Disco Stu

So.... very much for kids?

I stopped watching teasers and trailers for movies/shows I'm looking forward to, but I'm glad people think it looks good.

Things have to feel hopeless before you can have a new hope!

Getting ready to peruse the back of my new Varese CD

Will always be my personal favorite unlikely duo involving Danny Glover

You can debate about which one is best, but all three Goldsmith Rambo scores are awesome and certainly far from forgettable.

Or Varese is claiming perpetuity rights when they don't actually have them and nobody is double-checking the paperwork!

I wonder what would explain such seemingly random variations between contract terms for Goldsmith soundtracks. Whether the lawyer drawing up the contract had their coffee that morning or not? You'd just think those things would be somewhat copy/paste given Jerry's ongoing relationship with Varese in that era.

I'll be keeping an eye on the Celebration live stream later. Sucks that it's in the Pacific time zone this year

RIP Ray Liotta https://deadline.com/2022/05/ray-liotta-dies-67-godfellas-1235033521/ Rightfully will be remembered first for Goodfellas, but I'll always think first of the family movies he did in the 90s that I liked a lot as a kid: Operation Dumbo Drop and Corrina, Corrina. Footnotes of his career for most people, I know.

They are able to hold back releases to be simultaneous if they want to, right? Anyway, I fully expect the first released music to be with episode 3.

He can premiere SpaceCamp alongside The Rise of Skywalker

I really like the idea of having an old fashioned 80s style OST.... as long as there's also a more normal score release alongside it....

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford had three films released in 1939, and Drums Along the Mohawk will always be the one that isn't a timeless masterpiece (the other two being Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln), but it's still mostly a nice enjoyable movie. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play a newlywed couple that move to the Adirondack/Catskills frontier of upstate New York at the beginning of the Revolutionary War to start a small farm among a community of mostly German derived settlers. The community plays its part in the war by fighting native warriors that made a deal with the Loyalists. Colbert seems out of place in the period setting, she just has too much of the look of a Roaring Twenties/Great Depression era "modern" woman. Fonda's stoicism that can be so effective in some roles makes him just kinda boring here. The technicolor location shooting is gorgeous, although if you know even a little about American geography the locations are very obviously Colorado or Utah, not upstate New York. It's a solid 3 out of 5, mostly down to Ford's reliable craft and colorful story telling.

All you harpsichord haters, you despise the Tintin main title?

I'm always waiting for the good part when I put on a Giacchino Jurassic score

A JW action masterpiece

To be fair, Goldsmith scored something like 75 more movies than Williams has over their careers. Jerry really packed the jobs in.

Nearly as important, no sign of official releases of the original versions of the films

Nice

Especially considering the complete release adds what, 6 minutes?

Love me some piccolos

It's like a delicious buffet of subtle sonic/orchestration touches. Like the synth bass sound undergirding the timpani/double bass hits here:

This is the real one, not the one based on a stupid pun

I'm in love with the whole "sound world" of the score, especially the incorporation of the synths