Trumpeteer

You see, there are people who don't know it, and it wasn't my intention to rub it on anybody. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yada, yada, yada. We all know about it. Don't rub it in for those who don't have cable.

The Empire Strikes Back. It's an unequaled film score! It's a moving symphony! It contains arguably the most evil villain theme of all time. What more can you ask. || || V

I just want to say that if you listened to JNH's score in the film before you heard it on CD (as I did), you would have a better understanding of what JNH and Night were going for. Lots of terrorizing moments and some much-needed lighter ones. The score touches on both without leaning too much on one or the other. That opening title cue, which is really the theme for the aliens, threw me a little bit, but so did Psycho the first time I heard it. I thought, "Hey, I guess this is going to be a comedy." But you can't imagine what you can do to just a few motes to make it scary, exhilarating and triumphant. Just go see it. Then you'll know. Stop making judgments on scores solely based on CD releases.

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"Take My Breath Away," that Oscar-winning song from Berlin. Those five notes are so hypnotic. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," won the Oscar the following year "Angel Eyes" by Jeff Healy. Another hypnotic beat. And.... "My Heart Will Go On" Jeff, not :oops: by that last one

I just have to put my two cents in on a couple of things: Now, I don't know where I heard this, but I am pretty sure that the crescendo in the Superman theme is supposed to mirror the three syllables in "Superman"....da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da, DA-DA-DA! I think I read that Williams said this a while back. Oh, I wish I knew where. And as far as Unbreakable....I wasn't expecting another Sixth Sense. After all, the subjects were completely different. But I think the best part of the film happened in the epilogue...I really wanted to know how these two interacted after the revelation of who Jackson was. That would have made one hell of a film, much better than whatever the two-hour moody piece of junk was. Night simply didn't see where the strength in his story lied. But it maybe wasn't a piece of junk as I said before. I didn't mind it so much the second time.

That's great news, but as always I'll have to hear the score in the film first....and finding that film is as hard as finding an original Horner work. LOL (sorry, just had to have one Horner joke today).

When I made the Ritalin remark, I wasn't talking about the freneticness of the Moulin Rouge. I said it because Baz couldn't hold focus long enough for us to get an idea of what his film is about. Films aren't made just to be seen; they're also supposed to tell a coherent story.

I love them all. It's like trying to pick your favorite child: the jock, the brain, the shy one, the mama's boy or the rebel. They all have good traits in them. This is my 100th post!! I'm a regular now!!!! (Norm!)

To this day, I still believe Moulin Rouge is a very daring film. But it's not that great, and certainly was only deserving of its Best Picture nomination because of its costumes, set design and music choices. Baz, on the other hand, needs to take some Ritalin. The film lacked focus. It didn't know what type of film to be. I enjoyed the very exuberant, frantic pace of the first 40 minutes or so (right to the end of "Elephant Love Medley"), then it does a 180 and becomes a love story and an uninteresting tragedy ("cough, cough" -- oh, no, I'm coughing up blood!).:roll: True, this is a modern opera, but the love relationship wasn't viable enough for me. It wasn't explored fully enough to take me to the emotions I was supposed to feel at the end. I had expectations that were probably too high to enjoy this film on first viewing. But the second and third time I saw it, nothing changed. Still badly paced, and the onlyconstantly enjoyable parts were when Ewan sang. What an incredible voice he has. Jeff, who is still waiting for that film that will revive the musical genre -- and, as a side note, thinks that Amelie should have replaced MR as a Best Picture nominee

Damn, Mark stole my all-time favorite: Darth Vader's death. Mostly hearing James Earl Jones say, "Luke, help me take ... this mask off." Great reading of that line. Then the harp playing the last notes of Vader's theme as Luke sheds a tear. When I saw this film in 1997 in the theater I was crying so hard. Everyone thought I was looney. A close second would be Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia." His last words were very touching. Come to think of it, every time Hanks dies onscreen, it's memorable. But "Philadelphia" was the best.

I'm going to have to disagree on that one. A film score only has to do the first thing you mention. The reason the film composer gets paid to do a job is to primarily compose music that compliments the onscreen emotions and actions. Then, if there's to be a CD release, he or she may compose a suite of music. CD releases are most likely not considered at the onset of composing the score. It's just icing on the cake after a job well done. Jeff, who is probably part of the Jurassic Park generation, but knows that Jaws is the scarier and more innovative film

Well, here's one person who's going to cry foul at the Oscars next year.

And Jaws takes the lead! Jeff-- who has nothing better to do at work today than keep tabs on JWfan.net polls

I knew I would vote Superman before I entered the thread. But, I truly enjoy listening to Batman and Batman Forever. Both scores fit the feel of the film wonderfully.

Hey, I agree. In the film, it is a very bad editing job. But I still think the score is great fun to listen to. I guess Ricard is trying to tell me to take another listen to his pre-Aliens scores. Will do.

It's not coming on in New Mexico. :cry: :cry: :cry:

I knew it, and it is a great way to end a cue.

What's the Katchaturian thing? I'm anxious to know.

To blow your theory out of the water. Gladiator won best picture and it was a summer film. As was Forrest Gump and Braveheart. And here's another film to counter the argument: Silence of the Lambs was released on Valentine's Day!

[quote name="Frosty" Other composers I've met: Harrison Burtwistle' date=' John Corigliano, Lou Harrison, Thea Musgrave, Charles Wourinen, Leon Kirschner, Shalamut Ran. (Most of the above are Pulitzer Prize winning composers, except for Corigliano, Wourinen) Maybe he wasn't a Pulitzer Prize winner when he visited your university, but Corigliano just won a Pulitzer for a symphony. I can't recall the title, but it was written as a response to AIDS. I heard bits and pieces, and it's quite moving.

Oooh, they're neck and neck! Jeff -- who really doesn't think thhe voting should be so close

I was thinking that it was a lute, and was prepared to assert that fact. But it's probably a mandolin. The mandolin, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "a musical instrument of the lute family, with four to six pairs of strings stretched over a fretted neck ... played with a plectrum, which is moved rapidly back and forth to give a tremolo effect. The tremolo effect is a "rapid reiteration of the same tone," which is what is done on this cue. So there you go. Game. Set. Match. Jeff -- who learns something new every day