Sir Hilary Bray

As a kid, even now to a point, great to see Vader/Anakin defeating Palpatine.

Main title wise I used to be fond of A Bridge Too Far. The aforementioned Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country and at a pinch, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Delved into some John Barry

seemed to wake with a small section of "1941" in my head sort of repeating itself. Hellcats Over Hollywood track

Well, back in the cold then.

Summon the Heroes- Boston Pops Orchestra

Princess Leia's theme. For a little while.

Hobson's Choice it already had the fact it was a David Lean film going for it but then there was Charles Laughton. Impressive performance which personally got overshadowed by John Mills. Something about Mills that was an unconfined joy. The film has more in line with the early Lean works like Great Expectations than later like Arabia & Zhivago but it's Lean. Brilliantly so.

Like the idea of Red Five possibly being a Rogue Squadron movie. Sort of Stackpole's X-Wing books on screen.

It's simple, it's cold, it's brutal. You overlook the fact that it's Roger Moore doing it, not Dalton say or Connery. Must say looking at this thread that most or some of the most satisfying scenes are in Bond films. Dalton has a few of those.

I must have deja vu, I swear I posted in this a moment ago Still bad news with Orci though.

one of them at any rate:

I have a bad feeling about this.

Iron Coffins- Herbert A. Werner an account of an U-Boat commander who managed to survive start to end. All the more remarkable considering after 1943 the U-Boats were barely making it out from the French coast without being sunk. A man who at times seemed to believe in 'the Final Victory' but also faced with the lunacy of it all such as the order from on high for U-Boats at Brest to go and attack the D-Day fleet -and if possible, ram the ships. A man faced with the death of his family in a RAF bombing raid whilst trying to get his boat out to Norway and in the end planning an escape to South America but foiled. Though similar to Das Boot, and Das Boot being based in reality, this was more affecting somehow. Maybe because it was a 'real' U-Boat commander as opposed to a composite, I don't know but a powerful read in places. As for Herr Werner, he died a year ago aged 93. Good innings compared to the tens of thousands who never returned.

A Beautiful Mind heck of a performance by Crowe but then the film does feature a couple or few actors I like to see -Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch and ol' Christopher Plummer. Musically I'm not sure, at times it sort of passed me by and one bit reminded me of an instrumental of My Heart Will Go On. I know it's Horner but sometimes you'd like to be surprised.

My original Star Wars [New Hope] CD arrived and thus it's that. The 2CD from 1990 (the first CD release I believe). Like the films, sort of used to the Special Edition way of things -in this case the track listings. If anything I like the cover. Plain but cool.

Star Wars Episode IV after many viewings of this in the Special Edition incarnation for years, this was the first viewing of the 'Limited Edition' version since I first saw the film on VHS in the mid-90s. Almost shameful how used I was to the SE and thus with this one missing the dewback or the creature that briefly blocks the stormtroopers from sight as they stop Luke's speeder, or even the sight of the Falcon as it lifts off from Tatooine and so on. If anything the SE 'sorted' was some of the dogfights. In the original when Biggs is set upon the TIE and X-wing look almost static in spite of Biggs doing all he can to shake the TIE off before Luke comes to his aid. Watching this I decided to read up on the differences between versions as well as different soundtrack releases and got a bantha sized headache. Still, having long read about the Biggs scene on Tatooine I somehow wished it was there in the film. But that's what you get when you've read the novelisation a few too many times. Musically one part that remains a favourite is when Luke is standing by the burning homestead, the way it rises just before it cuts to the Death Star. Or that start that coincides with "Enemy fighters heading your way".

And helping Bill Murray out a little. Remember seeing Rushmore featured on some old cinema programme on ITV back in the late 90s and the moment where Murray crushes Fischer's bike got me wanting to see the film. From there ended up a huge Anderson fan.

As long as that's all they're doing.

Got a copy of Gerhardt's Empire Strikes Back the other day and hope to receive this week the original version of Star Wars. Looking to broaden the Williams collection further this month by the looks of it.

Early half of "Come in 007, Your Time Is Up" from The World Is Not Enough.

Casino Royale concluding the much dragged out Bondathon that started way back in 2012. Time has not been kind in my book to CR06. At the time it seemed a welcome new start but since then tend to look at the film slightly differently. A little bit long, the African/Miami Airport/Venice feel kind of pointless and tacked on even if those bits have little plot points. Even changing Royale to Montenegro rankles to a point, but a slight point. Parts feel cringeworthy almost like it's a Brosnan movie in disguise (I found myself half wishing this HAD been a Brosnan movie). Craig does his best even if Bond seems to be some sort of bulked up superman. It's a decent attempt but looking at the rankings sits above three of the four Brosnan films at any event. The soundtrack is neither here nor there, personally. Don't view/listen to Arnold's Craig scores well. Compared to his Brosnan scores they just lack any real punch. Bondathon might be over but I might well return to Skyfall which almost pretends the past two never happened. Well, sort of

Feel somewhat fortunate never to have seen the Transformer films.

Just as well, might've done yourself a nasty injury. Honestly can't think of a film I won't watch again. Quantum of Solace might be perilously close to it.

Patton- storming performance by George C. Scott in a film that whatever historical quibbles is itself magnificent. Honourable mention to Goldsmith's score, a particular liking for the Battle of the Bulge pieces (e.g, Winter March/Bound for Bastogne). A favourite moment in the film is when during the advance on Bastogne, Patton after a word to his aide walks down onto the road to walk with his men. A choice moment as for a brief moment it looks almost like an outtake, almost more like Scott joking with the extras than Patton and his men. Flight of the Phoenix- think the grab was the cast. Totally forgot George Kennedy was in it and indeed, he seems to have a few lines if that. But then there's Stewart, Attenborough, Hardy Kruger (fine, fine performance) and Peter Finch amongst it all. Early on the score seems to be channelling Lawrence of Arabia but as the film goes on it tends to collect itself and does a job.