Richard Penna

Many happy returns

Hehe, nicely edited I want to know as little as possible about any Dr Who plots so I won't look at that invisotext.

One of his best. 4.5

It is a good movie not to like. After Cuaron opened up the series to some real artistry, Newell infantalizes the audience once more, and does it with a poor sense of composition and staging. I disagree.

I've done several edits, but my biggest project so far was a 40 min DVD rip of the BBC series Life on Mars. The DVD mixing is so lame in places that it's almost like listening to a CD, and no sfx beyond a little wind and rain in a couple of tracks. I'm also trying to find the DVD of Ashes to Ashes, which I'm not sure is out, to rip the odd cue from that. Previous to that it was a nearly complete The Edge by Goldsmith.

I wouldn't mind if he went on tour for a few years. He's done nothing since Pirates 3 that excited me, and it'd be nice to hear some 100% orchestral recordings of his music (I know there are some, but more...). JNH just needs to sllooooww down a bit. He's spreading his talent way too thinly at the moment. In fact, my heart really warms when I think about what we could have right now if he'd done Dark Knight solo.

Ok, so how many people on this board actually liked the movie? Come on... hands up, I know you're there.

I prefer Tombstone as well, but this one has its moments, along with a beautiful set of themes of course. 3 stars.

I'll be buying Blood on my Hands, Harvey Two-Face and Watch the World Burn from 7Digital as soon as tomorrow comes in about 1 1/2 hours. The only 3 tracks from the score I appear to like, and damn good they are.

CoS is easily the worst movie for me. I just don't think Columbus is up to a big fantasy adventure.

*Curious*

I consider an awful lot of scores better than AotC. It's not difficult.

Caught Mike Judge's Idiocracy last night on Sky. Part of me wants 2 hours of my life fully committed to whatever else I was doing. The other part found it almost funny.

Yeap... Gotta disagree there. Again not great at all, but a decent adaptation.

Never even heard of this one.

Men in white coats approaching... Seriously... while I respect your opinion completely, I just don't understand why some consider this so bad. It's nowhere near being a great score IMO, and lacks a lot of development that most other composers would give, it's still good music. He was doomed the moment he signed onto the project I think.

3. Average. I think it was a mistake to not bring back David Newman for this one, and to drop all thematic continuity from the first score, which established a firm set of truly memorable themes and ideas. The score on its own though, disregarding the first score, doesn't quite hit the spot for me. Some nice themes, but particularly some of the action sequences didn't really make a good listen for me.

Dammit Johnny T, get your ass over here now!

Are some people on this board listening to some alternate score for GoF? Sure, it's no Williams and it gets a bit repetitive, but I find it a damn entertaining score. I have it on CD, during a period a few years back when I only bought stuff I really liked. Ok, there are a few tracks scattered through the CD which are boring as well, The Maze for instance, but there are some memorable waltzes and I find some of the action stuff quite exciting. Salacius hit the nail on the head with Hooper's though IMO - it just felt to me like it was just barely doing what it needed to do and not much else. It didn't even have a real choir...

I thought it would take a little longer for that sort of reply. I'd love either JNH or Murray Gold to score a Potter movie. I'm not saying they would be better than Williams, I'm just interested in how they'd approach it.

I also found it last week. I didn't give it a hugely detailed listen, but enough to get a flavour of every track, and 'Why So Serious?' wasn't among the ones I liked - I'm not sure what people hear in it TBH.

I'll probably try for opening day. I saw Indy on day 2 and the cinema was probably about half full by the time the movie started. Now why the hell is this not getting a simultaneous worldwide release?

I'm avoiding all trailers and clips for Wall-E and Dark Knight. I have high enough expectations for both of them that I want to go in as 'blind' as possible. I made that mistake with the Simpsons Movie, the trailer for which endlessly repeated several scenes to the point where they just weren't funny any more when you finally saw them on the big screen.

I don't think anyone's denying the fact that it probably works like a house on fire in the movie, and heck, after seeing the movie I may well give the album a second chance (I did listen to a pretty pooty quality version as well), but a disastrous initial listen doesn't really bode well for an independent listen. I can literally hear my brother's forthcoming comments when we walk out of the cinema and I remark about how generic and rubbish the music was. He just doesn't get it...