Mr. Breathmask
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I didn't even know about this UK store. I'd had the US store open in one of my tabs for a week or so, so I didn't get the pop-up about it until I refreshed... after I had already placed my order.
Wouldn't have mattered though, since the UK store somehow doesn't offer Serenity, which I had planned on buying along with HTTYD3 to begin with...
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I wish it was there. It would have saved me some hassle creating a playlist and I consider the title song a vital part of the musical Bond experience. Even if it's not written by the score composer.
That said, I have a hard time getting through this one. It's so overbearing and busy. I feel it somewhat lacks the clarity of ideas the other Arnold Bond scores have.
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Ordered today:
I had Presumed Innocent in my cart too, but it's temporarily out of stock at Varèse and it got kicked out of my cart because of it. Might pick it up later or somewhere else.
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Zimmer would be an obvious one. I used to not really care for his sound in the nineties and early zeroes. Then the mid-to-late 2000's came around and in quick succession, he produced a variety of scores like The Holiday, The Simpsons Movie and Pirates 3, which are all really good. I also think he's done really interesting work in his later Nolan scores and I really dig what he's doing with his live shows, turning film music into a rock event. It's certainly a different flavor from John Williams conquering the Musiekverein and the Berliner Philharmonic, but its just as valid.
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Ordered from La-La Land yesterday:
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My parents never really cared for it themselves, I think. But they were very supportive of the hobby. We went to two Lord of the Rings concerts together when I was still in high school. One was the LotR Symphony in Antwerp, conducted by Howard Shore. The other was in Amsterdam and featured Sir Christopher Lee reading passages from Tolkien, so that was cool. And they let me fly to Spain on my own when I was 19 to attend the film music festival in Úbeda. It was my first solo vacation.
My ex-girlfriend didn't really care much either, although I did hook her up with a complete and properly sequenced copy of Goldsmith's Mulan because she was into Disney stuff and I told her it was pretty much the best Disney score. I could get her on board for Disney stuff or Lord of the Rings or even something like Kingdom of Heaven, but I think that was about it. Which is fine, btw.
My wife is almost as big a nerd as I am, though. We've been to a whole bunch of live to projection shows together and she went with me to see Williams in both Berlin and Vienna (some of you met her there), but she couldn't make it to London in 2018. We regularly have full scores playing in the living room, although we mix it up with other stuff too. She still finds some of the wilder action music a little overbearing. Like parts of Jurassic Park. And I don't think I'll be doing her a favor if I play stuff like The Matrix Revolutions or even Aliens.
My son seems to react positively to stuff like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Hook, but also not so much The Matrix Revolutions. I guess he takes after his mother.
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On 05/01/2024 at 10:45 PM, Jay said:
Deniz Cordell's liner notes for the LLL edition of TWOK must talk about it (he talks about every recurring idea in the score), though I don't recall right now what he said about it
I was going to look it up. Turns out I only have an FSM release from 2009. Is the LLL worth double dipping?
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Doesn't matter, though. Braveheart is his masterpiece.
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I love how much better the full score flows compared to the album. I always found the OST a little overbearing after a while, but having everything complete and in its proper place really helps. I'm loving this expansion, but I do have a similar situation to you, @Jay. Only here it's Hook that's currently hogging all the playtime. What a ride that one is! I'm sure I'll get back around to this one soon though.
- Edmilson and Yavar Moradi
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On 31/12/2023 at 12:32 AM, Marian Schedenig said:
The Firm (1993). Two person household - Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, no children. Cruise is hardly ever at home because he's so busy with his new job (even before stuff starts happening). The LEGO set is from 1992. Tripplehorn's character is clearly an AFOL.
I have that set. It was one of my favourites as a kid. Still have it.
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I had the rare opportunity yesterday to sit down and have all three discs play in (nearly) one sitting. What an achievement this set is! The music, the sound, the presentation, the art direction. It's all wonderful.
I've loved the music from Hook for a long time, but I also found it hard to connect to the full score, as there was never a definitive presentation. The bootlegs had music missing or sound quality issues. I completely skipped the old LLL expansion when it became clear it basically had some of the same issues as the bootlegs.
Now that we have this Ultimate Edition, the whole score is able to unfold in all its glory. I love it.
Just the fact that this set opens with a never-before heard version of the Prologue immediately grabbed my attention. Then both We Don't Wanna Grow Up and Banning Back Home are extended. All this before we get to the proper orchestral score.
