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And the old BBC logo. But not the style of reporting. They still go in for those dumb gimmicks.

I enjoyed those samples very much. Looking forward to the album!

Fantastic! I don't own this yet, so I'll definitely get this one ASAP.

A good bunch, no doubt (though we don't know about Indiana Jones yet, obviously), but I don't think that eight years can really compare to the eight years that gave us Black Sunday, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Fury, Jaws 2, Superman, Dracula, 1941, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heartbeeps, E.T., Monsignor, Return of the Jedi, The River and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Better scores, and more of them. Don't get me wrong, I think Williams's current output is still very impressive, but his "peak" was in the '70s and '80s, IMO at least.

A solid three. I enjoy it, but I don't think it's "great" in any way whatsoever.

If I like it enough to see it more than once, I will. If I don't, I won't. Just like any other movie...

Hadn't realised there was going to be a Taking of Pelham One Two Three remake. Koepp's done a few good scripts (I'm a big Carlito's Way fan), but most of his work is horrible IMO.

I won't. It's the films I'm interested in, and I already own them. The extras on these sets don't even look that interesting.

It's not exactly realistic, but for sheer entertainment value Errol Flynn vs. Basil Rathbone in Robin Hood has yet to be topped. Bond vs. Grant (and also the incredibly tense build-up to the fight) in From Russia with Love is also a terrific sequence. And the fight in Marion's bar earlier on in Raiders.

You beat me to it.

Something from Superman. Probably "Star Ship Escapes" or "The Flying Sequence".

I think the oldest film I own is The Kid. As for the main question: yes, definitely! The Third Man is one of my 2-3 absolute favourite films of all time, and lots of others (Casablanca, Sunset Boulevard, Bride of Frankestein, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, King Kong) are among my favorites. I grew up watching a mixture of colour and b/w films, so I never really thought about it. It certainly never bothered me. As for the Universal horrors, I haven't seen two many, but I absolutely love the first two Karloff Frankensteins. I remember liking The Invisible Man as well, but I haven't seen it for ages.

Thanks, very interesting! Listening now. And I always thought it was pronounced vah-rays.

It's a minimum of three days.

Tied for first, with Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann.

A reel doesn't have to be 20 minutes. I think that's just the maximum. You often get reels shorter than that.

It's North by Northwest.

I'm going to try and wait until after seeing the movie, but I'll probably fail.

Unless Kael said it as well, that quote came from John Simon, in his review of The Omen -- "Most annoying, however, is the music of that pretentious hack Jerry Goldsmith, who has cannibalized Stravinsky without crediting him."

"Fast Streets of Shanghai".

Isn't the film version just the same, but shorter (with the start of the End Credits cut off)? Or is there some other difference?

If you don't know the album, it's the scene when Tuco is searching in the graveyard. You can't miss it.