davros72
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Something to do with The Munsters?
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Hooray! My copy is here! My copies never arrive before the weekend!
I love these specialty soundtrack labels.
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I'm really disliking the look of those dwarves. Like, a lot. Almost enough to put me off seeing the films. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but the design and look of them just do not work for me at all. They look too cartoony or something.
Martin Freeman looked superb as Bilbo, though.
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I really hope they don't do Khan. It's too obvious, too expected. If they do, they technically could only redo the TV episode "Space Seed", or a variation of it, right? "Wrath of Khan" only works if it's set years after the initial encounter with Khan. If they just jump right to "Wrath of Khan", how can there be a proper backstory? Kirk exiled Khan when Kirk was, what, 4 years old? Please. And I sure hope they don't try to force "Space Seed" and "Wrath of Khan" into one movie, that would suck too.
So I'm hoping for either an original bad guy or Gary Mitchell who I'd be OK with.
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Oh, good grief, another "bring back Paul McGann" attempt... Cripes, as much as I liked him in the TV Movie, why this insistence on the part of sections of fandom that he be brought back? Because he still looks mostly like he did in the TV Movie, compared to the other actors who played the Doctor? Because he needs to be "canonised"? (he already has been, a few times in the new series.) I'm sorry, nothing personal, but why why why?
Bring back India Fisher, that's what I say!
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I thought he was playing a Vulcan/human hybrid, Sher'lok.
Seriously, the one suggestion I think has any sort of merit to it, based on a few other related tidbits I've seen, is...
Gary Mitchell.
But that could be completely wrong, too.
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1. "Jaws 2" (paid the most money)
How much did you pay for it? I found a second-hand copy in a used-CD shop years ago for like $5.
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I recall in the commentary on the Brazil laserdisc, someone (probably Terry Gilliam, I'm guessing, it's been a long time) said that Michael Kamen deliberately scored the fanfare for Robert De Niro's character Harry Tuttle so that it sounded like someone could sing "Harry Tuttle!" along with it. Most notably in the scene where Tuttle jumps down some sort of zip line kinda thing when leaving Lowry's place.
So I'd say it's not unique to JW.
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Shipping notice! Yay!
Always liked this score, as much as it may have been somewhat reminiscent of Mars from The Planets, particular the opening titles.
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So they're still going forward with this one even with the BBC threatening legal action, huh? OK, good luck to them. I am pretty sure it's not gonna be a patch on the Moffat-Gatiss version, not by a long shot.
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Wow. I can't believe they are actually doing it. It's plain to any Dr Who fan that the Borg are a bit of a rip off of the Cybermen. This comic kind of acknowledges that fact by having the two villains together in the same adventure.
On a different note: Does anyone know where I can download the Loose Cannon recons of the missing 60s Dr Who adventures? These are legal, and created with the blessing of the BBC. Currently the only way to get them is to send a VHS tape to Loose Cannon for them to copy the episodes onto. They then return it for free, minus the cost of the stamped addressed envelope. As I don't have a VHS player I really want to get these episodes on my computer. Can any Who fan point me in the right direction?
I don't think they're actually legal or have the "blessing" of the BBC. I think the BBC turns a blind eye to them, if anything.
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It sounds like they're trying to break out some from the "franchise film" mentality and treat this like a quality project. Hoping that pays off!
Isn't that what they tried with Star Trek: Nemesis?
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May I play?
In no particular order...
Tintin (JW)
HP and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 (Desplat)
Doctor Who Series 6 (Gold)
Captain America (Silvestri)
The Muppets (Beck)
I haven't seen nearly as many films (or heard as many soundtracks) as I might have liked to in 2011... hence my extreeeeeemely limited selection. I'm sure War Horse would have made it, if I'd been able to give it a listen or see the film, probably would replace The Muppets with it. Oh, well.
Bonus:
Favorite archive release of 2011:
Gremlins (Goldsmith) (FSM)
(Runner-up: The Black Hole (Barry) (Intrada))
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I did enjoy Baskerville, but not as much as Scandal. Partly because I cannot stand the actor that played Henry (I think that was his name), just cannot stand him. But also because the story did seem more run of the mill. There's just something about a Steven Moffat script that sparkles whereas non-Moffat scripts just don't.
