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    Tallguy reacted to JNHFan2000 in The Bad Batch - The Clone Wars Spinoff show   
    https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/star-wars-the-bad-batch-the-final-season-vol-1-episodes-1-8-kevin-kiner/w2newnn3fpyga
     
    Releasing tomorrow. Episodes 1 - 8.
    2 hours and 5 minutes.
     
    I suspect that the finale has the runtime of 2 episodes, and that's why there are 15 episodes. That album should arrive on the 3rd or 10th of May.
     
     
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    Tallguy reacted to gps in TOP GUN: Limited Edition (2-CD SET) by La La Land Records   
    No, not exactly. It is as I list it, but the "Carrier Takeoffs and Landings" sounds like "Danger Zone" because in the film it has vocals that are missing on the CD. I went through the film yesterday to confirm my playlist. 1-2, 1-4 and 1-14 all have Kenny Loggins vocals at some place or another. 1-10 has humming throughout that's missing - which makes it a completely different piece of music than what we hear right now. 1-11 has Terri Nunn vocals. That's why the whole "Love Theme" section on disc 1 right now sounds so long and tedious - because they stripped it of all variation.
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    Tallguy reacted to Loert in Your Favourite Jerry Goldsmith Score   
    I haven't listened to all Jerry Goldsmith, though a while ago I did go through a bunch of 15 minute suites of his scores on Youtube. But I'm still not that familiar with his Star Trek work, for example (in fact I'm listening to it now )
     
    That said, my favourite so far is Total Recall. Someone who doesn't know anything about music might dismiss it as a silly action score, and in a way it is silly, but on closer inspection it reveals amazing artistry. And it's an enjoyable listen from start to finish.
     
    It's so hard to choose with Goldsmith, though, because all of his works are so diverse. With Williams, even though he has also written in different genres, I feel that you can always pick out a single internal language in his soundtrack work. With Goldsmith it's not so obvious, and he's better at being more chameleon-like. But then I've listened to far more Williams than Goldsmith, so that might just be a bias of mine.
     
    EDIT: Just finished listening to The Enterprise for the first time. As if I needed any more confirmation that Goldsmith is a genius! Brilliant track, almost a perfect encapsulation of epic/heroic musical tropes of that time (not in a bad way). Lots of Debussy influences.
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    Tallguy reacted to Chen G. in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    That, had they cast MENA actors, the same people would make the opposite criticism: "Look at how they hired MENA people only to put them in roles that ridicule Muslim religious fervour (Stilgar), demonise it (pretty much all the others), fetishize them and put a white saviour at their head."
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Sweeping Strings in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.
     
     
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    Tallguy got a reaction from enderdrag64 in TOP GUN: Limited Edition (2-CD SET) by La La Land Records   
    Oh, I forgot to mention this: The liner notes give you an idea of how long this set has been ready to go. "The score's legacy also lives on: in 2020, Faltermeyer will co-score the long awaited sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, with a fellow German composer who followed in his synthesized footsteps, Hans Zimmer."
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    Tallguy got a reaction from enderdrag64 in TOP GUN: Limited Edition (2-CD SET) by La La Land Records   
    I'm am simultaneously surprised at how much of an instant buy grail this was for me AND how much I'm enjoying it.
     
    This was probably on my "must buy" list because I've wanted the opening credits for nearly 40 years and because I had asked for it for so long it felt it would have been rude not to. This falls into my "used to have the movie audio on tape just to hear the music" category. Also I usually figure if I have any kind of an unmentionable that I ever listened to with any regularity that the bill is due.
     
    I knew from the film and even a cursory examination of the track list that this was going to have a lot of instrumentals of the songs from the songtrack. How much Danger Zone could I handle?
     
    Turns out? A LOT. The various mixes and variations of all of the songs are terrific. And I was very surprised in a couple of cases I knew the exact moment of the film that this scored. (I saw this movie a LOT in 1986.) Mighty Wings also gets a great showing. The only place where the album bogs down (and this is just due to the nature of ordering by film order I would suppose) is when we get three instrumentals of Take My Breath Away for almost eight minutes. I think I need to find my favorite and lose the other two for a playlist.
     
    Then there's the "original" Faltermeyer tracks. I love them. Those opening notes of Two Migs, Not One go straight to part of my brain. The heroic / nostalgia setting of the Anthem in Viper's House and Carrier Ready Room and Takeoffs is delightful. And every time that drum machine from the opening starts up I'm ready to do pre-flight checks.
     
    It's also nice to have the expanded original program. This album is iconic. I haven't listened to most of it in forever. This got a lot of play in high school. I used to like Destination Unknown a lot.
     
    If you have even a passing interest in the film, the music, or Faltermeyer, then this is a good buy.
     
    Unrelated story: We went to go see Iron Eagle in early 1986 and they showed the trailer for Top Gun. I knew that THIS was the jet movie that I really wanted to see. Kind of like when I went to go see Legend and they showed Labyrinth. And both times the trailers had the better movie.
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Andy in Star Wars Alternate Takes Thread   
    I know it's got the little "whine" at the beginning of The Princess Appears. I miss that!
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    Tallguy reacted to phbart in Star Wars Alternate Takes Thread   
    Oh yes, I forgot to mention the 1980s CD release... it's the same.
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    Tallguy reacted to Jay in Fourth Abramsverse Star Trek film   
    ‘Star Trek 4’ Beams Up New Screenwriter: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Creator Steve Yockey
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    Tallguy reacted to Chen G. in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    There's no winning with these people...
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    Tallguy reacted to Edmilson in Star Wars is better than everything   
    About what I said on the other thread:
     
     

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    Tallguy reacted to Naïve Old Fart in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    My favourite is THE TOWERING INFERNO, followed closely by EARTHQUAKE.
     
     
     
    Whatever one says about the film, some of the shots in ST:TMP, are jaw-droppingly beautiful.
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Naïve Old Fart in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.
     
     
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Naïve Old Fart in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    I miss those "ALL THE CAST" little squares at the bottom of the posters. Obviously my favorite one was... Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Badzeee in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    I miss those "ALL THE CAST" little squares at the bottom of the posters. Obviously my favorite one was... Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.
     
     
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    Tallguy got a reaction from Tom Guernsey in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.
     
     
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    Tallguy reacted to JNHFan2000 in The Official James Horner Thread   
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    Tallguy reacted to SyncMan in James Newton Howard thread   
    Pretty Woman to Hunger Games: The Film Music of James Newton Howard
    Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and chrous. James Newton Howard, conductor
    Orpheum Theater, Pheonix, AZ, November 15-17, 2024
    https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/show/pretty-woman-to-hunger-games-the-film-music-of-james-newton-howard/
     
     
     
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    Tallguy reacted to Yavar Moradi in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    Oh yeah, it's internet people's opinions about James f'ing Bond which make humanity irredeemable and deserving of meteor destruction. 
     
    But wait, what about the "7 billion other normal people" who would also perish from your meteor, TolkienSS? Do they deserve death too, just like the heathens who want to wokify Bond?
     
    Yavar
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    Tallguy reacted to Jay in First Impressions: The FILMS of 2023   
    Yea if they hired completely unknowns for every role here, it could pass as a lost movie from the 70s
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    Tallguy got a reaction from filmmusic in The Official Alan Menken Thread   
    "Greek" isn't a real ethnicity or nationality anyway.
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    Tallguy got a reaction from JNHFan2000 in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Gil Kenan - score by Dario Marianelli - March 22, 2024)   
    It sounds like that's what you're getting. If he only reviews scores that he thinks you should check out, then there is your answer.
     
    EDIT: ^^^ What @JNHFan2000 said.
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