-
Posts
287 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by mxsch
-
What are the dumbest moments of things like that you've ever heard? Lorne Balfe's score for third Bad Boys comes to my mind, where he just copies music from the Modern Warfare 2 exactly in the same arrangement like in the game. And that track is written by him.
-
Who have a final word for the final edit of music in the movies? Director, composer or editor? And why some movies have their scores butchered to death, replaced and e.t.c. For example, I can't understand why Kershner decided to omit some music in the Empire Strikes Back, maybe for suspense and stuff like that but c'mon Williams score is fucking perfect. I also want to salute Williams and every other composer who can write such music in those tight schedules, it is pretty much genius. Star Wars is definitely have no rivals in terms of thematic complexity, maybe LOTR and HTTYD, but they are still not on the same level, IMHO And it's sad that there are so little amount of movies released with their scores isolated on separate audio track, I wish there was more.
-
Yeah I know that OG album is always 1 CD that can fit only 80 minutes of music and this is composer's intent for the listening experience, blah-blah, but why not to present some cues in full, simply connecting them into suites without doing a ton of microedits and stuff like that? Why for example Battle Over Coruscant includes only a mix of first cue with The Elevator Scene added and I can write a ton examples like that. We also can turn this thread into another discussion of absence of complete set of Skywalker Saga recordings and lack of complete Indiana Jones box set. Disney already have missed two opportunities with celebrations of 45 anniversary of OG Star Wars and 40 years for Raiders If they don't want to make a contract with La-La Land why just not to do it themselves? Just hire Matessino and problem is solved. I'm sure that all this SW expansions like Solo, Rogue One, OST's for Battlefront's, Fallen Order e.t.c. sold well
-
It is clearly a SFX, listen to this fragment. There are shooting, talking, computer noises, helicopter sounds and someting else Whoever did this album assembly definitely fucked this up I can't find this track from the sessions on YT for comparison but it is clean, except there are some strange artifacts on the whole sessions leak
-
How much music we don't have? I know that sessions for TROS is like 3+ hours long and we have only hour and half, but what about TFA and TLJ, considering FYC and Live to Projection leak for the first and isolated score for the second?
-
I'm looking for the scores which were rejected and they are should be interesting to listen and good enough. Can you suggest something like that for me, please? For Example, I really like rejected Silvestri score for first Mission Impossible over Elfman's one.
-
After a shit ton of postponements it's finally out. Excellent arrangements of Bond songs, IMO Always wanted a album like that, I know that there were some in the past but this one hits me in all the right spots
-
Alan Silvestri's AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)
mxsch replied to TheUlyssesian's topic in General Discussion
I don't really know WTF happened to this recording, since the movie is clearly using another mix. LSO sounds flat and uninspiring, there is a distortion heard in the right channel sometimes. Same is happened to Ready Player One and Infinity War, last one suffers especially. But if you compare original Avengers which was recorded with LSO too with godawful album version of Endgame when it quotes the music from the first one, difference is the night and day. Original is punchy, vibrant and dynamic and Endgame... Meh. I mean, even quotes from First Avenger which is not LSO sounds better on the OG album too. I wonder who mixed all this stuff... -
Williams once explained that he used Leia's theme in the moment when Vader "kills" Obi-Wan because this theme was most dramatic of all in original SW. P.S. That's what is said about this in the 97 SE RCA re-release: Interestingly, Williams uses Princess Leia's theme at the moment Ben vanishes, deferring to the purely musical effectiveness of the sweeping melody over any apparent thematic relevance, although the theme does reinforce the connection between the Princess and the old Jedi suggested by her holographic message.
-
You are right about connection to Luke. But TROS still makes no sense. Reprise of the moment when Luke is lifting X-Wing for Rey is absolutely understandable, but not this one in finale.
-
Why the heck Yoda's and Luke and Leia themes are detached from the characters in the track Reunion? Since when Yoda's theme means victory and Luke and Leia theme now belongs to other characters, this is because that girl can be daughter of Lando? Makes no sense and this is the most head-scratching moment of TROS for me in terms of the score.
-
I think that it's pretty nice database and reviews sometimes can contain interesting stuff. But most of the time reviewer writes bullshit, some ratings for the albums are joke and the fact that the people on this site rarely can stand a score with electronics is a joke.
-
I'm pretty much new to this expanded release and I know that it's reputation here and in Filmtracks review is kinda bad. What is exactly wrong with it? How they even f-ed it up if JW was involved and this is La-La Land and they are have a very little list of fails, to my knowledge And I also remember some criticisms of Murphy here, what's wrong with him? For me he is a guarantee of superb recording and mixing quality. Hook is 30 years old score now and it sounds insanely well, and how he mixed Prequels, for example, just blows my mind. LSO and Abbey Road rules, he rules too.
-
Is there a similar breakdown for the part three?
-
Is John Williams considered to be the best film music composer?
mxsch replied to mxsch's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Herrmann suffers from the same things as any other "old" composer: lack of works avaliable in digital, not that good sound quality and e.t.c. And I think our good old Johnny Williams is easily beats him -
Is John Williams considered to be the best film music composer?
mxsch replied to mxsch's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Can't even say anything about this. Simply so great that I have no words. I'm pretty sure that you can find some purists which will say something like "ew he is a movie composer so it doesn't count" Dumb -
Is John Williams considered to be the best film music composer?
mxsch replied to mxsch's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
I completely agree with you. Original SW is kinda restarted movie music. And the fact that this man in his 90's and can write like 2 or 3 hours of original material is simply mindblowing. Hans Zimmer and his RCP hacks really can only dream about this. -
Is John Williams considered to be the best film music composer?
mxsch replied to mxsch's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Any score from 20 century and earlier than 70's not by any composer above which will change my mind Or it will be better if you suggest some composer with really strong set of works.