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I dig it! The middle ostinato is more present than I'd like, but I like the subdued, twilight-years quality of the melody.
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I found it compelling, but wish it was tighter than it was and leaned into the surreality of its mythological material more. It's worth the watch though.
But yes, it is probably the weakest of the three Eggers films. And The Lighthouse remains his strongest work.
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Many video games have outdone this kind of thing design-wise since the first film anyway.
It all seems so unimaginative.
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All the close-up stuff looks great, some of the wide stuff, not great.
But wow, what a bore visually, in terms of production design. All the footage looks like it could be spliced in anywhere in the first film. I'm confused as to why we need four more entire movies of this? And why anyone would actually care 15 years later?
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Can't wait to dig into it soon! Glad to hear the new season is another strong one.
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Can anyone tell me what the best presentation of Interstellar is? Sounds like there were a lot of really cool things that were tried and recorded in the sessions, but so little of it seemed to have made it to the OST.
Things like these minimalist oboe figures:
Clearly this work was an ambitious undertaking. I just wish the whole score leaned more into those Reich/Glass-esque ideas and embraced its natural acoustic properties more. The clips in the video above sound lovely, but I think some of that material ended up sounding over-produced on the OST itself.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
What a joyride! Just one of the most fun experiences I've had in the cinema in such a long time. It's an absolutely bonkers film that never eases up on its strangeness (unlike many lesser films that promise "weirdness"). And yet, it's quite emotional too. Michelle Yeoh is an absolute revelation and has such fantastic comedic timing. A career best performance, really highlighting her strength as an all-rounder. Hope she gets much deserved awards attention for this.
Overall, it can be a lot, and the third act climax could probably shave off a good 10 minutes, but it holds together and strangely works really well. Easily the best film of 2022 so far.
Also, plenty of thoughtful, super clever references and easter eggs in there that are ripe for re-watching.
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4 hours ago, Stu said:
I guess now is as good a time as ever to come out of the closet and admit I never got much into TROS. Right now it's easily my least favorite Star Wars score. I tried! But really, do people actually find "Anthem of Evil" to be an effective theme? Ignoring its use in the film, I find the theme itself very weak.
Finally!! Someone speaketh the truth!
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Ah nepotism babies…
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2 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:
Extinct (M Giacchino Jnr) - some fun ideas, but with so many changes in gear and tone, it's never really as engaging as it could be. Curiously doesn't really sound anything at all like M Giacchino Snr, but seems like he has potential as it's certainly fun and technically competent. If Michael is Alfred, will he be Lionel, Thomas, David, Randy, Emil or... Joey?!
Wait...how old is Giacchino's son?
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Pachinko by Nico Muhly
Muhly is a wonderful composer and his concert music is sophisticated engaging stuff. But I find his writing for film/TV tends to get obscure and even aimless, like a collection of gestures that don't really form a cohesive bigger picture. With that said, the gestures here are lovely, when they get to shine. It all just starts to become kind of anonymous with over an hour of shimmering winds, piano clusters, strings and cooing vocals...This kind of thing really just needs a strong main theme to anchor all the texture/colour.
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The TSO had the world premiere of Philip Glass' new Symphony No. 13 "Truth In Our Time" and it was...a big dud. Tired, anemic arpeggios chugging along all-too-familiar harmony, with limp form/structure to sustain it. Meh.
The rest of the program was good though, featuring Shostakovich and Korngold's violin concerto, whose sublime second movement saved the night:
It was also nice hearing where Williams drew a lot of his harmonic and idiomatic writing from in the concerto.
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19 minutes ago, Glóin the Dark said:
Duh. I couldn't think of anything but You Were Never Really Here, and was sceptical about it outdoing The Rise of Skywalker financially.
That would be the kind of miracle I'd very much be in favour of.
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2 hours ago, JTW said:
Far worse than smacking someone in the face at the Academy Awards watched by entire Hollywood and millions of people, including children worldwide? I don't think so.
