Andy

From the chatter on Facebook it sadly sounds like if it does return Adrianne Palicki won’t be a part of it. 

Godzilla has arrived.  The back cover lists 18 tracks on disc 2.   The actual disc has all 20 tracks listed on the website.

Oh nice!  I never got the Intrada. 

QUARTET RECORDS ANNOUNCES

UNCOMMON VALOR-EXPANDED
Music Composed and Conducted by JAMES HORNER

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, presents a remastered, slightly expanded reissue of James Horner’s classic war score for UNCOMMON VALOR (1983), directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Robert Stack and young up-and-comers Patrick Swayze and Fred Ward.

The film is a dramatic action picture centered on retired U.S. Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes, who recruits a motley crew of soldiers and leads them on a clandestine operation in Laos. Their mission is the rescue of unacknowledged U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) left behind after the withdrawal from Vietnam, including Rhodes’ son, officially declared missing in action (MIA). The possible existence of such POWs was a topic of considerable interest during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The messy conclusion of the Vietnam War, coupled with the scandals of the Nixon era, had left many Americans alienated from their government and deeply skeptical of official claims that there was no evidence of living POWs in the former war zone.

James Horner was only 30 years old when he was hired to compose UNCOMMON VALOR, but he was already a seasoned composer with such successful films in his career as STAR TREK II, KRULL, BRAINSTORM and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and he was about to enter the A-list of composers in Hollywood with his upcoming hit scores for ALIENS, AN AMERICAN TAIL and COCOON. Horner provides an inventive and effective score, robustly orchestral while endowed with exciting electronic rhythms and Vietnamese textures.

Intrada Records issued the premiere release of UNCOMMON VALOR in 2014 and it quickly sold out. This new, remastered edition adds about 10 minutes of alternate takes. Produced by Dan Goldwasser and mastered by Chris Malone, it features in-depth liner notes by film music writer John Takis.


Tracklist:

1. Vietnamese Solo / Main Title (7:31)
2. Airport (2:21)
3. Tag (2:49)
4. A Lot of us Have Been Killed (1:26)
5. Steal the Sucker (1:44)
6. First trek / Yellow Rain (2:45)
7. Pan Over Hill / Wilkes in Tunnel (7:35)
8. Attack Airbase (3:14)
9. Escape Airbase (3:22)
10. Copters Over Hill (2:51)
11. Final Escape (2:21)
12. End Credits (3:42)
13. Brothers in the Night* (4:48)

Bonus Tracks

14. Main Title (Alternate Mix) (7:15)
15. Main Title Extension (Expanded) (3:08)
16. Parade Ground (3:58)
17. Main Title Extension Vietnamese Overlay (Alternate) (3:15)


Total Disc Time: 64:14

*Performed by Ray Kennedy • Written by Ray Kennedy, Kevin Dukes and David Ritz

https://quartetrecords.com/product/uncommon-valor/
 

@Andy, have you seen Hawk the Slayer? If not, given you’ve already worked your way through Sword & the Sorcerer & Deathstalker, it needs to be next on your list.
 
Dwarfs! Giants! Magic swords! And yes, that’s Jack Palance as Darth Vader.
 
 
 
 

From the chatter on Facebook it sadly sounds like if it does return Adrianne Palicki won’t be a part of it. 

I remember being very little and my grandma and my aunt were watching this on tv(a terrible way to watch this movie, as well as every movie), and I remember my aunt telling me the ending had alligators in it, but I don’t remember anything else since I was very little, but I do remember rhis….
 
Fast forward several years and I remember watching it with my dad and maybe my mom, not sure, and I think we had watched Raiders before because I knew the characters. I don’t remember any reactions I had throughout the movie, however, I do know that afterwards i immediately went upstairs to recreate the rope bridge sequence with my dressed up as Indy because that was one of the coolest things I had ever seen, and still is to this day. The behind the scenes story of the single take with multiple camera angles and the dummies falling into the gorge is incredible.
 
I love this movie the same way I love The Lost World. The last 30 minutes of the movie are balls off the wall fun, Steven Spielberg creating an over the top popcorn finale. Indy saves the kids, they escape the mines, there’s a runaway mine cart sequence…and after it comes to an end the heroes finally have a short rest moment…AND THEN A WAVE OF WATER JUST SHOWS UP!!! And the roller coaster continues! Indy overtaking the 2 swordsman with the funny nod to Raiders, then the rope bridge confrontation. I think the novelization has an interesting little take on this, it says something like “Indy wasn’t trapped on a bridge with the Thuggee…they’re trapped on a bridge with Indy!” And of course you have the joyous ending when the kids are reunited with their parents is so satisfying. I love it so much.

The teaser poster did its job perfectly. 
 

The teaser poster did its job perfectly. 
 

The copywriter in me really wishes they did a teaser poster or trailer with the line ....
 
Before Raiders....Indy went to Hell.

Me, singing along to Parade of the Slave Children:

 

 

Or in other words, Anything Goes. 
 
