[The Official Christopher Nolan Church Thread]

Anyone else think Tenet was pretty bad?  I renounce this church.

[Star Trek is better than everything]

15 hours ago, Stu said:

Guys, I just really freakin’ love The Search for Spock

 

Yes, exhilarating isn't it?!

[Natalie Holt's OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022)]

On 22/04/2022 at 5:02 PM, Not Mr. Big said:

I wonder how TGP feels about this...

 

He watched the first episodes tonight - just for Ewan really - and I can't say it was that enthralling.  Came here to see what this place thought.  Music is just sort of there, innit?

 

On 22/04/2022 at 5:09 PM, Jurassic Shark said:

Isn't he banned?

 

Reports of my banning are greatly exaggerated.  I am merely retired from JWFan, the internet, and music making as a whole.  I seem to only ever check this place anymore when I'm away from home.  Hope you're all well.

[So, THIS is now a thing... (Anime Lord of the Rings prequel)]

Sounds like shite.

[Is John Williams the Bach of our time?]

Nobody is the anyone of any time but themselves, I reckon.  Furthermore, who are you people?

[Becoming An Audiophile Or: How I Learned To Stop Accepting Sub-320kbps Bit Rates And Love FLAC]

Ye gods I was full of shit.  Probably still am.

[Star Trek is better than everything]

Christ, another one coming now?  The pain.  Stop the pain. 

[Chat with John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel, June 30th 6pm]

Thanks for the heads up.  This should be a good one. 

[Classical Composer Writes Three Tracks for Star Wars Heir to the Empire]

10 hours ago, Fabulin said:

Williams is in the crossfire of snobs who repeat at nauseam that he is a "thief", that he doesn't modulate themes to other keys like symphonists do, doesn't write for opera (lol), and slobs, who enjoy him as much as any "epic" pop sound---and no more, and generally don't give a damn whether there are 30 staves of skilled writing sounding in their headphones, or computer-generated ambience and vague tapestry.

 

Snobs, if pressed, choose Herrmann, Morricone, or Takemitsu over Williams on his home turf, or else insist on ghetto-ing him under the label of "film music", away from "classical music", which somehow sooner has place for Stockhausen and Cage than for him.

 

Slobs think Zimmer is greater, or have nearly forgotten him.

 

He is nowhere to be found on the lists of recommended most important or influential contemporary composers, or on ranking lists of classical composers.

 

I don't know what to think.

 

He's fine.

[What are the movies that had the biggest personal impact on you?]

Mirror, The Sacrifice, The Saragossa Manuscript, Barry Lyndon, The Big Lebowski

[Star Trek: Picard (2020 TV Series)]

On 3/1/2020 at 3:11 AM, Gruesome Son of a Bitch said:

I'm wondering what @Dixon Hill thinks about all this.

 

I think it's finding its footing - despite starting off pretty weak and redolent of what makes new Trek so lukewarm.  I want it to be great eventually.

[Hans Zimmer's NO TIME TO DIE (2021)]

14 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

Unfortunately, a lot of cloth-eared listeners do think that he's the messiah of film music 

 

Thankfully we have you to preach the truth to those poor unfortunate souls who like different things than you do.  Hate to be nothing but negative lately but this place is slipping back into its old ways more and more, which is a damn shame.  There was a Silver Age for a little while there. 

[The Thomas Newman Thread]

46 minutes ago, LSH said:

An admission that he likes one of his own scores is hardly a call to accuse him of being egotistic. Christ.

 

Welcome to JWFan, it only gets worse.  Might as well turn back while you can.

[Hans Zimmer's top 40 film scores of all time - he included 2 John Williams scores]

On 1/25/2020 at 12:37 AM, TheUlyssesian said:

Hans picked these because he composes just those - the demos. He does not actually seem to actually "score" any scenes with scene specific music or variation or adaptation or anything of the like.

 

Inaccurate bullshit.  Par for the course though.  This forum is unreadable at times.

[Andre Previn Interviews John Williams (1988)]

They are fun together, Previn clearly loves John in his gruff way and it's amusing to see him frustrated by Williams' extreme humility about his gifts.

[RIP Christopher Tolkien]

A loss, but an extraordinary legacy.

[HOUSE OF THE DRAGON]

12 hours ago, Quintus said:

This spin-off will get slaughtered by The Witcher and Amazon's LotR.

 

Witcher any good?  Don't know the first thing about it but your enthusiasm would be an enticement.

[BETTER CALL SAUL]

I forgot this show existed.

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)]

28 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

BLADE RUNNER 2049

This was my third viewing. I can't decide whether it's profound, or a load of tosh.

Answers on.

 

 

I reckon it's just an engrossing flick, neither terribly profound nor empty. 

[Crazy woke Washington Post article claims that John Williams' STAR WARS music "reproduces harmful prejudices in pop culture"...]

Ye gods.

[POLL: How do the large scale music works for the Star Wars Saga (John Williams) and Middle Earth Saga (Howard Shore) compare?]

The JWFan wheel turns.  Nothing is ever new.  Happy 2020.  Shut up, stop polling, and enjoy the music.

[The Classical Music Recommendation Thread]

@Boom Tss

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)]

1917 is an experience I recommend, film and score are remarkable.  It's to Dunkirk what Interstellar was to Gravity.

[How did you feel about The Rise of Skywalker?]

2 hours ago, gkgyver said:

The entire 9 movie saga was the road to the line of Palpatine standing tall. 

 

No, to the last Palpatine rejecting her legacy and embracing the identity of her grandfather's enemy.  Execution could have been better but I buy that.

[POLL: Best John Williams Score of the 2010s]

It's Lincoln.