Holko

Truly 150 dollars' worth. Pick your friends better, man.

Okay, then let me amend this: I very likely will, but I don't want to. For a score like this that doesn't feel that special/important in the grand scheme, and that I had no connection whatsoever to or even knowledge of before this single listen, I'd be more happy with a cheaper digital purchase than a more expensive physical just to have something on my shelf I never want to look at again (as opposed to say LLL or Quartet releases with competent design which I do take off the shelf and look at and reread sometimes when also listening), but if the business is stupid then the business is stupid, if it's gotta be the CD then that's that.

Yeah sure he'll totally start paying more attention if I just tell him to. They totally won't deny the existence of anything like they did with Sleepy Hollow. Informing people who read the thread a little about the set's sound maybe?

Aaand now I listened to the main program. And it's awesome. A lot of it is very Horner-like, a mix of Aliens, Sleepers, 90s Hornerisms, but infused with a little Elfman crazyness and broken up by Carpenteresque segments. Interesting how the score seems to be sympathetic to the alien for a lot of the score! Love the gentleness early on, there's some good tension, and fun chaos by the end. And now of course comes the worst part: I wanna support such Young expansions, I want to read the booklet, but I don't want to support Intrada's lazyness in their art and mastering - didn't notice any bad editing mistakes but once again Doug seems to have just taken a good enough premixed source and EQd it a bit, not caring that raising the treble boosts the hiss as well as the percussion. It's very audible in quieter sections, and obviously dialed up and down at the start and end of tracks. The program would need some work, combinations, order changes, maybe alt swaps, making up better titles than these barebones utilitarian cue titles - these belong in the booklet with the slates dammit! The biggest problem with having to pirate a release to check it out is that now I have the music, same as if I'd have ripped it, now I'd just be paying for an overpriced piece of plastic and ugly paper. Ugh. What are the chances that this'll be sold digitally? But then they of course wouldn't include the goddamn booklet.

In my Bond rewatches, when I got to Octopussy, I definitely thought "Seriously, people say Temple of Doom is racist?"

I kind of get it. It shows you that Sallah and Marcus are back, shows you the girl, shows you the nazi villain. No more corners left, the essentials that everyone going in blind knows will be in there are covered. Donovan's of not that much interest until the surprise twist that he's with the nazis, the poster doesn't give away his centralness.

Ok. Even then, this holy americana sound is mostly really not my thing.

Saw the film once, didn't like it. Tried the score multiple times, always barely got through it. To me it just sounds like a bunch of filler cues that go on and on and would go between the highlights which in this case don't exist.

Still not very good, too much empty space and the text is very crowded down there. Found this online, much better:

Cool, they're remembering that they have to sell their product somehow!

I got far more interested in checking out this release from a pirated rip than from the intrada store with its zero samples and awful art, or this minute of dvdrip cut to some random tension. The original main title is awesome!

What? Good I guess, but what?

Brody (Roy Scheider) from Jaws!

Why can't he stick to a good writer?