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DC's R rated movies are pretty juvenile though? I don't think an R rating makes a movie adult. Tits and fucks are not a sign of maturity to me. Joker is an adult film for sure. I think ZSJL is a PG13 movie forced into to an R Rating. Birds of Prey is borderline. There is some violence but is it an adult film? I think not. The Suicide Squad also doesn't seem like an adult film to me. The humor seems teenage level to me.

I have Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds, Star Wars (all nine episodes), and The Patriot in 4K, and watching them in 4K has been the equivalent of seeing them for the first time. I cannot wait to get the Indiana Jones 4K set.

Trailers released which showcase the new 4K masters (bizarrely only uploaded in 1080p, but it gives you an indication of the new colour timing). Raiders has been fixed (no heavy orange tint as on the previous Bluray), Doom and Crusade look better than ever, and Crystal Skull has had a total overhaul. It actually looks like a proper Indiana Jones film now; that ugly, artificial, stylized green tint is completely gone and it now matches the brown/earthy tones of the first 3 films. Kudos to Kaminski for fixing this, assuming he was involved in the new grade. There's definitely a visual consistency across the 4 films now that wasn't there in the previous Blurays.

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Unfortunately, the GEMA repertoire listings for Tintin follow the same odd convention as other Paramount films: any cue that appears on the soundtrack album is not registered under its original title, but under the album title, with "Part 1", "Part 2", etc. if the OST track is compromised of more than one cue. Once again, the work codes seem to match the film ordering of cues (or their first appearance, at least): Work Code GEMA Title Cue AE9521 The Adventures of Tintin Tinker-Tin (Rev) AE9544 Sur Le Boulevard 1S4B/1S4C Sur Le Boulevard AE9618 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 1 The Unicorn [orch. Karam] AE9619 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 2 unknown AE9620 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 3 unknown AE9621 Carousel 1S4A Carousel AE9622 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 7 1M6 Empty Drawers AE9623 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 5 1M6A Snowy and the Cat AE9624 The Ship is Gone! 1M7 The Ship Is Gone AE9625 Marlinspike Hall - Parts 2 and 4 1M8 Entering the Mansion AE9626 Marlinspike Hall - Part 3 1M8A Dog vs. Dog AE9627 Marlinspike Hall - Part 5 1M8B The Second Ship AE9628 Marlinspike Hall - Parts 6 and 8 1M9A The Missing Scroll AE9629 Thom Thompsons 1M19A Thom Thompsons AE9630 Introducing the Thompsons 1M9B Introducing the Pattersons AE9631 Introducing the Thompsons and Snowy's Chase - Part 2 The Pickpocket Scene AE9632 Introducing the Thompsons and Snowy's Chase - Part 3 2M10A Snowy In Pursuit AE9633 You Mean, The Poem? 1M11 You Mean, the Poem? AE9634 Captain Haddock Takes The Oars - Part 1 1M12 Introducing Haddock AE9635 Pop That Cork! 1M12A Pop That Cork AE9636 Captain Haddock Takes The Oars - Part 2 1M16 Alt - The Captain Takes the Oars AE9637 Tub...Tub!! 1M13 Tub...Tub AE9638 Tin and Amir Exchange Legends 4M22B Tin and Emir Exchange Legends AE9639 The Sleeping Crew 2M13A The Sleeping Crew AE9640 Marlinspike Hall - Part 8 1M9A The Missing Scroll AE9641 Trying the Life Boats 3M14 Insert 2 - Trying the Lifeboats AE9642 In the Radio Room In The Radio Room AE9644 Tin's Description 3M16 Rev - Tin's Description AE9645 Capturing Mr. Silk - Part 2 Strolling In Disguise AE9646 New Middle Section New Middle Section AE9647 Introducing the Thompsons and Snowy’s Chase - Part 1 2M10A Snowy In Pursuit AE9648 Fire on the Boat 3M16A Fire On the Boat AE9649 Capturing the Plane 3M17 Capturing the Plane AE9651 Sir Francis and the Unicorn - Part 1 1M19B This is the Desert AE9652 Sir Francis and the Unicorn - Part 2 The Unicorn [orch. Pope] AE9653 Sir Francis and the Unicorn - Part 4 4M19C Sea Battle AE9654 Desert Rescue 1M20B Desert Rescue AE9655 Capturing Mr. Silk - Part 1 1M21A A Sober Haddock AE9656 Old Enemies Meet 1M21B Old Enemies Meet AE9657 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 6 2M22 Dueling Pirates AE9658 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 1 1M21C At Sword Point AE9659 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 2 4M21C Insert - Gold In The Hold AE9660 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Parts 3 and 5 1M21C At Sword Point AE9661 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 4 4M22 Insert 2 - Feather Knife AE9662 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 7 4M22A Insert - Red Rockham’s Curse AE9663 Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure - Part 8 4M22A Insert 2 - To Baghar! AE9664 We're Being Followed 4M23A We're Being Followed AE9665 The Milanese Nightingale - Part 1 4M23A Insert - Hanging the Poster AE9666 The Milanese Nightingale - Part 2 4M23B The Milanese Nightingale AE9667 Captain Protects The Scroll 5M23F Captain Protects the Scroll AE9668 Pursuit of the Falcon - Part 1 4M24A [Rev] Yes or Gu-no AE9669 Pursuit of the Falcon - Part 2 4M24B The Falcon and the Flood AE9670 Pursuit of the Falcon - Part 3 Bike Ride on a Clothes Line AE9671 Pursuit of the Falcon - Part 4 5M25 Insert - Tin Dives In AE9673 The Secret of the Scrolls - Part 4 1M6 Insert - Following Tin AE9674 The Clash of the Cranes - Parts 1 and 3 5M26B Crane Fight AE9675 Crane Insert #1 5M26B Insert 1 - Crane Insert #1 AE9676 The Clash of the Cranes - Part 2 5M26B Insert #2 - Snowy Helps Out! AE9677 The Clash of the Cranes - Part 4 5M26B Insert #3 - The Crane Falls AE9678 The Clash of the Cranes - Parts 5 and 7 5M26C Sac Versus the Captain AE9679 The Clash of the Cranes - Part 6 5M26C Insert - Tintin to the Rescue AE9680 The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale - Part 1 6M27A Reading the Scrolls AE9681 The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale - Part 2 6M27B The Arrival at Marlinspike Hall AE9682 The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale - Part 3 5M28 Marlinspike Hall AE9683 The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale - Parts 4 and 6 5M31 To Be Continued AE9684 The Return to Marlinspike Hall and Finale - Part 5 6M31 Insert - The Treasure AE9686 Snowy's Theme 6M40 Snowy's E.T. AE9687 The Adventure Continues 6M45 Dueling End Title So there's not much here we don't already know, but it does confirm that 'The Pursuit of the Falcon' consists of 4 parts, so the first part must be a revision of 4M24A Yes or Gu-No, rather than an insert. I'm also puzzled by the division of 'Red Rackham's Curse and the Treasure' into eight parts, since I'd broken it down previously as four: 0:00-2:18 1M21C At Sword Point 2:18-4:08 2M22 Dueling Pirates 4:08-4:54 4M22A Insert - Red Rockham’s Curse 4:54-end 4M22A Insert 2 - To Baghar! Update (2/15/2022): There really are 8 parts. I’d missed a couple inserts and have updated the OST breakdown accordingly.

