Mr. Breathmask

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.

Holy crap. That just came out of nowhere.

I'm listening to this now. Quite lovely!
 
And now I know what Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was temped with.

It's here! Whoooooo!

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.

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?

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?

You know things, don't you? 

This might be  a weird one.
 

 
My dad had the original UK release for the first Lucky Luke movie on vinyl. Being familiar with the comics, I was intrigued by this music and listened to it without having seen the film. I think this might have been the first soundtrack I ever listened to. Certainly the first one I listened to without having seen the film. I might have been ten or eleven. It was before I found out who John Williams was anyway.
 
Now apparently, Music Box Records released the complete score this year, sourced from the original masters, along with the score from the second movie and the second season of the TV show from 1990 (which I probably watched as a kid) in this 3-CD set. Limited to only 300 copies, I felt I just had to get it for nostalgia's sake. It arrived two days ago and I'm halfway through the final disc now. Made a playlist that matches that original LP too. Kinda fun to hear this again after so many years.
 
Oh yeah, also ordered this. Because I had to:
 

 

The 12-page booklet has the tracklist, the credits, the special thanks, the AFM musicians listing, and a little something special.
 
The 48 page booklet is all liner notes.
 
Well, both booklets are full of Jim Titus art design and photos, of course.

You jest, but I remember an early tracklist for the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack making its way online. It contained a track called I Am the Senate that was nowhere to be found on the final album.  When we all realised this scored a key scene and was impossible to rip cleanly from the surround mix, some people were... dismayed, to say the least.
 
For some of us, twenty years of people ripping video games has thankfully filled in a lot of the gaps in this score. But officially, this still remains unreleased. 

I remember talking about Temple of Doom a lot twenty years ago.
 
Just sayin'. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All jokes aside; what an age we live in. I still can't wait for this one.

This might be  a weird one.
 

 
My dad had the original UK release for the first Lucky Luke movie on vinyl. Being familiar with the comics, I was intrigued by this music and listened to it without having seen the film. I think this might have been the first soundtrack I ever listened to. Certainly the first one I listened to without having seen the film. I might have been ten or eleven. It was before I found out who John Williams was anyway.
 
Now apparently, Music Box Records released the complete score this year, sourced from the original masters, along with the score from the second movie and the second season of the TV show from 1990 (which I probably watched as a kid) in this 3-CD set. Limited to only 300 copies, I felt I just had to get it for nostalgia's sake. It arrived two days ago and I'm halfway through the final disc now. Made a playlist that matches that original LP too. Kinda fun to hear this again after so many years.
 
Oh yeah, also ordered this. Because I had to:
 

 

You jest, but I remember an early tracklist for the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack making its way online. It contained a track called I Am the Senate that was nowhere to be found on the final album.  When we all realised this scored a key scene and was impossible to rip cleanly from the surround mix, some people were... dismayed, to say the least.
 
For some of us, twenty years of people ripping video games has thankfully filled in a lot of the gaps in this score. But officially, this still remains unreleased. 

You jest, but I remember an early tracklist for the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack making its way online. It contained a track called I Am the Senate that was nowhere to be found on the final album.  When we all realised this scored a key scene and was impossible to rip cleanly from the surround mix, some people were... dismayed, to say the least.
 
For some of us, twenty years of people ripping video games has thankfully filled in a lot of the gaps in this score. But officially, this still remains unreleased. 

You jest, but I remember an early tracklist for the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack making its way online. It contained a track called I Am the Senate that was nowhere to be found on the final album.  When we all realised this scored a key scene and was impossible to rip cleanly from the surround mix, some people were... dismayed, to say the least.
 
For some of us, twenty years of people ripping video games has thankfully filled in a lot of the gaps in this score. But officially, this still remains unreleased. 

I remember talking about Temple of Doom a lot twenty years ago.
 
Just sayin'. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All jokes aside; what an age we live in. I still can't wait for this one.

Well, that's a thing.
 
Touché.

You know things, don't you? 

You know things, don't you? 

You know things, don't you? 

I was disappointed to find the cue where Grant meets the kids before the ride wasn't included in the OST.

You know things, don't you? 

You know things, don't you? 

Instant purchase. A truly complete Hook has been a holy grail release for over twenty years to me. This looks like just that. Amazing.