Naïve Old Fart

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.

I wouldn't know. All I know is what I see, and I see Jodie Foster wearing a great dress for the DC party sequence.

Maybe so, but what a "really great dress".

As much as much I hate to stoop symbolism... (blows cigar smoke at computer screen).

I said that, when the trailer was posted on this very site...and got lambasted, for it. Ho, hum.

Maybe in the USA, Bes, but in the UK, we didn't get the "no narration" OST until the film was released, in January (or was it February?) 2000.

The one with narration was alailable in the UK, as an import, in 1999, then the one without narration was released, in 2000. I don't mind either. I prefer the "brown" cover: it reflects one of the main themes of the film.

Sometimes, but the current poster for ALIEN COVENANT is just "ef-off" brilliant! There simply is nothing like it.

Rest assured, Tom, you are getting it, and that's a good point, but even Rush had a FEEDBACK tour (which I saw, btw). I know that JW is, primarily a composer, and that composers - usually - conduct their own music, but I wonder what JW's "spin" on, say, Vaughn Williams' 4th Symphony might be? I'm not sure that he's ever stretched himself, as an interpreter of other people's music. After all, he is influenced by a lot of people. Then again, one could argue "why would he want/need to?".

No, dear; it's full of stars

It's very nice, and I also like the guitar pieces, but...geez, doesn't JW get bored conducting his own music, all the time? Has he ever had the urge to conduct THE RING CYCLE, or the complete works of BRAHMS?

Yeah, but I think I prefer the film version.

Which version?

They certainly don't! BACKDRAFT in the TLW trailer?! The funniest trailer-music, is the cut-'n'-paste ST:TMP trailer. Bananas! My favourite JW trailer music, is A.I., and 1941.

Ladies and gentleman, please welcome, the Lee reverse canning service; letting loose worms all over the internet! I have to agree with Pub on this one (am I actually agreeing with Pub?! Fuck). TFA was a nostalgia-fest, a film that people wanted, but not needed.

Agreed. To be fair to Mr. Ford, he seems to be like most actors: good at why he does but is, somehow, unable to rise above that source material. Sam Neill can, which puts him among the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and John Malkovitch. As a riposte, Lee, to your request for me to go away, and have anal sex; my favourite Ford performance is definitely THE MOSQUITO COAST - a powerhouse role, in a criminally underrated film! So...double dumb ass, on you..

Whoa! Repartee, Quint (!) REGARDING HENRY, anyone?