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Everything posted by Dixon Hill
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I had a torrid affair with a woman 30 years my senior the summer before college. Don't underestimate the power of an experienced woman.
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He had great laughs!
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Thanks for liking this post almost 5 years later @Not Mr. Big. I tried to tell you all.
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Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are 'not cinema'
Dixon Hill replied to Quintus's topic in General Discussion
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. -
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.
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This is the shit that makes actual film composers revile JWFan.
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Movies you did see, but wish you hadn't
Dixon Hill replied to Sweeping Strings's topic in General Discussion
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
Dixon Hill replied to Sweeping Strings's topic in General Discussion
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?
Dixon Hill replied to Josh500's topic in General Discussion
So Alex was right about you. Sad! -
Has anybody seriously considered getting rid of their CDs?
Dixon Hill replied to Josh500's topic in General Discussion
Anyone else's wife make them wear her panties sometimes? -
Really? Seems par for the course for their world, and not all that outrageous for ours if justified.
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A leader promising her followers retribution against their enemies is crazy, and lays the groundwork for a city wide massacre?
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Drax's lisp thing is mysterious? It's a pretty common stereotype.
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How can someone or something be overrated? You know better than the countless others who rank his work at the level they do?
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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Dixon Hill replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
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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.
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How long did it take John Williams to compose his scores?
Dixon Hill replied to Sunshine Reger's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
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. -
In my century we don't succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility.
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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.
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Non-JW Favourite Short Musical Moments
Dixon Hill replied to Darth Crossfader's topic in General Discussion
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How long did it take John Williams to compose his scores?
Dixon Hill replied to Sunshine Reger's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
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?
Dixon Hill replied to Sunshine Reger's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
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? -
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.
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What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)
Dixon Hill replied to Ollie's topic in General Discussion
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.