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Star Wars: The Complete Score Collection to be released September 21 (April Fools)
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https://disneymusic.shop.com/news/starwarscollection7 points -
Star Wars: The Last Jedi scoring Sessions 360 video
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Alan Silvestri's READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
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This is a nice score. Silvestri is a great composer and great guy. Glad he's getting some big projects this year.5 points -
Extreme polarisation in modern film reception, aka TLJ didn't suck that badly
Pieter Boelen and 2 others reacted to Unlucky Bastard for a topic
That's a really weird thing to say.3 points -
Extreme polarisation in modern film reception, aka TLJ didn't suck that badly
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Silvestri interview from the L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ready-player-one-alan-silvestri-20180330-story.html3 points
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Alan Silvestri's READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
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Here you go2 points -
An important question to the Germans!
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Well, it's bad enough. Sorry, for being nitpicking, but I always want soundtrack releases in their original form. Especially when the translation sucks.2 points -
Ready Player One (2018) FILM Discussion
Not Mr. Big and one other reacted to Unlucky Bastard for a topic
The movie was alright.2 points -
Why do you say so? I find it has a fluid, poetic, reflective essence that is quite stirring. It makes my top 10, which is as follows: 1. Memoirs of a Geisha 2. The Book Thief 3. The Patriot 4. ROTS 5. WarHorse 6. TFA 7. A.I. 8.Catch Me If You Can 9. TLJ 10. Minority Report2 points
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The Official Miklos Rozsa Thread
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Happy Easter!2 points -
Now, I've noticed a tendency for this forum to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Posts about whether or not Han has a theme, or whether there really is a Battle of the Heroes quote in The Last Jedi get very silly indeed. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do, except perhaps @BloodBoal and some of his friends. Oh yes, and @Disco Stu. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point. Now let's have a nice clean thread about these wonderful complete Star Wars scores coming out.2 points
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The range, maybe. The resulting movies (after 2005)? Hardly... As for RPO, as superficial time beater it works, it's like a benign Michael Bay movie (if such thing is possible). Its script (and resulting content) is the most sloppy thing Spielberg has submitted himself to since the days of 'Always' and '1941'. Consider how it pays lip service to things like the 'get a life' mantra without ever dramatizing the awful truth of a life wasted in virtual isolation - and Spielberg doesn't care, either (he has to fill the perfunctory action scene quota). It's really a movie, and here i'm contradicting you, that feels like Spielberg doesn't give a shit about any of the underlying themes - the final result is a first, namely a Spielberg movie bordering on cynism, or at least directorial neglect. I suspect when he realized what he had on his hands it already was too late. I doubt that he feels very proud of it.2 points
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Star Wars: The Complete Score Collection to be released September 21 (April Fools)
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Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.... (Looks at the calendar.) Oh shit!2 points -
I fell for it for 5 seconds2 points
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I recently watched TLJ again after seeing it once on the big screen. It's held up. I'm surprised the Canto Bight scenes happen so early in the movie, I somehow remembered them taking place towards the middle or end. They're by far the worst segments of the movie -- Boyega and the Asian girl add nothing and detract quite a bit. Cut those out and you'd have quite a lean movie that kicke ass in a nunber or scenes. Almost everything from the the throne room to the showdown in the salt planet is stellar... Best bits of Star Wars since possibly ever. That cue when Luke ventures out to meet the big cannon. Whoa. I honestly don't get the hate this movie has received. It is so much watchable than TFA, which I found unbearably dull on second viewing. But I guess that's the Star Wars fandom, filled with strict adherence to formula and adverse to any risk taking.2 points
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My God, the ending of "There's Something I Need to Do" is absolutely magnificent. You just don't hear that classic, big romantic sound very often these days. Those rich harmonies... Also love the Christmas-y bit earlier in the cue -- the bells-with-emotional-solo-woodwinds thing is of course far from original in film music, but it always gets me. I assume the RPO bit must be for when the snow starts falling and a certain two characters kiss. I think this film will stick with me for a long time, and a large part of that is because of just how well the film merges with the score in certain key moments. I can't even really say I regret JW not doing this. Silvestri did very well.2 points
