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Don't know if this should go here or in a score thread in the John Williams section proper.
But I put on the complete(ish) Return of the Jedi today. (Some sort of mish-mash of sources. I think it's probably one of the ABC editions.)
I don't know that there is another score, not even a Star Wars score, that takes me to THE first time that I saw a film the way Jedi does. I hear that intro of the Star Destroyer and Vader's approach as JW teases the Imperial March through the first minutes and I can feel the air conditioning and I can smell the popcorn. I can feel the summer heat when the doors open at the end. I can remember the cheers at the Fox and Lucasfilm logos, the hush during "A long time ago" and the cheers again at Star Wars.
The Jabba music in particular can make me "hear" the ambiance of a cinema.
We're film music nerds, and for many of us part of the appeal is re-experiencing a beloved film. But this isn't just the film, this is that exact DAY.
I wonder why this one?
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1 hour ago, Jay said:
Yeah, he's been popular for 20+ years. Fallout is far from his big break
Sounds like you don't watch Righteous Gemstones, Vice Principals, Justified.... he's been up to a lot since The Shield!
No. There was a lot of "peak TV" drama that just wasn't my cup of tea. I'm on the fence about Fallout. I hear it's great. And it's Jonathan Nolan. But I'm afraid it might be a bit too much for me.
My dad loved Justified.
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14 minutes ago, Pellaeon said:
I love that! Yeah, those two episodes are the ones to beat.
“Mirror, Mirror” with the iso sound track is amazing, too, though. You can find it on the Roddenberry Vault.
I really do need to get that.
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19 minutes ago, thestat said:
All we need is Walton Goggins - the biggest star to be. He is going to break out with Fallout. God he is good. Have you seen the Shield (arguably the Wire that did not win Emmys but was as good)? Goggins is beyond belief in that role.
Watch Fallout, love Goggins - you will.
He's been around a minute, hasn't he? I had no idea. I knew him from Ant-Man and the Wasp and Community.
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Update: She was suitably dismayed. The "It's a peaceful life" meme was icing. So thank you, all!
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6 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:
Wonder Woman II
Man there are people that LOVE that score. I don't get it. Maybe I should give it the ol'... You know.
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Ahhh that delicate moment where Powell becomes an actual star or not. Or maybe he moves completely sideways and he's the next Alec Baldwin? Who knows?
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What if Pixar made a Transformers movie?
I'm not sure what I think of this. If nothing else it looks fun. But it's kind of got Lightyear vibes.
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My daughter is going to throw something at me when I show her this!
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Of the "You MUST love this score, especially if you love X:" Legend. Parts of it are great, sure. But nothing that I don't think I can't get from another Jerry score. OTOH, I don't NOT like it.
Thank heavens for Conan. It is a) not a score I encountered between the ages of 8 and 18 and b) it's a a movie that I don't like. And I still love the score.
I'm also really not that much of a fan of Star Wars 2, 3, 8, and 9. I mean, they're all great as far as it goes but there is little that makes me say "I want to listen to THIS today."
OTOH, I can't even imagine not liking E.T. Adventures on Earth?!?
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23 minutes ago, Gabriel Bezerra said:This set off a bunch of tweets about Balance of Terror so I decided to rewatch it and it's just so good, I forgot how different TOS is from TNG, somehow, TOS has a faster pacing.
Ah. It took me some time to see if "wtf are you kidding me" came out as positive or negative. (Positive, apparently.) Sometimes when I'm navel gazing and thinking "How would I make the Animated Series into live action?" I realize the I would know what the sets would look like, I'd know how the actors would act. But I would be utterly out of my depth with the cinematography.
Balance of Terror stands apart a little bit even in first season TOS. It's very moody. This was a great quote from X: "Early TOS was like noir in color."
25 minutes ago, Gabriel Bezerra said:And this episode is a great refutal of the "mainstream-Kirk", it's surprising how widespread that concept of the character is.
Oh heavens, yes. I love SNW. It's my second favorite Star Trek. But when they went back to Balance of Terror they went with the common conception of "Kirk is a cowboy who shoots from the hip". (I have since come to adore Paul Wesley in other episodes.) HOW can you do that Kirk in the very episode that has him going full Hamlet with Bones? "What if I'm wrong?" He's never a cowboy. Although he does decide that the Romulan vessel has to be stopped.
