PokeDocMatt

Completely agree. Unsophisticated and trying too hard to sound “Epic”.

The crawl… goodness. Just a block of text sliding up the screen. At least make it fade into the distance. And what was that opening bridge scene, Star Trek?? There was something else off with the first episode… oh yeah. Let’s spend three minutes watching a video game style solve a puzzle to reveal the treasure. Added nothing to the character or plot. Still, I have hope.

1. MI:3. Stakes are set high from the opening act with the death of his protege. It’s personal. Saving humanity is the secondary plot. This is Ethan at his best when the things most dear are threatened. Great score to boot! 2. Rogue Nation. Because there is a flute gun! 3. Ghost Protocol. Great fun! 4. The Original 5. Fallout. It’s fine. It just doesn’t know what it wants to be. 6. The utterly ignorable MI:2.

I watched the Criterion 4k edition of The Piano last night. With the mute main character, the amount of silence in the film and the slow pacing was even more reliant on the score by Michael Nyman. It’s lovely music but it is bizarrely anachronistic. If they would have developed the “traumatized musical genius” as an explanation for the way Ada plays the piano, maybe I would have understood it. But it was just distracting from an otherwise gorgeous and aesthetically consistent film. Maybe the more modern piano music with unusual tonal shifts and chord progressions was intentional. That’s probably the case. But assuming it was an unintentional decision and not specifically artistic, I wonder if it was Nyman or Campion who just didn’t know better.

I’ve been waiting for a Horse and His Boy film ever since I was a child. BBC didn’t do it, Walden Media didn’t… it’s a fantastic story. It’s practically a screenplay! It’s begging to be done!!

I picked up 4k Avatar 1 and 2 for my home theater room. Started 1 tonight. I’m impressed at how well it has aged, from a technical/visual standpoint. There are so many gorgeous shots, it makes me wish Cameron would have lingered on them longer. Dolby atmos is enthralling from the first few seconds. Horner’s score is still goosebump inducing. When Jake first transfers to his Avatar and is running, I feel it with him, the new world that’s just been opened up to him. The score makes this Wizard of Oz esque about face, from black and white milataristic hopelessness, to full color audio, organic and full of life. I can’t wait to watch Way of Water again. My first viewing at my rural, crappy, under-maintained theater was a let down. I’m sure the experience will be better at home. I think Tom Cruise would even understand if he saw what I had to put up with at the local cinema…

Sounds like Raiders theme is just a couple BPM slower. I like it. Less rushed. More secure in what it is at this point in Indy’s life.

I always spend the first few seconds in a well looking around trying to figure out how I’m going to get out. Then I remember… I found Hoz leading a merry little militia on their way to attack a fort and joined in the assault. That was fun! I think he said they were planning another raid, but I’ll just wait to come across them in my slow explorations again.

Ah yes. I think my kid and I were too eager to build something! Going to be a mixed bag with the many solution options. We’ll probably brute force a slow painful solution too often!!

Jay how’d you make it to the ascend shrine? My 4 year old wanted to make a really long single file log bridge so that’s what we did. It’s fun to have him come up with solutions or ideas. I’m at the same spot you are, but I have a lot more hot pepper meals to get me through some more exploration of the cold area. Speaking of… my least favorite thing about the start of BotW was the time pressure in a cold environment early on. I’m a little bummed about this again, I know it will be fine. I vastly prefer exploration and curiosity satisfying without any kind of pressure. Im a slow player. Don’t want to face that baddie right now? No worries! Want to see how high I can climb with some stamina boosts? Sure! Anyways cheers and happy exploring!

Star Wars 4-6 just came out!

Listening to Empire right now in my dedicated home theater room with 7.2.4 speakers. It is… impressive. My young boys are jumping to the Imperial March. The strings just sparkle! Now if only they’d do Phantom Menace…

Gordy Haab has convinced me that he “gets” JW in a way few (no?) other mainstream media composers do. The intricacy, both from his orchestration and harmonies, is light years beyond Balfe, Giacchino, and even Powell. What a breath of fresh air this score is. I love his other Star Wars work too, but this cakes the cake so far. Don’t know anything about this Stephen Barton fellow or how they shared the workload, but maybe he deserves just as much kudos.

Did anyone else feel that there were scenes, especially in the third act, where the CGI noticeably stepped down in quality? I’m not sure if it was more the bad set my up in my rural, struggling theater or if they ran out of time to polish it. Could also have been that I didn’t see it in 3D… I wish I would have waited to see it in my home theater. I think it would have been more of a spectacle.

AI AINEC The drama of the mistakenly released tracks only makes it better.