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I remember vaguely hearing about this "day" awhile back, but made no fuss over it. Every day is a film score day in my household.

National Film Music Day is what we make it to be. 4/20 and May the 4th had to start somewhere. It’s up to us nerds to take this thing to the next level. Fortunately, I have some ideas on how to kick start this holiday, and give it widespread commercial appeal: Try a composer who is new to you. Give an old OST you don’t need anymore to someone you think might play it. Start a composer thread for a composer you think we should pay more attention to. Donate to one of the film music recording Kickstarters. Do a random act of Film Score kindness. Buy Andy a CD of his choice. Think how good you’ll feel. Invent a cocktail that embodies your favorite composer or score. Drive through a bad part of town blasting “Cutthroat Island” with your windows down. Change your instant media profile pic to Giorgio Moroder. See if anyone guesses. Play some Barry or Delerue during sexy time with that special someone. And finally, for the children, invent a mythical “Father Film Score”, “Santa Soundtrack”, “Papa Bande Originale” character. Dress in a turtleneck, beard, glasses, and white ponytail. Carry a conductor’s baton and a sack filled with 1-cent Titanic OST’s you’ve been hoarding. Visit your local village, community center, or public market to the squeals of delight from the little ones.

wake me up when it's National Film Song Day

You can say that until you're blue in the face, but you'll give in!

Honestly, if it was up to me I'd chose March 5th as the Film Score Day. It was on this day, in 1977, that the first recording sessions for Star Wars took place (at least according to Wikipedia).

It's just a ruse by Big Oxygen to make you breathe. I won't have it.

Maybe it appeared a lot in those authomatic playlists generated by Spotify's algorithm?

Or "Oxygen Day." Let's celebrate breathing, everyone!

"I can't do this." [raw sketch for Schindler's List]

Be sure to pick up Titanic if you haven't yet - It's a wonderful release, an iconic Horner score, and I can't imagine how insanely high the price will skyrocket once it's out of print.

I always prefer whatever works best musically. With most scores I own, I don’t have an intimate knowledge of the movie and probably have never seen it at all. If a film version is full of hacky edits or extraneous loops, give me an album version every time.

Well done! There are children in Africa who have never even heard of Bernard Herrmann!

A filmmaker can leave things open to interpretation or not by choice. In this case, I don’t think an argument is there that anything in Barbie is subtext. It’s a movie for tweens and it wears its morals on its sleeve, often even telling explicitly instead of showing. The only variable is the sociopolitical baggage - or the chip on their shoulder - that each viewer brings in .

Well for many of the cues that have multiple options, a film version virtually doesn't exist because it's a hackjob of many versions or even many cues. They just had to pick one or the other.

It's not self-funding in general that's discouraged. You're supposed to estimate your requirements and then divide them up between what you can fund yourself and what you need to crowdfund. Then you start your campaign for the crowdfunded part, i.e. you should already have subtracted what you can reasonable contribute yourself from your campaign goal. It's still important to select a fitting goal based on how much you need at the very minimum to (hopefully) reliable deliver, and what you'd like to have to provide more than just the minimum viable product. And of course stretch goals can encourage backers to go far beyond your basic goal.

I instantly imagined him singing 'Sukiyaki.'

"Oh, Mr DNA, where did you come from?"

The film edits are wildly butchered from the original compositions. The film version would be unlistenable.

Kickstarter campaigns run until the originally set deadline. Everything that's pledged at this point, as long as it's not below the limit, is collected. I *think* it is possible to cancel a pledge as long as the campaign is still running.

I had never bothered to pick up Godzilla, so I just ordered from BSX. I’ll be the lab rat to see if those tracks are really on there. You’ll find out in a week or twelve, depending on when BSX gets it to me.

@Steffromuk Oh boy, you're just flooding the thread with your infinitely awesome custom covers, so much so that I couldn't even get around to praising @Laserschwert's fantastic Outcast mockups.

Honestly, I prefer Wagner.

Nope. It's the same artwork as on the website, which meant whoever submitted them to whatever database Stark used had to make up titles for them.

So me and @Stark have been discussing this anomaly, and discovered that if you purchased the score around at least February 2021, then chances are: you already have these tracks! And they're pretty much exactly what the titles say they are, so I guess we'll find out soon if this is another A.I. situation or not. Given I would've recently gotten the "original tracklist" version from one of Lukas Kendall's several collector sales, I am a bit peeved that this now another BSX release where I bought it before a slightly more expanded release popped up (or at least was made aware of this being something that has happened).

It just felt like it got chucked out there, with interest in the films kind of instantly dying upon the release of TROS, and Williams not even including the music in his concerts. It felt like even more of a crime given how good the score turned out to be. I'll enjoy seeing it reconsidered and given the attention it deserves in your book. And that goes for the whole ST and the PT too, since the OT has had way more written about it than the other 6. Probably because the OT will always be "classic" and the others will never be taken nearly as seriously. But since we're here to talk about the scores and not the films, obviously they ARE classics and deserve the royal treatment! You'll have some work to do trying to figure out the musical storytelling in the ST though. It's hard to be sure what Williams intended given the ever-changing cuts of the JJ films, or whether he was able to maintain a consistent vision at all.

Willie... Willie....what is that? Is that short for something? Willie is my professional name...Indiana. Hey, lady! You call him Doctor Jones! MY professional name. *flips a coin*

NIGHTBREED

"When 92 years old you reach look as good you will not, hmm?"

