filmmusic

Today 2-3 more kids from 4th to 6th grade identified the Russian Dance as being the music from Home Alone!
I guess I have some very observant students! (and maybe potential film music lovers?)

Plot twist: it's actually music his cousin Kevin listens to.

I don't know if it's nostalgia talking (I saw this film at the theater at the age of 12), but this film is a masterpiece (among my 10 favorite films ever).
The characters (I identify with some aspects of both villains' characters, although I didn't turn into a villain ), the effects, miniature work (all these would be CGI today), the film score (among my 10 non-Williams favorite scores ever), the Christmas setting (the reason I love Christmas is because it creates an irony - the time when most people are supposed to be happy, the magic, etc. come in complete contrast to the real world where everything sucks!)...
Pfeiffer and DeVito are brilliant!
I cannot find a fault at this film..

Me too. Batman and Batman Returns are Danny Elfman’s magnum opus. What a damn shame he and Burton didn’t do a third film, I’m sure Elfman would’ve written yet another amazing Batman score. 

I get goosebumps every time in the main title sequence, with those swirling strings!

I get goosebumps every time in the main title sequence, with those swirling strings!

Today I was very impressed by a 2nd grade (!!!) student that usually doesn't pay attention and makes a fuss in the classroom.
I was showing in the class excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (the film from 1993 with Macaulay Culkin).
The minute he heard the Russian Dance he said:
"That's Kevin's music!"

 
Wow! a kid that young realized that John Williams was influenced by this music for the Holiday Flight in Home Alone!
 

Like for all, except South Park! 
 
edit: Make sure that Psycho includes the original mono mix. (in the errored disc it is a fold-down of the 5.1 track with new SFX. Now I don't know how you identify the old or new disc. You have to search a bit)
 

Like for all, except South Park! 
 
edit: Make sure that Psycho includes the original mono mix. (in the errored disc it is a fold-down of the 5.1 track with new SFX. Now I don't know how you identify the old or new disc. You have to search a bit)
 

I don't know if it's nostalgia talking (I saw this film at the theater at the age of 12), but this film is a masterpiece (among my 10 favorite films ever).
The characters (I identify with some aspects of both villains' characters, although I didn't turn into a villain ), the effects, miniature work (all these would be CGI today), the film score (among my 10 non-Williams favorite scores ever), the Christmas setting (the reason I love Christmas is because it creates an irony - the time when most people are supposed to be happy, the magic, etc. come in complete contrast to the real world where everything sucks!)...
Pfeiffer and DeVito are brilliant!
I cannot find a fault at this film..

I got these as well

Today I was very impressed by a 2nd grade (!!!) student that usually doesn't pay attention and makes a fuss in the classroom.
I was showing in the class excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (the film from 1993 with Macaulay Culkin).
The minute he heard the Russian Dance he said:
"That's Kevin's music!"

 
Wow! a kid that young realized that John Williams was influenced by this music for the Holiday Flight in Home Alone!
 

Today I was very impressed by a 2nd grade (!!!) student that usually doesn't pay attention and makes a fuss in the classroom.
I was showing in the class excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (the film from 1993 with Macaulay Culkin).
The minute he heard the Russian Dance he said:
"That's Kevin's music!"

 
Wow! a kid that young realized that John Williams was influenced by this music for the Holiday Flight in Home Alone!
 

I haven't watched this, but this is supposed to be the whole movie with Yared's score! 

 

The Penguin is a deformed monster who eats cats, spits bile and wants to kill children and sexually assault women, Catwoman is a 90 pound secretary who is pushed out of a high rise window by her boss and suddenly becomes an athletic dominatrix fighter who is capable of taking on Batman. Batman himself sadistically kills people without remorse. It's just a mean-spirited misanthropic weird Tim Burton movie that has nothing to do with Batman.

I don't know if it's nostalgia talking (I saw this film at the theater at the age of 12), but this film is a masterpiece (among my 10 favorite films ever).
The characters (I identify with some aspects of both villains' characters, although I didn't turn into a villain ), the effects, miniature work (all these would be CGI today), the film score (among my 10 non-Williams favorite scores ever), the Christmas setting (the reason I love Christmas is because it creates an irony - the time when most people are supposed to be happy, the magic, etc. come in complete contrast to the real world where everything sucks!)...
Pfeiffer and DeVito are brilliant!
I cannot find a fault at this film..

I prefer to see great movies that I have seen over and over again, than trying new movies that prove to be bad...
Anyway, this is Christmas period for me so I watch as many of my Christmas*  blu-rays/UHDs as I can.
 
*movies that are about Christmas or contain one or more Christmas scenes/settings.
 
On to watching Batman Returns now, and I will come back with my post about it.
(also, I was wondering: First Blood which I love too, has a couple of Christmas decorations here and there. Should I watch it in this period? Problems.. )

I like Die Hard 2. It still has that 20th Century Fox action movie feel to it. The third one feels more like a Le Studio Canal or Carolco movie, which just feels off to me. It doesn't help that Fox didn't initially release it on DVD in Australia, instead it was through Village Roadshow, which irrationally annoyed me and I refused to count it as a Die Hard movie.

Why the expression?
I love Die Hard 2! Maybe more than the first one.

Aren't you distracted by the tree when you watch the movie?
Which reminds me, I really should watch soon the Christmas masterpiece that it's called: Batman Returns! 

I like the Danny Elfman score
 
 

Can anyone explain to me why Powell's scores sound too bombastic, even in "quiet" moments?
Is it because he uses a large orchestra?

Can anyone explain to me why Powell's scores sound too bombastic, even in "quiet" moments?
Is it because he uses a large orchestra?

Yeah, I also listened  to it and I thought it was pretty good.
The Nosferatu score that should have been written for the 2024 movie (not that I've seen it of course).