Fancyarcher
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44 minutes ago, Alexcremers said:
I simply noticed that all the typical tricks and ingredients are there. Ingredients that other movies did too well before BB. Indeed, I guess the serious tone is what made this Batman movie different. But it got a lot more serious in TDK. Also, Gotham in BB is still an attempt to create some kind of imaginary city, though a lot more realistic than previous endeavours. In TDK, Gotham City looks exactly like the cities we know. The Fantasy dress up is completely out of the window. In a way, BB forms the bridge between the Fantasy, imaginary approach of the old days and the dead-on realism of later DC movies like MOS.
By the way, why do people that say it's the most influential movie ever made?
In BB it's still a pretty gritty looking city though with positive "prospers" / having more of a future look to it. Te difference is, is that in the TDK it looks a lot more "bleak", I guess you could say, which was done deliberately in order to reflect the continue downward collapse of the city's structure, rules, & people.
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Begins may seem formulaic (though that's a complaint that barely makes much sense to me honestly), but at the time it was seen as being really fresh, and was praised for its serious tone. Great film BTW, even saw it in the cinemas.
A History of Violence - 9 / 10
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Just now, Josh500 said:
Well, I agree.
I should have said "on this forum." Look poll above.
Oh, personally I think both movies are great, and that's all that matters.
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3 hours ago, Josh500 said:
Alien and Aliens...
It's almost exactly the same as Jaws and Jaws 2.
Not the movies themselves, but how people view the original VS. the sequel.
Er, Aliens is just about as well-regarded as Alien. People are often split on which is better.
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5 hours ago, Koray Savas said:
Black Rain by Hans Zimmer
KK's post earlier got me in the mood for some classic Zimmer, so I decided to give the La-La Land expansion a spin. Heavy, atmospheric, yet comparatively subtle in terms of his action writing of the era. Good stuff. It's too bad those 90s expansions dried up and haven't continued since, what, The Peacemaker?
Good early Zimmer music. You can hear the origin of his Batman theme in it, among other scores.
5 hours ago, Incanus said:Judge Dredd by Alan Silvestri: Getting better with each listen but you could create a tight 45 minute album out of this material (which Silvestri initially actually did). I am loving the sheer no-nonsense attitude Silvestri's main theme generates in its staunch triumphant progression.
I also love the Rico / villain theme. As Silvestri himself put it in the liner notes, it's very "epic" in nature.
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3 hours ago, Disco Stu said:
Goldsmith's score is very melodic.
The rejected bits / throwout bits of the score have nice parts, but I'll admit there are no tracks in it that I really want to listen to again and again. Good music though.
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3 minutes ago, Josh500 said:
Well, yes, but you can listen to music just for atmosphere too (to get into a certain mood or frame of mind). In fact, that's a major reason why people listen to film music, or music in general.
Melodies are great if they're catchy, but sometimes overused and overrated.
Personally I just prefer scores with "themes" so to say, as do most people in general I'd wager. That being said I don't mind atmosphere, I'm not a fan of composer mistake or forced to atmosphere like its "sound design" or something though. I prefer my atmosphere to be striking or maybe sound "otherworldly" at least. The Alien film scores (at least the first three anyway), succeed in that regard.
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I didn't super-care for the music (it was fine, which given JW's age is great), but the BFG is pretty coherent to listen to, score and film IMO.
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Colossal - 7.5 / 10
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Slipstream by Elmer Bernstein
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Their Finest - 7.5 / 10
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4 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:
Modern CGI is probably as good as it is now because of the way he pushed it. There were lots of advances made as a result of the PT.
True, but a lot of the CGI in TPM & AOTC holds up very poorly regardless. He should have mixed it in with more practicals, as opposed to trying to push the medium to its limits at the time.
Plus if Lucas hadn't started his obsession with CGI, we may have not had some of the absolutely more bad CGI in KOTCS (gopher & monkeys for example), and hate on that film all you want, but it would have been less distracting for me, since I actually think that film is alright otherwise, hot take, lol.
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1 hour ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:
Even if you don't like his films surely you can admire ILM, Skywalker Sound, Digital cinema (even if you think he overdid the whole digital thing himself, Lucasfilm saw levels of innovation and ambition under Lucas that simply won't be seen again. To dismiss Rinzler's opinions on Disney just because of your own feelings on the prequels or calling him a "yes man" isn't very nuanced.
Although I wish Lucas was a better writer, I can't deny his storytelling / visual skills. Now if only his CGI lovefest had happened later as opposed to earlier.
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The Martian (rewatch) - 8.5 / 10
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Rams - 8 / 10
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Doubtful will get a re-release / expanded copy this year. Would be great if we did though.
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The Last Flight of Noah's Ark By Maurice Jarre
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Lean On Me - 8 / 10
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3 hours ago, Richard said:
Nice. I wish I'd seen it in 70mm.
A great, great score, from an underrated film.
Growing up I had a VHS copy of The Black Cauldron, so for years I had no idea for years that Disney was ashamed of the film, I just assumed it was them trying something different at the time.
Yeah it's not a bad film, better then its reputation suggests, yes it's fictionalizing a disaster, but that's no better or worse then most true story films. It's got a great cast and it looks good as well.
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The Hindenburg by David Shire
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2 hours ago, Richard said:
Aww. That's a good score, from a much -maligned, but not-bad-actually film.
It's great fun, the ondnes martenot gets overused per-usual yes, but there are several great themes. Very letimotif heavy as well.
I have a soft spot for the film too, since I grew-up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for it, flawed as it may be. The Horned King terrified me as a child.
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Some good orchestral writing mixed in with a nice use of synths, also it sounds like it might have several moments of "restraint" hopefully. Cool!
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The Black Cauldron - Elmer Bernstein
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True, but he did have an story / interview explanation for explaining the changes as well.