crocodile

The Oscars are only valid when the guy we want to win actually wins the award.

Here's the Quartet Records Christmas releases:

http://www.filmscore...mID=1&archive=0

Yeah I can barely sit down.
Karol

Rise of the Guardians by Alexandre Desplat
Just heard some fragments before, now that I have the actual album I can say what I think of it all. First thing out of the way, I don't like this type of music anymore. For some reason cute, suger-coated children music doesn't appeal to me (no matter the composer). There is something too calculated about it and my mind tends to wander away. Having said that, Desplat really knows how to orchestrate. Even when he's working with big orchestra you clearly hear every detail. It requires a really good composer to do that. And while very is plenty of busy music in this album, the best material is the tender and quiet stuff. I kind of like that theme he used as a song. Overall, it's entertaining and proves that Desplat is indeed one of the best at the moment. But I can't say I'm all that inclined to listen to it non-stop. The Golden Compass, while more sterile and cold, offers more delights. Still, definitely above his Potter music.
Karol

Рахма́нинов!
Nice, something to listen to tonight.

Chuckster312 posted these in the Last Score Listened To thread.

Yes I understand that, Ask The Dust did it first

I don't understand your problem...

And now your hallucinations have become true! And who would not lust after complete cues and cue lists?

Probably one of my favorite uses. I especially like how after the church scene Williams incorporates Carol of the Bells into "Setting the Trap." Its use has so much more meaning than I originally thought.

Home Alone by John Williams
One of those strange scores that seems quite unremarkable to me for most of the year, but lightens up (like a Christams tree, yay!) once a year. This LLL is very precious to me for sentimental reasons. I had to spend that Christmas Eve completely on my own that year, for the very first time in my life. I was disheartened and tired and when I came back from work I found a package with this CD under my door. It was late for a week or two so I didn't expect it at that point. But there it was, on Christmas Eve. Perfect timing. It made that evening much, much, much more enjoyable.
Did I mention I love the use of Dies Irae in this score? Clever, Mr. Williams, very clever. But I didn't know that before reading the liner notes. And while the main theme might be the most popular, Star of Bethlehem is where heart of this work really resides.
Karol

Home Alone by John Williams
One of those strange scores that seems quite unremarkable to me for most of the year, but lightens up (like a Christams tree, yay!) once a year. This LLL is very precious to me for sentimental reasons. I had to spend that Christmas Eve completely on my own that year, for the very first time in my life. I was disheartened and tired and when I came back from work I found a package with this CD under my door. It was late for a week or two so I didn't expect it at that point. But there it was, on Christmas Eve. Perfect timing. It made that evening much, much, much more enjoyable.
Did I mention I love the use of Dies Irae in this score? Clever, Mr. Williams, very clever. But I didn't know that before reading the liner notes. And while the main theme might be the most popular, Star of Bethlehem is where heart of this work really resides.
Karol

My turn...

I think at this point it seems reasonable just to relax and loosen up. You know it will happen, why make it hurt?
Karol

I need to collect myself. Alright. It's you and I. No way out. Get your shit together. Think Luke, Han and Chewie, snowspeeders vs. AT-ATs, the cantina, carbon freeze, docking bay 94, "you may fire fwen reday", that big orchestral flourish when the droids are in the escape pod...Okay? Okay. Let's go.

Hate the word, by the way.
Karol

I've been meaning to post this damned thing for the last two months and I keep forgetting, so while I remember here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25imcJh12Do

It's not a Tim Burton film so it might be good.
Karol

When I sometimes read what fanbase would want from their films, whatever series it happens to be at any given time, I am glad they are not in charge of anything. All films would be a cookie-cutter products all containing exactly the same ingredients every single time. And they say studio execs are calculating bastards...
Karol

I find other people's opinions terribly overrated.