I made a slightly different version for those who prefer it not just refering to the video game, since it was originally a score to accompany the reader of the book. and another one using a source from the comic book series

Couple other notes.... Godzilla 2014's opening titles sequence still haven't been matched KOTM's official trailer might be the greatest trailer of all time

every time this guy opened his mouth.... i fully understand the frustration of the cutaways....but the battles felt so much more real and grounded when they were actually happening. The way Edwards filmed them, gave it so much more reality. And that's what I like about Godzilla in the first place.... is that it's a spawn of our own creation/reality, nukes. the kiss of death at the end is the payoff to all the cutaways in my opinion.

These movies are enjoyable and frustrating to different degrees. With G14 I appreciate that they were trying for a grim and realistic tone, but the constant cutting off the kaiju scenes that even became a meme on social media to cut to stupid human drama was more frustrating than tantalizing. I think they were trying to do a Jaws kinda thing, but Gareth Edwards is not Steven Spielberg. The score by Alexandre Desplat is amazing, an unusual but inspired choice of composer by Edwards. Skull Island is beautifully shot, has great CGI and I like that the action is set in a tropical jungle during the Vietnam war instead of a metropolis during night time like most of the other movies, it gives a different vibe. The kaiju scenes were a bit frustrating though, particularly the final battle which could've been more memorable. Decent Henry Jackman score. KOTM tried to go for the same dark & epic angle of the 2014, but the movie is way less smart than it thinks it is. Some beautiful shots though by Lawrence Sher, and surprisingly you can understand and see the action even though the battles are set at night. Great Bear McCreary score. GvK is dumb fun, but way more dumb than fun lol. Awful characters and dialogue, serviceable action scenes and a bad score (I guess JXL was way more focused in Zack Snyder Justice League). Haven't seen GxK yet, I'll wait for streaming.

both American and Japanese. Godzilla 2014 struck a chord with me. the actors. there was like a million. and i didn't care for a single one of them.

Ironically, the 2CD version prior to BSX (with even less tracks) was released by LLL!

Punisher & Daredevil in the set of Born Again: Source

Yes, but how many non-film music enthusiasts are actually aware this day exists, I wonder... Heck, I only just heard of it through this thread. Didn't @Tallguy try that for seven days straight? It almost killed him. This must be stopped! Divert all shipments from specialty labels of Herrmann titles to Africa! Bono can pilot the plane!

I can only talk about what I’ve seen @HunterTech and @Stark talk about on a Discord server, but I believe this is what’s up: one has the BSX release (purchased 2/2021) that HAS those two tracks on it, despite what the back cover said. one has the BSX release (date purchased??) that DOES NOT have those tracks on it, matching the back cover. Now the website has been updated to mention those two tracks, despite the fact that the back cover appears unchanged. This would be the first time that those two tracks have an “official” title, hence the reference to somebody making up titles for them in 2021.

Yeah, I think you are correct. And yeah, she sure didn't "get" the movie. It's not about men vs women, but more about how both men and women have to adhere to what society traditionally expects of them. In the end, Ken didn't care about this whole patriarchy thing, he just liked horses lol.

I understand what you’re saying, Ed, but I think the read is all wrong - the movie never posits that women are perfect, and is all about the expectation or facade of feminine perfection being eroded - the world is a much less perfect place than it seemed at the beginning, and the Barbies and real life characters reconcile the frustrations of that and learn to cope on their own terms. As for Kens, the movie puts on a very broad display of toxic traits, the kind of thing you would typically see in any movie that has a Jerk Boyfriend or something like that - and says that those are wrong. It’s the Kens play-acting the bad habits they picked up from the real world in a comical way. It doesn’t say that all masculinity was wrong. If pop megastar Shakira is saying that the buffoonish mistreatment of the Barbies is the ideal of being masculine, there’s no hope for her and I hope she can find solace in her millions of dollars.

You seem a little bit nervous. Don't need to cry: we're all just debating stuff here and an opinion that goes against your own is not gonna hurt you. I advise you to take a deep breath and count to ten before answering a comment you didn't like on the internet (not only here on JWFan, in hellholes like Twitter or Reddit people would be way less polite than me you said these things to them). Also, if you haven't seen the movie, go do it. You will look less of a fool in a discussion about a movie. Anyway, I don't even know if you opened the link I posted and read the news article (don't worry: it's Variety, not Fox News) or if you just read the headline. But she said: TL;DR: She's a mother of two boys who want them to have positive role models of masculinity that also respect women. She doesn't want them to grew up with their self esteem damaged because society taught them men are evil but bumbling fools while women are perfect (in the ending of the movie it's clearly stated that their Barbie utopical world is utter perfection with all women in charge). Just that. She didn't say that women can't be empowered or something. It's not a zero sum game. Men can be decent people while keeping some positive traits of masculinity and respecting women. Women can be empowered and have lives of their own without becoming the very oppressor they were fighting against for centuries. Men and women, straight or queer, cis or trans, they should all compliment each other and unite for a common cause: the survival of mankind. Instead, the internet incentivates division, anger, hatred, rancor, etc. Thanks to people like you, who start throwing offenses and attacks whenever confronted with an opinion that's not your own.

"Now, how does this karaoke thing work?"

When he ripped it in 2021, the titles weren’t on BSX’s website. The titles he has are slightly different.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/10/BAGJGMSURB1.DTL

Rushing to write music for Ready Player Two

I think this was the first time I ever looked at the beginnings of this thread! WOW! Hee hee hee. Anyway, I came here to make everyone feel old in a DIFFERENT way. At this point the only Doctors I had seen other than Tom Baker were in magazines and The Five Doctors. Here in the States we hadn't even seen the costume yet. I was just taking my first steps into the ridiculousness that is fandom. I think this is probably right around the fortieth anniversary of my first convention as well! (Yup. April 20–22, 1984!)

Far From Heaven - Elmer Bernstein What a gem of a score. I could listen to the main theme for hours