[DC Extended Universe Thread]

3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Yes, he is!

He is, by a country mile, the best Batman/Bruce Wayne.

Any idiot built like a brick outhouse can beat people up, but Keaton gets the dichotomy of Bruce Wayne just right.

 

 

He never had good material to work with, but I still the actor who played Batman and Bruce Wayne the best was Val Kilmer. Great voice too

[John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!]

I've become a sort of a JW European Groupie, where these concerts are the perfect pretext to visit some great and interesting city and region. It was more than worth it with London, Vienna and Berlin

[The Official Christopher Nolan Church Thread]

1 - The Prestige

2 - The Dark Knight

3 - Memento

4 - Inception

5 - Interstellar (with several caveats)

[The Official Christopher Nolan Church Thread]

Tenet was unbearable in the cinema. The sound barrage was unrelenting. Between the assault on the senses and the narrative itself, it was all and all a very unpleasant cinematic experience 

[The Official Christopher Nolan Church Thread]

That's such a typical Nolan poster it almost looks like a parody at this point

 

 

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

He was also terrific as the voice of Ra's Al Ghul in Batman, the Animated Series 

[The Official Christopher Nolan Church Thread]

I kinda wish there's no narrative gimmick or high concept in this one

[Jurassic Park 2-CD (La-La Land) - 5th Of July 2022]

As silly and nonsensical that climax might be, it does give one my favorite musical thrills when that absolutely awesome "kaiju-like" fanfare steps in, just as the T-Rex defeats the last raptor, the banner falls and the dinosaur roars in triumph. It just makes my heart soar:

 

 

 

I love that fanfare so much I made it my ringtone. 

[Good funny music?]

 

[Intrada releases Elmer Bernstein's The Black Cauldron]

I'll give it a listen when I get home

[Name Film Scores that are often considered “GREAT” but you just don’t like?]

2 hours ago, publicist said:

 

My pick still is Titanic, a score i find deeply lowest common denominator, and cf above, i absolutely concur that my opinion doesn't count a bit. It's a classic, so be it.

 

I largely agree about Titanic, and no edition or expansion has been able to change my mind, but I must say I was very impressed by the track 2-1,2 Miles Down from the 4-cd expansion. Easily the highlight of the whole thing

[John Williams' DRACULA - MUSIC ONLY discussion]

It's one of the best JW expansions there is, in terms of improving the presentation and consequent appreciation of the score

["House of the Dragon" vs. "The Rings of Power"]

Absolutely no interest in either. GOT is bland and Middle-Earth without Tolkien is ridiculous and illegitimate fan fiction. And I though Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy was bad enough as it was

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (2022 films)]

For as good as The Batman looked and how well Pattinson embodied the character physically, I felt the movie had absolutely nothing going for it besides those qualities. I was very disappointed by it

[What are your non-Williams film score holy grails now in 2022?]

Premiere Releases

Dracula: Dead and Loving it (Mann)

Batman and Robin (Goldenthal)

The Bounty (Vangelis)

Troy (Yared)

 

Expansions

1492: Conquest of Paradise (Vangelis)

Dune (Toto and Brian Eno)

Brainstorm (Horner)

Sphere (Goldenthal)

Interview with the Vampire (Goldenthal)

Twin Peaks - The whole thing

 

Re-issues

The Burbs (Goldsmith)

 

Re-recordings

Spartacus (North)

The Ten Commandments (Bernstein)

The Killers (Rózsa)

Captain Blood (Korngold)

[Villeneuve's DUNE]

Lea Seydoux joins the cast as Lady Margot Fenring

 

 

[Taika Waititi to Direct New ‘Star Wars’ Film]

1 minute ago, mstrox said:

I wish more people wrote lush orchestral music too, but it’s pretty stodgy and perhaps disingenuous to say that music is no longer an essential part of the movie experience and is no longer able to be considered art.

 

 

In mainstream, Hollywood blockbuster scoring, I think it is absolutely true

[Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow 2022)]

People on the internet are too apologetic of multi million dollar productions with zero artist integrity that aim solely of making money out of a pre established brand

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

So after all the time Leia and Obi-Wan have been spending together, shouldn't Luke be the one comforting Leia when Obi-Wan dies in the first Star Wars?

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

The writing in this is just unforgivable. They can't get a pass for this. The standards are too low

[Ghostbusters: Afterlife]

Afterlife was bad enough. They have squeeze dry every single franchise these days

[The Box Office thread]

1 hour ago, Luke Skywalker said:

What is so spectacular about the top gun sequel? Was the first one such a classic to have this fanbase?

 

The movie seems to be particularly good (I haven't seen it yet, but the reviews are terrific) so I think it owes its success more to the reception and word of mouth it's been getting than to nostalgia 

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

I think the in only scene I've enoyed so far was the one with Obi-Wan and the Jawa in the cave. I'd much rather have a show centered around Obi-Wan living a somewhat clandestine existence in Tatooine than another galactic adventure with winks and nods to movies and meeting. legacy characters.

 

It helps that my favorite sequence in ANH is also the journey of droids till they meet Luke

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

15 minutes ago, Counterparts said:

Fans did it first.

 

True, but it still is creatively reprehensible

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

I don't particularly care about canon or continuity and I think it often restrains and contracts the storytelling, but when you make a show, relying on the goodwill and love for characters created and developed in far superior works of fiction, at least try not to demean these works nor do things that contradict their spirit and change their narrative flow.

 

The only possible way to interpret the spirit of the duel between Vader and Obi-Wan in A New Hope is that these two were former master and pupil and this was their first time meeting after having a major falling out. That's the whole spirit of the scene and of its buildup. To deny this is demeaning to the original film. And Disney so-called "storytellers" act more like lawyers looking for loopholes in the dialogue exchange between Vader and Obi-Wan to somehow justify them meeting again between episodes III and IV. It's lazy, it's trashy and its demeaning to the storytelling and narrative of the original film.

 

They have a good solution to avoid these sort of problems and creative bankruptcy: create your own characters and timelines and leave, for the love of God, the Original Trilogy alone, specially episodes IV and V