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Posts posted by Richard Penna
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You mean wouldn't...
I didn't buy Caspian, but that's only because it's much darker and has passages that really aren't particularly interesting, I suspect, unless you've seen the movie.
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Sounds good. I should be able to make it, although it will depend on timings with work & getting up to London.
Plus, I've never met anyone on this board yet which is a disgrace considering how much time I spend on here.
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A Shrek 2 pleb:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R32M11ZEDZNWA...=cm_cr_rdp_perm
I'm not as keen on this score, and yes, there are a few reused passages, but come on...
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Very true, that's even why some people don't like a couple of his scores, because of the use of synth.
Actually, you're right - this Amazon guy is so good he had me convinced!
Now I come to think of it, there are several Goldsmith scores I don't like much due to the use of synth... Hollow Man for example.
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Although Goldsmith continues his long-standing tradition of using a complete orchestra without any synthesizers,
A somewhat odd, although completely true observation... what does this guy not like about a real orchestra?
But it's the MI:2 one that takes the biscuit. Music fans like this need to be strapped into the machine the kid from Lost was found in, and subject to random JW music 24/7.
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Like those comments saying 'warning: this CD doesn't contain the actual songs used in the movie, just the classical incidental stuff'
*THWAAAPPPPP*
Edit - talk of the devil...
I bought this CD for basically two songs, the "Merry Men" song and the "Welcome to Duloc" song. They are both fun and in total about a minute and 30 seconds. They could easily fit on the first soundtrack CD. The instrumentals which are the other parts of the movie are ok to, but they work better when there is a picture to go with them :-).(referring to the Shrek score CD)
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What a twat.
As far as I'm concerned, the only time synths should be used are if the budget doesn't allow or the film doesn't call for it - an example being Erin Brockovich, which Clemmenson at Filmtracks absolutely blasts, but the film had an intimacy and character orientation that just didn't call for anything more than synths, with the majority of the film being unscored anyway.
Air Force One flippin' well calls for a real pulsating orchestra, not a Zimmer wall of sound.
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I hope to see The Godfather on the big screen in a few months - our cinema is having a free season of classic movies.
The thing I will say now though, is that all this stuff about Dark Knight overtaking it is just stupid. Partly because of all the comments above about trying to quantify the 'greatest movie', but also because it wasn't that good. I think IMDB has a problem with Batman fanboys, because no way in hell does this movie deserve a 9.x rating.
Shawshank - now there's a movie I can watch over and over and blows me away every time. Not the 'greatest', but again, among them.
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Hancock.
While it started off a little shaky, it got a little better and I enjoyed it. Obvious that so much stuff was cut out though, as several of Powell's cues were Lucas-ized.
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I recommend A.I.
Much of Minority Report is boring to me, and those 5 or 6 cues that I do like don't get a lot of playtime. Both are slightly darker scores, but I'd argue that A.I. is more upbeat and has far less background dissonance.
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Well, over here its about 10 Malaysian Ringgit for a movie ticket....which equates to about 3 USD.
$3? Are you serious?
A ticket at my local multiplex (the one where I have an unlimited card) is about £7. A popcorn though, even a small one, will set you back half that again. I never drink during a movie, but I'd imagine that would push it up to good £12-13, or what, $25?
Food at the cinema is a complete joke, but of course it's their main source of revenue. For the price of a medium bag of popcorn, I could buy 6 similar sized microwave bags from the supermarket.
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Wow. Just one of those things you don't see coming.
I haven't seen much of his work, but he was really good in the Ocean movies.
RIP.
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Yes, but the execution is far less.
There's no immediacy, or urgency.
characters seem to act out of the requirment just to move the plot along, not because they personally feel they have to.
Indeed. In Raiders, this is like the most important discovery of mankind, ToD they have a village of children to save, in LC Indy has to save his Father.
There's nothing like that in KotCS. Maybe trying to keep Irina off their backs, but that's hardly difficult.
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Torchwood just got released as a digital download. One of the few TV soundtracks where the cue selection seems quite good, although it's more serious than Doctor Who, and therefore much less fun. And I'd have crucified them had Gray's Theme not been included.
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I absolutely love Horner's one. It has a much more magical feel, and instead of ending with a crescendo, just kinds of fritters away into nothingness, making IMO a better and more mystical transition to the movie. I think the E.T. addition would also have worked better with it, because as it stands, it's going from Goldsmith's very firmly structured style to a much more loose string part that doesn't really work that great.
Edit - Jack, I don't know how actually wrote it, but the arrangement was definitely applied to Goldsmith's music, not Horner's.
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No, I meant the CD. But I just looked on Amazon and it isn't there. But then I'm not sure where the version I downloaded came from - I guess someone must've ripped it from the E.T. DVD and put it on.
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Funny thing is, well before the Joker was revealed in that scene, I knew it was him when the truck picked him up and on the street. Based on the trailers, I could identify Ledger's posture for his character. I mean, how cool is that when an actor can make his character recognizable down to how he stands? Superb.
I recognized him based on the music.
I did after he was revealed.
What I loved about that opening scene was not just how he was revealed, but how that grenade thing kind of foreshadowed how he would play with others' lives for the rest of the movie. He has a kind of random humanity about him that really reflects modern society.
It really is the Joker's movie. I could easily watch that character for a whole nother movie, which just makes Ledger's untimely death even more tragic.
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Pretty uninteresting even for a geek - just a USB hub.
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Please God don't let there be another one.
I mean I enjoyed KotCS, but I do remember coming out feeling a little disappointed.
I guess the excitement of actually being around to see an Indy movie on the big screen was really setting us all up for a disappointment unless the movie really delivered a 'wow' experience, which I would say it didn't come close to. I mean by the final scene with Irina meeting her maker, I had pretty much stopped caring. The special effects had gone beyond Spielberg's promise and the skyward shots of the spaceship made me seriously worried about what was coming up. Fears that were shortly confirmed. The end was rescued from ruin for me by the fedora business though; a nice touch.
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Yeap. And it's on the 20th Anniversary CD if you're looking for the audio.
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I ordered The Forbidden Kingdom from Amazon. It is a CD-R copy of the score though, which puzzles me a little. A lot of the reviews complain about the CD arriving damaged because of wet adhesive dripping onto the surface of the disc. Thank you moviemusic.com, which had a thread about the score, which I didn't even know was released.
If it makes it easier for scores to be released when pressing might be too expensive, then I guess it works, but they shouldn't be compromising on the quality like that. For ink/glue to still be wet really speaks of just-in-time production gone mad. Now I've done business studies and I know how cost-saving it can be, but you need to at least have a saleable product come out of it... meh.
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I heard this song on the radio a few weeks ago, and immediately went on a search to find out what it was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nf078KIy7g
Now the style of song really isn't my taste as I hate rap, but it's the melody starting at 0:36 and repeated a gazillion times, that just melts my heart. This song never fails to put me in a good mood. Would make a great love theme IMO, in fact I challenge anyone to listen to this a couple of times and not be humming it for the next week.
I don't own any pop music albums or listen to it on the radio or TVWhat a sad statement.
Indeed.
Even saying this as a film music fan, you're missing a lot of great songs that frequently have the same effect as a great piece of score.
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I think you've hit my feelings right on the head - it's the pretty much nonexistent plot which meant that by that time, I really didn't care what happened.
I do however think that with the right plot and film type coming before it, that scene would've worked.
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I actually love both the scene and the music. I just don't think the scene fits an Indy film.
John Williams concert in Gent
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That's the guy who conducted at the one and only film music concert I've ever been to.
Why do these damn composers never come to our lonely little island?