Brando

43 years ago, James Bond got pushed out of an aeroplane without a parachute. He, then, knicked a parachute from some other guy.
So, what's the what?

It’s only February, but this is the Post of the Year for me. 😇

Wow

"Indiana Jones 5 and the Path to Accepting Excitement (OST)" / Sequel Score Shaming 
In Honor of Valentine's Day 2023 (February 14th, 2023)
 
A pretentious, inane, and possibly unintentionally ageist thesis drenched in a lust for Internet clout.
 
Written by Cerebral Cortex
Edited by Tim Allen
(who was Sued by Pamela Anderson)
 
Dedicated to BloodBoal
 
Even with the first trailer out, for some reason this movie still felt very surreal and I don't think my mind really accepted it as a thing that was actually happening. So I'd see things for it and my mind just on the most passive level interpreted what it saw and reacted to it, entirely bypassing the part of the thought process where in order for my brain to make that connection it must also accept that this film is also a real thing.

With this TV spot, there's something that has clicked in my brain and this now feels like a very real movie that is coming out in just a few months. Perhaps just by seeing it with more familiar music, it gave a legitimacy to it that I previously didn't associate with those images.
 
But now that I've finally broken through that psychic threshold, I realize now there is a new one I'm not even sure how to process: the fact John Williams, at 91, is scoring another Indiana Jones movie. And with that realization comes, to me and numerous other members, a feeling of immense excitement.
 
Which brings me to the meat of this post. I leave it to the members to judge my sin.
 
I've seen a lot of discourse over the last few years where members on here would get shit on for getting more excited over a Star Wars Episode 24 sequel score than whatever new Williams prestige score was right around the corner. And for a long time I sat there anonymously on the receiving end being unable to succinctly "understand why I looked forward to these Williams blockbuster sequel scores more than a new Williams score for a very insufferable and boring Oscar bait movie" (Cerebral Cortex, 2023). But I so desperately wanted to understand: (A) why do I feel the strong need to justify this opinion and (B) why do I feel this way in the first place emotionally regarding being excited for new Star Wars from Williams versus new anything else. 
 
But with the release of this movie, I finally think I get it. Perhaps it was always obvious, but I only just now realized that the preference in which upcoming Williams score JWFans allowed themselves to be excited by was probably a very largely generational difference. I say that in the kindest words with the intended meaning being that most likely a lot of the people who were excited about those new Star Wars scores saw them not just as blockbuster scores but as emotional extensions to pieces of music that had made a very impressionable mark on people who were younger when those films first came out. It would be exceedingly interesting to be able to plot member age against total excitement of members who were excited about the Star Wars sequel scores more than other new Williams scores. If you could, I bet you would see a lot of peaks of excitement plotted around people who as kids grew up in the late 90s and the late 70s than those who grew up in the mid-80s, mid-60s, mid-2000s, mid-2020s (ah yes, the coveted toddler film score demographic!). That is to say that those who were young enough to find themselves impressed upon by those earlier Williams works were probably more excited about the upcoming sequels to those works they were fond of than members who grew up without that experience.
 
So in the coming week, you might find yourself feeling shameful or disgusted with yourself. You may see opinions shared on this forum regarding this score that cast shade your way or make you feel inadequate in your musical tastes for being excited by it or enjoying it. You may wake up and look in the mirror to find that you don't like the man you see: someone who, when compared to Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, is getting much more excited about this upcoming James Mangold's "The Fabled Man"  (phrase copyright © Cerebral Cortex 2023). But getting more excited about new Williams music to a big dumb blockbuster movie isn't wrong. Because, if you're on this forum, there's a very good chance that in the end, it was never even really about the movie; it was about the music.
 