There was also some bad movie/TV cliched writing that I hate. "We're looking for something possibly very scary and dangerous in a dark forest at night... Gee, I heard something over there, I'll go investigate by myself and I better not tell the other people with me, because that would make sense..." Stuff like that I loathe.
Looking forward to next episode immensely, though. (Wish there were a few more new episodes to watch right away, too!)
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Thoughts on this year's Christmas special, anyone?
I enjoyed it. Much less timey-wimey than a lot of other Moffat episodes, even though I like timey-wimey stuff it's nice to have a break. Love Matt's child-like Doctor. Loved the little references to previous episodes. The last few minutes were very sweet. All in all, not the greatest Christmas special ever, I don't think, but still very, very good.
The wait for next season is gonna feel interminable...
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I'm still waiting for word on when Season 2 will air!
Since Amazon.co.uk lists the Series 2 DVD release as January 23, 2012, one would think during the first half of January. IIRC, some tweets and such I've seen have sort of hinted at a possible New Year's Day premiere? Maybe?
...Yep:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...1/sherlock.html
http://www.tvovermin...-details/111731
EDIT: D'oh! Beaten to the punch by Stefan! Oh, well, another chance to stare at my lovely avatar of Karen Gillan... <drool>
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Star Trek IV a "fan favorite"?
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features the complete score in stereo spread across 2 CDs.
For some reason that made me think of the left channel audio being on one CD and the right channel audio being on the other CD.
I'm weird.
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Khan works as a great villain -- nay, the greatest Star Trek villain ever -- because he has a history with Kirk and we already know what it is.
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In JJ Abrams' universe, Khan is potentially still floating around in space, frozen in the Botany Bay. But he hasn't met Kirk yet, or tried to take over his ship. He hasn't been marooned on a planet with a beautiful wife but left to die when nobody checked in on him. He has no vendetta against Kirk.
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In JJ Abrams' rebooted universe, Khan is very bad villain material.
I agree with most people that having Khan as the villain in this next one is a dumb idea, and it's stupid that people keep expecting him to be the villian.
That having been said... there's no reason the upcoming film would have to be a re-working Wrath of Khan. Couldn't a more plausible idea be a re-working of Space Seed itself? Kirk & co's first encounter with Khan totally re-imagined. We could see the crew finding the Botany Bay and getting on friendly terms with them, quite naively, and then WHAM! Khan and his gang go all bad-ass on the crew and take over.
I still don't think they'd go the way-too-obvious route of doing Khan for the next film, but still I suppose that Space Seed scenario could be a possibility.
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Gremlins!!!!!!!!!!! Ordered! I've loved this score since I saw the film back in '84. Wonderful Goldsmith-ness. Will be nice to get rid of that horrible-sounding foot-warmer. Another grail to check off on the list!
Bring on Gremlins 2 (expanded)!
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Title: boring.
Everything else: Hooray! (especially Craig, Dench, and Arnold, IMHO)
Did I miss it, or is there still no official word about the title song?
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Obviously your player is resisting them....
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I've noticed that, but the SW ones just seem significantly slower than even other Blu-rays.
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Is it just my Blu-ray player, or are the Star Wars Blu-rays extremely slow in terms of getting to the main menu when first loading the disc, and also of going from one selection or menu to the next? I don't have a ton of Blu-rays yet, only got my player back in May, but the SW discs seem to be extremely slow.
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Firefly is a wonderful show. Yeah, some episodes aren't as good as the others, but a poor Firefly episode is way better than a great episode of most other shows.
And I love me some Jewel Staite as Kaylee.
(We even named our daughter after her!)
I've got the Blu-ray of both the TV series and the movie on my Amazon wish list (even though I had owned the TV series on DVD prior to marriage, my soon-to-be-ex-wife felt she could take it when she left the house before I moved back in, but that's a whole 'nother story... And don't get me started on what she took of my Doctor Who book/DVD/Blu-ray/CD collection...)
But yeah, I highly recommend Firefly. If you're a fan of Joss Whedon in general, definitely worth a look. If you're still on the fence, try the Hulu route as recommended before plunking down the coin.
As a related aside, here's how I'd rank the Joss Whedon projects I've watched:
1. Firefly
2. Buffy
3. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
4. Angel
5. Dollhouse