Will Tasker
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The Nolan films are rubbish and Snyder is even worse.
Joey?!
What do you think of CBS TV series, Will? Or Fox? The Mentalist?
I haven't watched Gotham, so I have no real opinion on it. But I can say I didn't watch it because...
1.) Prequels that try to explain character motivations are inherently cheap (and often badly written)
2.) I absolutely loathe the desaturization look of the Snyderverse (though I don't know if the show uses it, the advertisements for the show is practically the wellspring upon which Hot Topic stores and the all-knowing angst of 11 year old boys flows from)
I have no opinions on The Mentalist, having never seen it.
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DC hasn't put out a decent film since, what, Burton's last Batman? The Nolan films are rubbish and Snyder is even worse.
I'm not particularly over the moon about the Marvel ones either but at least they're *fun*. The DC flicks are like going to the cheapest dentist in town and finding his office is a series of beige rooms and lighting fixtures circa 1974.
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All sequels except the unconfirmed one!
Lame.
The guy has to pay his electric bill like everyone else.
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Throughout the trilogy there are moments of potential greatness, ruined usually by the very next scene being completely terrible
Well met.
Truthfully, I had given up on it all the moment I saw the "barrel out of bonds" sequence in the second film - which could be the worst thing I've seen on the big screen screen since either the Dungeons And Dragons movie or Bless The Child. I was agast at it, considering the source material.
By the time I saw Legolas running up falling stones like Wiley Coyote in the third film, I was laughing so hard some may have thought I was watching Duck Soup.
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The only thing good about the Hobbit films are the acting by McKellen and Freeman, and the scores. They botched just about everything else
Theres a couple of points where it almost flirts with being really good - right after the Trolls in AUJ, where they find the elven swords - but by and large its complete trash. And lemme tell you, it takes concentrated effort to make something trash when Christopher Lee and Ian McKellan are in it; those guys could sell water to a drowning man.
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I managed to drag 1 person to BotFA, and that was my girlfriend at the time.
She broke up with you because you actually had to drag her!
Hell, I saw that movie by myself and I considered leaving me too.
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Usually, his original albums are very well assembled and make an intuitive sense.
On the other hand, there is always a bit of music that doesn't go to the album and it will drive you nuts for over a decade before you get it. (Last one that comes to mind is the first half of the jungle battle from Indy 4).
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What the Hobbit films have going for them is the Tolkienite/PJ-fan community, which while significant, does not reflect the majority. Only LOTR had a real effect on the cultural zeitgeist. And in the years to come, pop cultural references in relation to Tolkien will reference LOTR films, not the Hobbit trilogy.
We'll have to wait and see, but I don't think this is the case at all. I've been plenty of references to the Hobbit - mainly Bilbo finding the ring and Smaug. I'm confident these 'pop cultural' references will stick with the film franchise.
That's not my point SUH. Outside of these boards and die-hard Tolkien communities, no one even bothers to talk about these films, good or bad. No one cares.
Like Jay said, most people probably don't know about the EE release. There was a time (during the LOTR film releases), where that was more of an event.
You say that as if the LOTR EEs were a big event for most people.
I have to ask - and I don't mean this in an unkind way - how old you are? I was in my early 20s when the LOTR films came out and I have distinct memories of the Expanded 4 disc DVD sets being a major deal to everyone when they came out.
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To be fair to the guy, though, PJ originally didn't want to direct The Hobbit.
To be fair, I'm sure they threw an ungodly amount of cash at him instead of, say, putting a revolver to his head.
Which should speak both ways to the scruples of Hollywood's caring of source material and talent.
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Say everything you want about the Star Wars prequels - they're Lucas's material, he can do whatever he wants. At least it's coming from "the horse's mouth".
The Hobbit Trilogy is a terrible cashgrab that < explitive > all over another man's legacy. It also doesn't help that they're filled with intolerable, meaningless subplots and the most hilariously inept action sequences ever filmed. (I saw this kinda nonsense coming by the time Legolas was sliding down elephant trunks in Return Of The King)
(If I were a more crass person, I'd say it took Peter Jackson far less time time to fall much farther in terms of quality of output than Lucas. At least George waited 20 years before giving us the half-baked Prequels. Jackson went right in the drink in half that time.)
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Well, its someone who WOULD know how to contact John, since they've worked together more than once. I've always assumed that the letter ended up in some fanmail pile, read by an assistant and then tossed into the fireplace with the rest.
I didn't expect a personalized reply with a signed photo and tickets to Tanglewood and a special thanks in a Star Wars CD - but a nice paragraph from his office saying "thank you, we passed it on to him" would've sufficed somehow. I can't tell you how I sweated over that letter almost daily for close to half a year.
