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  1. All these heroic militaristic fanfares? You mean that one 3-minute cue? Big deal.
  2. Read Pauline Kael's 1979 review of 'Alien' and realize that the post-Alien world really wasn't much different from the pre-Alien world.
  3. I mean, the score's almost brilliant and that's what counts, but that cover looks like secondhand videostore, ca. 1994.
  4. No, take another pick. But hey, if there are guys who think 'The Abyss' is good music, who am i to argue? But this doesn't belong in a AVATAR 2-thread but a much bigger question FILMmusic vs. filmMUSIC. Sadly you would have to title it 'User Mattris from Star Wars Disenchantment thread held captive Kathleen Kennedy until she confessed that Emperor Palpatine was Jabba's brother' to get some attention.
  5. That's were we differentiate: i consider this stuff loved by either deaf guys or guys who are much more in love with movies than with music (as Music). Is Abyss great? Titanic? Probably for guys that like movies more than music, but to me as a purely music-driven person, i have a hard time accepting that people find stuff like that the pinnacle of the medium.
  6. I never forget that Don Davis interview which i will quote here (it proves Cameron musically has something like the lowest common denominator and has been pretty successful running with it):
  7. Never doubt Cameron's talent for submerging any composer's original talent.
  8. No he shouldn't. To have some assistent hack elevated to mad genius level is wrong on all levels.
  9. Prisoner's Song is imho one of the top three additions.
  10. Nice for a background listen, like one of those countless Zimmer et al. nature documentary scores. I am convinced Simon Franglen is just an AI that put together 50% recent Horner stylistics and 50% trailer clichés and that's the result.
  11. Very static LOTR, meaning i vastly prefer his more varied Cornenberg/Crimes of the Future writitng.
  12. I preach it since it came out: listen to this 1998 Disney movie and you have all elements (especially percussion, twinkling synth, tribal chorus) from 'Avatar' you need, and imho it's a much better score.
  13. I saw half of it and the vacant stares freaked me out so i just stopped it. The whole plushy american idea of christmas and mountains of presents wrapped in what looked like those fake Macy's gift boxes, it was all a bit much.
  14. You got it wrong: the 2010s and 2020s film and tv industry just has the least interest in music as an artform compared with the decades before. So the best you can hope for now is a smart director who values music, and in the mainstream field unfortunately they all fell under the Zimmer spell (Nolan, Villeneuve).
  15. What i was additionally getting at is this kind of backwards, almost reactionary treatment of the 'nature' people in this world the movie portrays so vividly (you have a problem when stuff like 'Moana' runs circles around your own indigenous tribes). It's really not a very nourishing topic, it's Avatar 2, Cameron has turned into the George Lucas prequel phase of his own franchise and even suggesting it would have taken little effort to create a more engaging conflict beyond big white guys with huge machines fighting noble savages (again!) riles many people here and elsewhere up: they have been trained over decades to defend what little they get. So the rest has to contend itself with the occasional spectacular corral reef diving sequence and that's that. I'm just curious what Cameron has in mind for A3...the world is built, what's next? Tribe vs. tribe, maybe? (he may have seen Wakanda by now).
  16. Yes and i said why. To counter that with what you wrote doesn't make any sense, since i singled out very specific points, you came up with just the most basic generalities that can be applied to any dumb blockbuster. But i hand it to the companies, they did a great job training the disciples.
  17. Did you even read what i wrote? Because nothing you write here indicates that. And yes, we got it already in several posts before yours that this movie needs no 'crazy' story. So rest assured, you will have a great time at the Multiplex.
  18. That is exactly the problem. The Golden Age of TV was a rare period when there wasn't a huge explosion of 'content', but a comparably tiny number of 'special' shows with often original topics which had time to develop, spread their wings, develop a fanbase. It was just not like old tv anymore (save Twin Peaks) and now, the dust has started to settle after everyone joined the wagon, looking for the biggest market share, and the landscape it’s revealed is dispiritingly familiar. More Marvel, LOTR and GoF, as well as canceling less broad mainstream appeal shows that would have had considerably more time in 2012. So of course there are good shows, but often enough they escape and are not nurtured the way HBO did that, or early Netflix. I see enough shows for at least one episode and it's easy to tell which ones have potential. And these are quite rare.
  19. Obviously the circus and traveling cues, which (re) use a handful of motifs. But the main theme clearly is the only really sing-along tune. It's too long by at least half an hour, but the boy's singing voice is so grating i had to skip these parts. And there are quite a few of these singing parts in it.
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