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96th Academy Awards (2024 Oscars for 2023 films)
thestat replied to Jay's topic in General Discussion
Oh wow. Sorry for you. I hope you have at 30 people writing your posts from now on. And you need to make sure you don't rock the boat - the middle aisle, all the way, no emotion, pure instrumental functionality. ie, nothing. -
Thank you - this was my point. The guy was everywhere at the time. There's a lot of these composers that I hated or disliked at times, due to, well, just me being an immature shit that did not understand industry: Examples: Hated Mark Mancina for a year because his Assassins score was weirdly subdued with no melodies or bombast and lacked the Speed and Bad Boys awesomeness - soon to be rectified with Twister. Love/hate with Jerry Goldsmith - 95-97 were rough times for JG fans. He was doing his Stuart-Baird-Refrain (as another mind put it on FSM) for everything, culminating in Chain Reaction where the action was the SBF. River Wild in 94 was terrible and lazy, The Shadow was brilliant and innovative, as was Bad Girls. JG was unbalanced. City Hall is, and remains, a lazy arse Bernstein score as does LA Confidential, no love for these two. But then JG recovers with perhaps the help of the HiJacking from Air Force One, and everything from Mulan to 13th Warrior is fully brilliant.
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tee_oh reacted to a post in a topic: So Noah Hawley is creating an Alien TV series...
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Dude, totally agree, but the first True Detective broke up the standard on TV crime so was expecting this to do something similar especially with Foster and her reputation, but hey fucking ho, not too bothered if it's a Scandinoir for the non-reading lot. Just expected the brand to aim higher which they will probably do.
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Quartet Records Announces: VENOM (Music By Michael Kamen)
thestat replied to Amer's topic in General Discussion
What, as in 'let's announce the BBC newsreporters', with a bit more brass oomph but a lot more piano cheese! Kamen's always been a chap that has traversed the line with being a ridiculous character and an amazing icon.....the hair, the beard. I love him, but that is just me -
The Davis promo is the one with Eye of the Pyramid, but I guess I will just shut up now as clearly no-one wants to trench up this stuff .....but I do like your acknowledgment of additional music on Die Hard 2. So, does the database function from mostly late 90s when Zimmer started to bring up his co-composers and they got ASCAP credited or is it something else? I'm not seeing much info there on anything pre-1998 outside of the obvious names
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Excited for this as the first episode was good, but it better do something that is different from about a 1000 Iceland-shot shows that do more or less the same thing. The Thing references are appreciated, but Katla on Netflix and The Case more or less cover the first episode. Need to be a bit more original if you want to meet the standards of the first one.
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No it's not official, none of it will be in most cases - even with Horner and Pagemaster etc. Davis included tracks from the Pagemaster release on his promo CD that he apparently sent out - much like HZ composers do with their websites - and we are just left with a 'well that doesn't sound like composer A and B, but it sure is very similar to the Matrix'.....I mean at least HZ started crediting them...... The problem with HZ composers is that they never get to develop an idiosyncratic style outside of the first patch - Powell, HGW, the rest are interchangeable
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The Christopher Young Appreciation Thread
thestat replied to Gnome in Plaid's topic in General Discussion
Dudes - you are just film music fans like the rest of us and you write blog posts on film scores you like. Get a bit of a perspective. Perhaps use your bloggos to get some fan base momentum if you really are in the business of getting composers' work released instead of dropping silly-arse hints about the supposedly priviledged content that some social media managers have decided to dropped your way. -
So Noah Hawley is creating an Alien TV series...
thestat replied to Jay's topic in General Discussion
Russo is the most banal of composers - he gets what he needs to do but never anything more at all. Listen to the theme of For Man Kind - it sounds like the kind of music that should be in a space opera but it is so hopelessly bland. Sure, Fargo had some good Burwell approximations but Alien.....it will be Jed Kunzel again - some orchestrator dude doing ghosting and Russo does the most banal theme imaginable. -
Composer Threads The Official James Horner Thread
thestat replied to Jean-Baptiste Martin's topic in General Discussion
Nah, much as I love JH, when JG did a logo, he did a logo. Tyler's terribly pointless reinterpretation (or whatever you might call it) makes this point - who needs sampled choir and dodgy syncophated snare drums for the same bit of music?! -
Yeah, Mulan is massively disappointing and I do worry about the degree of blandness he will bring to Gladiator 2. HGW has always been a bit of a small-scale operator, using small ensembles etc for his work. Spy Game back in 2001 was a brilliant example of what he could do - full on semitechno electronics (randomly based on Mansell's Requiem for a Dream), epic choral stuff, orchestral action stuff in the RC mode, and that great simple piano theme accompanied by a boy soprano, just brilliant work KoH is the other masterpiece but hopefully he can get back to this level of inspiration......
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Cindylover1969 reacted to a post in a topic: CUTTHROAT ISLAND (2-CD) - Music Composed by John Debney - Quartet Records
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The Christopher Young Appreciation Thread
thestat replied to Gnome in Plaid's topic in General Discussion
Young's scores, both for Nosferatu and Piper need to be released right now. What is his management doing? Their big client has released/performed 2 massive orchestral scores, and they are not getting them released, JFC? -
Yavar Moradi reacted to a post in a topic: LLL:OCTOPUSSY – 40th ANNIVERSARY: EXPANDED/REMASTERED LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET)
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JTN reacted to a post in a topic: Quartet Records Announces: VENOM (Music By Michael Kamen)
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JTN reacted to a post in a topic: CUTTHROAT ISLAND (2-CD) - Music Composed by John Debney - Quartet Records
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The only Bond, outside of Arnold's awesomeness, that mattered was this, the disco beat, of a cool guy, in his olden times: