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I am woefully unfamiliar with these. What’s the best way to hear them? YouTube? Boot? -
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There will have to be a gateway to keep bringing in new fans. Right now, I guess that’s Zimmer. But who can say in 50 years if there will be a film or type of scoring to hook new listeners to want to explore stuff from before their birth. I guess I interpreted @JTN’s question to refer to “people” as in your coworkers and average Joe. But I may have misunderstood if he meant film score fans. But even then, I stand by some of my comments.
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What would really be interesting to know in 50 years: Will cinema still be a thing? Will film scoring still be a thing? if so, what kind of scoring will follow the Zimmer style domination? Will there still be film score fans? If so, how far back will they mine the archives? Will anyone listen to Golden or Silver Age scores? We are a dying breed, and so is entertainment built to last. The hang time of most media is quite brief, with little staying power in the midst of the vast volumes of content. It’s all so fleeting. Nobody can even recall more than 3 or 4 iconic themes from the last 25 years, and that’s among film and film music fans. Unless another lightning bolt comes along to zap things into a new retro cool, everyone but Williams will be sort of like Lalo Schifrin… the name is familiar, maybe people can name one score, but they mostly associate him with a dated sound indicative of the time period. “Hans Zimmer? Oh yeah he’s the guy that had that dated sound from the early century.” ”Alan Silvestri? Oh, right that guy who did the Ant-Man music” “Jerry Goldsmith? Did he do James Bond?”
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Temple of Doom is celebrating 40 years in 2024
Andy replied to Edmilson's topic in General Discussion
“Cute. Clever. Intelligent. Mischievous. Dangerous. “ “If Adventure Has a Name…” Even Star Trek III “Join the Search” Taglines were so great. What has happened to them? Why isn’t that part of marketing anymore? -
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Andy replied to Edmilson's topic in General Discussion
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Not that I’ve ever heard, no. Trek films were always very budget conscious.
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I’m gonna answer the OP legitimately. I wish he hadn’t done Spacecamp, but instead applied some of those sensibilities to Star Trek IV The Voyage Home. Plenty of opportunities for Earth and Space drama in that one. I’m sad he never did a Trek, and for its time, it was the most popular among fans and non fans alike. Williams would’ve knocked it out of the park. I like Spacecamp just fine. But if I could trade that for a John Williams Star Trek IV, I would.
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Andy replied to Edmilson's topic in General Discussion
Indy trying to shoot the Thuggee swordsmen: ”Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!” -
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The film itself won’t win any awards for cultural sensitivity. But Dr. Jones himself should! As an impressionable youngster, I saw him model appropriate behavior around different ethnicities and cultures. “You’re insulting them and you’re embarrassing me. “ That’s the guy I wanted to grow up to be. While Willie is being an idiot during the palace dinner, Jones is cool as a cucumber, apologizing to the Majarajah for being insensitive. His is the attitude we are supposed to follow. Above all, we have a role model who is compassionate to “lower people”. While a soldier of fortune like Alan Quartermaine would’ve probably trampled right over the Mayapore village to get to his fortune and glory, Jones is visibly upset at their poverty and sick to his stomach over their children. He could’ve escaped the Temple with his bag of stones, but risks his neck and saves them. I get it. I mean, this is trashy blockbuster fare from a director who has many more “grown up” films on his resume. And the film was made in a time when it was still okay to show a rickshaw driver unfavorably, or suggest a cult of Indian people eat monkey brains. Growing up in the 70s/80s, I can tell you kids like me were far less aware of harmful insensitivities. It just wasn’t taught. But at the end of the day, Jones himself modeled how to respect cultural differences, while still entertaining the hell out of me. -
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The ads I posted were all positive and Ebert loved it. Variety and NYT were less enthusiastic, but clearly those reviewers had sticks up their asses. -
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Andy replied to Edmilson's topic in General Discussion
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There is nothing Super about this marketing. The scene where Kick-Ass was trying on his mail order scuba suit in the mirror had more heroic urgency than this. And speaking of rubber scuba suits, I'm tired of the same style for modern superhero "tights". Can you imagine wearing this under your Clark Kent clothes? Do better, Gunn.
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What scores have been ruined for you by their expansion?
Andy replied to GerateWohl's topic in General Discussion
I haven’t had an expansion ruin a score with which I was already familiar. I have had expansions that are too much to take in for a first time listen of the score, and therefore sort of, well, yeah, ruined it for me. One that comes to mind is Cutthroat Island. Never saw the movie or heard the OST, just jumped right into the expansion and it was exhausting. Now, that may be just that score. But, if you don’t know the basics of a score from repeated familiarity with the OST, then an expansion is often not a good place to begin. I’ve gotten wiser lately, and if the OST is included, I start with that first. Did that with the 3 Disc Godzilla (Arnold) and fell in love with it. Then, went back to Discs 1 and 2 for more. Im an expansion guy, but I also appreciate a good program.