Trent B

I think you should.  My brother Mike didn't like Star Trek Into Darkness but he definitely liked Star Trek Beyond and he too thought it was the best of the three reboots.
 
It's seriously got the TOS feel to it's fun from beginning to end.  This is coming from someone who is a Trekkie and liked Star Trek 2009 but only liked PARTS of Into Darkness.  It's worth going to see.  
 
Just a word of caution...if you're sensitive to motion sickness (like I am) don't see it in 3D.  My brother and I had a hard time sitting through the standard version with how many pans and such the camera did ...basically got dizzy and a bit nauseous from it.  Don't think I would have handled it in 3D at all.

Best song since The Moon Is A Window To Heaven!

X-Men
After seeing First Class last week, and probably going through the Batman films this weekend I thought it prudent to go back to the genesis of the modern era superhero film. X-Men.
Singer had the good fortune that Marvel did not have a style and system in place, so he could do his own thing. It feels like a singular film, rather then part of a product line.
The film is well structured. The opening scene at the concentration camp not only introduces Magneto, but also clearly established his main motivation, and gives us a real world parallel of what mutants are. Without hammering the point in. The rest of the film does a good job introducing characters one after another AND actually having something of a plot.
This is an ensemble film. Casting is important. Each character has a limited amount of screen time so the actors need to get their point across straight away. Overall the cast is very good. Patrick Stewart was probably born to play Xavier and when we first see him and McKellen together in a very brief scene, they are able to tell us more about their past then X-Men: First Class did in more then 2 hours. McKellen is a joy to watch. There's a measures flamboyance to his Magneto, but he doesn't ham it up. He understands that Magneto is a hero is his own mind, fighting on the front line to prevent his race from being outcast again.
Hugh jackman became a star overnight because of this film. and the few scenes he was with Anna Paquin provide the films emotional centre. Famke Jansen and Rebecca Romein are strong in their roles
Less successful is Halle Barry as Storm. Angela Basset was considered and would have made a more forceful impression.
Also Magneto's 2 henchmen, Toad and Sabertooth are not very interesting.
Singers direction is very good, but the film suffers from studio politics. The release date was pushed forward 6 months and parts feel rushed. (for instance Xavier gets poisoned by Cerebro, get hospitalized, Famke Jansen fixes Cerebro and uses it all in a couple of minutes).
Another issue are the special effects, which even for 2000 standards feel a bit rough and unfinished. (is there even a cool shot of the X-Jet?) The action scenes are well done, but suffer a bit from the Matrix syndrome (fancy swivelling cameras in slow motion).
Michael Kamen was a great composer but his music was butchered in this film. Mixed too low most of the time. Techno added by Klaus Badelt.
Despite these niggles this is far better then the average Marvel fare. Pity it would be followed by only one other really good film.

And he's gone.

Odds and Ends is amazing! I love this score!

David Arnold will present a live orchestra screening of Independence Day at the Royal Albert Hall in September.

The Nemesis score is not bad.

Because Star Trek is better then everything!

 
The recent forum update sorta messed up the links to the posts...at least it has on my end.  It'll take me to the right page but I generally have to scroll to the right post that I want.

Whoever whipped that up has their head too far up their ass...

This is why Star Trek is better then everything!

Samples: http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/StarTrek_TNG-Vol2.html

From the superhero genre perhaps. 

I honestly didn't want anything, told my brother not to get me anything but the turkey did anyways.  I got the Star Wars The Visual Dictionary that just recently came out and three gift cards.  All ready used one and half but gonna let my lady use the rest for whatever she wants.
 
For Dawn I suggested to my brother a Star Wars coloring book for inspirtation of her drawings.  The turkey though put it "To Dawn, From Trent".  
 
For music wise ended up getting the Home Alone re-issue and Braveheart.

I agree.

Ugh....what a waste again. No thank you and I agree with Jay on can't wait for the rights to leave Sony. This is becoming bullshit.