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I've tried to write him twice. The first time - admittedly, I was much younger - was simple autograph hunting. I think AI had just come out and I sent him the CD cover, which was returned with a very generic signed photo (which I'm sure is a fake or an "autopen" as collectors seem to call it).
The second time I wrote was last year. I took months of writing to get it down to a single page. I'm lucky enough to be Facebook friends with a name I won't post here, who suggested a mailing address (I made sure to confirm it was a "professional" address, not a personal one). I mailed it out... and never heard back.
At this point, all I want is to (somehow) know he read it. Thats all I really care about.
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The staggered schedule Williams had on TFA is a consequence of the film's post-production approach and not a choice on filmmakers' part to give the Maestro unlimited time. Looks like Abrams' usual preference is to work on single sequences, finessing them as long as he likes and having them completed with score and 5.1 mix before having a more traditional full first cut of the movie, so they delivered Williams new footage and sequences as they went along. Williams didn't score TFA for a year continuously, but with several breaks between the delivered edited reels (and we had it confirmed that he was planning to score Bridge of Spies during one of these breaks).
As others pointed out, a prolonged schedule is good for a composer, but that doesn't automatically mean a better score. Just to remember, Williams wrote TESB in 6-7 weeks (between October and December 1979), which is a relatively short amount of time given the density and length of that score. Surely Williams was younger then and maybe he wrote faster than he does now, as he was probably already well accustomed to deliver that much of music over such a span of time.
Those were also the years he was working with orchestrator Herb Spencer (was the last one Home Alone? Hook?) who also seemed to be a real quick draw himself.
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Daisy Ridley needs a tit job, but Williams looks great.
Why's that? Going by your comment, you're apparently a big enough boob for everyone.
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I've been a major fan of Kraemer since being one of the, what, six people who saw The Way Of The Gun in theaters back in 2000. So I'm happy to see so many people discovering him finally.
As to the argument who should do the job, we can name names all day and give reasons but the fact is its just as important about who's directing. Hans Zimmer, for instance, does not give the same kind of score to Chris Nolan that he does, say, Terrance Malick or Ridley Scott.
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That second photo of / with Johnny shows he still has that spark in his eye I was afraid would leave him after the surgery. He looks spry for someone who had a surgery so taxing he took seven months off AND managed to score the biggest picture of the year AND still tried to figure out if he could've done the 35, 40 minutes Spielberg wanted for Bridge Of Spies...
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Bring back Bill Conti!
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Danny Elfman - Mission: Impossible
Pardon my french, but I fucking love the shit out of this score. Five stars out of five stars, it has everything. I want a specialty label to give it the expansion it deserves!
It was my favorite M:I score until Joe Kraemer's hit this year. Elfman's is very underrated, and one of the last scores that sounds like his "early, busier" stuff (Black Beauty, Batman, etc) before it was "streamlined". (Goldsmith went the same way around the same time - tired of fighting all the sound effects in big action pictures, I think).
I was listening to Joel Goldsmith's Stargate: Continuum earlier. It makes me wish that more of his SG1 music would come out.
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Just out of curiosity, does a session equal one day or can it be multi-day sort of thing?
Isn't a session usually considered a "block of days"?
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king mark said "Star Wars", not "The original Star Wars trilogy". Of course TESB and ROTJ refer to them as Star Destroyers.
Star Wars (the original 1977 film) does not.
... You're awfully good at picking up my lack of reading comprehension today!
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Oops! I stand corrected, my eyes glazed over after all those names
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Alexandre Desplat.
He'd have to learn to write a melody first.
All these posts and no one mentions Bruce Broughton?
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The pacemaker is no longer the "prolonged death sentence" it once was. As recently as the late 80s / early 90s, it was this thing that was put in as an emergency and usually was a last ditch effort to save a person. It also required a great deal more invasive surgery - not that its a small thing to do now, but its simplified quite a bit. Hell, stints in major arteries are now out-patient surgery, taking an operation thats under three hours most of the time.
Pacemakers are also not the large devices they once were and some even have an internal defibulator unit, depending on the model and the person's medical situation. People are now living much, much longer with these things. Its no longer a "Itll give them two more years" but more like "This will give them AT LEAST another eight to ten years" (and even then, people are so closely monitored they can often tell when the unit needs to be updated/replaced/etc).
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Gah, yeah, my typo. I stared at it for a second - unsure if he was the "plural" name or not - and then shrugged and hit "post"
The Force Awakens Disney Records OST
in JOHN WILLIAMS
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Not to be THAT GUY but... wouldn't the final CD cover be the Struzan movie poster?
I'm just waiting for track titles and times, at this point.