Nick Parker

So like this? Last Saber Duel is my favorite instance of it. I love it when Williams gets whimsical.

I've never seen someone claim the 2014 movie as a Gojira movie before.

I have to admit I'm having a hard time understanding your post, Karel, partially because I've never seen the word esoteric used in this way. To be clear, you're asking for examples of "spiritual" music?

Wait is this in the Dudamel interview?

The gap in time from this thread's start to now is almost as long as the gap between Last Crusade and Crystal Skull.

This thread is so cute.

Holy crap, I didn't know Lenny Castro was still doing stuff.

Who, Zimmer? I'm losing track of all the names in this thread.

You fell for it again, dude.

Like Herrmann and Torn Curtain!

"I liked the movie, sir, but did the helicopter have to come in when it did? Couldn't it have just waited a minute?"

The examples are so numerous, but it's easy to imagine someone as yourself dismissing them almost out of hand. I wasn't dodging the question, I was asking what I anticipated was the next one. George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Bernie Worrell Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul Miles Davis and Gil Evans Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (though they were more separate than the common narrative lets on) Donald Fagen and Walter Becker Charles Mingus and Sy Johnson These are the most immediate ones to come to my mind.

What makes music great to you? Honest question. My comment wasn't aimed as much in the orchestral realm; I don't think the European symphonic orchestra is the alpha and omega of music.

As in the jig is up, that Zimmer is a hack who can't write a whole score if his life depended on it! Ohhhhhhhh!!!!

It can actually be a really fun way to write music. To echo Bruce, the strict "solo artist" mentality is a very narrow way of looking at things...ironically given your post, if you look _beyond_ the narrow stream that is film music, you'll find much great art has been created by the melding of great minds that happened to be simpatico and spiritually unified.

The original Star Wars alone beats Harry Potter's ass with a hard broomstick.

The original Scavenger cue shows a fascinating glimpse into the creative process behind this trilogy, and serves as a parallel to Attack of the Clones. At this point, Williams knew Rey would be the granddaughter of Palpatine but wanted to write material that would not give it away. However, Abrams clearly thought it was too subtle, and had William rewrite Rey's music to include the minor third interval, a clear and irrefutable link to Palpatine. This echoes the foreshadowing of the Republic's transition into the Empire at the end of the end of Attack of the Clones, which also featured a revised cue designed to telegraph where things were going...and who was behind that shift too? Our man Sheev, of course. Genius.

Also, you covered Blade Runner Blues on a CS80. You are welcome on this forum.

I think I asked you before, Mattris, but does this perception of some long con improve your enjoyment of the individual films as their own entities? I'm genuinely curious.

Oh you know one of them is perfectly willing and able to go toe to toe with you in pedantry and semantics for the remainder of time. It's like watching two blind people have a staring contest.

Watching clips of it a few weeks ago after having not seen it in about 15 years, I forgot just how well-crafted and intriguing the movie is. It's like an Indiana Jones movie where the opening (30-45 min in this case) is jam packed enough to be the climax of so many other movies. Plus, holy crap is it badass. I felt like a sexual tyrannosaur, watching it.

We got genuine American hot dogs, taste just like they're from the Yankees Stadium!

I've always interpreted Matriss as a collective, internal manifestation of our conflicted feelings about Star Wars...a jailer within our own minds. As long as our internal hatred and confusion persist, Matriss will exist. Why else does he only appear in this thread? If this thread even truly exists. Only those who have this spiritual anguish are able to perceive it.

Kids love the MCU.