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Extreme polarisation in modern film reception, aka TLJ didn't suck that badly
Docteur Qui and one other reacted to Gruesome Son of a Bitch for a topic
Not everyone's life revolves around these movies. Some of us have lives outside the cinematic universes, you know? You know how a normal person gets up and goes downstairs and eats breakfast and kisses somebody goodbye and goes to a job and...you know? I used to care more about SW when the prequels were coming out. After I lost my fandom around Disney's acquisition of LFL, I just couldn't ride anymore. Until I heal.2 points -
THE LAST JEDI - Score as heard in the movie thread - SPOILERS ALLOWED
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Why are you so condescending? It's pretty clear you're not much of a Star Wars fan, so it's fair to assume that some might react differently to the movie than you. You seem to have a hard time grasping the concept of subjectivity. I rewatched TLJ last night, and for me, it's definitely in my top 3 Star Wars movies in terms of emotional resonance.2 points -
It's so weird, I only got to see the TLJ this week, and after reading all the backlash it received, some very ferocious and passionate polarising reception, I was prepared for an unmitigated disaster. But then I watched it... and it wasn't really that bad. Sure it wasn't a masterpiece either. It's just a space opera movie for kids afterall. I recognise its flaws and weaknesses, sure, but fans seem to have amplified those flaws and weaknesses into reasons to blast the whole film away. As if it has absolutely no merit whatsoever. I've noticed among online film goers in the last few years that their assessment of films has been simplified to binary reception - it was either a masterpiece or a terrible disaster. They give it either a 10/10 or a 0/10. There's no nuance anymore. If it didn't meet their expectations, it's a complete write-off and must be publicly lynched and shamed forever. The advent of social media perhaps plays a role in this, where any uneducated hick now has a platform to promote their views. Back in the day, it was only certified writers who had the privilege of wider media influence. How times have changed. And how is this sustainable? Hollywood could definitely stand to improve its output a great deal, but once I get around to seeing these newer films, they're not necessarily great, most are mediocre, but definitely not as stinking awful as the fanatics claim. Maybe mediocrity makes them angry? I'd love to see what a really bad movie does to them...1 point
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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)
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Ready Player One I didn't go in expecting the second coming of Spielberg and I certainly didn't get it. I enjoyed myself. This feels like a movie Spielberg made in the 2000s in an alternate universe where he didn't go on to make a bunch of boring historical dramas that put me to sleep. It shows how little popcorn movie Spielberg has grown since then. The Oasis scenes look like A.I.'s Rouge City on steroids. The real world IOI scenes were fucking Minority Report. The graphics didn't feel advanced beyond that era. The story at its heart about Halliday being a lonely introverted antisocial guy who preferred the virtual Disneyland world to reality was realistic and relatable. While I don't share Quint's enthusiasm for it, it didn't put me to sleep. The various references to pop culture things got to be a bit much for me. I realize that's the source material, but it was a bit too wink/nudge with that gimmick. In the case of The Shining, it was literally just ripping off iconic scenes from that movie and making them scenes in this. They call it a "reference", "homage" or "love letter", but it was just sort of a lazy ripoff.1 point -
Isle of Dogs Another charmingly Wes Anderson tale to the tee. As we had seen with Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes is entirely at home with the animation medium and with Japanese mythology and culture as the backdrop, his latest venture serves a fun trip. As one might expect, none of it is particularly new though and its not up there with Grand Budapest Hotel. But you come out of it with a smile on your face.1 point
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What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)
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The best damned Bond score...ever!1 point -
Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow 2022)
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You don't watch much political television coverage, do you.1 point -
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Which are your Top 10 John Williams scores post-2000?
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1.Revenge of the Sith 2. Attack of the Clones 3. The Force Awakens 4. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5. The Last Jedi 6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 7. Chamber of Secrets 8. A.I. 9. The Patriot 10. War of the Worlds1 point -
Which are your Top 10 John Williams scores post-2000?
