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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
The family drama stuff gets a bit cheesy sometimes, but nobody blocks an action scene (and on a shoestring budget, too!) like Gibson. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
Like I said, it’s a kind of throwback to the 1960s epics. But it works for the way the movie is structured: the movie needs that breather there - it helps the stop-start pacing. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
Right after Kerak, before Saladin reconvenes at his camp. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
There are two versions of the director's cut: one that runs straight through, and a roadshow edit that has an overture, intermission and entr'acte. It may seem like an affectation, but the way the film is paced, it really needs that breather of the intermission. Get that one. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
I believe its when Balian knights the Bishop's page. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
The Roadshow Edition! The film really needs that intermission. -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
I dunno that it drags, but the style of blocking is certainly antiquated: the entire thing plays like a stageplay with a camera in the isles. -
Indiana Jones 5 (James Mangold, June 30 2023)
Chen G. replied to Joe Brausam's topic in General Discussion
And yet there’s way more at stake because the father figure is there…- 3,773 replies
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Indiana Jones 5 (James Mangold, June 30 2023)
Chen G. replied to Joe Brausam's topic in General Discussion
Dunno that "ground" is how I'd put it. The Last Crusade takes the outrageousness of the serial plotting and setpieces of Indiana Jones and treats them...as comedy, really; which is probably why I like it the most. They're all knowingly over-the-top, but The Last Crusade is the most succesfull at actually deriving laughs from it.- 3,773 replies
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Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow 2022)
Chen G. replied to John's topic in General Discussion
This is basically my point. I seriously doubt Treverrow's ability to bake this into the story with any success. But then, I guess I'm an outlier in that I never saw Jurassic Park as being particularly amneable to becoming a film series, and so any and all sequels to it carry little interest to me to begin with. -
Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow 2022)
Chen G. replied to John's topic in General Discussion
People's desire to meet the elderly versions of their beloved characters continues to elude me... -
Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow 2022)
Chen G. replied to John's topic in General Discussion
Meh. I didn't have any issue with the photorealism of the CGI Dinosaurs in the previous entries, and no amount of animatronics in the world are going to help a bad story. -
The thing I like in The Rise of Skywalker is more the treatment of material from previous entries: although I hate it as a story development, the way Williams turns the theme associated with Kylo into a heroic theme is rathe extraordinary, and what happens to the theme associated with Rey in the final scene is astounding.
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Your Favorite Third Act Musical Surprise
Chen G. replied to Cerebral Cortex's topic in General Discussion
Yes, Ironfoot is a great piece, of course! -
Your Favorite Third Act Musical Surprise
Chen G. replied to Cerebral Cortex's topic in General Discussion
I guess that sort of material has an unfair advantage in that it comes on the heels of the musical buildup of not just one score but at least 2.5. I like the material associated with Thorin's death: part of the magic of the leitmotif technique is that the motives are constantly being recontextualized by sheer virtue of being heard next to other motives. So that we hear the theme associated with Thorin and then the theme associated with "Death and Parting" and then the material affiliated with Tauriel and Kili, not only connects al three but also shows us that both the latter and the former had been carrying the seeds of their own demise all along. Just because we don't come out of the movie singing it doesn't mean that emotionally it didn't do its thing! -
Your Favorite Third Act Musical Surprise
Chen G. replied to Cerebral Cortex's topic in General Discussion
Yeah, we don't really get to hear that theme, as such, before the duel begins... -
Your Favorite Third Act Musical Surprise
Chen G. replied to Cerebral Cortex's topic in General Discussion
Well, its a surprise because, technically, its not material we've heard before; whereas the material associated with Smaug we've heard a lot: we haven't heard it treated like that, but its still material we've heard. -
Your Favorite Third Act Musical Surprise
Chen G. replied to Cerebral Cortex's topic in General Discussion
Closer to what the OP is going for is probably the introduction of the material associated with Dain or, perhaps more significantly, the figure associated with the body-count at the end of the story. -
What is the most accessible classical choral work for newcomers?
Chen G. replied to artguy360's topic in General Discussion
Maybe the choral work in Lohengrin? -
What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Chen G. replied to Mr. Breathmask's topic in General Discussion
Meh. Carima Burana is a flashier piece, but its got nothing on the prelude of Tristan. Interestingly, Boorman claimed he got the idea for the music when he attended the Jahrhundertring, which I'm willing to buy except that I'm skeptical as to how he would have gotten tickets: Bayreuth sells out years in advance, and this was the goddamn centenary Ring!