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  1. So why doesn't someone just write an e-Mail to Concorde to find out the truth? At present, anything we have are some minutes of doubtful importance added to an already fairly complete release of 'RotLA'. Even if they just amp up the running time of 'Indy 2+3' to 76 minutes each, it would be more than sufficient...if the person who'd selected the cues knows what he/she's doing.
  2. What really bugged me about 'Dark Knight's' music approach was that there was too damn much of it. There were scenes when people would just talk and the music loomed ominously over every word. And Zimmer himself complained about this wallpaper approach more than once. Hypocrite, i say.
  3. It's just not very funny...this makes it considerably less exciting than many 'not-better-made' comedies (read: those not equipped with an oversized budget). I'll give you that some setpieces are good, apart from that most people i know have turned it off after 40 minutes because there's just no real point to it. I pity someone who cannot at least name 50 films which are considerably funnier...so i guess i pity you. He was obviously lying about not having plans, in an effort to manipulate Dent. That's swell! And with this genius story stunt we again are in the sorrow territory of late afternoon TV dramaturgy. Let's be realistic here: the best thing they could come up with to get their radiant hero from upmost-defender-of-the-societal-justice-and-morale to the lowest form of sociopathic felon is ? And then comes Heath Ledger in a nurse uniform to inform him, a presumably 40 year old man (!) about the ways of the world and after 10 minutes he's so shaken he kills innocent children? When was the last time the arch defenders of this kind of bollocks have experienced human behaviour in the real world?
  4. 'The Dark Knight' I was somewhat appaled by the transformation of the Dent character. The shiny symbol stumbled because what happened to his girlfriend? And then he threatens children of people who don't really are responsible? Then he certainly had serious psychological issues before that happened... And what about this whole 'destroy the social order' by the Joker? He brags about being ahead because he doesn't follow plans but his whole scheme depends on slavishly executed.....PLANS? I'm too old for comic movies.
  5. Got it. It's orgiastically good and should melt the heart of the most misanthropic fellow without any ounce of romanticism in his genes. The musical splendor and gusto Rózsa offers here makes this now my officially most-beloved UBER-EPIC score of all time.
  6. Dear God, Morlock, do yourself a favor and at least go for 'First Knght' and 'The Shadow'.
  7. Well, what else is? (terribly impressive, i mean) And another thing: since i have the 70 minutes of 'The Shadow', i almost found a new Jerry-score! There's some marvellous cartoony action/adventure writing in stuff like 'Fight like a Man' which even has some V'jour shades...most of the bad reputation those mid-90s-scores have is partly a result of those shoddy 30-minute CD's, where the old geezer always left off key pieces, be it 'Shadow', 'Chain Reaction' or 'First Knight', maybe just to annoy the geeks.
  8. Since i have the 80 minute version of 'Chain Reaction', i REALLY like it. D'oh!!
  9. Yeah, why? To get the full scope of the fiasco? The last one i saw was 'Episode III', in the theater. And i still have bad dreams about the telenovela-like love'n fate stuff Georgieboy heaped on the shoulders of Portman and Christiansen. It IS embarrasing.
  10. I would be a happy camper if a typical modern fantasy score would sound like 'Golden Compass'. It has the elegance and thematic integrity of the old Williams and Goldsmith genre scores. If only Desplat would make a good concert suite out of it, it would be appreciated more. Only his action music is a bit on the wee side.
  11. Well both men had/have loving families, so i wouldn't overemphasize these little petty remarks. Goldsmith certainly hasn't lost sleep over this subject. Now, the ponytail may be in bad taste, but it's at least more hip (in a warped sense) than some old millionaire doing the circus bear routine on a parade wagon.
  12. He said that being master of ceremonies on a street parade wearing a silly hat is a rather offensive engagement and i tend to agree. But you just know that Goldsmith would've loved to indulge in some of the public awareness Williams got over the years.
  13. Well, if he would have said 'Yared's score was atrocious' one or two times less, perhaps. Horner comes off as a git, plain and simple. Not on the scale of denying the Holocaust or something to that effect but the smugness of 'i had to come to rescue the sinking ship', not even considering that to crawl before test audiences in the american midwest may have not been the only option for the producers, well that's just bad form. Especially when he bemoans the lowbrow state of movies nowadays later in the interview.
