Fancyarcher

Searching For Bobby Fisher - 8 / 10 I mean it has a lot of imaginative scenes & visuals, but at least 20% of that film is a blatant product placement for Papa Johns and it's not handled very well either. Lord!

To some people yes. The Stallone version of Judge Dredd was definitely trying to be like a superhero.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) - 6.5 / 10

Cars 3 - 6.5 / 10

Sing - 6 / 10

Yeah, but it plays into the somber "sad" moments, so it becomes more of a reflective "patriotic" score. Hardly my favorite anyway. It's very well-composed, but it's one of those scores, where I may skip skip a handful of cues anyway, when I try to listen to it.

Yeah, I imagine they aren't super pleased with Johansson's score. Perhaps he wasn't referencing Vangelis themes enough or something, to their liking. Of course a main theme doesn't have to be hummable. Plenty of great themes I wouldn't consider hummable. I am looking forward to the Blade Runner 2049 score as well.

True, it's not bad, it's very well-composed, but a lot of it is dramatic battle music. The theme is great of course, but the rest of the score well-made as it is, just isn't the easiest to listen to on its own.

That doesn't seem likely considering that modern Hollywood directors tends to prefer atmosphere above actual themes these days, and Villeneuve / Johhansson's previous collaborations have basically been all about sound / atmosphere anyway. If anything I'd expect a composer to get the boot for actual trying to have themes these days. This doesn't make me any less interested in the film though. A composer added additional this late into production, may seem troubling, but that doesn't mean the actual film itself will be bad either.

Basically. I'm sure Williams saw it as a good opportunity to do something different at the time too, considering he was doing mostly thrillers / disaster films at that point.

My unpopular opinion, well I really enjoy many of his dramatic scores as of late, and that doesn't seem to be too popular an opinion around these parts. Also I'm not too big on parts of Saving Private Ryan on their own as a listen, though I think it works well enough in the film. No, but that wouldn't surprise me, considering that Fox thought the film would flop, that would not shock me at all.

The entire film was practically about building tension for me. I actually felt like I was shaking in my theater from the "terror" so to say. Plus I can only imagine what the experience of the film was like in IMAX. I'm sure it comes to life so to say, even more in that format. I mean I can understand, why someone wouldn't care for something like that, but for me it worked perfectly.

I doubt much of the film was even meant to be "moving" though. It was meant to show the "fears" of war above anything, and for me it worked "great" in that regard. I'm actually seeing the film a second time in IMAX soon enough hopefully. Very excited, since I've been told by many, it's the best format to see the film in.

Yup. For the most part, I enjoyed Spectre & for me, that's good enough.

I found it fairly earned actually. I'll admit it may have just been there to end the film on a more "stirring" note, but it didn't bother me.

It was actually meant to be a low-key approach to a famous speech. It was a few soldiers reading the newspaper after all. Personally I thought it worked quite fine. I'm glad they didn't hire an actor to randomly impersonate Churchill for one scene anyway.

For me that scene at the end with the Churchill speech was actually great, since it was one of the soldiers delivering it in a non-heroic way. Plus it felt earned. Nolan wanted the story to be in a much more non-linear fashion. Once you get the hang of the overall story-structure, it's actually not entirely that hard to follow though.

Desplat - Valerian - Very, very good.

Many of his roles, pre somewhere around the 1980's were pretty much not of his persona either. At one point he was considered a very serious actor. Walken didn't have a "persona" so to say, until after he started to willingly "parody" himself on SNL and the likes.

Welp score is doomed. Rumor is Giacchino has been hired to come in & ghost-fix some cues up. Damn!!!

Abominable & Sudden Impact both by Schifrin.

There are a lot of lifts, Kaufman even snuck Mancini's The White Dawn in the actual film in a scene, but I'd say it's less plagiarism and more temp-track / director demand hell, since Kaufman is apparently very difficult for composers to work with, especially since he isn't very specific about what he wants, it's why John Barry left the film. But lifts or no lifts, it's a great score. That main theme is so damn siring, patriotic sounding, and appropriate.

Yeah John's got the power. (Stupid fast typing mistake)

One of my favorite Powell scores. So good.

The score was way too "western, we need something a bit more European".