Naïve Old Fart

This was many Halloweens ago.
 
Here's my daughter and her friend.
 
 
 
And with apologies to @Mr. Hooper, here's me:

 
Hey I don't need this working class hero crap.
 

 
And Here's the family dog, with 3 barrels on 'em:

 
Quint gets revenge:
 

 
Aboard the Orca....
 

 
 

 
 
Thanks for indulging me!
 
 
 

Well, the film is almost a yearly tradition here too on Greek TV. Generally biblical films are played around Easter.
Even Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor.
Of course I don't watch these on TV, I can't stand the ads and the quality, I watch them on my purchased blu-rays! 

So... our lord and saviour has just won an Academy Award? Well done, him. Now... let's see what he does next.
A certain S. Spielberg, esq. won an Oscar™ in 1994. His very next film was a huge pile of bantha poo-doo.

Disappointing that I can find hardly any stills from this on the net. Slocombe's cinematography is stunning.

I wouldn't care if all traces of NTTD were erased from existence.

I wouldn't care if all traces of NTTD were erased from existence.

For me it doesn't hit Skyfall's heights, but neither does it drop the ball anywhere near as badly as NTTD ends up doing.  

Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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!

Yup. Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

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.

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...

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."

They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
Who gives a fuck what they think.

They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
Who gives a fuck what they think.

They're picking gnat shit out of pepper.
Who gives a fuck what they think.

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.

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.

The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

And it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece? Weird.