Oh please. Will Smith will be fine. Chris Rock will be fine. Both men know where they screwed up and have probably made up behind the scenes. Things that shouldn't have been said were said, and Smith reacted emotionally. And he was wrong to do so. But people screw up, and he's admitted as much. This is not a pattern. And I certainly don't think that warrants recalling his Oscar, nor does it discredit the work that him and the rest of the crew have down on that film (I haven't watched it, but it looks tailor made for his dramatic instincts).
The media will ramble on and project larger messages/"hot takes" onto this incident for a week and and then move on to next news cycle. And then it'll become a historical footnote like the Adrien Brody kiss.
1 hour ago, HunterTech said:Also, bringing up a very likely abuse victim in Johnny Depp for your comparison of an actor being despised and actually calling Smith "mentally ill" is not a good look, dude.
Indeed. Some of these vitriolic reactions are more troubling than the incident itself in my opinion. It exposes how little people understand or how lightly people take both real physical and mental abuse.
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This is amazing! The Joffrey Ballet is a legacy institution and it's exciting to hear Newman working in those spaces. Hopefully it'll inspire him more than films have been lately.
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3 hours ago, AC1 said:
You probably were thinking of the Batman movies, right? Nope! Just like me Villeneuve opts for Dunkirk AKA JWFan's least favorite Villenneuve flick.
What's your point? Villeneuve just clearly draws from the aesthetic palette that Nolan built over the years, and has shaped his own career after Nolan's (mostly pre-Dunkirk), where he takes "arthouse"-esque sensibilities and applies it in service to bigger blockbuster tentpole features and sets.
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5 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:
Smith shoulda slapped whoever was responsible for deciding NTTD deserved Best Song.
Agreed. But a Bond song always wins that category. Second to that, will be a Disney/Pixar song.
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13 minutes ago, Bayesian said:
If this thing blows over for Will Smith, it'll be in large part because of Chris Rock's class act response -- rolling with the punch (literally) and not making any kind of reaction to it (which, incidentally, allowed people to originally wonder if it was all being staged), managing to crack a joke to break the tension even after the show's producers did nothing, and then publicly stating he wouldn't press charges. Rock will come out the winner here, I feel, even if his joke was in poor taste. Which it was.
Lol. This, along with most media headlines, is a pretty one-sided take. Chris was the provacateur. He's been cracking low-blow "jokes" and going after Jada for some time now. And alopecia, is not something to joke about.
Assault is clearly wrong. But Chris was the one in control here. He knew what he was doing, and he is no hero.
2 hours ago, Edmilson said:Actually, yesterday's ceremony was an utter disaster, and not just because of the whole Smith/Rock fiasco.
Here's a funny breakdown of all the Academy's poor choices:
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/2022-academy-awards-review-bad-show-will-smith-1234711870/
Ha! Had no idea this was the longest ceremony since 2018...what a joke! So they cut 8 categories, and STILL went overtime with stupid twitter lists and BTS talking about why they like the new Aladdin?
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Haha oh yea! That was some deserved comeuppance for the Academy trying to emotionally manipulate its audience. most amusing.
But this year’s brawl was even more out there I think.
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That was controversial? It was always the front-runner.
Unless that’s a joke, and my brain is too tired to read subtext :p
Anyway, I don’t remember anything as crazy as this happening during the Oscars for years…
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10 minutes ago, Manakin Skywalker said:
I'm not saying the Will Smith thing was staged at all, but it's interestingly convenient that every year there's exactly one big controversy, no more, no less.
What was last year’s incident?
Natalie Holt's OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022)
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I watched the first episode of this, and I can't lie...Holt's score was massively disappointing. Granted, the whole episode felt like a sterile SW spinoff, with little cinematic scope.
The classiest thing was easily Williams' theme. And the showrunners clearly knew that, since they were milking the variations ad nauseum. The Obi-Wan theme variations sound distinctly different from the rest of the trailer/Zimmer-esque score in style and orchestration, so I suspect the theory that William Ross handled all that material holds true.
It's disappointing because I thought Holt showed some promise with Loki. At least with what I've heard from The Mandalorian, Ludwig's textural explorations had a real personality to them. The score here, mostly sounds like budget 2000s TV music, but maybe it gets better? I doubt I'll be continuing with the show anyway.