Holko

Oh, that censored Anck-Su-Namun on page 5 is gloriously terrible! No nipple-less golden boobies in our booklet!

You didn't even bother to read my comment and understand that. "goes from little semi-reasonable problems to" What do you think this means? That some of them ARE kind of reasonable issues! Please don't, you and others posted these already 100 times and we've been through them, the most severe misunderstanding, which would only require hearing what comes out of characters' mouths, I explained last week in this thread when you dragged it up again.

The Two Mummies and the Two Towers.

Eh, Biology was the first subject I ever got a 2 in in the final, 12th year. 1-5, 5 being the best is our grading system.

Was 8 Legged Freaks not enough?

That list of problems yet again goes from little semi-reasonable problems to fundamentally misunderstanding events in the movie, or stupid shit like only two lessons were shown. Yeah, because in movie canon Rey grew disillusioned and impatient and left before the third!

I guess it could be fun for a while if you shield yourself from the dev promises and their sheer incompetence. Last weekend they couldn't even turn on the double XP like it was promised a month ago (and like they already did 3 weeks ago) because there were "complications". And the last patch was such a catastrophy they had to remove a game mode and a hero because they were completely broken. The "hotfix" will come out next week, a breezy 5 weeks after the patch broke major stuff. All the while it was advertised as a "live service game" where "change will be a constant" and we'll get patches every two weeks and content updates every month. Yeah right.

Not scores, but where else? We listened to these all the time when I was tiny, it was nice to return to them

Jurassic Park was the first huge movie to reach a non-soviet, not closed Hungary almost immediately (still a few months after the premiere, but close enough) and of course it had to be hyped: how else than a cheesy, mildly pedophiliac variety number in the localised Wheel of Fortune? Translation: (didn't bother with the rhyming) Obviously, neither the singers, the songwriter or the directors had any clue what Jurassic Park was about outside of "a theme park with dinos". This played on TV 3 months after the Hungarian premiere.

Why do people still only look at RT's binary ratings? The average critic rating on a 10-scale is right below that! Fury road has 8.6, Ant-Man and the Wasp has 6.9, both are probably reasonable.

Yeah and he hates it.

It grossly misrepresents him, his life and his colleagues to turn it all into a gigantic cliche.

Tried watching 1941, then after 20 minutes and a bit of skipping I decided I'm better off just listening to the March.

There's too many to list. T2, Aliens, Titanic... Goddamn you Cameron, you got too enamored with Na'vi palettes! Fun fact: In the Fellowship credits, the creators of the digital grading software are listed, and they're all Hungarian.

Compared to the gorgeous Fellowship...

Look at the Hobbit. Yes.

Eh. For anyone with enough vision, it's a poweful tool to execute it, but for anyone else, it's a cheap tool to exploit. See Orange-and-Teal-O-Mania and the destruction of classics via needless regrading. Though on the other hand, it simplifies proper restorations of faded strips immensely. So it's a fantastic tool in the right hands, terrible in the wrong ones.

You are aware it came out 1.5 years ago, right?

Yeah, just try and replicate it in Audacity then place them on top of each other. I'd have done that already, but they'll only get here early next week.

