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Trope reacted to Richard Penna in How many streaming services are you subscribed to?
I'm finding DVDs/BDs an increasingly desirable thing given many streamers' inability to keep a particular title on their service for more than 5 minutes.
I guess it's more stable with Disney as they own the rights to their own stuff, but when Netflix and Prime can't keep consistent catalogues due to licensing agreements changing all the time, I tend to start looking on the used marketplace for things. At time of writing, the Hobbit movies (for example) are on Prime, but I have low confidence they'll still be there in 6 months.
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Trope got a reaction from Raiders of the SoundtrArk in The Official Quartet Records Thread
The 37-minute stereo program has recently been released digitally! Yay!
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Trope got a reaction from Thor in The Official Quartet Records Thread
The 37-minute stereo program has recently been released digitally! Yay!
Also this:
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Trope got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in Introduce me to Leonard Rosenman!
I honestly quite like his Star Trek IV score. Home Again / End Credits is wonderful and IMO sits among the very best that the Star Trek soundtracks have to offer. Listening to the rest of the score can be challenging, as it is very fragmented and shifts quickly between different levels of dissonance. There are themes/motifs, but they too are often shrouded in dissonance, so make sure you’re really listening carefully else you’ll likely miss them.
Also the recording sounds rather dated… I imagine a contemporary re-recording with the LSO would reveal a lot more of the sonorities Rosenman was going for.
Overall, while it is often deemed the weakest of the original 6 scores, I think it does have several very nice moments. There is a lovely quaintness about the whole work, more in line with the music used in the TV series.
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Trope got a reaction from Tallguy in Introduce me to Leonard Rosenman!
I honestly quite like his Star Trek IV score. Home Again / End Credits is wonderful and IMO sits among the very best that the Star Trek soundtracks have to offer. Listening to the rest of the score can be challenging, as it is very fragmented and shifts quickly between different levels of dissonance. There are themes/motifs, but they too are often shrouded in dissonance, so make sure you’re really listening carefully else you’ll likely miss them.
Also the recording sounds rather dated… I imagine a contemporary re-recording with the LSO would reveal a lot more of the sonorities Rosenman was going for.
Overall, while it is often deemed the weakest of the original 6 scores, I think it does have several very nice moments. There is a lovely quaintness about the whole work, more in line with the music used in the TV series.
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Trope got a reaction from Mattris in Star Wars Disenchantment
@Mattris Please, please, please help us to understand Darth Vader's plan!
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." - Princess Leia Organa, from Star Wars
"Tell us. Tell us now!" - Anakin Skywalker, from Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
"Somebody has to save our skins." - Princess Leia Organa, from Star Wars
"The greatest teacher, failure is. We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters." - Yoda, from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Trope reacted to The Great Gonzales in The Bad Batch - The Clone Wars Spinoff show
Is it my imagination, or was Saving the Eye from Minority Report a temp track in the first season?
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Trope reacted to Holko in James Horner's THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998) - 2023 2-CD Expanded Edition from La La Land Records, produced by Neil S. Bulk
If you listen very closely to the harp at the end under the final held brass notes, the album version has simple consistent ascending scales (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9), but the film version pays with it a bit (1-break-2-break-3-4-5-6-7). The timing also differs a little. The opening is also a different take but just another great performance of the same material the same way. The middle (0:48-2:22) is the same take.
I've listened to the OST for this score at work not long before it was announced but wasn't entirely impressed. Then after the LLL ended up on... sites, I listened and liked it more but it was a bit much at first. Then I watched the movie for the first time (pretty fun, great screen presences, clever way to split the character into a young fighter and older detective) while following along with the tracklist, and then I felt I'd probably love this so I finally bought it. And I do.
Probably the most striking element on this first "proper" listen to me was the main Zorro theme - before the first proper cue ends, it's already ubiquitous, and completely obvious that this is the Zorro theme, as if it's been that since the silent movies and Disney series and all the others. I felt that Horner has done here what JW has for Superman and Elfman for Batman, but unlike with those there are no new takes on the character yet to live in its shadow.
Anyway, score's really fun and a really solid foundation, can't wait to hear Legend in 258 years when the AFM shit is revised!
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Trope reacted to Tom Guernsey in Film Score Day (April. 3rd)
It's just a ruse by Big Oxygen to make you breathe. I won't have it.
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Trope reacted to Holko in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Well for many of the cues that have multiple options, a film version virtually doesn't exist because it's a hackjob of many versions or even many cues. They just had to pick one or the other.
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Trope reacted to Edmilson in The Official Jerry Goldsmith Thread
Maybe it appeared a lot in those authomatic playlists generated by Spotify's algorithm?
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Trope reacted to CGCJ in The Bad Batch - The Clone Wars Spinoff show
I've gone through the series 3 volume 1 soundtrack and updated my spreadsheet.
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Trope reacted to Mr. Hooper in Film Score Day (April. 3rd)
Or "Oxygen Day."
Let's celebrate breathing, everyone!
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Trope reacted to Thor in Film Score Day (April. 3rd)
I remember vaguely hearing about this "day" awhile back, but made no fuss over it. Every day is a film score day in my household.
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Trope got a reaction from bollemanneke in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Be sure to pick up Titanic if you haven't yet - It's a wonderful release, an iconic Horner score, and I can't imagine how insanely high the price will skyrocket once it's out of print.
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Trope reacted to BB-8 in Mark Graham just picked up a John Williams sketch and is "in a rush"! Any ideas?
"I can't do this."
[raw sketch for Schindler's List]
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Trope reacted to Not Mr. Big in Mark Graham just picked up a John Williams sketch and is "in a rush"! Any ideas?
Rushing to write music for Ready Player Two
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Trope reacted to Jurassic Shark in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Honestly, I prefer Wagner.
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Trope got a reaction from Stark in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Be sure to pick up Titanic if you haven't yet - It's a wonderful release, an iconic Horner score, and I can't imagine how insanely high the price will skyrocket once it's out of print.
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Trope got a reaction from Holko in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Be sure to pick up Titanic if you haven't yet - It's a wonderful release, an iconic Horner score, and I can't imagine how insanely high the price will skyrocket once it's out of print.
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Trope got a reaction from Edmilson in The Official La-La Land Records Thread
Be sure to pick up Titanic if you haven't yet - It's a wonderful release, an iconic Horner score, and I can't imagine how insanely high the price will skyrocket once it's out of print.