Oomoog the Ecstatic

I saw your avatar as a llama. If you squint your eyes a lot, the ears are the eyes and the eyes are the nose. Btw, Grim Fandango is the best game ever, it has some Casablanca influences spread throughout.

I will play my game. Anyone want to compete? Star Wars (1977)

Han Zimmer

Yeah I don't know shit about films.

It is. Turns out Rose lied to the reporters. Repressed memories, reliving a fantasy that never was, etc.

Firstly, this is a very casual thread, just a fun game. I've regretted pretty much every thread I've posted this week but I had just another cool idea for a game. If it works out, we can do maybe something like it again next year, just to give more members a chance at a new list. _______________________________ We will create a list of greatest movies ordered from #1 to 20, and if you win a round your name will be placed on the list, as a sort of award for winning that round. Our official list will be posted above. The winner appears like this in the list: 1. Movie (1988) - nominated by member1, member2, and member3 The starting rules of the game are as follows: 1. Post one nomination for favorite film, with the year in brackets 2. Now you can keep posting nominations any time 3. The first winner of 1st place are the three members who get 3 in a row, without other films in between. Social strategy is involved! Those 3 members who come to an agreement 4. If you win this round you can't participate for 2 more rounds! (until round 4), but you win the mention So it's but a 'game' in the purest sense of the word. An experiment, just for fun. Let's see what happens. 5. Repeat the process for 2nd place, 3rd etc. The winners of round 1 can't participate until 4th place. Winners of round 2 can't participate again until 5th place, etc. ______________________________ I feel like this thread will get really spammy but if you don't like it just ignore. Okay let's see what happens... Go!

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Niiiiice pic. Could you take a pic for me of making a cursing fist at your least favorite/most challenging album?

The answer was something Zimmer.

Post it in exactly 6.66666666.. hours from now. I'll be waiting.

I agree Star Wars is a bit closer to a perfect movie (than the movies mentioned by others so far), but that fact doesn't have anything to do with its public impact or rating imo. I guess it's just subjective. People in these threads just post high-rated movies they like, and ignore the ones they don't like. That's the accepted rhythm. I prefer TSMefford's approach. Share movies you really love that others don't get. It feels more illuminating and interesting to hear about.

What is more objective in the soft sense, a group opinion, or an interesting individual's? Neither. If I had to choose, the latter is more assured and worth looking into. Can you PM me your best film recommendation. Favorite film preferably, I'd like to check it out and PM you later.

That really narrows it down!

Uematsu

I don't think there is a perfect film, for the greatest movies have glaring flaws, in fact they seem to have more obvious flaws than weaker movies. If there were a perfect film, you wouldn't need any others. Movies that aren't that great seem to have less flaws, like Shawshank Redemption or Lord of the Rings, but they have less intrigue or meaning overall. Movies that are in a league of their own seem to have so much strength and weakness at the same time, by rough design of their bounds broken and allowed budget, like Mulholland Dr., The Matrix, Predestination, or well, anything by David Lynch. Deep and engrossing scripts don't have a large market of backing producers to really fly away with. Also I think Star Wars is better than LoTR, that's just me. Producers don't cater to good films because they are harder and riskier to make, don't sell as well as the stupid ones.

This music doesn't strike me, no pun intended, as anything particularly clever. A pretty traditional soundbase for arcade. For me it's about the bigger vision ie. what are we trying to emphasize beyond the obvious? often about the context of intricate, unfolding stories:

Based on all the possible instrument ensembles one can organize, like all the instruments of various ethnicities and new instruments and timbres being created, I'd say the symphony orchestra has become overrated. It's not like getting the common audience to appreciate Strauss or Sibelius or Schoenberg in their cryptic unmelodic composition. It seems that instrumentation unlocks endless opportunities for new types of expression, which anyone will be able to understand, like how some melodies only feel right if sung or have overtones of certain timbres, or have a diverse enough dynamic range that orchestras are too big and similar to simulate. Like how the mainstream can come to appreciate the orchestral music of John Williams as though it's this new form of human expression they hadn't realized before, the mainstream can easily adjust to endless spectra of expression through new aesthetic combinations. It's what jazz attempted that gave us many subgenres, and what other traditionalists have been doing all along, forging new paths for melody and harmony that weren't thought of before (because they couldn't be heard properly before.) The context and variation one can give one melody is almost endless, as it seems like a separate creation each time it's reworked into a new context. It's not the same as buying into previous cliches of how specific styles should sound and what melodies they evoke. It's instead fringing on all the unknown, keeping the universal principles of excellence that we know work. I think a lot of rare pop music with hidden influences (as anything widely appreciated is pop in it's own right) and new-age soundtrack music and vgmusic has begun exploring these deeper avenues of new melody writing. A LOT of this high-quality music isn't free, they've locked it away for purchase, which is what they do with anything truly good. And still, all classical instruments like strings and brass, have viable purpose within the bigger picture of craft.

It's because of Stepmom.

Can I call you Big Willy?

I get this guy. I get. I could probably make a similar type of video that's 100x longer on Uematsu, even contrasting the twos' styles. Both composers are exhilarating.

Here's a good one imo, what if Uematsu actually did big name orchestral scores like Star Wars. What if he was the most famous composer with lots of experience and connections? I think he'd be as good as Williams/or is. What if Uematsu built some of his career writing for big movies like Star Wars, or E.T or Harry Potter. Answer: His music tends to be way more melodic than Williams, which is perfect for the game industry, where as Williams is more detailed and progressive which is good for film. The trade off is that I think Uematsu can easily write material as iconic as Williams, like how Jurassic Park sounds iconic, but for a film score he would have to start improving his orchestration and hiring an orchestrator to collaborate with. Because he's such an incredibly diverse and eclectic composer, he might be more perfect for Star Wars, where as he'd fall shorter on a more normative genre like Indiana Jones. The best thing is he'd probably bring less orchestral gimmicks to film, and more creative ethnic and new age instrumentation, while keeping intact his highly iconic/memorable identity as a composer: I believe he is a lot more subtle and nuanced in this way than Williams. This style has been long needed in classical/scores as a whole! Maybe a new composer will emerge who's influenced by both composers' strengths.

Honestly, the new Lucas is the best thing that's hit the internet since 1948. His contagious laughter and random opinions on things is priceless Especially around other celebs, his character stands out beautifully.

Listened to 22 tracks titled 'The Hunt.' The Williams seems to be overrated? I voted for Lady Jane, followed by PotA.

What is the greatest track or movement in music?