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No one loves mr angry pointy finger more than I do, but I don't think he'd even be suitable enough anymore to provide Indy's voiceover for an animated feature or a deep-faked "younger" version of himself. He sounds every bit the 90 year old these days. 

@Thor
 
 
 

@Thor
 
 
 

I wonder why we can't though? Not that I'm particularly interested in doing so, but still. I mean, the recent political talk didn't exactly explode the forum into ashes and dust as once feared, did it. But really, a massive meh either way from me. And it works both ways anyway, doesn't it - I can treat mods like children too. 

It was a fine show, but the chess match montages became tiresome, even though the lively score did its best to keep them engaging (not that successfully). 
 
I liked the relationship with her surrogate mother; for me that aspect grounded the glam lead character more than her vices and upbringing. 

Not much chance of that with this place ... even if you were a single man nowadays, pretty much a sausage-fest round here.  

Well, it's not supposed to be a realistic look at chess.
It's a fable.

Ready Player One wasn't perfect but that was reassuringly Spielbergian for me, I really loved it. I haven't seen it since and probably need to take another look at it by now. 
 
The trouble with Steven these days is he has to go out of his way to recall his golden touch, adventurous escapism just doesn't come naturally to him anymore. But when he really tries, he's still miles better than Abrams, Trevorrow, and all the Marvel directors put together. 

Funnily enough I sat and watched this behind-the-scenes footage this evening (somehow for the first time) and JW's soundtrack as heard over the top of the extremely crude opening of the Ark clips towards the end still managed to make the individual shots, the editing of them together for the doc, feel utterly alive, and somehow almost just as effective as the score in the finished movie itself. I mean, shiiiiiit man, this guy was ridiculous.
 
 
 

There was a short period of time between 1980-ish and 2000-ish, where technological possibility met with golden age movie making and experience, which produced an absurd amount of all time classics. 
 
Likewise, the composers during that time embodied a perfect match of skills: still trained in the classical realm of writing serious music, while being able to draw from the established realm of film music from the Golden Age. 
 
Hans Zimmer ended that period. Yeah I'm that guy. Still, he ended it. 
 
Episode III and Return of the King, while the Zimmer craze already formed, marked the end of that forever. 
After that, blockbuster cinema consisted of Pirates, Transformers, Christopher Nolan, and Marvel, while the serious composers were pushed into niches and/or forced to dumb it down. 
 
I still maintain that collaborating with Hans Zimmer killed JNH's career. 

IMO Dwjadi is one of the worst score composers in the world. 

Anyone else think strong opinion and heated argument/debate makes for a much more flavourful and compulsive fandom group than one which features a bunch of polite interchangeables, recognisable only by their different avatars because otherwise they all read like they're roughly the same one generic fan? 
 
It's a rhetorical question: I know there's others who agree with me, they were JWFan legends, most of whom left. From the times before Jason was mod. 

IMO Dwjadi is one of the worst score composers in the world. 

Great thread topic. 

There's some good in modern, there are gems. But yeah, older stuff is like a treasure trove. 

Bring it on. I prefer clean fight, to all this sneaking around.
Healthy, voiciferous debate is great, as long as we remember to criticize the post, and not the poster.
Tit-for-tat jibes at JWfaners is cheap, and unbecoming.

Anyone else think strong opinion and heated argument/debate makes for a much more flavourful and compulsive fandom group than one which features a bunch of polite interchangeables, recognisable only by their different avatars because otherwise they all read like they're roughly the same one generic fan? 
 
It's a rhetorical question: I know there's others who agree with me, they were JWFan legends, most of whom left. From the times before Jason was mod. 

IMO Dwjadi is one of the worst score composers in the world. 

Snowflake central. 
 
 
 
@bruce marshall
I can only assume that you are actively trying to be perma banned here. Reading your regular content, any member can reasonably deduce that your end is nigh at JWFan. 
 
If not, if you're oblivious to all this, then you're even more stupid than you appear.

See you can do worthwhile contribution.

Is it possible in this environment?
 
All time.
Better than everything. Is it possible to write a score challenging for this title?
 
PS: „Everybody likes different things“ argument is bullshit and doesn’t count. People not into Star Wars still acknowledge the mastery of the music.
 
Discuss. Yell at each other. Fight. Let there be blood.