For movies at least I will continue to invest in physical discs for the ones I care about always having access to. I really can't think of a worse deal than "buying" movies digitally (which is really more of a glorified rental)

Michael Giacchino - Jupiter Ascending (OST album) Took the shrinkwrap off the Varese version of the OST album today. I hadn't heard this score in a minute. I still like it, but I do feel a shorter OST length would have been a better way to initially release the score. It really meanders for a while in the middle here. The complete score actually works pretty well, but this oddball version, too long to be a standard OST album, too short to be the whole thing, is just kinda goofy. But I really like the themes and the performance and recording, regardless of all that!

Hehehe, I just read an interview with Peter Hyams:

How so? It's based a) on experience of the quality of dubs (German dubs are better than most, but that's mostly an indication of how bad most others are) and b) on the fact that any translation is a distortion of the original, and when it's not just the text that is being replaced but the actual performance, the effect is far greater still. The original actors spent weeks, often months, inhabiting their roles, learning the script, discussing their interpretation with the director and their cast members. The dubbers get a translated script that's often already a gross distortion of the original, no insight into the mindset of the original performers, and far less time to come up with an interpretation, even if they wanted to. English language audio is also usually much more "natural" than the German dub even attempts to be. Add to that that most dubbing voice actors just give lousy stereotypical performances that sound the same for any film and any actor they dub, with clearly no regard to the original performance whatsoever (there's such a thing as dub typecasting, where e.g. a dubbing voice gets assigned to a "comedy actor" early in their career and still dubs them the exact same "comedy style" way in serious roles 20 years later). A few of them are good actors: Peter Matić, who was Ben Kingsley's dubbing voice (among others) was an excellent actor with a fantastic voice. His dubs were usually "good", probably about as good as they could reasonably be - but they still were, by necessity, a lesser distortion of the original performance. In Austria, they play custom radio stations in supermarkets, made up of some "shopping friendly" songs and commercials, including film commercials, i.e. "audio trailers" consisting of sound clips of dubbed films. From them, I found that I can reliably recognise a German film dub within seconds simply based on the speakers' performances. Ever since DVDs became widely available, and original audio versions of films with them, I've been avoiding dubs like the plague. And whenever I come across one (more often recently because several German Blu-ray releases insist on playing un-skippable German dubbed trailers when loading), I find, again and again, that dubs aren't just as bad as I always say they are, but worse. I'd wager that in at least 90% of all cases, a poor performance by an original actor is preferable to the dub, based on just the vocal performance. And for at least 90% of the rest, the weak original performance will still be more "correct (i.e. true to the rest of the film) than the dub.