  14. And if we're honest, that's exactly the kind of sleaze we REALLY want to hear. I distinctly remember the uproar when Goldsmith did some harmless snide remarks in Williams direction in this conversation with his daughter and everyone got up in arms, carefully dissecting every word and crying how Goldsmith could possibly besmirch the maestro's name....
  15. In Rosenman's case, i find the lack of modesty not even a funny irascibility like with Herrmann. He works on a 'Star Trek' score and of course is the film (and music) the absolute highpoint of the series, he works on this or on that and always he comes out of it smelling like roses. Or if not, he's surrounded by illiterates who don't have a clue about nothing. I wonder how the occassional meetings of him with Goldsmith went. Had Jerry to bow before the master?
  16. Only through bad interpretation by overzealous film music fans. I can't remember any specific Goldsmith comment comparable to Rosenman, not in the slightest.
  17. Not really. It's just the most popular (read: US-bound) of his scores. I cringe whenever i hear people citing this, 'Mission to Mars', 'Untouchables' and maybe the Leones as reference point for Morricone. He did a lot more and a lot more interesting things in the 60s and 70s in Italy and France, mostly. There are several scores ('Marco Polo', , 'La Venexiana', 'La Tenda Rossa', 'The Maestro and Margherita', 'Secret of the Sahara', 'Prince of the Desert', 'La Califfa') which easily rival 'The Mission'.
  18. I like the stuff on the website but it sounds a bit Media-Venturish in it's approach - Newton Howard is skilled enough to make this his own, but still, the much-maligned 'Enemy of the Gates', a not-too-distant cousin filmically, now seems like a work of music history in comparison with it's bold orchestral approach.
  19. Is there any decent recording of the 'Voldemort' piece available? Of all the Harry-Potter pieces, i liked this dark theme as much as 'Hedwig's Theme' but it's never represented satisfyingly on any score release or on compilations known to me.
  20. If you listen to 'Spirit of St. Louis' or 'Adventures of a Young Man', 'Demetrius and the Gladiators' or 'Peyton Place', you can clearly hear a lot of stylistic traits of the very namefather of this board (i. e. 'Amazing Stories: The Mission'), so i guess Waxman has influenced the Hollywood sound much more than Tiomkin, who had a more idiosyncratic sound which i hear seldom referenced today.
  21. On a more positive note, i saw the italian original of 'Scent of a Woman' (1975) and it was great. Vittoria Gassman is the blind veteran (the Pacino-role) and he is gorgeously rotten and still a very complex character study. Of course, the sexual innuendo is amped up and the film is far less PC than the american version (why do the most catholic countries always produce the most liberal pictures? 'Malena' is another one of those...go figure) and more raunchy. Great - 4 stars out of five.
  22. The whole concept was risible. Giant bulldozers from beneath the earth awake and trying to wipe out mankind? Well, maybe 1890 but 2005, nobody should turn such naive concept into a 'serious' movie. Spielberg's usual misgivings about box-office appeal and how it's achieved by perplexing dramaturgical developments (the boy returns! thanks, Steven!!) are the final nail in the coffin. I really felt let down in the cinema then. Some well-made scenes of panic and destruction for the sake of telling this ruckus...
  23. The last sentence is rubbish and i agree with Mr. Olivarez that 'The Good German' is very close and for my money a lot more interesting, harmonically. Interestingly, i found a liking for the B-section of the 'Skull' theme which for me sounds like the only real 80s throwback of the score...the seducing woodwind solo is great. 'Mutt's Theme' sounds like a hoe-down but it's awfully slight even for a 3 minute piece. I want more of the Jungle chase stuff - it's the only part of the score i return to regularly.
  24. How is the unreleased part of 'Jungle Chase' musically? Theme-driven or more of the chaotic xylophone variety? Couldn't they have left of the boring filler stuff from the second half of the album (at the very least one of those tracks) to offer this one substantial loud track? Questions over questions....
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