandeur of a dying world and the love, light, fragility and sadness of humanity in these circumstances with his central melodies and ends it all in a terrific long emotional suite The Burial Cloud including gorgeous choral laments of Lacrimosa and Lux Perpetua and a calm orchestral denouement of From the Beach, Silently Weeping. Excellent stuff!

Ah! TERROR OF THE AUTONS. Nice. Hee-hee. If you want to see Charlotte Rampling topless, you've got to watch either THE NIGHT PORTER, or ZARDOZ. As for Britt Eckland..."she's just coming, sir"

They mean it's the last in the series before the next one.

Instead they just waited until Ford became a jerriatrik!

That's more than 25 words!

Thoughts? Just two words: "oh", and "shit".