Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 It's worth noting that this stuff looks significantly better in proper show lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Nothing looks good with a flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 I never wanted to go to Universal or Disney, because I was a kid who liked roller coasters and the parks that fit as many as they could within the grounds. I thought "attractions" and "shows" were boring as hell. I honestly don't know how I feel now, I don't go to theme parks much anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Themeparks are fun if you are with children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 They're better than everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 The Jurassic Park ride was closed that day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Overpriced, im sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Brundlefly said: I didn't even know of its existance, until we started endlessly discussing it, two weeks ago. This. Still haven't heard it. I hope it's good. 3 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Nothing looks good with a built in flash. Fixed that for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Just now, Marian Schedenig said: This. Still haven't heard it. I hope it's good. You didn't know about it? I find that hard to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 2 minutes ago, Stefancos said: You didn't know about it? I find that hard to believe. Why is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 I guess you were still an FSMer rather than a JWfanner when the bootleg track was making the rounds here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 There were threads discussing it in the past. I'm sure these people who claim or think they've never heard of it actually have. Of course, the search function on this forum makes the old threads impossible to locate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 The search function doesn't work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 The old threads are very easy to find http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8245-et-adventure-music-question/ http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/10210-universal-et-music/ http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/12959-johnny-scoring-a-theme-park-ride/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Only with the Moderator Only features on the search engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 No. I simply typed Botanicus into the search engine. That's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 I seem to recall having a bootleg track of the so-called Celebration music along with Botanicus theme, but it's long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 10 hours ago, Stefancos said: Nothing looks good with a flash. I've been flashed several times, and what I've seen looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Ooohhhh...matron! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Frying tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 2 hours ago, Stefancos said: I guess you were still an FSMer rather than a JWfanner when the bootleg track was making the rounds here. Possibly. Or perhaps I ignored it. In recent years I haven't paid much attention to boots anymore, since for now it looks like everything that surfaces will eventually be released anyway. But I've been here longer than I've had this mind set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 11, 2017 Author Share Posted September 11, 2017 what's the story in the ride. I forgot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 8 hours ago, Stefancos said: How can anyone not like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryant Burnette 654 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 It was definitely one of my most wanted unreleased pieces. So is everything Williams wrote from, like, 1975-1993. If it's during that time period and it's unreleased, I want it. If it's a fuckin' forty-second concerto for untuned banjo, I WANT IT. But even so, yeah, this one ranked pretty high for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Waiting for the audio cassette version of this release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ymenard 54 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 We still don't have one of Johnny's greatest cue : the Land Race (complete and unedited) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScratch 294 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 No. Never been on the E.T. ride or to Universal at all. So I've never heard the piece and was only ever vaguely aware it from discussions about it here. I'm glad to have it though and look forward to hearing some "new" 1980s Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Isn't the piece from 1990? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Just now, Stefancos said: Isn't the piece from 1990? Probably written in '89 and based on a score from '82! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 9 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Isn't the piece from 1990? Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Disco Stu said: Probably written in '89 and based on a score from '82! So TESB isn't an 80's score either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Just now, Stefancos said: So TESB isn't an 80's score either? It's a real conundrum, just like The Clash's London Calling. Is it the best album released in the '80s? Is it the last great album of the '70s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrScratch 294 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 1980s...1990. Whatevs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 People are still listening to this Hollywood has-been? Even Max Steiner outclassed him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Drax has gone bye bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 My daddy says you guys are full of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 1 hour ago, Disco Stu said: It's a real conundrum, just like The Clash's London Calling. Is it the best album released in the '80s? Is it the last great album of the '70s? It was released in December, 1979, and that makes it a 70s album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 It's clearly up for more debate than that, but sure, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Not if Richard is right about that release date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,520 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Disco Stu said: It's clearly up for more debate No it isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Sigh. Yes it is. No Americans heard that album in the 70s. And most British listeners would've gotten most familiar with it in 1980. I'm not saying I'm calling it an 80s album, but there's a clear gray area you annoying man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 The album came out in December 1979. There's nothing 80s about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Well clearly I don't think it's that simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 From a production and release standpoint, you are utterly wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 It was released in 1980 in America. It was perfectly valid for Rolling Stone, an American magazine, to name it the best album of the 80s (which it did in 1989). And the Village Voice, an American alt-weekly, named it the best album of 1980 that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Because Americans only ever view things from their perspective. Doesn't make it right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Proves my point! Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 On 9/10/2017 at 11:23 PM, king mark said: what's the story in the ride. I forgot There is an introduction by Steven Spielberg, which has three versions. The latest was recorded in 2002. They didn't even bother to film him with E.T. and just pasted him onto the older footage. Anyway, we'll go off the second version, which was easily the best. It opens like the movie, but the camera pans down to show Spielberg in the forest. He tells us that E.T.'s home the Green Planet is dying and needs his magic healing touch. E.T.'s teacher Botanicus has sent an urgent message that E.T. must come home. We will take E.T. back to the Green Planet with bikes (!) and an Interplanetary Passport (!!), to which our name is recorded in the next room by computer and then handed to the person before we enter the ride. This ensures E.T. will personally say goodbye to us. We enter the forest, which is absolutely amazing and has the greatest smell of all time. There are spacemen looking for E.T. like in the movie, the Speak & Spell radar and occasionally a "hologram" of Botanicus appears urging us to take E.T. home while John Williams original music plays. If I was rich, this would be the interior of my house. We board the bikes and have to escape police and United States government agents. This time, the chase is in the woods rather than a residential area. A jeep and truck pop out of the woods, flashlight beams shine from the darkness, we ride over a police car like in the movie and eventually escape by flying over the city, a really big miniature version of Los Angeles with the silhouette of bikes flying across the moon. It's like the London scene from the Peter Pan ride at Disney, only better. We briefly fly through space, which also looks like the Peter Pan ride and then arrive on the Green Planet, which is signaled by very loud blasts of fog, a classic Universal Studios effect also used in the Jaws ride when the shark pops out of the water, which makes even less sense as there isn't a spaceship or alien world on that ride to attribute such an occurrence to. You see all these bizarre aliens on the planet that E.T. has revived and hear more Williams music. There are baby E.T.s celebrating and finally, E.T. says goodbye to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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