DreamTheater
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A Christmas Carol is okay and has some fine Zemeckis moments, but it lacks the heart that the story demands. Scrooged succeeded in that area.
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Wow! That's incredibly cool news !!! Another concept album? I'll be there day one...
nightscape94 : To think I would have fans, in this life, on this planet, is preposterous. I simply exist, and one day I won't anymore.
Meh. IMHO Their glory days are long behind them
There mate, I fixed it for ya. It's my pleasure.
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It's incredible how vastly different MJ's hit song is reworked. When I first heard it, I didn't recognize it immediately.
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Back to the Future part II on vinyl, Aliens on compact disc.
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From my POV his voice was at its most fantastic during the making of that album (1999). Since then his vocal range has suffered en he lost his raw edge (which made him popular with Soundgarden).
It was evident on King Animal (2012) that the constant high-pitched 'screaming' during his younger years had taken its toll. But I'll be damned if I won't buy their next album.
Also dig his solo follow-up 'Carry On'.
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This guy has the most amazing voice. Love Cornell !
Guess which album I'm listening to, again...
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Mod makes the game look photo-realistic.
No kidding, these shots look like something straight out of the movies, or a real life filmed event.
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That's a videogame character from the recent Metal Gear Solid V. Nothing gruesome about it, it's all digital ones and zeroes.
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When You're Alone is lovely!
This ! I will never program out that cue whenever I listen to my complete Hook.
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I love the first half of Geisha, not so much the second half.
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And a reboot in 10 years time.
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I've trimmed the Halo 5 release down to 50 minutes. Fave cues are: Light Is Green, Skeleton Crew, Covenant Prayers, Walk Softly, The Trials and Blue Team. These are the cues that are awesome. Just not Halo awesome.
I still don't think it's better than what the Bungie brothers or Davidge came up with. To me it simply doesn't have that special something. Fine game music, but musically it has the staying power of a one hit wonder.
Halo Canticles 4.13Light Is Green 3.28Rock and Ice 1.28Scavengers 3.43In Absentia 1.33Meridian Crossing 4.08Skeleton Crew 1.02Warrior World 4.44Covenant Prayers 3.43Worldquake 2.50Walk Softly 3.38The Trials 4.13End Game 2.08Jameson Locke 4.26Blue Team 4.37 -
Up until now I did not know a Princess Leia facepalm exists. What a wonderful realization.
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In the first Taken, Liam looked like he could take on all these bad guys without much effort and looking good in the process.
In the second Taken, Liam was disinterested, and by the time he had ended his revenge mission looked more than a little tired.
Don't think I'll watch the second sequel.
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I want to use my discs, so they don't become totally useless, dammit !
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Despite reduced power in the recording due to smaller orchestra, I'm a huge fan of Thorne's Superman II... not as huge of Supes III, but it has its moments.
And Ottman did alright in my book, the only one of his scores I really enjoy (and own).
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Of the 00's I would say that only The Mummy Returns and The Polar Express are among his best... but those are already over 10 years old.
Throughout the 80's and 90's he was wrote his best material.
But that's also true for Horner, JNH, and even Williams (70s included).
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Most Silvestri scores are missing a certain something.
A ridiculous statement, his musical voice was as profound as the other major players, and he has written some stunners back in the day. He's lost it somewhat now, but that holds true for the other big composers too.
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Still, I think many of these articles (which couldn't wait to get the knives out about a franchise which apparently no one cares about anymore btw, much like they did with that silly Ian McKellen tennis balls story a couple of years back) ought to bear in mind just how messy TTT and ROTK were. I have read that Jackson took a huge gamble with FOTR, pumping most of his budget into that and leaving much of the other two films unfinished, hoping he would be given additional filming blocks and money should FOTR succeed. I don't know how true this is, but I should say that the insider in question called the CGI Dain thing way before anyone else.
TTT and ROTK messy? Unfinished? Now I've never read the books, but to me at least the films are just as polished and fantastic and compelling as the first one is, I don't think I've ever heard someone state that these films are anything less than full on masterpieces. Again, this comes from someone with celluloid in mind, not paper.
Now the thing about The Hobbit, well that's not suprising. It just doesn't have the same attention to detail as TLOTR had.
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Ok that's cool, we all have our preferences. I remember something similar going on between Halo 3 ODST and Reach.
Also, what did you think of Destiny: The Taken King? I couldn't get into it, the mystical, magical element (Marty's contribution) was sorely lacking. All that was left was repetitive action music, and an occasional good choral cue.
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I think that overall Halo 5's music is weaker than 4... Simply compare the one cue that Kazuma Jinnouchi wrote (117) for 4 with any of his cues from the new one, and 117 is the most stunning of them all IMO. I also prefer Davidge's style, which has more of an ambient quality than Halo 5 has... It took me a couple of listens to get into Halo 4's radical shift in style from the previous Halo's, but now I simply love it. The entire album of the new game just wears me out, and it doesn't have a thematic foundation like the previous scores have built upon.
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This take on the O'Donnell / Salvatori classic is simply awesome. It totally pumped me up while battling the Prometheans.
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Can I hope for one of my personal holy grails? The complete score of The Postman. Pretty please?
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Dude, you just quoted a line from my favorite film, you have just earned yourself some bonus points, and one Continue.
My country is messed up alright, but there are worse countries to be a citizen of.
And K3? Well, let me just say I'll miss the old girls, and I have no interest in following the careers of these barely legals.
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These two tracks are splendid. Best AC score I've heard so far, but it's way too much music, so I had to make a custom edit.