[MINORITY REPORT (2002) - 2019 2CD Expanded Edition from La-La Land Records]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

A lot of people who are into classical music. But instead of listening to the butchered edit from the film, better get the whole thing:

 

 

Forget it Jurassic Shark, it's KM. 

[Star Trek: Picard (2020 TV Series)]

17 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Its made by Alex Kurtzman of Transformers fame, and Batman & Robin's Akiva Goldsman.

 

Kurtzman is the better one between he and Orci though isn't he?

[Joker (Hildur Guðnadóttir)]

He had great laughs!

 

 

[The Thomas Newman Thread]

On 2/20/2015 at 12:02 PM, Dixon Hill said:

And start a new one with the Harvey Weinstein biopic, "The Reprehensible Jew."

 

Thanks for liking this post almost 5 years later @Not Mr. Big.  I tried to tell you all. 

[Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are 'not cinema']

56 minutes ago, publicist said:

"I would much rather be in a room full of engaged fans."

 

I believe that says all that needs to be said.  There's room enough for Marty and the MCU in the world, and little need for these pissing contests.  Frankly nothing I've seen from the latter has bored me to tears as much as the former's Wolf of Wall Street.

[MINORITY REPORT (2002) - 2019 2CD Expanded Edition from La-La Land Records]

Once again must applaud LLL for their efforts at putting definitive presentations of scores out there.  As an enthusiast of this later era Williams they've been especially generous to me.  There is so much material in film music that deserves to be heard but sits in a drawer.  Glad they're making it happen. 

[The Balfening]

This is the shit that makes actual film composers revile JWFan.

["Wide Receiver" aka NBC Sunday Night Football Theme (Concert Version)]

Anyone else think football is dumb?

[Movies you did see, but wish you hadn't]

15 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

 

Maybe you haven't found it yet.

 

I don't think it's that simple.  Lynch has been quite open about the fact that he follows instinct and subconscious whether or not it serves a particular narrative.  That's his prerogative of course as it's mine to ultimately feel like that's masturbation.

[Movies you did see, but wish you hadn't]

My problem with Lynch, I've discovered after The Return and listening to him speak, is that he violates Hemingway's iceberg theory.  He constructs labyrinthine weirdness, but there's not necessarily anything below the surface holding it together.  I can enjoy weirdness for its own sake to a point but the extent to which he relies on it has become surprisingly offputting for me.

[Has anybody seriously considered getting rid of their CDs?]

31 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

 

She orders me to wipe her ass with specialty soundtrack label liner note pages and serve her supper using the CDs as plates.

 

So Alex was right about you.  Sad!

[Has anybody seriously considered getting rid of their CDs?]

Anyone else's wife make them wear her panties sometimes?

[GAME OF THRONES]

2 hours ago, mstrox said:

The desire for bloody retribution is crazy.

 

Really?  Seems par for the course for their world, and not all that outrageous for ours if justified.

[GAME OF THRONES]

A leader promising her followers retribution against their enemies is crazy, and lays the groundwork for a city wide massacre?

[Roger Deakins]

How can someone or something be overrated?  You know better than the countless others who rank his work at the level they do?

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

Great score too. 

[Question about the Nazgul music]

Indeed.  PJ went off the deep end, simple as that.  Even if he thought it somehow made sense, the stretch required makes it absurd.  Sadly one of many things that makes these movies more or less irrelevant to me. 

[How long did it take John Williams to compose his scores?]

How old are you?  Are you from America?  All due respect but perhaps if you're a younger person who was geographically removed from it it's hard to understand.  I'm pretty far from a flag waving God bless the USA type who will get indignant at the suggestion that it's not a "big deal" but I was blocks away from what was happening in Manhattan, I knew people who died, and you'll have to forgive me if it continues to loom in my life as a "big deal."  Fuck's sake. 

[Ad Astra (Max Richter & Lorne Balfe)]

 In my century we don't succumb to revenge.  We have a more evolved sensibility.

[Ad Astra (Max Richter & Lorne Balfe)]

Aren't you the guy who reads and puts stock in CC's reviews though?  Doesn't inspire confidence in your ability to recognize hot garbage even if a wad hit you in the face.

[Non-JW Favourite Short Musical Moments]

 

 

[How long did it take John Williams to compose his scores?]

Correct.  All done in London except for the NZ material for Cannes.  Watford Town Hall, Air Lyndhurst, Henry Wood Hall, and Abbey Road were all used with the greatest bulk taking place at the first.  Jim Ware or Doug would know for sure what was going on where on a given date though.  I'm pretty sure I've read the account of the Fellowship sessions on or right after 9/11, somewhere.

[How long did it take John Williams to compose his scores?]

There were bits of the trilogy done at Abbey Road, but I'm not sure what could have been going on at the same time as a Williams session in 1.  Boys choir in 2 maybe?

[Rate Memoirs of a Geisha!]

It's one of his top 5 scores, an exercise in restraint and economy of means that puts his usual touted masterpieces of grandiose bombast to shame, and makes one wish that he would have more fully committed to a kind of pared down style as Jerry did in his later years instead of just dabbling with it in a few appropriate scores, but then, he'd have to take on more appropriate projects, and barring AI Spielberg doesn't really have that in him.  I don't remember much about the film other than it looking very nice.

[What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)]

1 hour ago, Gruesome Son of a Bitch said:

The Dark Knight OST

 

This one is such a hard listen. It has its moments, but they're scattered among a bunch of monotonous rhythmic noise. I've been meaning to go through these scores (Including Batman v Superman) and snag all the best bits for a consistently enjoyable playlist, but boy is it a chore! Unlike everyone else on the internet, I actually like HZ's Braveheart/Titanic-esque Batman theme. The thing is, when he's good, he's really good, but when he's not good, he's just terrible. This score is a great example of that. It has some frankly astonishingly cool bits (And I Thought My Jokes Are Bad is a brief badass testosterone-fueled musical celebration of masculinity that makes me feel cooler doing anything while listening to it; Harvey Two-Face has a similar extremely badass but extremely brief short moment in the middle of a long track; All renditions of Batman theme are awesome) but they're connected by long stretches of pure shit.

 

That may be his most challenging soundtrack album release to date.  Well maybe there are others that are just less interesting, but as far as stuff that isn't uninteresting but unlikely to appeal to many listeners outside of the film, least of all at JWFan, it has to take the cake.  There is alot of that experimental, Francis Bacon-paintings-in-music type stuff.