And that's when the surrealness starts to set in for people who grew up able to be impacted by the power of these films. That feeling of love you have for that cherished child thing can't possibly be something one is able to experience now. Because right now you're in your late-20s and the world isn't the same as when all you had to worry about was when the school bus left and there's no way that that thing you loved so fondly back when you were a child and everything was warm and safe can exist now in this life of uncertainty and fear and cold. Because back then was a forever ago. And the person who made that thing you loved can't be the same person who is making this new thing to that thing you loved.
 
 
But it is.
 
 
It's the same fucking guy.
 
And he might be older now (well, we're not quite sure if he is actually aging) but you're definitely older, and your life has complexities you never even considered, worries you never even thought about growing up. "Will my parents get Alzheimer's?" "Will I get Alzheimer's?" "Why is that mole changing color?" "Should I have gotten that 1-year warranty on the toaster?" "Will I get Alzheimer's?"
 
But somehow that same man is here. To show you that that feeling you have for the things you loved is still inside you. To show you that being around to take on the worries of life is worth it if it means you get to experience things like these to get excited over, regardless of how big or how small that thing is. That just because you feel like you're stuck feeling a certain way doesn't mean you lost those other feelings. And that you can still love things you loved when you were little as a grown adult. Because it's always okay to be excited about something you love.
 
So this Valentines' Day, if you find yourself as a fellow JWFanner feeling bad about being excited for Indy 5, don't. You're doing it for love.
 
And that's always a good reason to do something.*
*-following a bunch of legally-binding stipulations
 
 
But anyways, yeah, I think that's why this upcoming score feels so surreal to me lol.
 
And you're welcome for the reminder that Valentine's Day is tomorrow. I just saved your ass!
 
 
EDIT: holy shit i'm high as fuck lol
 

Certainly not saying his recent performances are bad! Just that Indiana Jones is a physically demanding role and Ford gives the character a unique physicality with his performance (albeit slightly stilted in KOCS).
 
He was great in TFA, appropriately playing an older, somewhat burdened interpretation of Han Solo.
 
But clearly he's having a blast playing Indy again. They could easily have gone the grumpy curmudgeon route but he's coming across as more of a protective elder, similar to Han's relationship with Rey in TFA.

The very start sounds like the opening of the Resistance March, then it moves into 5 seconds of material that sounds like his suspense music from the Star Wars sequels. The brass sounds exactly like the HSS on his modern scores.
 
I wonder if that sequence of 4 notes (0:01-0:06) is a fragment of a theme?

Lets not pretend the original versions of those numbers weren't awful too.

That...does help.

What?
 

They're great, and cuddly.

I love ROTJ and TOD, and I think those who don't like either of these movies are crazy. 

Maybe he did this time around

Maybe he did this time around

Maybe he did this time around

Maybe he did this time around

This, aside from many other key moments, is why I don't understand why some people dislike Doom, like the ending is so happy and joyous.

Maybe he did this time around

Maybe he did this time around

I really like Ford's acting with the, "what are you doing here?!" line.
 
I haven't seen him put this much energy into a performance for a long while.
 
 
The opening 6 seconds definitely sounds like a film cue(s). The rest is probably just the end credits (with added synth drums).

Oh man tough question because they both have such perfect happy tear endings. 

Really? The Emperor’s theme?  I like it but it has no “B” section. It just loops. 

The more I think of this, what an entertaining double feature that would make!

When I was in 5th grade, the local paper printed the ROTJ review with spoilers a day before its release and some kid at school blabbed about Leia being Luke’s sister.  A day later, I found out he wasn’t full of it.  I think it being spoiled for me soured me not only on spoilers, but on the story reveal itself.  I didn’t really accept it, or like it. I still don’t. 
 
And then this guy at the theater put his fedora on my head and said, “You got spoiled kid. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it.”
 
And ever since then I’ve had a fear of spoilers. 

You're brave, Andy. You have willpower.

Oh totally!  In this age of information it’s almost an impossible game. But so far so good.   The ads aren’t meant for me. They’re already getting my money.  I just hope the people at work don’t spill the beans tomorrow.