Naïve Old Fart

Modern cinema is so ass-fucked, that if you looked at the back of its mouth, you'd see Mickey Mouse's prick.

You should. APPROACHING THE SUMMIT is really good. The track 7YIT is all over Classic FM.

Love it! I've got that Blu ray, and very nice it is, too.

Probably, and "no". Modern cinema is fucked.

THE REFRAMES OF THE DAY

Let's hope that the rest of you goes along, for the ride?

While we're discussing his mid-90s work... Anyone got any thoughts, on this score?

Sorry, that should say Berton.

How simple the subduers.

Sounds like some wife-swap film from the 70s.

Surely I'm I missing something (I usually am), but...something filmed in 4:3, is, IMO, meant to be watched in 4:3, n'est pas? Ps how do you convert 4:3, to 16:10?

This edition restores the blue tint, for the flashback sequences. Does the Criterion do this?

Right. I've just seen the APP video. Apart from being funny, it's a little... well, almost irrelevant. "Might hurt his image as a Prog/Pop man"? @#£% you!!!!!!!!!!! As for APP being publicity-shy; the booklets show lots of magazine covers (mostly from Europe) and interviews. TOM+I even had a " performance" at the Griffith Observatory. The Timothy Blue song is nice, but TCOA is better. Ps, has anyone heard the original FOREVER AUTUMN advert song?

Of course it doesn't, but at the end of the day, that's just...like...their opinions, man.

The surround mix of the music on the BI DVD, is a talking point, for many people. It really is "front and centre". My one quibble about this Blu ray, is that it doesn't have the 5.1 mix, that the last DVD re-issue had; the car journey that Burton takes into the city, is, in 5.1, hypnotic. Ejit!

I think that you are mistaking personal preference, with objective comment. I can't tell you exactly why THE PATRIOT doesn't really do it for me. All I know is that the score just doesn't do it for me. For example: most people would prefer LEGEND, over LINK, even there was only six months between their composition. Not me. I'll take LINK, and tell LEGEND to f-off. But that's just me. LINK has a feel, a vibe that LEGEND does not have, even though it is by far the more accomplished score. Similarly, THE PATRIOT, while being a well-crafted piece of work, is, for me, less than the sum of it's parts.

While THE PATRIOT wouldn't scrape into my all-time JW top 50, it is, however, a solid piece of work. I'll agree with Nightie; it's nothing special, but still light years ahead of what was passing for film music, at that time. A fair comment, but, hands up, who thought that THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST was a stone cold classic, when they first heard it? Sometimes, scores can "creep up' on you. TAT did, and maybe, THE PATRIOT will, one day. I'd rather JW at his worst, than some composers, at their best.

Getting my heart broken wasn't Older brother.

His name is on the credits, and, anyway, Pixie_Twinlke's avatar got me researching.

Er...no...but I was only 17, at the time.

Well, it saw the end of Smith, the return of McGann, and an absolute star-turn, by Hurt (not to mention the greatest "WTF??!!!" Doctor Who cliffhanger, ever, and a gasp-inducing cameo, by Baker!), so...

No. Comment!!!

2013 was a great year for films, but then, I was only 17, at the time.

Rude, crude, and very funny. I'm crying with laughter. Simple pleasures, eh? Why is it that, after x amount of thousands of years of democracy, science, and all sorts of achievement, still the funniest thing known to man, is the expulsion of either gas, or matter, from his anus?

Did you know; you've just used the same two words on the IN THE WAKE OF THE WESTMINISTER ATTACK thread.