Tallguy
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5 minutes ago, Andy said:
4/26 for ALIEN is no more clever than 5/4 for Star Wars.
Damn fool, I KNEW you were gonna say that.
But I'm far more in favor of celebrating May 25th, 1977. But you might have guessed that.
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30 minutes ago, Andy said:
May 25th is ALIEN Day.
Alien got there 2 years later. And: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Alien_Day
It's also towel day for some reason.
But: https://la.curbed.com/2007/5/9/10593776/city-council-ma
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1 hour ago, Andy said:
May the 4th had to start somewhere.
It's a nice little prelude to Star Wars Day, which is three weeks later!
1 hour ago, Andy said:Start a composer thread for a composer you think we should pay more attention to.
Let's see... Jerry, Jerry, Jerry... Oh! We seem to have a few!
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55 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:
It wasn't a NO film scores. It was only three film scores.
(Seriously, I've been listening to almost exclusively LP programs ever since. It's weird.)
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I loved Spacey's Luthor and I REALLY loved Ottman's theme for him.
March of the Villains isn't that far off of The Imperial March. It's just got something that makes it kind of goofy. But parts of it (and some of it's statements) are really rather menacing.
- JTN and Tom Guernsey
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45 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:
You can say that until you're blue in the face, but you'll give in!Well done!
3 minutes ago, Andy said:All joking aside, I think it’s a nice idea to bring more public awareness to the art.
Of course for us, every day is Film Score Day. But maybe you can celebrate by buying a CD or vinyl or download for a friend, or coworker, or their child who maybe might get something out of it.
There are children in Africa who have never even heard of Bernard Herrmann!
- Mr. Hooper and Thor
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1 hour ago, bollemanneke said:
I do think MM would have made a better main program.
What do you think would have changed?
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1 hour ago, Thor said:
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.
That's like having "bread day".
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At 3:00 so you don't have to suffer through... Whatever that was? You can skip right ahead. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
(I loved like the first three HISHEs.)
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I've never listened to it. It's quite good. The beginning sounds like Firefly.
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Is that a TARDIS console behind her?
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I think this was the first time I ever looked at the beginnings of this thread! WOW!
On 03/04/2005 at 9:17 AM, Morn said:I don't like the casting. The new doctor is some young punk.
Hee hee hee.
Anyway, I came here to make everyone feel old in a DIFFERENT way.
At this point the only Doctors I had seen other than Tom Baker were in magazines and The Five Doctors. Here in the States we hadn't even seen the costume yet. I was just taking my first steps into the ridiculousness that is fandom.
I think this is probably right around the fortieth anniversary of my first convention as well! (Yup. April 20–22, 1984!)
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I never understood why he didn't find the fame that some of his SCTV cast mates did.
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46 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP.
Humourless; talentless; mindless; soulless.
I cannot believe that someone spent almost two hundred million dollars on this absolute waste of everyone's time, money, and effort.
I pity the poor suckers who handed over $20 (plus a second mortgage for nachos, chilli dogs, popcorn, and a big gulp Mountain Dew), to be served this. It beggars belief that something like this can even be called "entertainment".
Utter, utter garbage.
I'm only glad I paid 20p for it, at my local thrift store.
Ah, well, on to CAPTAIN MARVEL, and the big push to ENDGAME
This is the sort of thing where I ask "What did you think of the first one?" IMHO if you didn't like the first one then the second is largely more of the same and so what did you expect? But then there were people who loved Batman Forever but found Batman and Robin a rubber nipple too far. I have never understood this, myself.
Whereas the third Ant-Man jettisons a bunch of the tone and the characters from the first two and strikes off to something else. You might like 1 and 2 (I did) and still hate 3. (Or at least find it almost entirely forgettable.)
But hey, Endgame is good! Can't imagine you're going to enjoy Captain Marvel. I did and I liked the second one even more.
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7 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:
Craig Huxley would have to come back and re-perform his blaster beam role. That might add a bit of expense, and any other unusual instrumentation Goldsmith used would have to be covered too. It couldn't just be easily tacked on, if it doesn't match the orchestra of whatever other score it's being added to. But definitely food for thought!