I was very disappointed by the finale, when I saw the original version for the first time. The German dubbed version features a much better voice actor for Pitt than he himself could ever be. It's The White Shark in German and The Teeth of the Sea in French. Same here.

LPO musicians reminiscing about the LOTR recording sessions and Shore's manifestos:

Well I've never enjoyed that score I find the main title quiet boring to be fair, it sounds more like accompagnating music than a true main title. I find the only two really nice things of this album was the first song Everybody Knows and of course the Beatles remix which sounds terrific. Plus it is because of this score that I've stand away for a long time from some older Elfman's masterpieces such as Returns or Scissorshands because JL was one of the few scores I've really listen from that composer at the time with the Alice in Wonderland movies and Avengers: AoU. What a great masterpiece! I'm so disappointed that Goldsmith didn't write more trilogy because he really made a terrific jobs with this one. I was wondering if the Varese DE of the trilogy where all complete or if they were some music missing that might lead to a reissue?

This one might be better than the original one and the LLL Edition is absolutely stunning!

We went... creative with them again.

That one is a bit tricky to pinpoint, since a lot of the time, it more has to do with the geoblocking that can happen with official videos, based on what is available in each country. If anything, unofficial uploads actually can have more of a chance at future proofing (if they aren't taken down or also geoblocked, that is).

A Little Princess is lovely

The orchestra will have a new manager and they just announced there will be a concert next season with works by American composers - Among them Bernard Herrmann and John Williams! https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/artistiek-directeur-ulrike-niehoff-vaart-nieuwe-koers-met-concertgebouworkest~b64f3078f/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

As part of the Pops' "virtual" season this May/June, they will be broadcasting a newly recorded concert of John Williams music (essentially the usual Film Night of seasons past) available from May 20 through June 19. The concert will feature video of Williams interview segments. Looks like you have to pay at least $9 for a 7 day pass to view the concert once it becomes available https://www.bso.org/brands/bso/features/bso-now.aspx https://a5974837ba.site.internapcdn.net/images/uploads/brochures/2021Spring-PopsBrochure.pdf

Exactly! Plus physical media almost always has way better picture and audio quality

Such a good show

German dubs from the 50's to 70's often feature *better* voice/ensemble performances than many originals, if just because highly trained actors i. e. from Berlin's Schiller-Theater, often elevated mediocre star performances. You generally betray a poor/biased knowledge on this particular topic. I'd rather say there were some obvious misses for very specific reasons (dialects and such), it's only from the 90's onwards that there really was a noticeable drop to the artifice you cite.

Discovering this Elfman score, that's full of testosterone!

I see what you're saying yea; I'd likely never even notice these things while watching the flick. I should check them out. I haven't seen the films in a few years now. Anyone know of the versions on HBO Max are the new editions?

I'm not the biggest Marvel fan by any means but I'll defend Far From Home. They finally captured that John Hughes vibe they were going for. It also serves as a wonderful epilogue to the Infinity Saga, tying up a number of emotional loose ends while constructing a villain out of deep-cut in-universe nods. That all of those loose ends, emotional and villainous, are born out of Tony Stark was simple, refreshing. I normal whine that I wish Marvel would try too hard and fail at this point, anything interesting, but this was one case where the straight answer was the best answer. I actually found it to be one of the only Marvel movies that didn't talk down to me and no one was more surprised than me about that. It was dorky, but that was all about tone. Considering how tepid and unnecessary I found Homecoming, I did not expect to like Far From Home one bit. But did. I'll happily shit on Marvel anytime but when they get it right, I'm fair, I'll say so.

Later in those late night triple features, yes.

Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill Returning for ‘Enola Holmes’ Sequel https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-enola-holmes-sequel-1234952481/ I hope Pemberton is returning too.

Wow, what a mess. It must've been a pain to figure out which mixes to actually include. Still very excited to hear it.

The versions you probably saw in theater at the time were probably horrible and full of dust and scratches on the image!

I enjoy these covers that the artist Mizue Hamilton illustrated and designed for Capitol/Angel Records in the 1970s:

Apparently, Korngold's father's (in continuation of the Hanslick tradition) strong lobbying against modernists like Krenek had a backslash on the reception of his son's works, which at the time were already viewed as anachronistic. As far as I recall, the story is somewhat abstractly fairy tale like, which didn't bode well for Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten 8 years earlier either (which has become much more successful since then, but still isn't regularly staged I believe). I have to retract my earlier comment: The 2017 production at the Volksoper Wien was an unstaged concert performance. Obviously it was impressive enough for me to feel like I've actually "seen" it. I'd also wish the Staatsoper would revive their brilliant stage production of Die Tote Stadt, or at least release it on video. Speaking of which, there is a filmed stage production of Heliane on Naxos (by the Deutsche Opera Berlin). I should probably check that out.

Looks terrific. The “modern trailer music drums” at the beginning of these makes me roll my eyes just a little haha. Just short of an inception “bwwwammm”. 😆 But boy does it make me want to watch these again.

Justice League (Danny Elfman) - I can’t decide how much I enjoy this score. It’s got some decent action writing (notably Tunnel Chase) and has a lot more texture and interest than most marvel/DC movie scores. Funny that this comes right after a post about Batman Returns which is a far more interesting score both dramatically, thematically and totally.

After getting burned trying to suffer through Clone Wars (a truly very bad show) I'm not in a hurry to try a Lucasfilm kids show again any time soon.

I think the Garrison Family Theme is really good too. It has a really gentle rhythm that truly make a break with the rest of the score which is more militaristic.

That's easy. Arlington. I think it's one of the best compositions generally by Williams. The level of counterpoint and dense harmonic explorations are superb.

No HARD RAIN thread appeared in a search. Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen reviews the new release of HARD RAIN: http://celluloidtunes.no/hard-rain-christopher-young/

I like playing the main theme on the piano.

Another reminder to only post links to the official "Topic" channels if it is on a regular album to ensure that the thread is futureproofed. Seeing more unavailable videos here than there should be.

Silicon Valley Season 2 This is such a Mike Judge moment. Felt straight out of Office Space to me.

The Elfman box presentation of that score is sublime. I love this demo of the unused song:

Sends shivers down my spine:

As for Evan Peter's casting, it does make sense. At that point in the story she is confused and wants to believe it's him. And we are supposed to identify with her and feel the same. It is the only casting choice that actually made sense. Karol

CARLITOS WAY is his masterpiece#

Well when it comes to Williams, he has a huge amount of scores left to expand or premiere You can poke through Williams' scored listed either by film studio or by music label, but you can't really narrow it down because Intrada has worked with all those film studios and all those music labels. It could be literally any of them that isn't Presumed Innocent (Varese) or Star Wars / Indy (Disney Records) Or it could even be a television work that isn't on those lists....

Here's mine, with just the logo because I didn't want to be reminded of the movie.

I know there are a million of these.I used the Blu-ray trilogy artwork. Thought it was a nice change a pace from the standard logo normally seen on these/

Jim Nova (https://jimnova.com/about/) is a huge John Williams fan and is a trombonist in the Pittsburgh Symphony. I was looking at his YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/user/jn1578) and came across this: Fun video and a great performance! ---------------------------------------------------------- From the YouTube page Turns out that many S.E. Shires trombone artists are huge football fans! So I decided to take my trombone arrangement of the NBC Football Theme, Wide Receiver, by John Williams (of course!) and expand it into a 10 part version! We all may root for different NFL teams, but we're all on the Shires Team! Musicians Joe Alessi Megan Boutin Jeremy Branson Justin Cook Brian Hecht Ross Holcombe Martin McCain Jim Nova Alexis Smith Nate Zgonc https://www.seshires.com/ourtrombones ----------------------------------------------------------

