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I read once the engineers needed toilet paper in a hurry and it was the only thing handy. Otherwise pristine.

Which Spielberg films do you consider bad? I'm curious...1941 and Hook are bad, but bad is good. To contrast, WOTW is forgettable.

I've watched The Tree of Life twice. While I adore it visually, it still couldn't affect me emotionally. It also felt like having a loose construction. Like bits here and there sticked together... The Thin Red Line affects me very much (although the first time I saw it at the cinema I was bored, when i saw it afterwards in home video, I thought [and I still do] it's a masterpiece)

Are there too many hobbits on this forum?

I guess it was high time JWFan had its first bimonthly discussion about "art" of the year....next on the list, is Inception a masterpiece?

The wife/gf?

Here are the track times of the FYC CD: 01 Introduction (1:47) 02 The Book Thief (1:54) 03 School Yard Fight (0:40) 04 The Foot Race (1:24) 05 The Wall, Curious Girl (0:55) 06 Book Burning (1:39) 07 Delivering The Laundry (1:36) 08 The Library (2:26) 09 They're Running Towards Me (0:34) 10 Jellyfish (0:42) 11 Silver Oysters (1:38) 12 The Snow Fight (1:38) 13 The Christmas Gift (1:39) 14 Reading (3:03) 15 Searching The Cellars (1:22) 16 Rescuing The Book (2:06) 17 Mom's Good News (1:32) 18 Max Lives! (0:51) 19 Max Leaves (2:38) 20 The Train Station (2:13) 21 I Hate Hitler! (2:23) 22 Do You Know Max? (1:18) 23 The Visitor at Himmel Street (2:05) 24 Rudy's Death (2:06) 25 Finale (2:43) 26 End Credits (5:37) TOTAL TIME - 48:29 If you have both the FYC and the OST and want to combine the two together into a definitive, chronological presentation, do this: 1 One Small Fact (1:45) [FYC 1] 2 The Journey to Himmel Street (1:48) [FYC 2] 3 Schoolyard Fight (0:40) [FYC 3] 4 The Foot Race (1:24) [FYC 4] 5 The Wall (0:22) [FYC 5 0:00-0:22] 6 Writing To Mama (0:52) [OST 18 0:35-1:27] 7 Book Burning (1:39) [FYC 6] 8 Curious Girl (0:33)[FYC 5 0:22-end] 9 Delivering Laundry (1:36) [FYC 7] 10 The Library (2:26) [FYC 8] 11 They're Running Towards Me (0:34) [FYC 9] 12 Dear Fuhrer (0:29) [OST 12 0:00-0:29] 13 Jellyfish (0:42) [FYC 10] 14 Silver Oysters (1:38) [FYC 11] 15 The Snow Fight (1:38) [FYC 12] 16 The Christmas Gift (1:39) [FYC 13] 17 Learning to Read (3:03) [FYC 14] 18 Revealing The Secret (1:30) [OST 11 0:00-1:30] 19 Rescuing The Book (2:06) [FYC 16] 20 Searching the Cellars (1:22) [FYC 15] 21 Mom's Good News (1:32) [FYC 17] 22 Max Lives! (0:51) [FYC 18] 23 Viewing the Stars (0:35) [OST 18 0:00-0:35] 24 Max Leaves (2:38) [FYC 19] 25 The Train Station (2:13) [FYC 20] 26 I Hate Hitler! (2:23) [FYC 21] 27 Do You Know Max? (1:18) [FYC 22] 28 Learning to Write (2:07) [OST 14] 29 The Visitor at Himmel Street (2:05) [FYC 23] 30 Rudy Is Taken (2:06) [FYC 24] 31 Finale (2:43) [FYC 25] 32 End Credits (7:05) [OST 22] TOTAL TIME - approx 55 1/2 minutes BONUS TRACKS 33 Schoolyard Fight (Original Version) (0:30) [OST 5 0:00-0:30] 34 Max Leaves (Original Version) (2:39) [OST 11 1:30-end] 35 Max and Liesel (1:11) [OST 1] TOTAL TIME - approx 4 1/2 minutes GRAND TOTAL TIME - approx 1 hour

Again I find it to be a tone issue. The Hobbit lives in the shadow of the LotR and inhabits the same world and as it has been listed there are countless references to the earlier trilogy. To me the problem arises from the way PJ tries so hard to maintain the LotRness of the films but then he goes to the other end of the spectrum with absolutely ridiculous kiddie adventure movie feel. This dichotomy doesn't work. First we have incredibly moody and dark and strange opening to DoS and hey presto then a rip-roaring amusement park ride escape from the Woodland Realm in barrels. It should be somehow dangerous and exciting and we should be worried for our heroes but at least I was laughing my head off during the whole sequence and shaking my head all the time. Kili's wounding is thrown in there almost as an afterthought to make the whole escape somehow more costly to the company but at least in my eyes felt forced and didn't make me any more attached to the Dwarves than before (not to mention have Tauriel leave the Woodland Realm to rescue Kili). And this strange shift of style is repeated a number of times throughout the film, from deadly serious "world is at stake" feel to the "hey, dong merry-dol, ring-a-dong-a-dillo" silliness. Same goes for AUJ. And all that is said in defense is that "it is a lighter movie tone-wise since it was adapted from a children's book". You can't have it both ways in my opinion. Either try to make it serious with subtler humour or make it an all out rollercoaster with whimsy abound. As it is the trilogy thusfar has been awkwardly trying to do both.

She's mine.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - John Williams (my personal edit of the score, thanks to the help of both Incanus and Faleel) This is John's masterpiece. Nowhere else (in my own experience) does he reach the level of spirituality that this score is radiant with. Kubrick would certainly have been pleased with it; no last-minute replacements would have happened with this one, heh. It's a journey through a bleak and cold future, with an undercurrent of the most sincere humanity which is allowed to come through in all its warmth by the journey's end. The result is one of the finest efforts of a human being to capture and meditate on the strange marriage of light and darkness that defines our existence. I sat and listened to this straight through with my family. I don't want to listen to it any other way from now on.

I'm flattered.

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The Boston Pops "John Williams" Medley

Gloin the Dark could write a whole book on the multi-faceted brilliance of that single cue...and I would buy it!!

Oh sh*t, I think I just erased the last Star Wars!

Just a quickie: