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I'm glad this new release is turning out to be somewhat of an 'eyeopener' to those who are primarily into his post-STAR WARS output, or who previously had no interest in checking this out.

Yeah, Cuarón is great! The extended scene in the middle with bland Newt blandly feeding these bland CG things in this bland world with a bland friend is where I gave up.

I hope that after this show he move on Tintin 2. Peter I've been waiting for too long this movie don't make me wait another decade!

The ultimate problem with this franchise is very simple: why should I care? I don't relate to these stilted, dull characters. It's never made clear why the events occurring are important. Even the titular "hook" fails to deliver on the imagery it conjures. It's also inexplicable why we need FIVE FILMS to tell such an unfocused, haphazard story. Yates' bland direction notwithstanding, I agree that no director could have saved that abominable second movie. I won't bother reiterating all the reasons I think Yates is a terrible choice for this series, I've detailed my thoughts on that in the past. If WB want any success here, they need fresh blood to inject magic into this beige affair. As it stands, the entire exercise comes across as a shamelessly hollow cash-in, with no goodwill established to justify the excess. I can understand 4 sequels to Avatar. It's the biggest grossing film of all time, directed by a very successful director with a history of crowd pleasing hits. But this? Gimme a spell!

Azkaban is the most well crafted Potter film, and Cuarón is probably the best director to work on the series. But I personally prefer the Yates films when they're older and the stakes are higher. Yates has a reputation I guess as a pretty bland director, but I don't think he gets enough credit (along with Steve Kloves) for how well he managed to bring those last three massive, complicated books to the screen. It could all have very easily gone wrong and I think the fact that it worked out as well as it did probably made it look easy. I'm not sure Cuarón, with his sensibilities, could have pulled that off. Sometimes the most talented director isn't the best director for a particular project. That said, I found the second Fantastic Beasts film to be pretty much unwatchable, while the first one is merely bad. The premise of that series was flawed from the start.

I mean, I wasn’t as crazy about Gravity as everyone else seemed to be, but it was still pretty well directed.... Azkaban on the other hand... no other Potter film even comes close: Yavar

FB1 had nice moments and a comparably good story. But what does not work out for me in general are these scenes around these fantastic beasts. I as a viewer am really not interested in what happens about non-existing fantasy creatures unless it drives the story somehow. But those scenes that just show those animals behaving and people watching them, feeding them, caressing them, being moved or fascinated by them bore me to... very very far. No matter how good the CGI is. And in FB1 there were for my taste too many of these scenes.

Maybe, but he sure is an insanely, actively bland one who brings the magical material down to his mundane "vision". At least for HP5-8 (though 5 can be fun enough) and the first half of FB1, haven't seen more.

Quite frankly. It doesn't matter who directed Crimes of Grindlewald. The best Director in the world could not have made that film good if they were tied to such a poor script.

Will it be a crossover with the Fast & Furious franchise? I'm already picturing Diesel and the family driving their cars into Pandora.

I dunno, it looks very clean and straight and simple to me. Lots of straight empty corridors, the paintings and ghosts just act nice if they're present at all. The stairs are just pivoting 90 degrees and that's it. Very little of the book Hogwarts' kookiness and personality, tapestries, suits of armor, secret passages, stairs that lead somewhere else on a Thursday, portraits going over to visit another portrait for a party, Peeves causing trouble... Cuarón's Hogwarts has a lot more life like that to it.

For all the criticism against Chris Columbus his vision of Hogwarts was spot on.

The context of JW's massive body of work only makes this score more interesting. This is a JW already after his first Oscar but still 3 years from being a general population household name and 5 years from ruling over the universe for all time. A highly experimental and out there exercise, especially when compared to the vastly melodic, sweeping and fun The Cowboys, composed and recorded only months before. In certain tracks, it sounds almost unrecogniseable, but parts of other tracks, despite their experimentalness, are very much recogniseable JW - he rarely went back to full-blown Images territory, but elements and techniques still remained in his vocabulary (thinking of touches resembling the drippily gentle Hook-HP1 line, the Dementory strings, some Hedwig-esque string runs as mentioned above, just for a few examples). Funnily enough, known for all his melodies and being a poster boy of "traditional" film music, the most traditional and overtly melodic track on the album, Blood Moon, is perhaps the least JW-like of them all!

I have a déja vu from the recent discussion around just enjoying the world building effords of the director instead of complaining about lush stories around Avatar.

So, yeah, I did not mean to quote/misquote you, my computer is going haywire.

I think that sums up my feelings on it too. I think I’m kinda in the “I don’t really want to know how he lived in retirement” camp. Better to imagine the crew setting off after the last movie to keep on trekking rather than dark elaborate adventures where every character has a new, miserable backstory grafted on for the period between when they last appeared on screen and when they appear in the show. The outcome of that story in Picard didn’t make a fat lot of sense either. I’ll watch it of course but will probably get way more out of the Orville these days…

Oh, I completely agree about the first movie. I kind of misposted, I thought the first one as a standalone movie worked perfectly and I'd be in favour of an anthology as well. Or just a Grindelwald saga without Newt. And let the record show, for completeness sake, that Yates IS a bad director.

JNH is totally an under-appreciated soul. I first of all think he hasn't quite received the best opportunities in his career - equalling his talent. Or he hasn't had really big directors give him opportunities the way Williams, Elfman, Silvestri, Zimmer, Shore, Desplat got. So he has remained a journeyman composer only moderate in fame and respect but I think he totally belongs with the all stars. I think it is a straight scandal that even his pees in the music branch in the academy couldn't see fit to nominate his work in Fantastic Beasts. Maybe they did not give it enough attention in the film, or they didn't promote it properly or maybe he didn't present the music right - but it is absolutely outstanding music that should have won him a lot many fans. Eitherways, he's a GREAT composer and hopefully will get his oscar alongside all those other people. Though Silvestri hasn't had his oscar yet either.

Personally, I am not remotely interested in Grindlewald Vs Dumbledore. I am way more interested in the four from the first film and the beasts. While I agree with you @bollemannekethat it does feel like two different stories, I disagree that Yates is a bad director and that overall the beasts or Newt are the problem. I think a lot of the issues lie with JKR and to an extent this need to make Fantastic Beasts another Franchise that has to tick off some boxes. As in: We have to have a big overarching name to the franchise: Fantastic Beasts. This hurts the entire series, because now they all have to involve the beasts somehow. We have to have a consistent main hero character: Newt. Mistake #2. Not that Newt is a bad main character, but he's not the right main character for this series about Grindlewald's rise to power. The first film isn't necessarily the issue. I actually very much like the first one. I think there is a much better focus to the story. I sort of view Fantastic Beasts as this adventure that is going on in the midst of a war. Yeah, the war is there and it's brewing in the background and it affects the characters off and on, but it's not the main part of the story. I was more in the mood for a fun adventure film about tracking down Beasts and that is what I got, with a taste of the war part. The second film, however, has a very split focus. Because of the Franchise checkboxes I mentioned above, I feel like they're now forcing themselves to shoehorn in beasts and Newt feels far more out of place in the CoG story. I think it's at this point where the problems start. The beasts are not an issue in the first film, because it's about Newt and his quest for his escaped Beasts at it's core. The way I would've approached this would've been anthology films of some kind. Where we can tell stories of what is going on during this war and Grindlewald's rise to power. You don't have to have a consistent cast. The second film can just be called Crimes of Grindlewald. Maybe Newt shows up again when it makes sense down the line. Alternatively, make some fun adventure films about the main four and ditch the Grindlewald stuff. No need to overcomplicate it. Something here is just not meshing well.

I see two main issues in this franchise: bad writing and bad directing. Hiring Yates was a mistake from the begining and sadly as much as I love JK's writing, this Fantastic Beasts story clearly show a lack of love.

Picard show-runners are what the French call 'les incompétents'

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Giving this its own thread It will now stream as a 6 hour miniseries on Disney Plus, November 25-27 Could not be more excited but also lmao at Peter Jackson making another trilogy.

