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Adam Sandler can act. Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the show as always. Crazy (good) love story. 

I did ... 10:10 am screening in my local Cineworld yesterday, only 2 other people in attendance. Bliss. 

A feel-good movie with the always adorable and sexy Diane Lane.

I like his first one.

Sounds surprisingly accomplished. Elfman has come a long way from the years of his Batman scores. 

As Ripley is (as I understand it) a sexually ambiguous sociopath, Scott seems like good casting (if his Moriarty in Sherlock is anything to go by). 

I remember that I had the KORG catalogue at the time and how much I drooled over the photos of that synth! It had a polyphony of 48 voices and 3 oscillators per voice! However, all I could afford was the monophonic KORG MS-20, which became my very first synthesizer. 
 

 
The KORG MS-20
 

KORG releases a re-issue of the legendary KORG PS-3300 which was originally released in the year of Star Wars.
 
Re-issue of the PS-3300:
 

 
 
The original PS-3300
 

Sounds surprisingly accomplished. Elfman has come a long way from the years of his Batman scores. 

Oh, wow! We agree! I recently discovered that Amazon Music has Still Crazy After All These Years in 'Ultra HD' and, lo and behold, it does seem to sound better than the standard version or the CD. 

The album before Paul Simon's legendary Still Crazy After All These Years. And no, it's not on the same level.

Look what I just bought!

Look what I just bought!

Then there's that 'organization' that he belongs to and that wants a piece of the cake. 

I'd tell that 'organization' to "fuck off", but that's just me.

Then there's that 'organization' that he belongs to and that wants a piece of the cake. 

Oh you didn't... 

Sounds surprisingly accomplished. Elfman has come a long way from the years of his Batman scores. 

If William's music touches the heart of the listener, which I think his music does, they will probably say that Williams' music has a heart. It's why we recognize William's voice in all his work. I think most art comes "from the heart", unless of course it has been deliberately created on a intellectual level, but even then it would be quite difficult to exclude your own emotions from the process. 

Well, JW obviously writes the best music he can for the task that he's given, and I think that's all that matters. It can be dangerous to go into such metaphors of whether or not a composer was writing "from the heart" or not, because there are some perverse connotations there, for example that music "from the heart" has to be unpolished to some degree, because it must be unfiltered by the intellect (or something like that). I don't buy that sort of talk. People express themselves in different ways. Just because some music sounds unpolished and raw, doesn't mean it came directly from the heart. One can maybe say that his 1st Violin Concerto is a more personal work than Jaws, but they're both great pieces of music, so...
 
Nevertheless, there are obviously cases where a composer "phones in" and doesn't put all that they can give into a picture. And I think it's fair to say that out of all composers, JW has done this probably the least. Virtually every film he's done has something special about it, which is astounding given the number of films he's worked on.
 
So essentially what I'm saying is, I don't care anymore whether JW writes "from the heart" or not; his music is some of the best film music out there, and I love listening to it and will probably never get tired of it, so clearly he's doing it right.