X-MEN: EXPANDED LIMITED EDITION SOUNDTRACK (2-CD SET) LLLCD 1504 Music by Michael Kamen Limited Edition of 3000 Units RETAIL PRICE: $29.98 STARTS SHIPPING MAY 11 Order yours starting MAY 11 at 12 noon (pst) at www.lalalandrecords.com La-La Land Records, 20TH Century Studios and Universal Music Special Markets proudly present a limited edition, 2-CD expanded and remastered release of renowned composer Michael Kamen’s (DIE-HARD, LETHAL WEAPON, ROAD HOUSE) original motion picture score to the 2000 big-screen superhero action-drama, X-MEN, starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart. Composer Michael Kamen expertly melds acoustic orchestra with a wide range of synthesizer textures, samples sounds and processed effects to fashion an exciting and urgent-sounding contemporary score that would not only play a vital role in successfully launching the blockbuster X-MEN motion-picture franchise and, with its unique sound, but also pave the way for such notable scores by others like UNBREAKABLE and BATMAN BEGINS. This expanded, remastered 2-CD presentation of the composer’s last score for 20th Century Fox features the film score on Disc 1, with original album tracks and additional music showcased on Disc 2. Produced by Mike Matessino and Neil S. Bulk and mastered by Matessino, this limited edition of 3000 units also features exclusive, in-depth liner notes by writer Jeff Bond and heroic art design by Jim Titus. TRACK LISTING: DISC 1 1 Death Camp (Film Version) 3:07 2 Rogue’s Kiss 1:51 3 Senate Discussion 2:25 4 Bar Fight 1:34 5 Logan Drives 1:05 6 Ambush 3:27 7 They Knew / Laboratory 3:57 8 School Montage 3:15 9 Helicopter Hijack 1:00 10 Kelly’s Transformation 3:23 11 Jean Reads Logan’s Mind / Nightmare / Rogue Heals Logan 3:24 12 Kelly In Prison / Beach 2:48 13 Bobby And Rogue 1:09 14 Cerebro 2:11 15 Logan And Rogue In Train 3:53 16 Train 2:37 17 Magneto Stand Off 3:01 18 Xavier Reads Kelly’s Mind 2:10 19 Kelly Dies 1:36 20 Xavier Falls 1:23 21 Jean Uses Cerebro 1:34 22 Land Of Tolerance 2:01 23 The X-Jet 3:48 24 Over The Wall :33 25 Museum Fight (Film Version) 3:19 26 Museum Fight (Continued) 1:39 27 Logan Kills Mystique :59 28 Fight On The Head 2:40 29 Final Showdown (Film Mix) 2:30 30 Logan Holds Rogue 2:45 31 Jean And Logan 1:57 32 Logan Says Goodbye / Why Ask Questions / Finale 3:43 TOTAL TIME DISC 1: 77:24 DISC 2 ORIGINAL ALBUM TRACKS 1 Death Camp 3:04 2 Mutant School 3:48 3 Magneto’s Lair 4:59 4 Museum Fight 2:23 5 The Statue Of Liberty 2:39 6 Final Showdown 2:30 7 Logan And Rogue 6:01 ADDITIONAL MUSIC 8 X-Men Main Title (Film Construct) :55 9 Senate Discussion (Revised) 2:32 10 Wolverine In The Ring (Film Construct) :28 11 Logan Drives (Film Edit) :36 12 Ambush (Part 1, Full Take) :58 13 Ambush (Film Edit) 2:17 14 Helicopter Hijack (Alternate) 1:01 15 Helicopter Hijack (Film Version) 1:10 16 Cerebro (Film Mix) 2:04 17 Train (Film Version) 2:34 18 Magneto Stand Off (Film Mix) 2:54 19 Kelly Dies (Film Version) 1:06 20 Xavier Falls (Film Version) 1:01 21 Jean Uses Cerebro (Film Version) 1:24 22 Land Of Tolerance (Film Version) 1:53 23 The X-Jet (Film Version) 2:04 24 Museum Fight (Part 1 Alternate) 2:02 25 Inside The Statue / Logan Escapes (Film Construct) 3:48 26 Fight On The Head (Film Version) 2:28 27 Logan Holds Rogue (Film Version) 2:29 28 Jean And Logan (Alternate) 1:58 29 Why Ask Questions / Finale / End Credits (Film Construct) 11:11 TOTAL TIME DISC 2: 75:24 2-CD TOTAL TIME: 2:32:48

I didn't know that MoTK was considered bad by any metric of measurement. From what I remember it's a solid fighter, but I do agree that it is outside the range of what I think of when I think of what a Star Wars video game is supposed to be. ... And the Holiday Special has Harvey Korman crossdressing as an alient tv host chef and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to dislike about that.

From WAGNERISM by Alex Ross. Talking about the premiere Bayreuth festival: Why would I leave? My work here has only just begun😁