Yavar
Yeah, it's not a small ask. And I think the biggest missing piece would be that Jerry won't tinker with it to make it perfect.
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So how do people handle Year on a soundtrack? I think the answer is obvious (year of the film with some exceptions) but I often get imported metadata that uses the year that the expansion is published. So Top Gun, rather than 1986 will say 2024.
If it's a film original score I use the film's year no matter when the release. All four of my Star Trek: The Motion Picture releases say 1979.
But if it's a re-recording I go with the year it is released rather than the film.
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1 hour ago, Andy said:
Kickstarter to record that, please.
How does that happen and how much does it cost?
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At a total guess I'm figuring that some of this was driven by how the rights for the original tracks worked. It can't be an accident that we got the latest configuration of the album on disc 2. And that none of the disc 1 tracks have vocalists that have to be paid. (I'm sure it's not even cost as much as writing up new agreements.)
It's been a while since I've seen the film and I never payed attention to the music in terms of song / song w/o vocals / score before. But unless I'm totally misremembering there is a fair amount of the film were the songs play w/o vocals. Danger Zone only plays with lyrics in the opening scene, right?
Yes, the irksome ones are the ones where the songs play with DIFFERENT vocals (not the lyrics) than the album tracks. (Take My Breath Away.) And those are not represented here.
I suppose I'll have to watch the film again soon.
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1 hour ago, crocodile said:
Secret Invasion. This should have been so much better than it was. The premise itself is intriguing but it quickly devolves into complete nonsense. For someone who can become anyone why would you wear one face 80% of the time? 😂 But Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn and Olivia Coleman are always a pleasure to watch so there's that.
Karol
I do need to finish this. They took some big swings but two or three episodes in it was very unsatisfying. The most serious Nick Fury that we ever saw was probably Winter Soldier and he was a lot closer to Marvels Fury than Secret Invasion Fury.
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I never sort by composer / artist. I gather I'm in the minority on this. Because every player / organizer I've ever encountered immediately tries to present my music to me this way by default.
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I lost track of the post-Star Wars (A New Hope if you must) comics. But however many I read were tremendously enjoyable. I even really enjoyed the Darth Vader series.
If someone was ever able to write something that felt like Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person that would be the best thing ever.
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11 hours ago, Mephariel said:
I still don't think Ghostbusters have an audience beyond nostalgic fans.
I haven't gotten to see the new Ghostbusters but I enjoyed the last one immensely.
Someone is going to have to convince me that the new GvK brings something that the last one didn't have. Because I hated that film. I'm perfectly willing to be proven wrong about the new one. I like liking movies.
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12 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said:I really really wish Goldsmith had been able to record his fantastic original version of “Body Meld” at the end, where the amazing Ilia’s Theme gets the final flowering/development the whole score frankly feels like it’s building towards…
11 hours ago, Falstaft said:On one hand, I think "The Meld" as we all know from the film it is a masterpiece and one of the most skillful and effective musical climaxes in Goldsmith's filmography. (Which may be close to saying it's one of the most skillful & effective musical climaxes/payoffs in film, period!)
Pretty much this. If we could have heard the "real" cue of Body Meld that Jerry actually completed and recorded. I'm guessing / assuming that this was demoed to Wise and it was decided to go in another direction. The conceptual gratification of having Ilia's theme "completed" is powerful. And I'm sure with a real Goldsmith orchestra that blasting statement of Ilia would have blown us out of our chairs. I wonder if Wise thought the Ilia treatment was too sentimental, too old fashioned?
And of course what @Falstaft said. It's just perfect. It still brings back all of the Vejur cues but rather than mystery it plays with a kind of kinetic optimism. It feels like the previous score "unwinding". That statement of the Enterprise / Star Trek theme at the end is amazing in both versions. Of course even The Meld is dialed out of the film at this point. Well, from 1:47 to 2:05. I know I'm supposed to hate every time Jerry's music gets clipped, but I actually love the shot of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy fleeing the Meld without music.
- Yavar Moradi, Andy and ThePenitentMan1
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Godzilla Cinematic Universe Thread
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I liked Brown in that one (but not in GvK) and I liked Whitford. Oh and Charles Dance is the best bad guy.