[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)]

It's a great movie.  Light entertainment but deeply philosophical at the same time.  Daniels and Farrow are so good.

[Alexandre Desplat's Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets]

I've listened a few times over the past 24 hours.  I agree more now with the people who think it doesn't add up to a spectactular score, but there are some really great cues on here.  A few cues that will certainly be among my favorites of the year.  And has as been noted, the orchestrations and blend with synthetic elements is just beautiful to listen to.

[What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)]

Tom Sawyer and The Reivers aren't Westerns.

[What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)]

9 minutes ago, Bespin said:

Once upon a time... the Western!

John Williams - Tom Sawyer (Quartet Records, The Instrumental Album: CD1-T1, CD1-T13@22, CD1-T12)

John Williams - The Missouri Breaks (Kritzerland Records, The Original Album)

John Williams - The Reivers (The Original Album program)

 

Only one of those is a Western

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)]

Probably true. 

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)]

Europeans are just as fucked up as us, just in different ways.  The rise of these far right movements in the last decade has opened my eyes to that for sure.

[BBC Proms 2017]

Ahh that's right, thanks.  I was checking the BBC4 website last night and was confused why I couldn't find it.  I'll skip the Radio 3 recording and just watch tonight.

[BBC Proms 2017]

I thought these were meant to air on TV as well?

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)]

2 hours ago, Sally Spectra said:

I guess what I'm trying to get at is masturbation has always been portrayed negatively in every film I've seen it depicted in.

 

In films like American Beauty and Mulholland Drive, it signified that something was missing in the characters' lives. In Single White Female and Psycho '98, it was a device to illustrate that something wasn't quite right about the characters doing it. Comedies like American Pie, There's Something About Mary, Borat and The Dictator are more humourous but still they either suggest sexual depravity or deprivation. And of course The Exorcist where the girl is jabbing herself with a crucifix because she's demonically possessed.

 

The only place where there's no ingrained judgement of the act happens to be porn!

 

This is... perceptive!  There's also an otherwise great movie called Junebug where Amy Adams masturbates just as a device to show how lonely she is in her marriage.  It's a shame how seldom masturbation is portrayed as a healthy sexual outlet.

[Does anyone else have a serious problem staring at women's breasts?]

The sexiest young celebrity thread must be feeling real lonely and neglected

[Alexandre Desplat's Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets]

1 minute ago, TheUlyssesian said:

Does this score reveal why he was fired from Rogue One?

 

 

 

Yes if you play the opening track backwards you can hear "Kathleen Kennedy fucked me over" multiple times.

[Alexandre Desplat's Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets]

15 minutes ago, KK said:

This is really good stuff. I mean yes, the album is poorly put together, and the score is kind of scatterbrained, though it makes sense with the ADHD film it's attached to.

 

But how awesome is it that we have guys like Desplat still delivering this level of hybrid writing for a commercial blockbuster? I certainly can't think of any other films of this kind boasting quality like this.

 

I'm sure this will be more rewarding with multiple listens.

 

 

The textures/orchestrations are a pleasure to listen to.

[Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK]

The first review that actually makes me want to see the movie.

 

Quote

In its vast cinematic glory and intimate emotional appeal, Dunkirk encourages us to hail heroes whenever we have the slightest excuse, and give considerable pause before calling anyone a coward. In this it’s a war film of considerable, uncommon valor.

http://www.larsenonfilm.com/dunkirk

[GAME OF THRONES]

I think I like Yara the best of all of them, but it's really just because I like that actress a lot.

[the mstrox thread]

4 minutes ago, Richard said:

I lived in Virginia, just outside of Winchester, and about 1 hour's drive from DC.

 

I know it very well.  I lived in Harrisonburg, about an hour south of Winchester, for three years after I graduated high school, and I have good friends who live in Front Royal.  Been to the apple festival in Winchester a couple of times.

 

Also, I don't know when you lived there, but it's definitely a lot longer than an hour to DC from Winchester now, haha.  Traffic's a bitch.

[the mstrox thread]

2 minutes ago, Richard said:

Hmm. Blizzards are lovely.

As far as I know, DQ doesn't exist in the UK. I remember it from when I lived in the USA.

 

Where'd you live?

[the mstrox thread]

Is Dairy Queen in the UK as well?  The one that was in my hometown for decades closed sadly.  My mom used to take us there for oreo blizzards in the Summer.

[Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK]

Lol at the people trying to force the thread back to Zimmer

[GAME OF THRONES]

2 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

I guess Theon is OK as a character, but the rest of them...

 

Reek was an interesting character, Theon not so much.  Or I guess the push-pull between them was interesting.

[GAME OF THRONES]

You know, I'm really not happy with how important it seems the Greyjoys are in how the story is playing out.  I've been rooting for the show to just kill them all off for years.

[Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK]

16 minutes ago, Alexcremers said:

How is that a conversation?! That doesn't make sense. He's actually dictating us what to think and how to feel.

 

 

 

Suspending your disbelief, giving yourself over to a story, is one of my favorite things about being alive.  And holding that suspension, playing with it, seeing where he can take the viewer, is part of a conversation with the storyteller, no matter if it's film, a play, a novel.  The way he gets nervous laughter from the audience when the pressure is relieved as he goes right up to the line of killing the kid and then doesn't.  Spielberg is so good at constructing these suspense scenes across his career.

 

5 minutes ago, publicist said:

 

For you. An important distinction.

 

True.  What works for one, doesn't for another.  No such thing as an "objectively good" artist.

[Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK]

This approach to wanting films to be almost ascetic in their storytelling, or that those kind of films are somehow "purer," is such horse crap to me.  These are tricks that storytellers have been using for thousands of years, now applied in a new medium.  Putting a child in danger is an old easy trick, one that Spielberg used masterfully in that Munich sequence.  He was practically winking at the audience, "Did ya think I was gonna kill the kid?  But you weren't sure, were ya?"  It was great!

 

Spielberg doesn't just trust his audience, he's in constant conversation with them and their expectations.  Like all the best old Hollywood directors were.

[Hans Zimmer's DUNKIRK]

Being manipulated by a master filmmaker is one of life's pleasures.

[the mstrox thread]

Not far off!

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

Truly the stuff of nightmares

 

 

If I actually listened to that, my psyche might never recover.

 

Also, yikes Sugar Ray isn't aging gracefully.