mrbellamy

For what it's worth, I Googled a few different websites for DNS searches on JWFan and they all told me Helsinki, Finland.

Last Starfighter was never as beloved as Toy Story to begin with The makeover Toy Story could most use is Andy. But then again I don't know that it would actually improve the film by updating him to his Toy Story 3 design

By the way the thread title is overdue for an update

One of the tacky things about the Walk of Fame is that you have to pay for it. $75k, either yourself or I think usually a sponsor covers it (like the studio for whatever movie they're currently promoting) Obviously I don't see JW footing the bill. Maybe the fee has been offered by any number of people or entities (Spielberg's a no-brainer, and I could imagine the subject came up with Disney/Lucasfilm in the last ten years) and he may just think it's a waste. Whereas he'll accept an award if someone just wants to give him one.

Yeah but also more famous people than JW don't have one either. Clint Eastwood doesn't.

I'm kinda convinced it's been offered and he's declined it.

I do agree that it's definitely rarer that I am blown away by Thomas Newman these days, or even wrapped up in the familiar cozy blanket of his style, but it does happen. I relistened to Bridge of Spies not too long ago and forgot how much I love the end credits, it's classic 90s-00s Newman in that vein. 1917 was the last time I really felt like he had the juice but I haven't listened to everything he's done recently. I heard awesome things about Elemental and it didn't grab me the one time I listened to it casually, but maybe it would in the movie, which I am not going to watch anytime soon. But he is still one of the few left where I am always ready for another great surprise. He does bring his A game every so often. Williams is the only one where even the "boring" ones set themselves apart and to me that's always in the melodies. Everybody repeats themselves but if it's at least got some tunes, I'm in. Williams is the only one to me who's never once brought absolutely nothing in that department. He's come up slightly short but there are so many scores that I put on including by composers I love like Newman where I truly have no idea what I just listened to when it's finished.

As far as I've ever been able to tell, it's just based on those scores needing a lot of rewrites and John Williams commenting in concert that it's nice to perform "Scherzo for X-Wings" so it can be heard without all the sound effects. But I've always taken that as a bit of cheek and it's not a problem exclusive to Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker. JW only ever said nice things about Abrams and the movies, but of course that could be taken with a grain of salt since that was during promotion. My bigger clue that he didn't hate it like JWFan sometimes wants to believe is that he always commented that he found working on the sequels "luxurious" especially in terms of schedule. Maybe we'll get the real deal in the biography lol.

That's #2 #1 is he will never visit JWFan.com

Blast from the past

Mr Chips

It's kind of an odd thing because I love music-driven movies more than anything else but I actually tend to prefer musicals and soundtracked movies at their very best more than the majority of scored movies. I think there's something about a director as good as Kubrick who could really craft a whole movie and beautiful sequences around existing music and it's also more likely that the music will have a special prominence, whereas it can often feel like even great scores are more like supporting players. It's obviously one of the things I love about Williams is that he makes me feel like this is the music the director had in their head the whole time, especially Spielberg. Or like, I still think the Red Shoes ballet and the ending of Black Narcissus are maybe the greatest pieces of musical direction I've ever seen but I'm not like a Brian Easdale worshipper? His music is almost there to allow Powell/Pressburger's filmmaking to fully express itself in musical terms, it's weird. I feel that way about certain films with an unparalleled lyrical, poetic, rhythmic spirit set to like...very accomplished music that I enjoy lol. I sort of feel this way about Kieslowski and Almodovar's collabs with Preisner and Iglesias. On the other hand, Fellini/Rota is also the kind of thing I love to see but I'm more of a Rota person than a Fellini person. To answer the question, I think Wizard of Oz will always be my favorite movie, it's always been there for me. The underscore is a hodgepodge but I love that for what it is and the song score is king. Looking down my lists, I think my biggest crossovers with favorite films and scores would include Close Encounters, ET, Once Upon a Time in the West, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future. It's probably LOTR if I had to pick one thing to count for both. A handful of other Spielbergs, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Taxi Driver would be up there. Real soft spots for Prisoner of Azkaban, Far From Heaven, Sense and Sensibility. I like Star Wars movies, of course, but it's really the scores for me. To reiterate my original point, I honestly couldn't love George Lucas more than whenever I rewatch American Graffiti

Yeah it's really unfathomable what that last week of his life must have been.

It's grim no matter what but a relief (?) that suicide does not seem to be a factor.