Elmo Lewis

I picked Star Wars. I really couldn't choose, so I decided to leave my subconsious choose -- I thoughtlessly went for the saga that turned me into a fan. As many people will.

How are the ones you bought working for you, Stefan?

I would say it's a delightful mixture of both. It wouldn't be fair to limit it to just comedy, or drama. Besides, both its comedy and drama part are so "light", so matter-of-fact (like Spielberg's direction) they never get to be subject to a genre. Long live The "Float"!

I chose the Imperial March. Something about that theme that makes it perfect . . . .I'm pretty sure it's the simplicity. I think everything else comes from there -- its effectiveness, its changing abilities, it all derives from its utter simplicity. Not saying that every simple theme is effective, though. Or that only simple themes are effective.

beerchug

Well, like you said, it's just my opinion. Mind you, I think the film benefits highly from that lack of ending, it makes it even better. But your point seems interesting -- if I already know what happens in ROTJ I don't need to see it. Why then shoud I rewatch any movie? Or finish any movie that I've already seen? I can just stop it at any point because I know the ending. (re-reading this, this may sound harsh, but I don't mean it that way, this is friendly discussion ). The answer, IMO, is that every time you "re" something (re-watch, re-read, re-listen) you see something new in it, according to your very personal circumstances. Every time I try to see something new in ESB, I end up watching ROTJ, because there isn't one without the other. The points introduced in one movie are made in the other. That's what I mean when I say open ending.

Morn . . . .if Connor here should want to create new stuff, first he would have to master the old stuff. Would vote for a president who doesn't know about the history of the country?

Well, I don't about that Morn. But I was going to make a thread about that infamous, despicable, filthy, rotten, despisable, untolerable, inferior and blasphemous song: Jurassic Harlem by Poster Boy. Anybody with guts please try to download that.

Yeah, I imagine the job interview. "Hi, I'm George Lucas. Are you a Star Wars geek?" "Yes." "Do you love those movies above everything else?" "Yes." "Would you say that I have could ever do wrong?" "No." "Good enough, hired."

Hmmm, are you answering to Morn's post or mine? If it's mine, then I'll agree with you that ESB is years better than either ROTJ or ANH. But in my opinion it isn't a movie on its own -- once you've finished watching it, you have to wait till ROTJ to see what happens, see all the ends being tied, and most importantly, you get whole point of the movie, its meaning, its message. To you that's an unimportant thing, it just isn't to me, nothing wrong with that. ESB is just action that happens to set up ROTJ -- only that action is extremely well told and fascinating in most aspects. Oh, as you can see from my post, I WAS judging the movies, not the scores. If it was the scores, then it all gets more complicated. ESB just beats the living hell out of TOD and Crusade -- but does it beat both scores combined? And then we add ANH to the picture and, and then Raiders, and then there are individual tracks and then, and then the themes, and then --- :?

I chose Indy. I chose it because it's a lighter trilogy. You pick one installment and sit back and relax, because that's the films' main purpose. You play the movie and in two hours the story has finished, you get the message, all the ends are tied. It's a trilogy that's never closed because the movies are closed in themselves. Star Wars, as good as it is, is all the contrary. You sit and watch ESB and you're never satisfied, because it doesn't lead you from A to C, it leaves you at mid-B. Everything has its context in the Star Wars saga and you can't remove it from there. I know Neil or Joe will say that ANH (actually, they will call it Star Wars) doesn't apply, but we're talking trilogies here. There's one more aspect as to why the Indy saga is more appealing to me. In Star Wars the characters' motivations are very intellectual: he has to get away from the Dark Side of the Force; he can't be found by the evil Empire because of such and such. In Indy everything appeals more to the guts: Indy has to find this piece. Period. Further than that, he is getting shot at and must run for his life. That makes it more of a piece of entertainment, because, with all this simplicity, it's always easier to relate to Indy from your guts. You can relate to Luke from your brain, but I never do from my guts, and that proves for less (although not null) entertainment.

Yes, I'll agree with you, Morn. But we've already had this discussion (look in the favorite sitcom thread in the other topics forum), so let's move on.

What else did you hear by him? Aladdin? If you missed any of his Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborations, I pity you.

Tim Rice is never a mistake!! Unless we're takling Disney here. :roll: About him being a hack, I'll just assume you aren't too acquainted to his work, and we'll both live happily ever after. And I would have responded to your e-mail, but I never got any from you. Can you resend? Try any of these addresses: rmworinsky@yahoo.com; worinskyonline@hotmail.com

All-Time High had lyrics by Sir Tim Rice and it's an excellent song with a big Bond feeling to it, and shame on you for thinking otherwise!!! But of course you don't like any song that's not written in Elvish. :roll:

De acuerdo, pues español también. Por cierto, Ricard, ¿por qué no puedo escribir con caracteres griegos y añadir más a la locura de este thread? ¡La comunidad griega se va a sentir excluida y te denunciará por racismo!

I will not be called a nerd by someone who doesn't get Friends! And you know I don't that. The only show I'd bother memorizing would be Seinfeld or some good old Simpsons episode. But Friends is fun until something better comes up. You, on the hand, you -- well, just give time to think of something to throw in your face!

Sorry, my nerd-alert keeps going off everytime you try, Justin.

Your anxiety is perfectly understandable, but the man is 71 and has worked non-stop for a whole year, producing 4 scores (well, in my opinion, three scores: two complete and two halves). Doesn't he deserve some rest to mature his musical ideas and come up with something new and fresh for next year? Or would you rather have another Minority Report or Attack of the Clones? I know I can wait.

Oh, bien, un thread pour les francophones. Maintenant on peut parler de politique et réligion et personne nous arrêtera pas. C'est interesant Stefancos que quand tu parles Indysolo en autre langue Scissorhands et mention les prénoms Justin de quelques personnes Marian, ils se deviant nervieuses. Zut, mon français est pir chaque jour.

I'm no expert in music, but I would say -- the baton. Did you ever think about how hard it must be to put all those instruments together, memorise the score and the notes of each instrument, to know it must sound, to keep up the tempo, to realise immediately what problems the orchestra is having and solve them as you go? I know I'd go crazy if I had to do that. The orchestra would sound just awful. And then I'd sell my recordings as "modern music art" and bash those who don't like it as traditionalists.

Morn, if you think font types are funny, then I have to say you have a very strange sense of humor. Even for an australian. Anyway, it's a cool-looking font type. With no sort of connection to anything for us non-trekkies.

Oh, it can go up to 10,000,000 for all they care. Internet petitions are usually looked over by big companies. Although that is more a personal opinion than a fact.

Yeah, either that or George Lucas will have the great idea to use the same cues from ANH thoroughout the 6 movies -- "so as to provide more continuity to the saga"

I bet that was the exact expression on his face when he saw AOTC for the first time in the theater. "Whaaa? All right, that does it. There's no way I'm buying this on DVD!!"