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  1. Naïve Old Fart
    Try the Bradbury Apartment.
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    Naïve Old Fart replied to BloodBoal's topic in JWFan Reviews

    Don't forget "hated". Is it really as bad as NORTH?
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    KING ARTHUR, by Hans Zimmer, as part of Radio 3's Sound Of Cinema. It's so boring, I've just pressed the "mute" button on my remote. Hold on. Its Ron Goodwin now, with SIR GAWIAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. Aah, much better
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    So...you've never seen INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, then? ...which is what this conversation comes back to. Scott, is, above all, a visualist, and there's nothing wrong with that. Telling a story with images is what cinema is all about, but it helps if there's also some literary meat to chew on. Scott likes to add that meat, and not just give us mindless shot, upon mindless shot. Isn't cinema a process of the presentation of ideas?
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    At least Scott tried. Sometimes, films that are failures can be some of the most compelling films around. Anyway, I'd rather have Scott's flawed AU, than all this regurgitated-every-six-months, MCU death-rattle shit.
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    That's because she only had a 4 year life span
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    The was a lot going on in PROMETHEUS, but people chose to ignore it.
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    Long form stories seem to be where the...I hate to say intelligence... is, these days. Cinema is responding today, as it did in the 1950s, by offering sheer spectacle, in an attempt to keep audiences from staying at home to watch this new-fangled contraption in the corner if the living room, called a television. To its credit, cinema has never not strived to give the public what the public wants. The technical advances over the years (Todd AO, 70mm, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Sennsuround, CGI, Dolby, DTS, IMAX, 3D, D-Box, VR, etc.) have all contrived to attract, and keep audiences. It's just a shame that more effort isn't put into the artistic side of film-making. Have writers truly lost their imagination, or have they sold out to the almighty $ ? "We bow down to the Big Wedge". The words of the prophets were written on the studio wall. Concert hall echoes with the sounds...of salesmen.
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    If it does sound like a TV theme, then it's the single best goddamn TV theme you've ever fucking heard! (*) Try either the Varèse, or the Silva recordings. I prefer the Silva; it's played better, and it sounds more "open". (*) apart from DOCTOR WHO
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    Is that meant to make me feel guil- (breaks down, and sobs) I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry, your supreme cuddlesomeness. I'll never hate you again (until CARAVAN OF COURAGE ).
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    Naïve Old Fart replied to BloodBoal's topic in JWFan Reviews

    Is that Blue Man Group? Nice. They make better, and original, films.
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    Am I the only one who doesn't give a single tinker's cuss, if an Ewok gets killed? I just don't care. I didn't give a fuck, in 1983, and I don't give a fuck in 2017, so there! Sweep, they weren't AT-ATs, they were AT-STs (but I take your point). In fact, where was the Walker? Was it in the shop, that afternoon?
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    Nick, sadly, your last sentence sums up the whole discussion; the state of modern cinema. Today, cinema is: MCU, DCU, SWU, KK/GU, X-MEN U, any other fucking U you care to mention, live-action remakes, and the fag-end of all these "gross-out", Amy Schumer vehicles. What's left, when all the money has gone on that crap? Once upon a time, our Ridley could choose his projects, and make them, with confidence, and originality. Nowadays, like most, if not all, directors, he is, simply, working for the man. If the man says "we want to see Matt Damon on Mars, thank you very much", then Scott puts Matt Damon on Mars, and art gets well and truly buggered. It's not Scott's fault; he's simply adapting to modern cinematic tastes. That he's lasted this long, is a miracle in itself.
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    Never seen or heard HIBUTK. I remember HISTK sounding very "busy', and Rota-esque, but I haven't seen the film since 1989, so, like a dancin' fool, I might totally wrong.
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    Not sure what you mean? Newman (surely not)? Preminger? Eva Marie Saint? Agreed, Alex, but when he flies (which is all too rare, these days) he soars! BLADE RUNNER is my second favourite film, ever.
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    Jerry, that's EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS. EXODUS is a film by Otto Preminger, about the setting-up of Israel. It starred Paul Newman, and St. Eva Marie.
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    Agreed on all counts, but when ROTJ gets it right (the battle for Endor), it really gets it right. The problem is, nobody actually cares about what their doing. The cast looks so bored. Steef's right; where is that spark between Leia, and Han? Where is the determination within Luke, to turn the most evil man in the universe (who, by the way, just happens to be his dad!), back to the light side? The film is missing both motivation, and a sense of purpose. It's easy to pour scorn on ROTJ, especially after the previous two films, but, as threequels go, it's still a fun ride, which might just have the best STAR WARS score, of all. I revisit this score far more than any other SW music, especially CD two - BROTHER/SISTER, FATHER/SON onwards; breathtaking.
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    Nick, let me throw some de-scaler in your think-tank: 1/ BLADE RUNNER 2. ALIEN 3. THE DUELISTS 4. THELMA AND LOUISE 5. WHITE SQUALL Honorable mentions: LEGEND HANNIBAL BOY AND BICYCLE (what can I say; I like it )
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    Yes, too many bands. Just...cut a few.
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    Every time Alex thinks he's out, it pulls him back in! Brilliant film.
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    Hee, hee. TAOJJBTCRF was my favourite film of that year. If TWBB is revisionist, what about OKLAHOMA CRUDE, THE WILD BUNCH, ULZANA'S RAID, McKENNA'S GOLD, SHALAKO, HOMBRE, and BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID? There's a neat little revisionist western that you should see. It came out in 1976. I've heard it has a good score, by some newbie. The film is called THE MISSOURI BREAKS.
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    THE ASSASSINATION OF JESS JAMES BY THE COWARD JESSE JAMES ? I've never heard of that one, Alex. Is it any good? Where do you stand on MATEWAN LONE STAR and THE CLAIM ?
  23. Naïve Old Fart
    Nah, that's TFA.
  24. Naïve Old Fart
    Shouldn't that be "dinorama"?
  25. Naïve Old Fart
    Not 'arf, pop-pickers! Steef, I don't care if you're fucking Muhammed "I'm 'ard" Bruce Lee, you are in thin fucking ice, my pedigree chum, and I shall be underneath it, when it breaks.
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