Not Mr. Big

3:11 - 3:45-or-so of Mr. Adams Takes the Case.

Han and Leia has a killer version of The Resistance March!

John Williams - The Force Awakens
 
It's been a while and I still love all the occurences of Rey's Theme.  The Resistance march continues to make his way to my mind.
 
I'm frustrated that the blu-Ray will only comes out in April... I only saw the movie once and... I badly want to see it again, but not in cinema. The first images of Episode VIII re-started my Star Wars urge!

A.I The Artificial Intelligence 
I think I actually prefer the mostly atonal and understated first half of this score to the more outward and overtly emotional second half (which can be exhausting to listen to in full)

The Disney "films" have turned Star Wars into a blatant ca$h grab.  I miss the old days when filmmakers were more preoccupied with creating complex iconic characters like Count Dooku and General Grievous than selling action figures.

Never been much of a Conti fan to be honest.  

New footage looks awesome!  I can see this film really bringing something different and unique out of Williams.  

"John, who played Finn in the space opera blockbuster, said he is hoping multi award-winner John Williams wins for his Star Wars score."

I can't say that I really want to see The Martian very much.  It looks like I fucking love science: the movie.  A movie tailor-made for the snarky and ironic Reddit crowd.   
Then again, I haven't seen it myself.  

I can't say that I really want to see The Martian very much.  It looks like I fucking love science: the movie.  A movie tailor-made for the snarky and ironic Reddit crowd.   
Then again, I haven't seen it myself.  

Nah.  BoS is a much better score.  I do like Inside Out though, and wouldn't have minded had it gotten a nomination.  

Roger Deakins!

The Disney "films" have turned Star Wars into a blatant ca$h grab.  I miss the old days when filmmakers were more preoccupied with creating complex iconic characters like Count Dooku and General Grievous than selling action figures.

The Witcher franchise is more than a simple high fantasy. For me, it’s even better than the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones). For example, the way they depict and treat sex is something that you’ll never find in a traditional high fantasy. The universe is rough, raw, and unforgiving. There are no black and white characters, everyone has a flaw or an agenda, and everyone is a complex character, even the peasants encountered during the smaller side-quests. For me, Ciri, Geralt’s daughter-by-choice is the best written character and best women character of the year (I think she’s better than Chloe or Max from LiS). I’ve played all 3 Witcher games and I recommend it to everyone (and the original Sapkowski novels and stories too of course). Unfortunately the first one is not really aged well graphically, and you can feel it’s their first ever game, the fight mechanics are weird, but even back then the storytelling was up to the task. It uses some awesome Eastern European folklore and influences, so it has a distinctly unique feel that is close to my heart as a Hungarian (We are historically close to the Polish).
The thing about the Witcher 3 in particular is that the story is its main focus. They’ve made it so that every little side-quest can have some serious emotional conflicts in it and tough decisions. For example there’s a little village. In this village someone contracts you to kill some monster terrorising the village, it seems simple. But as you talk to the folks and elders, you discover a complete history. Some say that the monster is a blessing, because they use it as a rite of passage for their young warriors. During the quest you discover that the monster can occupy someone so you start investigating. In the end, you can choose what to do, to kill the monster as a true Witcher, or to make some kind of deal with it, and every choice has dark consequences.
In this, the world serves the story and not the story serves the world as in other kinds of open world games. And it just oozes the passion that went into it in every little tree, monster, or character. My first play-through was 160+ hours, so you won’t see much progression in 5 or 6. I was a fencer in high school (the traditional Olympic kind), and I can say this with confidence that for me this game’s swordplay is the closest that gets to the real feeling. I played it on the hardest difficulty, and I was relieved when after 40-50 hours or so I’ve finally learnt the secondary defensive sign magic, it made a huge difference in terms of gameplay.
I’ll write another example that’s not a spoiler in any way. When I was around level 10-15, I saw an unidentified draconid flying through the air (it wasn’t tied to any quest), it did not care about me, and it was kilometres beyond my level, so I quickly got out of there. Lots of quests and levels later I was stronger, more educated on the nature of these beast from the lore (there’s a huge bestiary and codex), so I said to myself it’s time to deal with it, just for fun’s sake. I knew from the bestiary that it liked goat meat, and if I could confine it to a smaller place I could easily cut it down. So I devised a plan. I mind-controlled a goat so it would follow me and I found an abandoned ruin along the beast’s flight path, so I went there with the goat and waited. The beast came and went directly for the goat, I quickly jumped out and cut it down after a fierce fight. If that’s not the definition of role-playing a monster hunter I don’t know what is, and it wasn’t even a part of the written story, it was just me playing with the mechanics of the world.
 
 

The film is plenty of fun to watch. I think the score is REALLY good, with superb themes, however the bombast in the action scenes, and the orchestration overall, gets a little tired in places, as if Arnold was running out of ideas on how to make the orchestra sound even bigger. I think this mainly comes down to a lack of experience though. I love the music that plays when the spaceships cover the cities ("The Darkest Day") and the build up to the first strike ("Evacuation, Firestorm"). The softer moments are beautiful as well (e.g. "El Toro Destroyed"). 
 
 
Snap!
 
 

Suddenly got that little tag at the end of "Attack on Jakku Village" stuck in my head today. Vintage Star Wars transition!
 
 
 

I feel this way about posts I made a week ago.  

When you come across a post you wrote in your younger years...and think to yourself "How did I ever come up with this crap?"
 

E-Wan gave a pretty damn good performance in the prequels films and I believe that he would give an even better one with a director at the helm.  

Damn decent

It would be utter lunacy to create - let alone enforce - a policy against ripping music you've bought legally. Purchasing the album gets you the physical object itself, plus the right to privately enjoy the data stored in it. What difference does it matter if you transfer that information to another system in order to do so?
 
Is this a thing anywhere?

E-Wan gave a pretty damn good performance in the prequels films and I believe that he would give an even better one with a director at the helm.  

 
Fixed his typos.

It's okay. Just feels a bit limp compared to its predecessors.

 
Just when you think you've seen everything, the youtube comment section never disappoints in giving us a new surpirse.