Andy

I don’t know about Always as a film but, The Black Hole (movie and score) will always live rent free in my head. 

We have Japan's to thank for that one apparently:
 
https://libguides.lib.umt.edu/cosplay

This is f*cking awesome.

Maybe. 
 
But this (absolutely awesome) photo from Joe Sikoryak via Lukas Kendall’s blog tells a different story from the same time. 
 

 
This is an early Trek convention photo from 1974.  The thing that struck me, beyond how amazing these costumes are, before anyone called it “cosplay” (God, I despise that term), is that most of them are female.  And fairly attractive by conventional standards by the looks of it too. I guess they’re still what people would call Nerds, but if I were the right age in ‘74, this is exactly where you’d find me trying to meet the Rand to my Kirk. 

On a heavier note:
https://www.startrek.com/news/remembering-john-trimble

Even Spielberg himself probably forgets that he made Always lol
 
The Abyss did bomb at the box office back in 89. It's funny that in the late 80s a James Cameron science fiction about water was a box office failure while a DC superhero movie starring Michael Keaton as Batman and an Indiana Jones movie where he fights nazis were breaking records. A little more than three decades later and the exact opposite of that happened 

RIP Colonel Tigh.
https://variety.com/2024/film/people-news/terry-carter-dead-battlestar-galactica-mccloud-1235979429/

Christ! No!

Haven't you been tempted?

Transporter 2 - the Stath unleashes his 'certain set of skills' on more Eurotrash baddies in another enjoyably silly actioner. Also starring Jason Flemyng and an arguably slumming it Matthew Modine. 

We’re reaching quantities of Horner expansions that shouldn’t be possible!

I want the Blu Ray, but I keep waiting for a release that is cost effective for western territories. 

That earned you a Rock-a-Facepalm. 

@Holko Journey of Natty Gann.  Hopefully it’s for a reissue. 
 
I agree with Jay. Rocketeer was Horner putting everything he had into it.  No doubt the film’s themes of pilots and aviation sparked something in him.  And the Love Theme for Jennifer Connelly is gorgeously lush.
 
Top 2 Horner for me. 
 
As great as the expansion is, the original Hollywood Records disc sounds great and is a very satisfying program. I’d recommend it. 

I love it. It’s daring to be different than the first score.   I think the (admittedly hokey) Native American motifs are lovely, and the action music with choir is pretty thrilling.  Some powerful writing for trombone in the climax. 

It's too close to the "main" hero theme for it to be sourced from something else. Plus, they did have access to a 48 track unmixed master that they only used as a reference, so I would think it comes from something in there.
 
 
Both those instances are taken from an unused track that was supposed to play when Logan steals Scott's motorbike, which you can hear at the start of Logan And Rogue In Train on the LLL release. So while that exact arrangement wouldn't exist elsewhere (so I don't be expecting the ostinato), the theme does exist throughout. The most prominent instances besides X-Jet being Ambush and Museum Fight, partially a spot in Final Showdown, alongside more low-key renditions in School Montage (both versions), Logan Kills Mystique, and Jean And Logan. Probably more spots too in less obvious areas, since the themes of this score tends to sneak around like that.

The funny thing is that the LKM version sounds an awful lot like a variant of the responsibility theme that we would get two years later in the Raimi Spider-Man scores. I figure it has to be one of the ideas that Kamen repurposed from his original demos.

It literally consists of six score tracks that are glued together by a lot of thrown in synths, several of which are also taken from previous tracks. I should've been more specific when I said "unique bits," since I'm referring to a particular section of string work around 2:13-2:19 that I can't really point to as being from an existing cue. It really makes my unfinished theory have more of a basis, since some of this material had to come from something that existed at one point in production. And yet there's nothing on the Kamen website that suggests anything was specifically prepped for the credits like the tracked version of Inside the Statue, so I'm not sure what's up there.

Such an exquisite score. Elfman hit peak quality post Batman in the space of several years. I would argue that this is better than either Batman score because it sounds so fresh and inspired. The main theme is hauntingly beautiful and the usage of pan flutes and the gamelan is inspired. And Walker’s cue is awesome on its own terms but works well within the main score.
 
The quality of music is that good where the expanded and 1990 releases work equally well as listening experiences. Mixing and mastering is excellent, compared to the dry mix on Darkman.

Dear @Ricard, @Jay and all members of JWFan,
 
I would like to hereby apologize for my past behaviour that may have offended some of the members. 
I would like to specifically apologize to @TownerFan for attacking and offending him. If I have hurt his feelings in any way and have made him feel disrespected or attacked on this site, I am sincerely sorry, and I assure him and everyone that this will never happen again in the future.
 
A special thanks to Ricard and Jay for accepting my apology a month ago and changing my one-year-ban to a one-month-ban, giving me one last chance to be a part of this great community. I'm very grateful to both of them.
 
I promise that from now on I will respect all forum rules.
 
JTW

I love how unabashedly and unashamedly everything in The Orville is so Star Trek like, right down to the books. What's next, The Orville Technical Manual? The Orville Blueprints? Now I really want an Orville universe show set on a space station called Deep Space Wilbur.
 
The Orville is Star Trek in everything but name and NuTrek is Star Trek in name only.

Another Orville book is coming out!
 

 
https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3003-524/The-Guide-to-The-Orville-HC
 
 
 
Preview: https://screenrant.com/orville-dark-horse-guide-union/

You had me at Dwarf and Giant.

Definitely. Lots of violence, no blood.
 
The movie almost has a surreal quality about it, and best watched late night I think. It's bad, of course, but still weirdly entertaining, with some genuinely funny moments between the Dwarf & Giant, and both actors play their outrageous roles with aplomb. 

That genre's posters are definitely ... of a sort, shall we say. 

You're not wrong about the money, Andy ... Hawk's budget was £600,000, which even back then would've been low.