[Any genre that JW didn't score a film in?]

7 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said:

 

 

Daisy would never let him come home again. 

[Justice League movie thread]

On 4/9/2021 at 9:00 AM, AC1 said:

It's not for the Godzilla crowd.

Justice League wished it had the entertainment value of half a Godzilla movie.

[Any genre that JW didn't score a film in?]

3 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said:

I'd like to see him do porn.

You like to HEAR him do porn.

 

At least I hope so.

[The DCU - DC Universe]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

It doesn't. The first one was called "Suicide Squad" 

This reply was written unironically.

[Is it possible to write the Best Film Score Of All Time in the 2020s?]

49 minutes ago, Bellosh said:

 

Better yet, what do you think the best score of all time is

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

[Is it possible to write the Best Film Score Of All Time in the 2020s?]

5 hours ago, Bellosh said:

Do you believe the greatest score has been written @gkgyver ?

Irrelevant.

Firstly, there has to be a best score ever up to this point purely because there’s always one best.

But secondly, whatever the best score up to this day is, the question is still can something equal or better be written today?
 

 

[Is it possible to write the Best Film Score Of All Time in the 2020s?]

There was a short period of time between 1980-ish and 2000-ish, where technological possibility met with golden age movie making and experience, which produced an absurd amount of all time classics. 

 

Likewise, the composers during that time embodied a perfect match of skills: still trained in the classical realm of writing serious music, while being able to draw from the established realm of film music from the Golden Age. 

 

Hans Zimmer ended that period. Yeah I'm that guy. Still, he ended it. 

 

Episode III and Return of the King, while the Zimmer craze already formed, marked the end of that forever. 

After that, blockbuster cinema consisted of Pirates, Transformers, Christopher Nolan, and Marvel, while the serious composers were pushed into niches and/or forced to dumb it down. 

 

I still maintain that collaborating with Hans Zimmer killed JNH's career. 

[Is it possible to write the Best Film Score Of All Time in the 2020s?]

1 hour ago, bruce marshall said:

You can always listen to the "old" stuff if you hate anything modern

 

Sure. 

And if you don't like any modern movies, you can just watch Raiders Of The Lost Ark over and over and over and over until you vomit. 

 

[Benjamin Wallfisch's Mortal Kombat (2021)]

Sounds like background music from a YouTube "20 Legendary Cat Vines" compilation. 

[Is it possible to write the Best Film Score Of All Time in the 2020s?]

Is it possible in this environment?
 

All time.

Better than everything. Is it possible to write a score challenging for this title?
 

PS: „Everybody likes different things“ argument is bullshit and doesn’t count. People not into Star Wars still acknowledge the mastery of the music.

 

Discuss. Yell at each other. Fight. Let there be blood.

[Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste - SOUL (2020)]

On 4/13/2021 at 12:24 PM, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

I think it's well desserved (at least more than their previous win for The Social Network). Soul is clearly the best soundtrack of 2020 and the only one which could or should have won. It's maybe not the best of all times but all year can't be as good and rich as 1982 or 2005...

Holy shit.

 

You think???

[Daniel Pemberton's ENOLA HOLMES (2020) + ENOLA HOLMES 2 (2022)]

What's an enola? 

[8 scores this century won every single music award. Which one is your favorite?]

Sad testament of Hollywood. 

[Do you admire George Lucas?]

The prequels are a bunch of ugly f'ing dungpiles, but George Lucas achieved what he wanted as a young guy, and that's more than I can say about 98% of humanity. 

[Amazon buys up Middle-earth, it searches the One Ring! (Rings of Power news thread)]

Amazing that movie companies ruin all film franchises these days. 

And now even a franchise that doesn't exist. 

 

(No, LotR and Hobbit aren't franchises, they are simply book adaptions). 

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)]

43 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

I think it would be cool for a brief mention or cameo from Mutt. I prefer when sequels in franchises actually acknowledge their shittier installments, instead of trying to hide them. 

 

"What do you think did this, kid? Aliens?" 

[John Williams returns for Indiana Jones 5]

Classic JWFan. 

 

New JW score is announced.

 

"I wonder if he will return to the glory days of yesteryear" 

"He won't" 

"hE mAY dO It sTiLl" 

 

JW proceeds to not return to the glory days of yesteryear. 

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)]

You're on a different planet if you think Disney won't shove their agendas into this like they did with Star Wars. 

 

We live in a time of intentional redefinition of culture. 

[Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste - SOUL (2020)]

22 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

Yes, but Newman didn't do it. R&R did. Instead of focussing on what you think the score should have sounded like in your head, or who should have been the composer, I think it's more fruitful to look at what it actually is and what they're trying to accomplish. 

 

Instead of focussing on what you think a relationship should be like, or what kind of woman you want, I think it's more fruitful to look at what your miserable wife actually is and what she's trying to accomplish. 

[Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste - SOUL (2020)]

32 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

One more time.

People who vote for these awards are not score fans or music scholars. They are wankers. 

 

[Junkie XL's JUSTICE LEAGUE (2021)]

Are they taking the piss at this point, making everything about superheroes colorless, preferably just black? 

[QUARTET RECORDS: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (2-CD SET) Music by Miklós Rózsa]

I'd be more interested in a restored version of the 200 minutes cut of the film. 

Because that sounds like a delicious disaster. 

[Which upcoming work excites you the most?]

9 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

Hmmmm....

After hearing the SW sequels and INDY IV I wonder if INDY V holds any surprises.

I REALLY hope he breaks out of the mold and comes up with a fresh sound.

Maybe, a new director will push him a bit.

 

You expect a 90 year old man, all time Oscar nominee, who got hired for part 5 of a series because he's established the sound of all previous parts, to "break out of the mold" and get "pushed a bit"? 

[Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste - SOUL (2020)]

Frisbees like this one is why the soundtrack genre is dying. 

There's no reason why you would pay any double digit price for a disc pressed full of irrelevant ambiance. 

 

I don't believe for a second that any of these people who voted for this listened to even one minute consciously. 

 

[Junkie XL's JUSTICE LEAGUE (2021)]

I did an experiment. 

Of 48 score cues, all of them except maybe 10 or 12 start with long, brooding, drawn out pads or other sounds. 

 

How do you listen to this without contracting narcolepsy? 

I've never skipped through an album this fast. 

If you don't grab my attention within 20 seconds, done. Next track.