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    Yavar Moradi reacted to rough cut in Quartet Announces: HEIDI/ JANE EYRE (2CD)(John Williams) Remastered and Expanded   
    Glad to report that Heidi and Jane made it home safely. Although they did pick up some sketchy company along the way.
     

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    Yavar Moradi got a reaction from Tom Guernsey in Star Trek is better than everything   
    Yeah but she is a recent Best Actress Oscar winner, so...
     
    Yavar
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    Yavar Moradi got a reaction from Tallguy in Star Trek is better than everything   
    Yeah but she is a recent Best Actress Oscar winner, so...
     
    Yavar
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Mephariel in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    I thought the Doctor Strange choice was more odd. If Jackie Chan could play a stereotypical kung fu master in The Karate Kid, I am sure they could have casted a Asian to be a mystical leader. I mean, they did it anyway with Wong and Mordo (stereotypical black mystic). 
     
    Regarding Dune, I think since the story took place in another planet, Villeneuve got it right for having a mixture of ethnicities. With that said, I do get the point about casting more MENA actors. Yes, if they did that, there will still be criticism, but that is not really the point. The point is, at least MENA actors would have an opportunity to be in a world-class Hollywood film. 
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Tom Guernsey in Star Trek is better than everything   
    Oh yes of course it’s the excellent Ethan Peck. My bad. But my point stands than Michelle Yeoh is somehow the same size as them despite not (yet) being quite an icon of the franchise as at least a dozen others who are far smaller on this montage. 
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to crocodile in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    That is probably very true. It reminds me a bit of the situation with Ancient One in Doctor Strange in which director tried to avoid Asian stereotypes/charicatures by casting a white female in the role and ended up being accused of whitewashing. Whether his approached was right, it's a fair debate. But it proves that there's no avoiding criticism one way or another.
     
    Karol
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Tom Guernsey in Star Trek is better than everything   
    I clearly hadn't looked that carefully, but surprising to miss so many characters from older shows yet repeat some a slightly unnecessary number of times.
     
    Makes sense, but she's basically one of the five most prominent (Pine - Kirk, Nimoy and Quinto Spocks, and TWOK Kirk)... making her even more prominent than Picard.
     
    It's a bit depressing. Sure, things have moved on and his actions (as a character) to stand up as well as Picard's, but they were still pretty thoughtful for their time. The pleasingly daft song Star Trekkin' might have had the line "we come in peace, shoot to kill" but in reality, Kirk was probably far more thoughtful and rounded than other leading male characters on action/adventure shows of the era. Plus the films effectively show him growing old, which was probably a relatively risky move in hindsight (although they didn't make his latter years as depressing as is often the case these days). I know Shatner has his issues, but he's hardly the most egregious star out there.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Chen G. in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Hey, I mean I'm MENA of a sort...
     
    To me, all the Arabic and Farsi terms are mostly just a little... I don't want to say "silly" but just something one has to try and get used to and look past, because its pretty funny to see Herbert (and, by extension, Denis) use these terms which I'm sure read as very exotic-sounding to him...while to me at least some of them could crop-up in daily conversation...
     
    "Usul" and "Mahdi" are pretty commonplace Arabic words... "Kwizats Haderach" is a kind of bastardised Hebrew for saying "hopping." It all gets pretty hokey...
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Schilkeman in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    That's a strawman. If the characters are properly represented in the film, but the material contains racist stereotypes, then the issue is with the materiel, not the film adapting it. That is what "they" would criticize. It would be an ignorant reviewer indeed who would lob accusations of the White Savior trope at a series so clearly criticizing it, but I don't argue with hypothetical "thems," and I see nothing in this article to disagree with.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Schilkeman in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    “If the novel is so undeniably anchored in this place, why is it so unpalatable to employ MENA performers and creatives?”
     
    Seems like a valid criticism to me.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Chen G. in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    That, had they cast MENA actors, the same people would make the opposite criticism: "Look at how they hired MENA people only to put them in roles that ridicule Muslim religious fervour (Stilgar), demonise it (pretty much all the others), fetishize them and put a white saviour at their head."
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Tallguy in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Hey! Why aren't you tying these Fremen who are obviously based on Middle Eastern cultures more closely to their influences?
     
    Well, you know at the end of the movie they wage a holy war across the known universe driven by a fanatical faith in a messiah and are the most feared slaughterers in the history of the universe?
     
    Oh. So... Can we keep them just kind of generically "foreign / non-white"? Is that OK? That Zendaya lady, she could fit that, right?
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Edmilson in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Legendary and WBD’s Dune Part Two earned another $17.6 million (-38%) despite losing its Imax and most of its PLF screens to the Ghostbusters sequel. Yeah, Dune 2 did fine this weekend (it has earned $124 million worldwide in Imax thus far, their eighth-biggest title ever), but once Godzilla X Kong arrives, that’s bad news for Legendary and WBD. Oh… wait…
     
    Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel has now doubled the $108 million lifetime cume of Dune and passed the $219 million total of Wonka. With another $31 million earned overseas, it has now earned $575 million worldwide. It should finish with over/under $680 million worldwide on a $190 million budget.
     
