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That's kind of a general issue, that I have with Kamen. His action music is often a little ink accidentally spread over music sheet. It appears sometimes a little random and clunky compared to the ballet-like orchestrations of a John Willams or Danny Elfman.

Yes, PLEASE! I can't even open this thread on my phone, and it takes forever to load on the laptop as well. Even better than embedding hundreds of YouTube videos and Spotify playlists -- how about using WORDS? Words are great.

Perhaps. I don't care enough about the original books to feel I've missed anything (I got bored halfway through the fifth book and never finished reading them) but I do agree that a miniseries would have been the best way to adapt Harry Potter (as I have mentioned elsewhere). I guess it was the pre-Game of Thrones era so movies was the only viable option, but if they came out now, I'm sure a prestige miniseries would be the approach, as evidenced by the apparent plans to make such a series...

I finally read the book and watched both movies and relistened to both OSTs... and came to the conclusion that I easily like the Sketchbook the best, it leaves the most space for textures to be interesting and for ideas to actually build and be presented fully (the selections for the OSTs don't help with how much they focus on the more droney less interesting stuff and Sketchbook overlaps). But I didn't like how it ends and I do like some of the stuff in the OSTs too so I constructed 3 additional tracks to go after the Sketchbook: The Black Sun of Giedi Prime - I thought this was an interesting section with a bunch of new textures not really present on the Sketchbook Each Man Is A Little War Harkonnen Arena 0:00-3:05 Seduction 0:00-0:35 Spice crossfaded into it Harkonnen Arena 3:05-end crossfaded in to seamlessly take over Jihad - For this one I wanted to assemble some action pieces. Worm Army Transitioning seamlessly to Ornithopter Attack 0:00-0:44 Transitioning seamlessly to Ornithopter Attack 1:30-end Transitioning to Armada Ending closely transitioning to Harvester Attack 0:00-1:05 Crossfading so that Gurney Battle 0:26-end takes over fully when the HA segment ends Harvester Attack 2:58-end (with a second of silence removed) added to the ending Lisan Al Gaib - And this one to represent the new context for that theme from the first one and provide a finale Beginnings are Such Delicate Times 0:15-7:10 (opening faded up) Kiss the Ring 1:20-end crossfaded to take over seamlessly for a grand ending Lisan al Gaib with the opening riff boosted a bit

I think that describes Korngold well, although perhaps less so for his contemporaries and near successors. I think quite a few people (like me) try Korngold as a "if you like JW, it's like that, but better... Kings Row sounds like Superman and Star Wars etc." but in reality, beyond the superficial resemblance, their music is quite different. If anything, Hook is probably the closest to Korngold in a myriad of (presumably intentional) ways. However, I do think his stuff is worth persevering with, even if it's just the Gerhardt suites rather than full scores - although they do have plenty to enjoy. If I were going to pick a Korngold for the purpose of this thread I'd go with The Sea Hawk, surely the best swashbuckling pirate theme ever...

It's re-launched https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robes/james-horners-the-hand-and-the-dresser-re-recordings-redux

Don't really think much of Kinnear as an actor and I certainly don't think of him as Tom Bombadil. Back in the day, the only person I thought could pull off the role was Tom Baker.

Meanwhile... https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/tom-bombadil-the-rings-of-power-first-look So Tom Bombadil lives in Rhun now... And he's TOTALLY going to give the Stranger his hat, because why ever not!

Truth be told, if hollywood managed to convince harrison "grumpy grandpa" ford to run around with dots in his face and whatever... they surely can convince nice Mortensen

It would be funny to see Viggo running around New Zealand landscape in motion capture pyjamas. In fact, no rendering is necessary. I would pay for cinema ticket just to see that as is. Karol

Get thee to a nunnery!

That's right. I would call Rose's Theme the weakest emotional theme in whole Williams' Star Wars canon. In The Rebellion Is Reborn it gets kind of saved by the Island theme and in the end credits by Leia's Theme.

He is to me.