Truly, two simple words that sum up this perfect epic of entertaining mayhem, never to be taken as seriously as its predecessor.  Critics often use the phrase “Roller Coaster Ride” metaphorically, and I’d argue that if it didn’t begin with Temple of Doom, there’s no better film that fits that description. Literally. 

My favorite Indiana Jones movie.  I had the foldout poster magazine, I had the Marvel adaptation, and I got the collectors edition movie program when I saw it opening day.  Here are the original newspaper clippings I've saved from over the years (there's some Raiders in there too)
 

 
I remember my sister had a job at the local (brand new) multiplex theater, so she saw everything back then.  She hated the stuff I was into, mostly Spielberg and Lucas stuff.  I remember opening up the poster mag to the gatefold image of Indy on the rope bridge surrounded on both sides, and even my sister admitted "Yeah, I gotta admit that was pretty cool".  High praise from her back then.
 
I wear a fedora daily.  It is based on Temple of Doom style, and has an image of the 3 Sankara stones inside the sweatband, with the inscription "Fortune and Glory"
 
I'll watch it again.

My Hook arrived today from Mondo. Good to have a Matessino-rebuilt OST next to the new expansion. 😀
 

 
Karol

Bingo! Another channel called Talking Pictures TV has Silent Rage (an apparently utterly preposterous Chuck Norris action/sci-fi/horror number) on tomorrow night, so I'll record that too  . 

My favourite Indiana Jones film and my favourite JW score. I will for sure be re-watching it. But my ultimate dream is to see it in a Live to Projection concert. Though unfortunately the people who organize LtP concerts probably already took one look at the score and said: "No way!"

I guess they did...
 

At this point, I think the best option for us the fans is not to wait the idiots at Disney to do a proper Indy and Star Wars release. They won't, and if it's up to them they most likely will keep insisting in re-releasing older programs.
 
The best strategy is to convince Matessino himself to pitch a new release for the higher ups at Disney Records, Lucasfilm, etc. He would bring his credentials ("I've been working with John Williams to create the best presentation possible for his music over the last 3 decades, etc"), his connections with JW and convince them that such project would be financially interesting for The Walt Disney Co.
 
If he's able to bring a message from John Williams himself ("I've known Mike for the last 2/3 decades and he's the right man to produce the definitive presentation of my beloved Indy and Star Wars scores...") then his pitch would be even more significant.
 
Also, it's not like he's a completely unknown at Lucasfilm. Didn't he work on the SEs from 97 and the recent James Horner Willow expansion?
 
In other words: we can't keep waiting for Disney to do what's right, because they won't. One of "our team" should take the initiative and keep knocking at their door until they say yes.

Spielberg even named her character after his willie 

That's what Spielberg said.

The problem with her is the screaming.

Indeed. I know certainly there are Indians who may not have appreciated the portrayal (notably the Indian government at the time), and, well, fair enough. But frankly, most of the people I've seen take great offence at this film haven't been Indians, but rather the usual sort who are eager to take offence on behalf of someone else.
 
I think it's just as silly to expect that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom be a complete, and accurate portrayal of Indians as it is to expect The Godfather to be a complete and accurate portrayal of Italians. I grew up watching wuxia films but I never thought every Chinese person was a martial arts expert who spent their days fighting. 
 
The great Amrish Puri (Mola Ram), put it best...
 
"It's based on an ancient cult that existed in India and was recreated like a fantasy. If you recall those imaginary places like Pankot Palace, starting with Shanghai, where the plane breaks down and the passengers use a raft to jump over it, slide down a hill and reach India, can this ever happen? But fantasies are fantasies, like our Panchatantra and folklore. I know we are sensitive about our cultural identity, but we do this to ourselves in our own films. It's only when some foreign directors do it that we start cribbing."
 

In my Bond rewatches, when I got to Octopussy, I definitely thought "Seriously, people say Temple of Doom is racist?"

Agreed. But some seem to bristle at any depiction of a culture that doesn't present it 100% accurately or in the best possible light. And poking any fun at them is, certainly, a big no-no today.
 
Personally, I don't look to movies for an accurate depiction of anything—or to teach me about anything. License is taken all the time to augment their effect—be it dramatic, comedic, or whatever.
 
For the record, as a kid I didn't come away from TOD thinking that Indians ate "eyeball soup," "Snake Surprise," or "chilled monkey brains" as part of their diet... It was an obviously broad attempt at humour.
 
But whether or not you find it "funny" is of course a matter of personal opinion.

Temple of Doom has really grown on me.  I've come to appreciate it more over the years, and judge it on its own terms rather than as a sequel to Raiders. The opening musical number, and the entire opening scene in fact leading up to the plane escape in particular, is fantastic.  It's certainly not in the same league as Raiders, and while I personally prefer Crusade, I'll give TOD points for originality and taking a risk.  It's also one of those instances where a reappraisal makes the film look better in comparison to more recent entries in the series.
 
I've also come to like Willie Scott more, and now actually find her less annoying than Marion. 
 
As to whatever sensitivities people may have developed regarding this fun flick over the years, to paraphrase the brilliant Stephen Fry, "You're offended? Well so f*cking what"?