Richard Penna

And Nightwing now has less than 100 left. That's why I listened to the samples and ordered it as soon as I got a chance at work this morning - I've heard how fast some of these sell out. I've never bought blind before (and I've only heard about 4 tracks from Batman, so there's another one) so I've got a couple of very exciting days ahead. I wouldn't be too bummed Koray, from the samples Russkies is absolutely nothing like even his scores from 4 or 5 years forward. With a few exceptions, I'm not really into JNH's work until about '93/94.

I like the idea, I just hope the bald headed executives themselves didn't work on quality control. From what I read, Amazon Unbox had a limited download limit, average quality and pretty horrendous t&c's attached to their service. It would be nice to see a company get it right.

When does MotP become officially available to order?

Ah yes, forgot about Batman. For the first time I need to actually watch my score buys

I'd only pay $15 for a 720p high def, DRM-free digital download. And I'll bet that isn't what they're offering.

I heard Duplicity last night. A very rhythmic based score, and a slightly European flavour. Not really my thing. I should look up more from Mancini too.

Taking a listen to the rest of the samples, and now that I'm actually awake, Nightwing actually sounds quite good, so I think I'm going to take a risk and order that one. I briefly considered Russkies, since I know that's an early JNH score, but as soon as the samples revealed it was completely synth, that was out.

Took a quick listen to Russkies, and I'm passing. No love for the 90s Varese?

Oh boy... It's all personal opinion of course, but I find the score perfectly reflects the loneliness of Cole, and the orchestration has such a magical, ghostly quality. I think all of his M. Night scores have similarly got their own unique personality. JNH's done far, far worse.

I'll be waking myself at 7.50am (announcement is 8am my time) to see if I want anything, then get to work early for a change.

Santa, then Zimmer... The guy would be as bad as Bruckheimer if he hadn't redeemed himself with Elfman.

I have Rosewood in one of my half cut down presentations with 7 tracks. Healing is a particular favourite track of mine. I think JW really managed to capture the south (I assume - haven't seen the film) with both his themes and the general atmosphere. I still don't get the fascination with Minority. I've given it so many chances, but so much of the underscore just doesn't do anything for me. I much prefer a score like Beltrami's I, Robot in the 'futuristic' category.

Fair point Jason. Although I'd say the one with the tracklist against the black background looks the part. My original promos question still stands though.

It says there wasn't a second screening, not that the fan quotes weren't real.

You might be able to do it by just using the centre channel (albeit in mono), which will isolate dialogue and some sfx. I don't usually hear music in that channel when ripping.

Why the hell wasn't the second one there just released.... Am I correct that promos are exempt from reuse fees?

Jane has some addictive moments, but as a work, PoA takes it.

Wouldn't be surprised if they did find someone else to direct DH though. I'm in two minds about that trailer. Some parts do look cool, but what we've heard about the story problems is hard to ignore. Plus Dumbledore just looks bored.

The Two Towers EE DVD has a sound design featurette with the start of the Helm's Deep battle with several audio tracks showing the different layers (including an isolated music track - very tantalizing before the CRs!). You'd have to combine the first 6 or 7 tracks, but it would result in a music-free track.

Spielberg only produced all that other animated stuff - doesn't count in my book. This is his first directing animation - here it's his creativity counting.

I saw seasons 2 and 3 in a marathon style, pretty much a season per weekend, and I loved it - I felt it really added to the experience because I was watching it in close to real time at parts. I was sort of spoiled in that sense because my brother had bought the seasons 1-4 box set, and so it wasn't until season 5 that I had to wait a week for every episode. And amazingly, season 7 is the first ever season I've watched on TV because we downloaded seasons 5 and 6 due to the transmission delay. But I agree with Marc's assessment. I've noticed a pattern too. Odd numbered seasons are good, evens are bad, or have major problems. maybe season 2 is the exception, but I remember they went to some pretty ridiculous lengths to keep Kim in trouble before the bomb actually did go off. Speaking of which, I still vividly remember the scene of her It's one of just a few select moments where I feel the show absolutely nailed the human emotion involved without any unnecessary cheese.

What Dreams May Come - rejected score by Morricone I can only imagine this was rejected for being somehow wrong for the film, because I'm 3 tracks in and it's pure bliss.

Is there no love for Severus?

I'll be different. Snape.

Season 6 got terrible quite quickly, and stayed that way for me. Nothing was new and original, and the whole family plot is apparently in complete contradiction to something Jack said back in season 1 about having no siblings (I think in relation to Kim's feelings). Also, I was cringing by the time Jack escaped from the oil rig with about 3 microseconds to spare, and even more when he was hyperventilating over that cliff edge... I liked Redemption, but it didn't try anything daring or out of the box - it was just like an extended season opening taking place outside DC. Season seven started really well for me, and the earlier scenes with Tony were impressive. My brother and I are a bit worried about the predicability of some parts from the recent 2-parter, such as , and we agreed that although tragic, was dispatching a character who isn't really doing much any more, but I liked the silent clock use. We're judging it really by the shocks and surprises - who gets killed, does an action catch us completely off guard (Jack & Walker bursting into the flat knocked us off our seats), and are we able to predict what's going to happen in the next 15 minutes?