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Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble (1968) We continue with the second of Williams's 1960s symphonic efforts, the Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble. Sometimes mislabeled as a second symphony by Williams, this three movement work is one of considerable scope and ambition, while staying on a definite clear path. @Falstaft has written a great analysis of the piece, tying it to contemporary musical trends and JWs later film score characteristics. Here is that article: http://unsungsymphonies.blogspot.com/2011/10/innocuous-as-film-score-williams.html The work was taken up by the Eastman Wind Ensemble who recorded it and released it in 1972. The audio below is from a rare CD re-release. This is perhaps my least favorite of the early JW concert efforts. Rather technical and heavy for my tastes, bereft of levity, a bit challenging to get into.

Billy Campbell on the score: https://www.slashfilm.com/the-rocketeer-interview/

1993... Part II

Agreed. If it can stick the landing it will eclipse WandaVision (which I loved despite the rather lackluster ending...in part brought about because of Covid affecting the last two episodes of course). The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had appealing leads some really good stuff but also some really mediocre stuff mixed in. Easily the least of the three D+ shows so far. Yavar

At least you're good enough for JWFan.

I've listened to Superman Returns and was pleasantly impressed. Never watched the full movie, but I remember this great plane action sequence and damn Rough Flight is awesome.

The man who directed the best Harry Potter film cannot, indeed isn't, a bad director.

I just started reading Earth Abides, a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1949. I'm enjoying it, but the premise is ridiculous!

I also enjoy Colin Matthews orchestral arrangement.

The set also looks very nice, the design is simplistic but fittingly and tastefully vintage feeling. The font already helps a lot in placing it in time. The border and text on the front cover looks like The Post!

It's a very positive wow! A highly varied and interesting score.

Fast forward 40 years, Thor is the founder of JWFan and this time the name of the site is literal (no need for an "s").

One of those is great.

Went to London, missed Williams. Didn’t go to Vienna, missed Williams. FUCK YES I’M GOING TO BERLIN!

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/details/53783/ John Williams conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin 14., 15., 16. October 2021 (to be streamed 16. October) Suscriptions on sale now! https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/de/concert/53783?a=bph_webseite&c=true

Your neighbours will think you have an exciting sex life!

They're already working on a sequel: https://www.facebook.com/CityLightConcerts/posts/1113583669131823

The remaining tracks are good for scaring away your neighbor's cat.

And while we wait for Williams' original liner notes for the album, here's an excerpt from an interview in which the Maestro discusses his work on the score, published on the 1975 book Knowing the Score, by Irwin Bazelon. (Also available here: https://www.jwfan.com/?p=4583):

Here's what MM has done for every Williams score he worked on that had an OST album The original album was a re-recording, so it's included in full How To Steal A Million Earthquake Jaws The Fury The original album had a pretty high percentage of music recorded directly for it, so it's included in full E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Monsignor The River The original album is made up entirely of music recorded at the main scoring sessions, but is included in full anyway Goodbye, Mr. Chips Superman Dracula 1941 Schindler's List Rosewood The Towering Inferno War of the Worlds Home Alone (2015) Saving Private Ryan War of the Worlds The original OST album is not directly included as its own section, but you can re-create just by playing tracks in a different order Stanley & Iris The original OST album is not included, but all unique album takes/etc are, so one could re-create it with music editing software if desired Close Encounters of the Third Kind Empire of the Sun Home Alone (2010) Far And Away Home Alone 2: Lost In New York Jurassic Park The Lost World A.I. Artificial Intelligence Harry Potter 1 Minority Report Harry Potter 2 Harry Potter 3 So that's 19 times he included the OST album vs 12 times he didn't, getting close to 2/3 vs 1/3.

Don't forget you also get JW's original liner notes.

Wouldn't be surprised if he allows it once every other non-Indy Spielberg score is done. With any luck, the other 4 scores should be out in the next 2.5 years (especially if both LLL and Intrada are licensing the Spielberg scores now). Maybe once the dust has settled on Indy 5, JW/Disney might be interested in expanding those 5 scores too. Even just a 5000 quantity limit where anything less doesn't qualify for fees. Such a simple addition... sigh.

If they'd even just made it a sliding 10-year window—without having to carve out a special exception for soundtrack expansions—Tintin and War Horse would be on the table for this year. Man...

And one of these days the union has to come to their senses about the post-2005 re-use pricing, right!?

Look at the flyer again. It indicates that AI is 3 discs, but says nothing about number of discs for the other releases - because they are all 1disc releases. LLL's flyers always reveal how many discs (and number of copies) each release has.