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Naïve Old Fart

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  1. Yeah, Sweep. I like SPECTRE far more than I like (shock horror, burn the heretic!) SKYFALL. Yeah, I said it. CAROUSEL? ROLLERCOASTER? FLYING? FLOATING? I give up.
  2. 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.
  3. 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!!!
  4. Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
  5. 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.
  6. If it comes to where I live, then definitely. I've heard that the OT, and the PT are getting rereleased.
  7. "'All you need is love'. John Lennon said that. Smart man. Shot in the back. Very sad."
  8. They're picking gnat shit out of pepper. Who gives a fuck what they think.
  9. 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.
  10. "No! Stay!" "Sheet" "If you go there, you are crossing over to a place where there is no mercy" "Visionaries. Psychiatric wards are full of them" "No, I think I'll call you 'C'... C" "Now we know what 'C' stands for... 'careless'"
  11. "John, and Jerry. You know, you don't look anything like your pictures."
  12. "Will you get out of here? Will you get out of here? Will you? I'm trying to run an office, here. Go to lunch. Just go to lunch. Will you go to lunch?!"
  13. "Define interesting." "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die."
  14. 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.
  15. Oi, Steve! Are these the people you said should write Schindler's List? 'Cause guess what?
  16. "I thought we'd have a bit of a sit down." "I prefer a bit of a piss off."
  17. If I don't want to see a rebooted Star Trek, with Uhura played by a white man, does that make me a sexist, misogynist dinosaur?
  18. "Miss Tessmacher, when I was six years old, my father said to me -" "Get out!" "Ha ha ha ha. Before that, he said: 'Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse, people are no damn good, but they will always need land, and they will pay through the nose to get it. Remember', my father said, 'land'".
  19. "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE THIS, ANYMORE!"
  20. "Jack, maybe we can cut a deal?" "Jack? Jack is dead, my friend. You can call me... Joker, and, as you can see, I'm a lot happier."
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