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  1. If I am not mistaken I think a lot of people are comparing the music of Star Wars to CEOF3K. To me that's like comparing apples to oranges. They are two totally opposite scores. Both scores are brilliant in their own right but what I enjoy most about Close Encounters, musically, and like most others, is the The Visitors/Bye/End Titles. It is just magical. I can't recall any other movie that relied so much on the music to carry the audience to the end of the movie with the limited dialogue there was.

    Because I prefer the 1980 Special Edition version of the film I have also edited the Boston Pops "Space and Time" recording of the CEOT3K suite (with the "Inside The Mothership" cue) into The Visitors/Bye/End Titles track for an alternate listening experience. And with all this talk about the music I feel compelled to track down the orginal CD and the Charles Gerhardt versions too.

    This score is worth 5 stars in my book.

  2. I watched the movie Hannibal last night and realised some of the music heard in this film is also in Kingdom of Heaven. It is heard a couple of times during Hannibal, once at an concert/opera and again just after where Insp Renaldo Pazzi is shown the reward for finding Lector. Does anyone know the name of this music and is it an opera?

  3. They all know Michael is too smart to put himself in a situation where HE can be killed. So since they can't kill him they can destroy him by killing the person whom he loves the most, Mary. He says he's spent his life protecting his family and when he loses Mary Michael is in effect dead from then on.

    That's just my take on it.

  4. This is a question about the movie which I have been wanting to ask for years.

    At the end of the film Michael survives an assassination attempt on the steps of the theatre but the assassin misses Michael and Mary is shot instead. But years later I got thinking. What if Michael wasn't the real target? What if Mary was the intended target?

    Does anyone else believe Michael was never the intended target?

  5. Very sad news indeed. I mainly knew him because of Witness, Mosquito Coast, The Bride and Ghost and while I couldn't appreciate his music as much as I do others I did have some of his music. I especially enjoyed Witness and found it to be a really great score.

    It's even more sad to know that we have lost another much loved composer. These last 5 years have seen some the loss of some great names in film music.

    R.I.P.

  6. It is strange, and often sad, that the smallest thing can have the biggest impact. No one would have ever thought that such a simple skiing accident, that I am sure happens so regularly on every ski slope, would cause someone to lose their life in the way Natasha lost hers.

    My sympathies to Liam Neeson and their kids, Joely Richardson and the Redgrave family.

  7. OK, so after some time, I wanted to watch this movie again. I went over to my DVD shelf to get it, but to my surprise, I couldn't find it. I looked all over my place (even in the bathroom), but it's gone. And the strange thing is, I can't remember haven't lent it to anyone. So my conclusion: it must have been stolen!!! But by whom? And why THIS DVD, of all others? (Nothing else was missing, as far as I can tell.)

    So my question to you is: Should I buy another set of this movie? I was thinking of getting the Steelbook 2-disc edition for 9,99 Euro.

    Granted, it's not my favorite Spielberg movie, but it still has some nice moments (the escape from the city, the intersection, the basement, the ferry) and it's nice to just own it. And the JW featurette is pretty cool too.

    So should I get it? What do you think? :lol:

    What should you do?

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    REJOICE. It was such a crap film.

  8. did you guys know that Spielberg's take from Universal Studios in Florida is upwards of 50 million dollars.

    Why doesn't he finance it himself.

    And use his own money? You have to be crazy or Mel Gibson to do that.

    Yeah. We don't want Mr Spielberg going down the same road GL did by wasting good money on characters like Jar Jar Binks.

  9. Honestly MSM, the best recording is the one used in the film, just get the 4 disc set with the isolated score.

    sometimes I will just put in on the home theatre and enjoy for 3 hours

    I have the Region 4 4 disc set and even though it states it has the isolated score I haven't found it so maybe it didn't come with it. But that was one of the reasons why I bought the 4 disc set in the first place.

  10. put the pipe down Tom, if the man goes begging, which he did, its a sign his clout is dimished.

    15 years ago who'd beleive that Spielberg could not get 50 million dollars to make a movie.

    Fifteen years ago we weren't entering a severe financial crisis.

    Wasn't there a big recession in the early 1990's?

    In Australia there was. It was the one we had to have otherwise we'd have become a banana republic.

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