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Bayesian last won the day on September 12 2020

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  1. I imagine my first exposure to Goldsmith was Gremlins. The main theme was super catchy and stuck with me for years. However, I didn't pay any attention to who wrote it (just like I never cared at the time to learn about who wrote the BTTF music, which also stuck with me instantly). Goldsmith is a tricky one for me. I know he was super talented and I very much respect that. But overall, his music leaves me weirdly indifferent, or even antagonized at times. It's like I can appreciate at arm's length his proficiency but with relatively few exceptions, his melodies and thematic development don't click with me and his scores don't linger in my mind. In some cases, like Air Force One, his music just gets really grating on the ear. And I've tried to like him, believe me, ever since joining this forum, where lots of folks are deeply fond of his oeuvre.
  2. Great questions, Bespin. I’m definitely curious about the answers too. I just wanted to pop in and clarify that what we on this forum refer to as “micro-edits” are just simply “edits” in a professional sound engineer/mixer/editor’s context. (I once posed a question about that terminology here and that was my takeaway.) Technically, the only thing big, small, or micro about an edit is maybe how much original material gets displaced from the affected cue. Otherwise, it’s the always fundamentally the same mechanistic action to cut in or cut out something that wasn’t captured in the original recording. If I’m wrong on this, let’s get that cleared up also. I’m sure I’m not the only one confused by the use of this forum vernacular.
  3. I would have loved to have attended this! Mind you, that would unfortunately never have happened even if I'd known about it in advance; getting to Vienna from California and back would be budgetarily out of the question, so I'm hoping against hope that the concert was recorded.
  4. Ok, that was pretty great! It's sorta like Desplat channeling Elfman in Desperate Housewive mode. Wherever he got his inspiration, I totally dig it.
  5. Another wonderful accolade for JW that’s, as always, well deserved. I can’t help but notice that out of the 19 laureates, JW is the one the AP picked to headline the article. Just further evidence that his living legend status reliably sells, whether it be concert seats or live albums or article clicks.
  6. Does anyone happen to know what cello Ma played at these concerts? Mere curiosity, is all. He’s got two cellos from the early 18th century—a 1712 Strad and a 1733 Montagnana, according to Wikipedia. (To think that either of those master luthiers couldn’t have any idea at the time that their instruments would be playing JW’s music three centuries later..)
  7. Well, we are talking about Warners here, which is striving valiantly for the award for most ineptly-run studio in Hollywood. Maybe we shouldn’t read too much into this decision.
  8. Other takeaways-- Hook expanded edition is selling like hotcakes and may be 80% (or more) sold out already... and MM hasn't begun working on Star Wars expansions yet. (Or maybe he has and he's really good at hiding that fact. But the way he spoke about SW as a project he'd like to work on doesn't sound prepared. I think he really hasn't been given the green light yet for that one.)
  9. Thanks for sharing this! It's nice that the first concerto still gets some attention. Although Discogs has pics of the album, it doesn't appear on Amazon or even Pentatone's website. Anyone have any luck finding it for sale?
  10. Competing tornado hunter teams, with one of them led by a brash, cocky SOB.... barrels filled with round metal tornado sensors... "we got twins!"... tornadoes that get bigger and badder each time... I appreciate the originality of the filmmakers here. I mean, they really went out of their way to find new directions to take this story. Who says Hollywood is a soulless, dying, creatively bankrupt bottom-feeder??
  11. “We turn not older with years but newer every day.” —Emily Dickinson By the way, @Andy, I’m sending you a self-addressed stamped manila envelope. If you could just go ahead and insert those B&W photos of JW and drop the envelope off in the first mailbox you see…
  12. I’m looking forward to this one! My main hope is that the plot is a little more complex than the usual mandalorian episode or season. I also wouldn’t mind if the mandalorian’s dialogue was a little less second grade reading level, but I’ll take whatever they give us.
  13. Ah, good catch. Although I’ll confess that neo-noir dystopian movies have never been among my favorite genres.
  14. So I’ve come the realization—far too late, but better than never—that Ridley Scott makes wonderful movies. You see, I always liked Gladiator and Alien and appreciated the craft in Hannibal and black hawk down and the last duel. But after hyping myself up for Napoleon and having my sky-high expectations almost completely satisfied, I started to look at the rest of his oeuvre. All the Money in the World: phenomenal. House of Gucci: Masterfully entertaining. The Duellists: A brilliant debut. American gangster: Fantastic. Still need to watch body of lies, the counselor, g.i. Jane and a few others, but I don’t expect to be disappointed. Anyone else feel the love for this director? He’s giving Tim Burton a real run for his money as my favorite director after Spielberg.
  15. This is currently my most anticipated movie of 2024. A teaser at the Super Bowl would be awesome.
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