TolkienSS

Should be called "Common sense rule"

From a parallel universe, where movies were allowed to stay movies.

Obviously reactions to posts depend on when you read them for the first time, not when they were first posted.

Best one is Luke & Leia. ImO

Talk about understatement. "I recorded a few excerpts just in case" "By the way, here's a 15 hours Lord of the Rings opera"

Then why does he sound like he is?

I don't know why it's such a big point of contention when composers inputting notes via MIDI keyboard don't show extra professional levels of piano skills when doing so. The MIDI keyboard is a tool. And a required one nowadays. MIDI keyboards exist because a piano has the easiest, most comprehensive, and complete way of playing every note, and is not limited in its range. MIDI keyboards don't exist so you can get virtuoso at playing them. Pianos do. A composer doesn't need to be a pianist, just like he doesn't need to be a violinist or an oboist.

Aside from a few good standalone monster cues, it's awful for a Godzilla movie. The final cue when Godzilla walks back to the ocean is some of the worst, out of place kitsch I've ever heard.

You think the 80-million-weekend movie got a "boost" by the film that made 50 million in its entire run domestically, and 100 worldwide?

Contrary to much of the rest of the score, it's able to form a prolonged and meaningful, fluid musical statement with confidence, without having to resort to unusual instruments and big drums to make an impact.

My response: had they cast Middle Eastern and North African people for the desert dwellers, they'd have been accused of stereotypical racism. Whoopsie

To you and 7 billion other normal people. Jesus Christ, what an awful idea. When is the meteor hitting earth? It's getting irredeemable.

This is one of those times where I wonder if people listen to large parts of the Soundtrack because they actually enjoy it. Or because it's an interesting construction to look at. Because most music of Dune to me serves no purpose outside of its purest form as aural texture. To me music needs an injection of meaning. I watched the film and I find no meaning in it.

He looks remarkably unremarkable. Kind of like a co-star in an action movie like Mission Impossible, specifically cast to be just enough male eye candy to be noticeable, just enough acting skills to be convincing, just enough charisma to be liked, but not enough to take the spotlight of the actual movie star.

Sounds like a demo track Hans Zimmer would have recorded 20 years ago.