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The Prisoner of Aazkaban A.I. - Artificial Intelligence War of the Worlds Munich The Philosopher's Stone Minority Report War Horse Lincoln The Last Jedi Attack of the Clones1 point -
Star Wars: The Complete Score Collection to be released September 21 (April Fools)
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Do you REALLY have to joke about these things...?1 point -
What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)
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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)
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Even with "I could have done more?" Hmmmm....1 point -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)
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Even with that final act? Hmmmm.....1 point -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)
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Ready Player One Solid stuff. There's nothing remotely remarkable in terms of content, or anything that really seems worthy of Spielberg's attention. And I do agree with Karol this whole affair seems pretty beneath Spielberg to begin with. But what is at display here is the veteran's finesse and tactfulness at putting this kind of film together. He continues to demonstrate and outclass his present-day successors in staging narrative, selling characters and pulling emotional beats in a neat, entertaining package. No one plays the Hollywood crowd-pleaser formula like Spielberg does. Though I think had he spent more time on building the world outside "the Oasis" and less on anonymous, busy CG action sequences, we might have had something more interesting. Silvestri's score is one of the saving graces of the film.1 point -
The Official Pop and Rock Music thread
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Ah! I bought a reissue, of this. It's good, isn't it?1 point -
What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)
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Bad Moon by Daniel Licht The Howling by Pino Donaggio1 point -
Extreme polarisation in modern film reception, aka TLJ didn't suck that badly
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It really isn't.1 point -
Extreme polarisation in modern film reception, aka TLJ didn't suck that badly
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In no way was it a game changer.1 point -
Do you think my priest looks like JW?
Gruesome Son of a Bitch reacted to Naïve Old Fart for a topic
You wanna move a little faster thru that valley, there?1 point -
Ah, I see. Well, that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Old Hollywood, grand and uncynical? I dunno, I find it satisfying and congruous with the rest of the Trilogy. Victory Celebration sounds distinctly dated to the 90s. Peruvian pan flutes?1 point
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I've now seen TLJ, and I like it. Personally, I like it a lot more than TFA. Its funny, thrilling, unexpected, and moving, with moments of visual poetry. To all the detractors... Johnson wrote it, the main actors (not to mention Kennedy, et. al.) read it, and The Mouse green-lit it. They all had ample time to make changes through production, and in post, if they needed to. Eventually, this version - the one that they were happy with, presumably - was released last December. Unfortunately, this is the only EPISODE VIII that we have, or will ever have. Everyone has a right to like it, or to not like it, but to rage against it, is childishly Quixotic. It's only a movie.1 point
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Kylo's march into the Crait bunker was surely tracked with The Arena. And that spectacular ending to The Last Jedi feels like it was temped with the big Mustafar fanfare that ends the second act of ROTS. No exact timestamps but I think a lot of the opening battle with BB8's antics was tracked with R2D2's material in ROTS' opening space battle. No complaints from me though! ROTS is easily my favourite of the three prequel scores and I'm so glad JW revisited this dark, edgier style of writing before the series was done (especially with JJ returning for IX, which will probably be far lighter in tone than the dramatic gut-punch that TLJ was). He hasn't written in this vein since 2005, when he did 3 of his 'darkest' scores to date (WOTW, Munich and ROTS) in the one year! Depending on my mood, I love saccharine/cute/patriotic Williams as much as the next guy (War Horse, Lincoln, BFG, Tintin, Book Thief) but TLJ is a welcome divergence at his age.1 point
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I'll record it, then I'll add UNAUTHORIZED in big on the CD cover!!! Mar-ke-ting.1 point
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Intrada found the original elements for Rare Breed and Story of a Woman
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SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! HE DID'NT KNOW!1 point -
What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)
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Darkest Hour by Dario Marianelli. The perpetual motion of this score feels Zimmerish in a way...but it's executed in such a graceful and elegant way that I am ready to forgive. It's well conceived, orchestrated, performed and recorded. The album doesn't feel too long at 52 minutes. This guy needs some more recognition - he knows what an orchestra is and what instruments do. Good stuff. Karol1 point -
The Suchet one is my favorite, against all odds (I loved the Finney). I thought they added some really cool elements to the story in terms of giving Poirot himself more of a character arc in the story. It had a darker tone that I really dug. I actually think it'd be cool to see really well-done anime adaptations of Christie stories. I kind of like it when Japanese animators adapt classic Western literature, like that version of Heidi that Takahata/Miyazaki made in the 70s.1 point
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They're both fine. Just...fine, whatever. He hasn't shown the spark of true greatness in over 20 years. He lost his mojo after Hamlet. To each his own. Much like with people who enjoy formulaic romantic comedies, I just find the genre to be comfort food.1 point