Certainly not the first, but one of the best 'mission' movies. The epic narrative soars THE GUNS OF NAVARONE into a colorful adventure (Marvel is the sorry modern supplant). There is a colorful bunch of heroes from which everyone can choose their favorite, with some of the worst Nazis that ever graced the screen, two beautiful women (Irene Papas and Gia Scala), extremely attractive sets and the highly fateful mission (destroying the guns). Blowing things up, sending villains to hell by the dozen and saving the day just have lost their luster today, but the J. Lee Thompson film has lost almost none of its charm in over 50 years.
 
Which brings me to an even more ideologically outrageous (and scruffy) war-horse I used to watch once a year back when I was a wee lad, which is 
 

 
At the time of the Allied invasion of Normandy, an American raid consisting of Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland privately captures 14,000 gold bars from a bank behind the German lines. It's not quite M.A.S.H. but already pretty spaced out. It's hippies vs. Nazis, and the offhand, blasé cynicism off the whole thing makes it a perfect case for the virtuecrats to wring their hands in agony (these filmmakers must be held accountable! War is hell!!!) but i mean...tank battles, land mines, treasure hunts, Nazis, what's not to love? (the scene when a general - the great Carrol O'Connor - mistakes radio messages of the 'heroes' for an heroic military advance and blusters himself into a raving patriotic madness is a particular highlight).
 
Both ran recently on ARTE (!) and i was hooked again, like back in the 80's. Boy will be boys, I guess.

Your " interpr
etation" of rules , Jay.
You have no consistency. We have to guess .
You interpret teasing as " insults".
 
I'll let you beat that 'joke' into the ground for as long as you like!

Hulka must have squealed on our posts telling him his taste sucks. This is the same bloke who has a history of snarling swearies at me for saying an OST is adequate. Fella made his bed!

Finished the Queen's Gambit. After quickly binging the main brunt of the series, we slowed down almost to a halt for the last couple: once you've seen five chess match montages you've sort of seen them all, and the novelty of the elegantly stimulative though decidedly one note underscore begins to wear off. 
 
Still, the score and the handsome filming works hard to make an otherwise boring game seem quite exciting and even a little glamorous, and I think that's actually the biggest most impressive accomplishment of this show. 
 
The actor who plays older Beth is obviously the other big main draw (not to play down the earlier scenes of the terrific younger Beth), and she is excellent in this major breakout role; but also, at least for me, a little bit too distracting. See, this girl is beyond strikingly beautiful to look at (doesn't this show's director know it), and in the end I just don't buy it - that a chess prodigy could ever be as impossibly gorgeous and glam as the character depicted in the Queen's Gambit. One could probably build a decent argument that says the whole thing is fantasy drivel based solely on that aspect, but it'd take a real misery guts to do that. 
 
It was Madonna who said Rita Hayworth gave good face, but in the later episodes Anya Taylor-Joy takes that concept to a level where every single shot of her could be a Vogue cover, and it actually begins to erode my immersion in the story a little. I've never had my suspension of disbelief broken by outright sheer beauty before, so this was a bizarre first, and I think this somewhat minor misgiving wouldn't have presented itself had they cast a more "convincing" face in the role. This is chess - where the absolute masters have the appearance of serial killers! 
 
People no doubt would consider this a strange criticism to make, but I've personally always had this meta problem with small-town America serials whereby the cast look like models. For eg, I couldn't get into The Leftovers for the same reason.
 
With all that said, Anya Taylor-Joy does flex her considerable personal acting talents (including her beneficial aesthetic attributes) to great effect in this series, and she deserves the plaudits for going all in on the role. The climatic shot of her, staring mesmerisingly into the camera as she achieved the clarity she sought, the unrelenting swirl of the music reaching its crescendo, was a wonderful and legitimately cinematic moment. A satisfying end to the grand chess master storyline that would have Rocky Balboa punching the air. 
 
But then it carried on after that, the story of Beth's success doubling down, almost to the point of narrative betrayal, on its desire to leave audiences with a sugary sweet aftertaste in their mouths. All her problems apparently just washing away. It seemed a bit odd to abandon those mechanically high effort threads so casually. Ultimately, it was a bit off. 
 
Nevertheless, Queen's Gambit is a semi great Netflix effort, one that is very easy to recommend. Because the good parts are as good as anything in seen in TVs best.