Wojo

Stockholm syndrome?

Avatar's success is paper-thin. It will be remembered for being "the event movie" that ushered in a new era of 3D movie-making that brought a roller coaster experience into the theater, by immersing the viewers in a super-realistic alien world complete with extravagant flora and fauna.
That's it.
It did not push the envelope with its plot, which was recycled from superior movies, its message of environmentalism, which was lifted directly from any number of tree-hugging propaganda, or its characters, which were woefully two-dimensional.
I don't see Cameron pushing any more boundaries with his storytelling in the sequels. So he filmed scenes in the deepest trench of the world, big deal. That can be duplicated on a soundstage or with CGI.
Now if he wants to incorporate full-motion seats into the theaters, scratch-and-sniff cards to simulate the smells of Pandora's jungles and copulating Na'vi, and maybe even incorporate theatrics where two people from every theater are killed and eaten by Pandoran animals as a way to create sympathy for their plight --- THEN I might be impressed. Until then, the sequels are pointless.

I don't understand why alternative rock stations play it along with STP, Incubus, Disturbed, Pearl Jam, Shinedown...and Gotye.
His other songs on the album remind me of the same. Gotye is the artistic lovechild of Sting and Peter Gabriel.

Agreed hard to take seriously sentence about same old crap with shit composer by someone with shouldn't really bother me about bad English, loosing interest in todat's can't read understand apart from run on sentence,not all this what were you saying again

Hooray! My Beatles box set shipped!

I think it's a wonderful score, both on screen and on album. It's one of those rare film scores that manages to appeal to both the film score community as well as more mainstream society. It conveys emotion through use of theme and dramatic music just fine without being wholly symphonic, and demonstrates that an album of largely electronic music can be thematic. If I was driving or hosting people who I knew wouldn't get into listening to Star Wars or Hook, but I didn't want to go the total route of rock or pop, I'd spin up Tron: Legacy and see where the conversations went.
I don't know if it's also my most listened to soundtrack of the last two years, but I know it's up there. It has replaced How to Train Your Dragon in what I listen to a lot, and I didn't think that would happen.

Oscar for best score is a throwaway prize given to whichever movie is going to get best picture or otherwise needs some quality recognition other than best picture, regardless of musical qualifications. Since BBM didn't get the best picture, they gave it the score as a superficial nod.

Mask of Zorro is Willow meets Flamenco. It's fantastic. A pity I never gave Legend a fair chance.

Hooray! My Beatles box set shipped!

Bruce Almighty.

Goldsmith just keeps churning this material out faster than we can buy it.

I adore the score. It's my favorite TNG-era score. Is it because it's the first Star Trek score I ever owned? I won't tell if you won't.

It's back thanks to all you fools bugging me about it. The Caption Contests have been very popular with the forum in the past...but they ended up being very time consuming for me. So I'm bringing it back on a bi-weekly basis instead of every week. Let's see how it goes. All your precious scores have been reset, so say hello to a clean shiny new slate! This way it'll make it easier for new kids to join in on the fun.
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RIP. Ray Barnsbury was always a great poster even if he didn't post much lately
Is this the first member of JWfan that dies?

Just like drums are unmistakably drummer.

what's a like button?

He won't stand a chance against Shore's Silmarillion in any case.

Like buttons rock

Careful. The more skins you put on this message board, the more likely some of us are to chew them off.

I like you, Spaniard. I shall cheer for you.

I don't like Coldplay but I do like The Killers. They're one of very modern bands* that I've felt compelled to buy every single album they put out, even though I really only like their first two albums the most. I think they did their best work on Hot Fuss and Sam's Town, and the later releases keep falling short. The live album at London was pretty good.
* Volbeat and Halestorm are the others.

Try 'em out, they work now!