We've always been able to, the site was founded on it. You might be thinking of FSM, which doesn't allow it.

David Arnold - Godzilla (1998)
Source: Lalaland Cd's Tags
 
1m1 The Beginning
1m3 Tanker Gets It
1m5/6 Chernobyl
2m1 Footprint
2m2 Footprints / New York / Audrey
2m3 Chewing Gum Nose
2m3a/4 Ship Reveal / Nick Discovers Fish / Flesh
2m5 The Boat Gets It
3m1 Dawn Of The Species
3m3/4 Joe Gets A Bite / Godzilla Arrives
3m5 Mayor's Speech
3m6 Caiman's Office
3m7 Animal's Camera
4m1 Military Command Center / New Jersey
4m2 Audrey's Idea
4m3 Evacuation
4m4 French Coffee
4m4 Subway Damage / Command Enters City
5m1 Fish
5m2 Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
5m3/4 1st Helicopter Chase / Godzilla Swats A Chopper
6m1/1x We Fed Him / Audrey Sees Nick
6m2/3/4/7m1 Nick And Audrey / He's Pregnant /Audrey Takes The Tape / French Breakfast
7m2 He's Preparing To Feed
7m4/5/6/7/8m0 Nick Gets Fired / Nick Gets Abducted / Frenchie's Warehouse / Nick Joins The Foreign Legion
8m1 Chewing Gum
8m2 Rumble In The Tunnel
9m1/2/3/4/10m1 Godzilla O Park / Godzilla Takes A Dive / Godzilla Versus The Submarine / Egg Discovery
10m2 Baby 'Zillas Hatch
10m3 Nick Phones For Help
11m1 Eat The French
11m2 Phillip Shoots The Lock
11m3/12m1 Nick's Big Speech / The Garden Gets It
12m2/3 He's Back! / Taxi Chase & Clue
13m1 Big G Goes To Monster Heaven
14m1 The End
 
1m1 The Beginning (No Choir)
2m2a Footprints / New York / Audrey (Alternate)
2m5 The Boat Gets It (Alternate)
Gojira (Album Version)
 

Exactly. John Williams is in better health than Trent Bennett. Relax everybody!

I've got a pacemaker / defib in me. It's so if I go into ventricle flutter attack and it's severe enough the pacemaker will zap me. That's where the lower part of the heart beats faster.
They actually tried to fix this issue but they said I would have to have been put into cardiac arrest to many times and deemed it way to risky so they went with the option of the pacemaker to regulate it if I ever went into that particular attack.
I had atrial flutter where the upper part of the heart beats a lot faster than the lower part...that they were able to repair by burning away at the areas triggering it with radio waves. But ya Donna is right that having a pacemaker doesn't require full on heart surgery. There's a scar where they put mine in...and every so often you have to have it replaced. Luckily mine doesn't need replacing for another few years.

Hot damn. Ordered Parts II and III to complete my collection. Super excited about this!

Still plenty of holy grails left for me, and the boots of 2 and 3 certainly filled in the hole for those scores for the past ~10 years or so. But man, who would have guessed the eventually legit releases would be 2 CDs each? I had no idea there were so many alternates available for 2 and 3! So cool!

The best news is, of course, that Mike Matessino oversaw the entire production. These releases will be perfect!
The liner notes for 2 and 3 are by Tim Grieving; He just posted this on Facebook about them

https://www.facebook.com/tgreiving/posts/600816896937

An artist's intended OST configuration is a proper release.
Every score should simply get a complete release sometime afterwards

That's the cover art with the fucking Stormtrooper helmet? The same old discs erroneously packaged in the original album covers, which they've already done? Interviews with Harrison Ford??
This set looks and sounds like pure shit.

At some point, you can't help wondering if they're just trolling us diehards. All six scores deserve complete, definitive, high-quality releases, and none of them have gotten that treatment.