Ray Barnsbury
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E.T. is undoubtedly the better score, but choosing between the themes themselves is actally pretty difficult. Hmm.
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Solo for the win!
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The Ark theme...much more interesting!
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Has voting for "5" ever been easier?
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That sounds fantastic! I missed seeing any "Holiday Pops" programs on PBS this year.
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Getting back to the whole Broughton/Home Alone issue, someone (I think it's Columbus) says in the Home Alone bonus features that it was a case of one puzzle piece being replaced by a better puzzle piece. Can't say I disagree, but I don't imagine Broughton would've enjoyed hearing that.
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As wonderful as the love theme is, the Slave Children theme wins.
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I like it. When I first heard the rendition at the end of the credits, I was really pleased that Williams had seemingly been inspired enough to write a whole new variation on the familiar march, rather than just rehashing it.
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I think most people celebrate New Year's Ever moreso than New Year's Day.
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The day Williams fills our stockings with that will be a merry Christmas indeed!
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I always get hell for this here, but I usually have no interest in a film score if I didn't like the movie.
I have more of a problem with the fact that I had to spend a hundred bucks this weekend because you infested my dog's fur. Jerk!
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The Water Horse, by James Newton Howard.
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Yeah. Though I like what Doyle did with Hedwig's theme, Newell made it sound like he begrudgingly used it at the command of studio execs, and even then went to great lengths to make it sound as different as possible. Kind of a weird attitude.
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A Merry Christmas to all, and to all an ideal listening experience.
I'll take a lump of coal, thanks!
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Is is the theme's inappropriateness (or at least, your perception of its inappropriateness) in the context of the film what you don't like, or the actual music itself?
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God - er, John Williams - bless us - I mean, uh, continue to compose great music for us - every one!
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"Christmas Star" is the highlight of the score for me. It's not that the score's a re-hash, it's just a bit...diluted.
Yes. There's plenty of new material to make it a worthwhile score, but it's not original or structured well enough to compare with the first (for example, that wonderful Kevin-running-downstairs-on-Christmas-morning version of "Somewhere in My Memory" from the original is used at least twice very close together in HA 2, sort of diffusing its effectiveness).
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How so? It's in both scores, it's the best song in each of them, and its best version is in HA2.
Which version is that? I can't think of any offhand that are better than those in "Follow That Kid!", "Setting the Trap," "The Attack on the House," and the song sung by the church choir.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8121900764.html
Yet another critic takes a potshot at Spielberg's supposed lack of fealty to emotional reality:
The constant revisiting of the Holocaust, via new and inventive narrative avenues, is an attempt to put a happy -- or happier -- ending on one of the most horrifying episodes in human history. By locating and magnifying some germ of human charity (e.g., "Schindler's List") we somehow are led to believe that, even in the midst of a national murder spree, there was hope. Kindness. Humanity. It makes sense that Steven Spielberg -- who, for all his greatness, is an emotional anesthesiologist -- would construct such a story.But as Stanley Kubrick famously said, the Holocaust was about 6 million who died; "Schindler's List" was about 600 who didn't. "Valkyrie" is about nobility and courage among perpetrators of great horror. And another new exercise in wish-fulfillment, "Defiance" -- a kind of Spartacus-Robin Hood story in which rebellious Jews live in the woods of Belorussia -- would like to argue that if Europe's Jews had only had more guns and considerably more homicidal instinct, the entire Holocaust might never have happened. It's a kind of chastisement and, unfortunately for everyone, nothing to laugh about.Hmm. I certainly see his point, and it's a fine line between portraying such a horrific subject with a glimmer of hope and just downplaying the absoute horror of it all. But still, the fact is that in times of suffering and anguish, there often is hope (or kindness, or humanity, or whatever you want to call it). And I think it's good to acknowledge that in the face of such tragedies.
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But I still say it's probably better than the first score
"Star of Bethlehem" farts in your general direction!
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"Christmas Star" farts in your general direction!
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Something I've never been clear on is if they can "get" you just by downloading songs, or if you have to be sharing material from your own computer to be detected.
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I bet Williams doesn't know how many legs a spider has
Considering that he referred to the lion in the beginning of Last Crusade as a tiger twice at the Detroit concert earlier this year, I wouldn't be surprised.
"In Harry Potter, I wrote a little theme for those wonderful six-legged creatures that Harry and his little friends followed all over the school."
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That's nonsense. He has a similar ensemable playing at one point.
Eh, it's pretty close in melody and rhythm too. I'm sure it was temp-tracked.
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