I always say that the two sides of the Star Trek coin are Balance of Terror and The Corbomite Maneuver. Or put another way The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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6 hours ago, JNHFan2000 said:
I was also quite sad to see them taking of the art on their suits. It's been such a integral part of them.
It means they're SERIOUS.
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I always figured it was a really over the top thing that also sounded like a hard boiled detective novel. If it's the Zuckers assume that it's something 20-30 years out of date.
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It's becoming a running joke at my house. "NOW are they going to kill Wrecker?"
I'm glad someone else thinks putting Omega in with the kids is a terrible idea.
Best part of the episode? They showed a mouse droid SEVERAL times and it never made THE sound that it always makes! I think this might be a first!
(Ok, actual best part of the episode was holding my breath thinking that the science ship was going to jump without them.)
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6 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:
Unlikely. God himself can't sink it.
It's made of plastic, I assure you... Oh, wait.
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What's the clown face looking thing next to the ray gun? How would that fit in for Aliens?
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"Which do we throw away? This one says Anthology and these other three just say Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. He doesn't need ALL of them does he? And how is Star Trek different from Star Wars?"
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37 minutes ago, OneBuckFilms said:
T3 would be fantastic. I really love that score. The film: eh.
I LOVED the ending. But the film wasn't quite worth the payoff. Oh, and that truck chase! OK, two things I loved about the film.
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Near as I and others have been able to figure it's a variation on Goose's Death
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2 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:
I have to believe that its problems stem more from the studios being twats than Elfman still not allowing a release of material with his themes. I wonder if anyone's told him that we've all got it anyway....
That kind of talk is what kept us from getting Doctor Who season 10!
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57 minutes ago, QuartalHarmony said:
Still enjoying this release on many levels. A couple of questions have occurred to me:
1) Where exactly in the film is Heaven In Your Eyes played?
2) Why is Dogfight #3 (D2 T16) slap bang in the middle of the songs section? If it’s used in the film, it should be on D1; if not, it belongs in the Bonus tracks section, surely?
3) Having listened to the two versions of the main theme (D2, Tracks 10 and 20), I can only hear a few performance differences, yet one is about 30 seconds longer. Can anyone post timestamps of the extra section(s) in T20 please?
Mark
1) Dunno. Isn't it very briefly on a jukebox or something?
2) It's not in the middle of the songs section. It's right after the expanded original CD. Dogfight #3 and Radar Radio are B sides of Mighty Wings and Take My Breath Away respectively. So disc 2 is: Expanded Original Soundtrack, B Sides, unused tracks.
3) I actually haven't dug in that far.
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On 13/04/2024 at 9:19 AM, Jurassic Shark said:
One could say it sunk.
One could. One shouldn't.
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Sometimes I think this is Filoni trying to make all 9 episodes make sense together:
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I see a loophole and I'm sailing right through it.
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I'm using "star" in the most superficial leading man kind of sense. I didn't want to make the Cruise comparison just because of Powell's Top Gun connection.
No, I don't think Philip Seymour Hoffman was ever a star in this sense. An astonishing actor, but not a leading man star. I remember a friend of mine pointing out that in the 70's Walter Matthau of all people was this kind of star. As was Dustin Hoffman.
But Powell seems to be in his "Risky Business" phase. Or maybe even before. He hasn't had his Top Gun. (See why I was avoiding the Cruise comparison?) Top Gun was more like his Taps or The Outsiders. Is he going to be Tom Cruise or is he going to be Rob Lowe? I'm trying to think of someone who was going to be The Next Big Deal that then totally fell off the map. For a minute that was probably going to be Robert Downey Jr.
To me the last Big Star that we've had (and yes, I know I'm picking guys) was Matt Damon. We don't have many (any?) traditional Leading Men anymore. Henry Cavil might be getting there. But he's kind of a weird case. None of the Chrises (Pratt, Pine, Evans) seem to be able to open a movie.
Mel Gibson is good example. He became known because of Road Warrior but when did he become a reliable Star? It seems he was there by the time they made Thunderdome. If not then shortly after.
Alien probably put Sigourney Weaver on the map, but by the time she returned for Aliens she was as more of the draw on her own than as being the returning star (survivor) of Alien.
Depends on how many and for how long.