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  1. Its kind of important to have these trash film series. We have such amazing and seminal film series...but they wouldn't be nearly as awesome were it not for having a kind of nexus in the form of patently trash film series as their counterparts.
  2. Grunts in the direction of Fifty Shades.
  3. Yeah. Its all striped anyway (which does make one wonder: are they not done with the editing?) and they're clearly going to manipulate the sound significantly in the mixing, if they want 18 violins to withstanding playing with six horns and a Rauschpfeife, which sounds like a cousin of our old friend the rhaita. So they could definitely cast some of these sounds to the background of the texture. But I do assume at least some of these colours were concieved of as cultural, so we should expect to hear some of them with some characters more than others. And since the film does have quite a few such factions - Rohirrim, Dunlendings, Wizards (Saruman), Orcs, Haradrim and presumably Gondorians - its interesting to speculate. Certainly, the first bit of music Gallagher shared sounds to me more like something to be expected of a scene with Wulf than anything else. I will say, the absence of, ahem, a certain instrument is as of yet quite glaring: I know that when Gallagher was doing "Blunt the Knives" he couldn't find a Hardinfelle in New Zealand, so you gotta wonder... Maybe in the coming days, though! And the really interesting thing? Some of these Medieval instruments tend to come tuned to the Dorian mode...
  4. Yep. Also Tibetan singing bowls (a Smaug-y sound!), wooden fish and the now-mandatory taikos. Gallagher also told someone in his notices that there are more medieval instruments yet to come! I kind of did a roundup of the orchestrations from what I could tell from the pictures and partitura: Strings: 10 Violins I, 8 Violins II, 6 Viola, 4 Violoncelli, 2 Contrabasses. Woodwinds: 2 Flutes and 1 Piccolo, 2 Oboes and 1 Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets and 1 Bass Clarinet, 2 Basoons and 1 Contraforte; at least two Crumhorns, doubling multiple registers, seemingly bass, tenor and soprano; at least two shawms also doubling several registers and on Rauschpfeife and Dulcian. Brass: 6 horns, 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones and 1 Bass Trombone. Keyboards: 1 Grand Piano Percussion: At least 2 percussionists on Taiko (O-Daiko, Chu-Daiko, Hira-Daiko and Shime-Daiko), gong, fish temple blocks, tibetan singing bowls, possibly vibraphone. Interesting to imagine what some of these colours are for: Even not bearing the Shore scores in mind, I'm having a hard time imagining Helm striding into Meduseld and hearing singing bowls, and somehow it also doesn't strike me as a Dunlending sound: Maybe for the Southrons?
  5. Hoiho! Hoiho hoho! https://www.instagram.com/stephengallaghermusic/p/C4WHHg-MVFb/?img_index=1
  6. If a film is an entry in a series, it HAS to be judged both as an individual entry and an installment in the series. And I'm fine with sequels and prequels, and depending on the series, with a great many of them, too. But some films lend themselves to sequels, and some don't. Some sequels lend themselves to even more sequels, other don't. Some films lend themselves to prequels, but others do not, etc...
  7. Meh. Lots of sequels suck, too. I've never subscribed to this notion that prequels are somehow more likely to suck than - or are somehow artistically inferior to - sequels. That's not to say I want prequels to Gladiator, either!
  8. I should add, I don't entirely object, but I think prequels are typically better for that than sequels.
  9. Seeing as this thread turned mostly to laugh lines, possibly the funniest comic relief ever in a movie:
  10. I think the moment I realised just how reductive the whole process is was when I saw a theme "guide" for Tristan, where almost all the themes listed were named like: Love, Love's longing, passion, love's bliss, love-death, love's desire, love's caresses, love potion, love's overwhelming power, the magic of love...
  11. We get this a lot recently: sequels to stories that, whether told in one entry or more, ended on a full-stop. Off the top of my head: Indiana Jones (sorta) Toy Story (sorta) Star Wars The Matrix Marvel (post Endgame) Hollywood had developed a topical allergy to finality.
  12. But it is a sequel to Gladiator! They basically nabbed anyone of the veteran cast that they could, and I seriously doubt they're there for cursory roles.
  13. And even there, I feel, it would have been better served by having Endgame be the actual, err, Endgame. An audience knows a climax and coda when they see it, and once that cadential feeling had been fired-up, it can't be taken back.
  14. Yeah, I find it depressing. What does Gladiator ends with? It ends with the sad but heroic sacrifice by the main character and, like all the best dramas, it ends with a sense of promise for the future and we're left to imagine a rosier Rome and, for all they've weathered, a "happily ever after" for Lucila, Gracchus, Juba and Lucius. By making a sequel - not "another film set in that world", a sequel - you're forced into going "well, actually!" and show that those characters still have terrible trials and tribulations to go through, if they manage to go through them at all... It ruins it.
  15. Good sequitur: if The Fellowship of the Ring was ABOUT Middle-Earth, then no sooner would Frodo arrive in Rivendell, ol' Figwit/Lindir would have taken him on a guided tour through the entire place. But he doesn't: Because that's not the point of the movie. Of course, you're not going to go to the trouble of making beautiful visuals and not give them a chance to breath (see every David Lean film ever), but there's a difference between a film taking its time, and a film misplacing its focus from the story to the setting. I honestly can't see many people lining up to see a mockumentary/travelogue of the geography of Tatooine or Khand or what have you. What's more, Gladiator itself is not the kind of movie Thor fancies: Gladiator is a plot-oriented movie, and I'll bet Nick's house that the sequel will be that, as well.
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