The Idea of You Boring and dull, and too long. Not even Anne Hathaway can save the film from feeling like a badly written Wattpad fan-fic, with no charisma or charm. Not for me. Immaculate Honestly, quite predictable at some points, but also quite fun in its third act. Sydney Sweeney is great in the lead role and I love the fact that she is a producer in this and was the one willing to move the project forward. The script is a bit simple and some of the jump-scares feel a bit cheap, but I really enjoyed the last part of the movie, where the mystery is revealed and it turns into a sort of revenge film. The last shot was brutal and Sydney really delivered there! Also, quite liked Will Bates' music, which is allowed to shine at some dialogue-less scenes. Challengers The latest over-hyped film that critics and Twitter users love. Don't get me wrong, I think there are some great things in here, but the insane expectations they had set for the movie made me feel disappointed. The three leads are brilliant in their respective roles, and are the main carrying force that holds the movie together, with their chemistry, their banter and their rivalry, and make up for some of the problems I have with the film, like the constant jumping forth and back in time. In some scenes it works and gives them a deeper meaning, and lets you understand the characters more, but at other points doesn't work as well. Something similar happened with Guadagnino's direction, which is particularly flashy and dynamic during the tennis matches. Not everything he tries works, but I have to give it to him for being so willing to move the camera around in many unusual ways, trying to put you in their point of view (at one point, literally). I really liked the final ten minutes or so, where the emotions are at its peak, and his direction really goes to some places I wasn't expecting that really makes you feel all the emotions of the moment. As for the score, well, I think it feels out of place in all the dialogue scenes, and only really works in the tennis match. It's been overly praised and probably will earn Reznor & Ross a nom at the Oscars, and perhaps even a win, but I wasn't really feeling it except for a couple of moments. So all in all, it's a solid film, that shines because of its cast and some of Guadagnino's direction choices, but has been excessively over-hyped, and really felt a lot more flat and predictable that everyone has been saying. The same thing happened to me with Everything Everywhere All At Once and Past Lives, where I had read so many good things about them beforehand that I left disappointed when I didn't like them that much.

Walhalla Rising (2009) There's very little dialogue in this movie and it shows that Refn is a much better visual storyteller than let's say Alex Garland. Movie 7/10

I suddenly remembered the one I noticed immediately on hearing Rose's theme. Williams does take his theme in a different direction for the ending, but the basic melody is the same. As suggested above it's a simple theme for Williams, and suits JNH's stylings a bit more. It's one of two themes where I felt Williams' usual knack for long-lined original themes was lacking - the other being Across the Stars. I can sort of hear that actually! It's got that similar sort of structure of rapid up and down. In that context, Silvestri's theme is way better in context.

That's ridiculous, and I am sure you know it John Williams is not the right composer for a lot of movies.

Should just be 'FALSE ALARM.... Indy stuff......'. The only other recent time I've seen a thread title as long as this was for Hook, where it feels like thread title's purpose was 'It's Hook!!, and yep it's done properly this time, and yep it's got the songs, and yep, Mike produced it, and yep, it's Williams Approved© .... you can celebrate before even opening the topic!'

Williams was indeed scheduled to svore Carlifonia Split, which would have been his third feature length collaboration with Robert Altman. His withdrawal is most likely linked with the passing of his wife during filming on location. He was indeed mentioned as the composer for Quintet, but another composer went on doing it. Altman never really settled on a main collaborator as composers go. Had Barbara Ruick still be alive one can wonder of insted of s long standing Spielberg/Williams collaboration we would have had an Altman/Williams one, as both families were very close.

'Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. 'Whoops! I'm so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn't my week.' '

More time was spent typing the title than putting the set together.

Add METEOR to that list. It's not a rumour. JW did say that. He also turned down SUPERMAN RETURNS.

"Schieße auf das Fenster" (puzzled look) (rolls eyes) "Shoot the glass"

The fact that he doesn't rule out returning to the role from the outset would suggest Jackson and Walsh could convince him to overcome his apprehensions. They're evidentally very persuasive.

As long as he is OLD king Aragorn retelling the story in the opening and closing of the film.... But he is against impersonating a younger Aragorn. So maybe we have a ian holm/Martin Freeman situation.....