18 - Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John WIlliams - 6/10 OK, this time it's the pieces that are being played (wonderfully) that are not my style at all. 19 - American Journey - 9/10 AJ itself is fantastic, the other tracks are damn good too. 20 - Spielberg/Williams III - 10/10 (Have heard and owned before) Going out with a bang! Apart from many highlights, this also has a very coherent, pleasant tone. My favourite of the Spielberg albums. I've been humming Dry Your Tears, Afrika for 2 days now, looking forward to getting to it, and now it's blasting full volume for the 5th time. If all else were shit on this album, Afrika and Escapades would still push it up to a freaking 9! So what's the results of this box? 6/10 - 4 - Either not my style or I didn't listen to them in the correct mood - right now, Unforgettable is the only one right now I could maybe see growing on me in the future. 7/10 - 3 - These may get a listen or two, but I wasn't overly enamoured by them. 8/10 - 4 - Now these I liked very much, either overall or for many good tracks, but something holds them back a little bit. Green Album got moved up here in hindsight. 9/10 - 7 - LOVED these. Coherent albums, or overwhelmingly great tracks, will listen a lot! Spielberg I. got moved up here in hindsight. 10/10 - 2 - This rating is basically used to place these two albums over the others. So, at 2.55€ a piece, 10.2€ (20%) was "wasted" (using the term loosely here), 7.65€ (15%) is in the category where I can't complain, it was only 2.55 a piece after all, and 33.15€ (65%) was spent so well that I feel bad for underpaying so hard. I feel quite comfortable with this. But statistics and love/like/meh ratings are not the only way to evaluate big sets like this. How many surprise hits were hidden in here, showing me new music I never would've looked for? I place them on a more special spot because they broaden my tastes and horizons, and introduce me to new styles. 13 albums got 8 or above, 9 of those I didn't hear before. I Love a Parade - I knew I'd love this one, not much of a surprise there. The Green Album I didn't expect to like, but it showed me Americana can be exciting and interesting, bonus surprise point! Joy to the World was another sure hit. Night and Day - I do know quite a bit of Sinatra from my childhood, so I also expected to like this. Music for Stage and Screen could've been anything but I adore it all. Complete surprise, bonus point. Summon the Heroes is a classic compilation of heroic epicness, I was always going to at least like it. There were some unexpected gems in there, though, like the Vangelis arrangements. Half a surprise point. The Five Sacred Trees never sounded like something I'd absolutely have to check out. Well that was completely and utterly wrong. This one gets the biggest surprise point, represented by 1.5. Gershwin Fantasy - I had a feeling I may be interested this, so half a surprise point for the Fantasy's and the 3 Preludes' awesomeness. American Journey - I didn't expect it to be THIS good, so half a surprise point. Therefore, we have collected 5 Surprise points from 9 albums, which is damn good. And how's the set and packaging itself? Well, I do like that the booklet told me some genuinely new information for once. I also like the outer box, and how the front covers are all replicated on the cardboard sleeves. These flimsy sleeves are not the best solution (I'd have preferred the thicker Spielberg/Williams trilogy-style sleeves), but they get the job done and don't waste space. What I like less is the plain back covers (why not replicate them, too?) and how none of them have the runtime. Even in the damn booklet, only a few random albums have the runtime listed. WHY? And why those? What the hell? Either do all or none! I don't know if the original releases had any liner notes, but there were 1 or 2 where I could have used them - Why do I have to Google what the hell a Craeb Uisnig is to get the composer's intended context for his piece on an official release? Instead of the booklet listing every track again, put the complete and individual runtimes on the bleak back covers, and replicate the notes in the booklet! Overall, I'm really glad I bought this.

Oh yeah, I do actually know and love that one, too! And much, much prefer the full orchestral version.

I guess so. I did notice some nice themes in the first one (which I actually did listen to). The only one I know and could recognize was Schindler, though, and the only movie I've seen (though some others like Casablanca and Robin Hood are lined up for viewing one day). Yeah, I guess this specific style of violin playing and arrangement is just not for me, and very much so in my current mood. I still give 6 to all of these as minimum, because I allow this much objectivity - they're all written, played and recorded very well, then 6-10 is my subjective opinion.

I don't think Flying and Jaws are much different from the Spielberg/Williams recordings, and there's not much one could vary on the Star Wars Main Title. 16 - Gershwin Fantasy - 8/10 LOVE the Fantasy and the Preludes, but by the songs, the violin schtick got old and they were all mushing into each other. 17 - Cinema Serenade 2 - 6/10 I powered through the first one as background noise, but I was just about to take this one out until The Quiet Man started - finally, joyous, rythmic melody instead of drawn-out vibrato wailing! It reminded me after the first 4 tracks that I do very much like the violin in the right context. Then I admit I just skipped through the rest.

14 - The Five Sacred Trees - 9/10 The concerto and the symphony are both great, and the two other tracks are good, too. 15 - The Hollywood Sound - 7/10 A good selection, but not much personality.

It's the dude who could use chewing gum, a paperclip, two dust bunnies and a bra hook to create an anti-aircraft missile platform, right?