Hook is like a Peter and the Wolf tapestry of themes and motifs. It is such a joy to listen to and listening to it in full completely reaffirmed to me why I love orchestral film scores like this. It's big, it's bold, and it's so, so rich with melody and excitement.
Finally, Hook is one of those films that has meant different things to me at different stages in my life.
When I first saw it at seven years old, it was my favorite thing ever. The production design instantly launched me to this magical playground world made for kids. To a seven year-old, that's quite something.
In my teens, as I was discovering more of cinema, it lost some of its glamour. That playground world suddenly seemed fake and soundstagey and I found the film waaaaaay to sugary to be enjoyable.
Later on, I found new appreciation for it, mostly because of the performances by Williams, Hoffman and Hoskins. And it became more a part of Spielberg's filmography than a film of its own, with its recurring themes of fatherhood being another variation on things said in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Jurassic Park.
Yesterday, as I was making my way through the score and the liner notes, my eight month-old son was enjoying himself in his playpen next to me. And not having seen the film in a while, it suddenly hit me how the whole point of the film - the one thing it builds to for ninety minutes - is a working father realising his children are the brightest center of his universe.
It was... a moment.
Thanks again to everyone involved for this amazing release. We are truly blessed to be able to tick off a Holy Grail like this in such a fashion.
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The new modular took the place of the Winter Village set this year. Mostly because I really wanted Majisto's Workshop to go with my Lion Knights Castle. Otherwise I would have gotten the Alpine Lodge in November and the Natural History Museum in December or January.
But now that you're pressuring me, I guess I'll have to take one more trip to the LEGO Store this year. Oh noes!
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Ah, LEGO. That crippling plastic addiction.
I gave the Rivendell set a pass. It's a hefty price tag and it's way too big to display anywhere here.
That said, here's the sets I got just this year:
I may have a problem. Also not enough room anymore.
And yet, I still plan on picking up this set in the near future:
Send help.
- Holko, Tom Guernsey and Marian Schedenig
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It's here. Ripping this now and it's next on my playlist after Sneakers!
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2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
Why would anyone deliberately alter what they shot, just for the sake of it?
Why does everything have to look teal?
If this is 4K, then I don't want any part of it
This is a comparison of the Blu-ray vs. the DVD. I don't know what the 4K of Aliens looks like.
2 hours ago, A24 said:They can change or update the color grading all they want, as long as they provide us with the original.
I don't think they did. Unless you know of a Blu-ray release of Aliens that doesn't have that teal look?
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Mine is still in L.A. "Package Acceptance Pending". Whatever that means.
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It's kind of weird. I came across an IndieWire article where Jackson says FotR was finished photochemically (misquoted as a "photo mechanical" process). Yet there's a feature in the Appendices on digital grading where they're shown at work on the Moria sequence. It's also mentioned in the audio commentary on the FotR EE that they were able to turn Boromir's face from his usual skin tone to grey as he dies - something that would have been impossible with traditional finishing. So I wonder if Jackson is remembering things correctly there.
If I recall correctly, they redid the grading for the Blu-ray releases. But then somehow FotR ended up looking wildly different depending on whether you were watching the TC or the EE.
Now there's a new version for the 4K release. It's supposed to be the final look, but it seems there was a slight revisionist approach to it, as Jackson has gone on record saying he wanted The Lord of the Rings to look more like it was shot "today". Or more specifically, around the same time as The Hobbit, bringing a visual continuity to all six films. I've never understood this. If he wanted visual continuity across all six films, why the hell was The Hobbit even shot on a RED camera in 48fps to begin with? Shoot it on the same Super 35 stock you shot LotR on and you only have to worry about getting the DI to look similar, right?
Anyway.
I've watched the 4K versions of the EE's only once, streamed over Prime Video about two years ago. Revisionist or not, at the time I thought it looked pretty good for the most. The one thing that does really piss me off about the 4K version, though, is that godawful sepia wash over the brief flashbacks in TTT and RotK. What the fuck is that all about?
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18 hours ago, A24 said:
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Not my experience at all. Aliens looks very much of its time, film stock-wise, photography-wise and production design-wise. That was actually a major problem for me the last time watched it, which was a day after I watched the superior looking Alien on Blu-ray.
Uhm...
That's the Blu-ray on the left and the old DVD transfer on the right. The Blu-ray seems to have this blue/green/teal wash over it that I can't say I like. Doesn't feel like an '80's movie to me at all. The image on the right does.
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To be honest, I felt the Blu-ray remaster of Aliens already "updated" the look too much. It looks more like a late '00's/early '10's movie. The DVD looks much more like a movie that's actually from 1986.
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Same here. Alas.