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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from MaxMovieMan in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Thor in What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)   
    DRACULA (1979)
    Oh, wow! What a powerhouse of a score!
    It's true to say, dear JWfaner, that in July of '79, and coming on the heels of the superb 2-LP set of SUPERMAN, DRACULA was a bit of a letdown. Also, it's a stone cold fact that the vinyl album sounded utter shite.
    Not so, the new (ish) release. It really brings out hidden depths of the score, and the C&C presentation puts so much more meat on the musical bones.
    JW can write great soaring scores, and he can write chamber piece scores, but it's his dark, angry music that sets him apart from the rest of the herd. His work on DRACULA, THE FURY, and, to an extent, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND has almost no equal. Only Jerry's THE OMEN trilogy and Kilar's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, imo, compare favourably.
    A truly underrated work, that deserves to be heard by as many people as possible.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Holko in What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)   
    DRACULA (1979)
    Oh, wow! What a powerhouse of a score!
    It's true to say, dear JWfaner, that in July of '79, and coming on the heels of the superb 2-LP set of SUPERMAN, DRACULA was a bit of a letdown. Also, it's a stone cold fact that the vinyl album sounded utter shite.
    Not so, the new (ish) release. It really brings out hidden depths of the score, and the C&C presentation puts so much more meat on the musical bones.
    JW can write great soaring scores, and he can write chamber piece scores, but it's his dark, angry music that sets him apart from the rest of the herd. His work on DRACULA, THE FURY, and, to an extent, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND has almost no equal. Only Jerry's THE OMEN trilogy and Kilar's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, imo, compare favourably.
    A truly underrated work, that deserves to be heard by as many people as possible.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from filmmusic in Recently purchased movies / tv series   
    The best second best thing I can say about it, is that it is an unintentionally funny film.
    The first best thing that I can say about it, is that Jerry's score is fucking awesome!!!
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Sweeping Strings in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)   
    SPECTRE - 'Brofeld', Sam Smith's dirge and the odd piece of illogical plotting aside (Madeline being left to wander off alone after her and 007 get back to London following the destruction of Blofeld's base, for example), fairly solid middle-tier Bond.
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Holko in What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)   
    First ever listen to El Cid (Tadlow), never seen the movie or heard anything besides highlights from it. I don't know how Rózsa did it but his 2.5 hour scores just don't feel their length, they flow well, take needed breaks from loud action and fanfares, tell a story.
    Of course inevitably comparisons with Ben-Hur started popping up with the references/"ripoffs" in there, and of course that one comes out on top with its massive and diverse but easily identifiable and emotionally clear theme library and perfect structure with every cue doing something with those themes for the narrative, but there's not many scores it could lose against. Cid's a bit more "film score-ey" - "hey let's put a minute of music here too" "sure I'll do some fanfare and reprise a theme" "whoops dropped it, it was just some throwaway anyway".
    I really love the hero themes and the love theme and their development, but on this first time couldn't latch onto others even by reading along with the booklet - but this was the first time, I'm sure they'll come. There are definitely highlights outside those main themes that stand out like Entry of the Nobles and especially the material for the twins!
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Tallguy in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from filmmusic in Recently purchased movies / tv series   
    There's some fantastic stuff there, @filmmusic, but I'll single out VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED as a British classic.
    Brilliant script (can you believe that the man who wrote this also wrote THE SWARM?!), fine acting, and well creepy kids (who looked that way because platinum blonde wigs were placed on children with brown eyes).
    "You're thinking of... a brick wall!"
    Excellent choices, all round.
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Chen G. in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    Hey, I mean I'm MENA of a sort...
     
    To me, all the Arabic and Farsi terms are mostly just a little... I don't want to say "silly" but just something one has to try and get used to and look past, because its pretty funny to see Herbert (and, by extension, Denis) use these terms which I'm sure read as very exotic-sounding to him...while to me at least some of them could crop-up in daily conversation...
     
    "Usul" and "Mahdi" are pretty commonplace Arabic words... "Kwizats Haderach" is a kind of bastardised Hebrew for saying "hopping." It all gets pretty hokey...
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    Naïve Old Fart 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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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Nick1Ø66 in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
    Who gives a fuck what they think.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from MaxMovieMan in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
    Who gives a fuck what they think.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Edmilson in Villeneuve's DUNE   
    They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
    Who gives a fuck what they think.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Yavar Moradi 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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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Tallguy 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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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to JNHFan2000 in General movie chitchat   
    The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Tallguy in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.
     
     
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Sweeping Strings in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    Meteor's original SFX director got fired and his work up to then was unusable, so others were brought in to reshoot the sequences with whatever was left in the budget. They were also fired, and again others were brought in to finish the effects with the (now presumably diminished even further) remaining budget cash and with 2 months to go to the release date.   
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Tallguy 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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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Sweeping Strings in Your Favourite Movie Quotes   
    The 'visionaries' line is a nice callback to Connery's 'World domination, same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon ... or God' from Dr No.  
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Marian Schedenig in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    It has a nice Rosenthal score.
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    Naïve Old Fart reacted to Sweeping Strings in Your Favourite Movie Quotes   
    'Here you are, sir. One prolytic digestive enzyme shake.' 

    'Do me a favour, will you? Throw that down the toilet. Cut out the middleman.' 
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from igger6 in New Album - FSU University Wind Orchestra: John Williams 90th Birthday Celebration   
    See? See?!
    None of this 'Escape/Chase/Saying Goodbye' malarkey.
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    Naïve Old Fart got a reaction from Nick1Ø66 in Next James Bond actor after Daniel Craig?   
    Yes, Sweep, you're a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the cold war, and long may it continue 
     
    Some things you reinvent. Some things you just don't fuck with. Bond is the latter.
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