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Yes, I like how the trumpet at the end plays the part of the horse. If you like Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride", you can't leave out his "A Christmas Festival." That is one amazing piece of music. The community band I'm in plays both. Good thing I've got the Arthur Fielder Boston Pops performance handy, because each version at Youtube is lousy.
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Where does The Golden Voyage of Sinbad rank for a Rozsa fan who's only got El Cid, Ben-Hur, and the title track to King of Kings? I can't remember a week in recent memory when I didn't buy a new soundtrack. I'm not familiar with any of these movies or scores.
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Gotta play some Trans-Siberian Orchestra around the holidays. Even if it's just picking and choosing the best songs.
I've tried twice to get into them both times I've given the CD away.
I can understand. I've tried to listen to any of their albums straight through, and I can't do it. If anything, I skip the vocal tracks and just listen to the instrumental stuff. So I just tack the highlights onto a mix with other more traditional Christmas fare, which now includes both Home Alone scores. Highlights from the TSO albums would include Sarajevo 12/24, A Mad Russian's Christmas, O Come All Ye Faithfu/O Holy Night, Christmas Canon, and March of the Kings.
My brother's seen them twice and loves them, but I'm far more picky with my live shows: if I can't listen to their album, I don't want to see them live.
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Nobody here is going to rationally and successfully argue that KOTCS is better than Raiders or TOD.
But saying that KOTCS shouldn't win an Oscar because those other 20+ year old scores are superior is like arguing that just because you were outscored last week in football 14-10, and lost this week 7-6, that you should have won this week's game because 10>7.
And no, that is not the most stupid thing I have ever said here, because I'm keeping track.
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Gotta play some Trans-Siberian Orchestra around the holidays. Even if it's just picking and choosing the best songs.
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I watched Click on Thanskgiving night. The whole movie was a cheat.
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Eh, it's all good.
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I rather like the jewel case that holds the PC game "Far Cry," at least the $20 version I bought at Walmart. It opens from both sides, like the El Cid jewel case, but it has enough fold-open panels to hold the five or six CDs needed to install the game, and a little instruction booklet.
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Tell that to the 87 people at eBay who have driven the price of the only one available (at the moment) up to $87. Yikes.
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Not yet. Baz's website says they're working on it, it should be out soon.
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You want useful information? Read an almanac.
You want useless information? Surf the internet.
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Is it possible Will Ferrell hates Jerry Goldsmith for dying and leaving so many great melodies unwritten? No? Well then.
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Other online soundtrack houses give tracking numbers. In two purchases from SAE, I have yet to see one. So it's a balance between being able to wait in nervous agony for my shipment to arrive, and wanting to actually remove my credit card from my wallet instead of using convenient Paypal.
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Where do we draw the line between the roots of a fictional work and the fictional work itself?
You can't take characters that spent seven decades on the pages of comic books, make them do comic book style superhero feats in a movie molded around them in a fictitious city, and add so much violence, action, intrigue, and death that you ever completely break free of the comic book nature of the work.
While The Dark Knight has these things, it is still a comic book movie at heart. But that's being regarded here as a bad thing. Superman was a comic book movie, too, people. One of the best ever, but still a comic book movie. The main characters were not invented out of the blue just for this film, they were not grabbed from a number of other movies, and they were not based wholly upon real-life people. They were created 60-70 years ago for comic books. Everything we know about them -- their life story, motivations, likes/dislikes, hopes, dreams, and allegiances -- has its roots in comic books.
Of course the characters were molded to fit the story presented in the movie, and it's not based on any single comic book issue or continuity thread, but its roots make it a comic book movie. The Dark Knight is far more intense than any Batman movie that came before it, but not much more intense than many other comic book stories that came before. It just seems that way because the explosions, deaths, intrigue, and bone-chilling performances were handled so well and could be perceived to be "real," not just colored ink on paper.
It's not as if they took Batman and Joker, gave them headset microphones, and made them sing and dance across Gotham to tell their story. Is that a comic book movie? Besides being incredibly stupid, would that movie deserve to be called a comic book movie, or just a musical that happens to be based on comic book characters?
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Useless trivia comes in handy when you're trying to get on Jeopardy.
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You mean I've had 8 years to watch that movie for the first time ever? Wow. Guess it's not high on my "when I get around to it" list.
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A local example is of a very good high school running back about to head off to college to play football. At the same time, his mother remarried and took the name of her new husband. The running back didn't drop his original last name entirely, because then nobody would know who he was. So he added his new stepfather's last name as a hyphenated suffix. Very long to fit on a jersey, but problem solved.
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Yes, that'll work. Sit on Mr. T's lap and tell him you want your money back.
I was displeased that when my CDs were shipped, I got no information about tracking number or carrier regarding my order. The email from 17 November said:
"We thought you would like to know that your order (...) has been shipped today. If you are a USA customer please wait two weeks to inquire about an order not received and overseas customers please wait 30 to 45 days. Any questions please e-mail info@screenarchives.com and include the order number. Thank you and we look forward to your future orders."
So KM, your wait was unpleasant but not as long as it could have been. To hit the 45 day mark, you might have been looking at next week sometime to inquire about the order. Getting it could have taken even longer.
Although KM, you've got nothing to lose by asking them to refund your shipping money. If done diplomatically enough, they'll subscribe to "the customer is always right" and try to make it up to you. They're a big company, it's the least they can do, but even if they say "tough luck," I think SAE has lost you as a customer already.
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The track right before that segment is hilarious, too, about his college Physics for English majors exam.
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Who should I complain to about my grama not getting the Happy Birthday card I sent her when I was six?
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El Cid
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I JUST RECEIVED MY BOX SET
Welcome to last month.
Neil
That's Canadians for ya. They celebrate Thanksgiving one month early, and Indiana Jones Soundtrack day one month late. Do you guys do anything in the month of November?
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Well, Will Ferrell was told to explore the space. He explored it so much that he left.
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I don't remember, either, I only saw it once, in the theater.
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That's crazy. They're good but they're not worth doing that.