    From Scott Mendelson's paid newsletter on Substack, but you can find the numbers here:
     
    https://www.the-numbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to MaxMovieMan in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    He definitely made the message more obvious. I think part of the reason it worked so well in the books is because it really is a complete heel-turn. You go from the heroic ending of the first book to the complete tragedy in the beginning of the second. Paul isn’t as twisted in the book as he is in the movie. Herbert essentially wrote Messiah to make the point he was trying to make clearer. He felt he didn’t do a good enough job. So that’s probably why Denis made it more obvious that Paul is turning into a sinister character. The third movie won’t have as much of the shock value that the books had I don’t think but I still believe that Denis really knows what he’s doing. He has a plan.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to MaxMovieMan in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Zimmer will have a lot of time to come up with ideas for the third film considering Denis probably won’t make this for another five years or so. I’m honestly so excited for this film. More than I was for the first two movies. The second Dune book is where the message of the series truly comes into view.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Edmilson in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    I mean, it's not wrong
     

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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Jay in Upcoming Television Shows (and general TV chitchat)   
    Our Flag Means Death was unable to find a new streaming home after Max canceled them
     
    I can officially confirm that we’ve reached the end of the road. At least as far as this sweet show is concerned. After many complimentary meetings, conversations, etc it seems there is no alternate home for our crew. Thank you to all of you who sent us out with tremendous love and care. Your campaign was noticed across the industry. But more importantly it made all of us who worked on this show better able to deal with the loss.
    To you wonderful fans: thank you. You are lovely and earnest. Those kinds of things feel in short supply at times. But they aren’t. A love like ours can’t disappear in an instant. When we see each other off in mystic, say hello. We won’t say goodbye, because we’re not leaving. We’re just taking a breather until next time we can share something together 💜🦄🏴‍☠️ #ourflagmeansdeath
     
    https://www.instagram.com/p/C4OubZ0vpXr/
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to GerateWohl in Your Favourite Jerry Goldsmith Score   
    I managed to get my hands on this one and, gosh, it shows again, why I prefer the young Goldsmith over the old.
    Great score, great album. 

     
    Made it immediately into my top five ever Western scores.
     
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Evanus in The Bear McCreary Thread   
    Meanwhile I'm still waiting for more complete versions of the Hobbit scores..
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Richard Penna in The Bear McCreary Thread   
    No doubt there's alternate material - we know of one minor one which is a track later on in the series where he recorded Halbrand's theme iirc, with two solo instruments to avoid clashing with dialogue.
     
    However, given that with a different release mentality this box could easily have been a highlights release (with maybe half of each score), the fact that it has nearly everything heard in the show is more than good enough for me.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to bored in Christopher Young's "Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror" CD   
    Had to chip in. Might be too late, but I really want to support this. Hopefully it gets more eyes on it soon, because this is truly amazing work. Young deserves to be known as one of the greats.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Naïve Old Fart in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    My favourite is THE TOWERING INFERNO, followed closely by EARTHQUAKE.
     
     
     
    Whatever one says about the film, some of the shots in ST:TMP, are jaw-droppingly beautiful.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to crocodile in The Bear McCreary Thread   
    Didn't he say they recorded something around 9 hours of music? If you are to eliminate all the repetition between compilation and episode albums, you'd end up with about 8 hours and 4 minutes (or tiny bit less if you were to remove anything but the first 40 seconds of Nolwa Mahtar and Shore's title theme). So there might be still an hour missing.
     
    To be honest, I can't see myself wanting more, sort of like I never really demanded the expansions for CR sets.
     
    Karol
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to Jurassic Shark in The Bear McCreary Thread   
    Leatherette gold-embossed slipcase with five printed digipaks (2 CDs per case) and 136-page booklet.
     

     
    And as a special thank you from Bear and his team, 200 copies from this numbered run are offered with an exclusive Bear McCreary autograph card inside.
     
    So he can write his name. Good for him.
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    Yavar Moradi reacted to crocodile in The Bear McCreary Thread   
    There is a widespread belief among the public that film and television media are monolithic entities, and their individual elements cannot be appreciated independently. I've come across some harsh criticism online. It's perplexing to see someone comment that they "would rather have blood in their stool." While the show's critique can be somewhat justified, the disdain for the music puzzles me. It's likely as lavish and well-crafted as any music produced today. Preferring Howard Shore's style is completely acceptable, but to dismiss this work as subpar is unfair. I enjoy both regularly and see no need to pit them against each other.
     
    Karol
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