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On 01/05/2023 at 1:06 PM, Not Mr. Big said:
Indiana Jones is one of those things like Top Gum/Avatar/Mission Impossible that normal people love but doesn't inspire weirdos to obsessively speculate about/make Rule 34 fanart or whatever.
The internet of 2009 and 2010 was awash with bizarre tattoos and Rule 34 images of the Na'avi. It did kind of disappear over time, but I'm sure it's still out there in droves.
On 02/05/2023 at 1:46 AM, A. A. Ron said:I don't think the YA crowd gives any movie repeat viewings at the theater. Most of the ones I know seem to prefer shorter content across the board and find movies a chore to sit through.
They also don't have nearly as much disposable income as previous generations, and going to the movies is now an insanely expensive exercise. I saw Fellowship in cinemas five times when I was a teen, but back then going to the movies was a cheap and fun way to pass time - these days it can cost me up to $50AUD for a ticket, popcorn and a drink.
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When I was a young teenager and obsessed with the first Potter score I would sometimes daydream that I was cast in one of the films as a major character. In my little fantasy I insisted on attending the recording sessions and meeting with Williams, and he was always so pleased that I showed interest in his music.
When I saw all the footage of Daisy at the recording sessions for TFA, seeing how chuffed she was about the whole thing, it gave my inner child such vindication! Glad to hear Phoebe Waller-Bridge is in the same boat, it would be such an honour!
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Indeed. There's also the fact that the entirety of series 1's score was all orchestral samples - it wasn't until The Christmas Invasion that a live orchestra was used. The tracks from series 1 on the soundtrack were all re-recorded with the orchestra.
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I'd say series 5 is his best work. Stylistically speaking it's more cohesive, with a definite fairytale approach reflecting the narrative writing, and the album selection is pretty great and not overly padded out like later ones. It's obvious he was very inspired by the new direction of the show. I'm also a big fan of the Raiders-inspired material for the two-part finale. Personally I'm neither here nor there about his theme for Eleven (I Am the Doctor), but the other theme for the Doctor he introduced in that series is absolutely exquisite, and one of my all time favourites:
Thanks for sharing that DWM article, @Oswin Pond! What an absolute treat to read. It's clear that just about everyone is stoked about his return. I don't know what I'm more excited for - the return of some of his great themes or the new material and style he's bringing to Ncuti.
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Loving the drip-feed of images and tidbits for the new series. With those pics Gatwa has firmly elbowed Matt Smith out as my hottest Doctor. As a couple he and Millie are just smoking, I can't wait to see more of them. It's also nice to see "appealing" Doctors and companions after the extremely sexless Chibnall era. Not that Who has to be sexy (and plenty of people hate when it is, which is totally fair), but it really was throughout 2005-2017, and I liked it.
At this stage I'm even more invested in the 2024 episodes than I am about the anniversary specials this year - I can't wait to see what's cooking.
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8 hours ago, Jay said:
Woah
That looks cringy as hell. A whole game riffing on "millennials, am I right?", I'll pass. A shame, because I quite like the art style.
On 30/01/2023 at 1:14 AM, Romão said:Has anyone played The Case of the Golden Idol?
I've heard great things about it, specially from Lucas Pope, the creator of Papers, Please and The Return of the Obra Dinn, which seems like a top level endorsement
This game, on the other hand, is phenomenal. I can't recommend it more. I knocked it over in a night (I ended up going to bed late because I was so hooked, I didn't care). It's similar to Obra Dinn (which I loved), but a very different experience. I'm salivating for more games like these two. It's a genre I never even knew I wanted - old-school adventure game but with a focus on logical deduction. I'm surprised there aren't more out there.
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Does he though? This is a bizarre line from the review:
QuoteWith the movie pounding towards a billion dollars in grosses, one has to imagine that its pornographic parodies will emerge before long, and they'll probably be equally intelligent
He seems to have a weird axe to grind about this film. I haven't seen it yet but the majority of critics I follow thought it was fine. Not great, and maybe not even good, but a not unpleasant way to spend 90 minutes. That's all the film really needed to be to be honest.
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8 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:
Good grief get over yourself.
I asked you a legitimate question based on your comment. No need to be a prick about it.
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1 hour ago, Nick1Ø66 said:
I don't know if Dumbledore will be black, but he'll definitely be gay. And they'll play it up much more so than the books (where it wasn't played up at all because he wasn't written that way).
Um.... How the hell would the sexual preference of an elderly man be "played up" in a children's series? And how would you expect he'd have been portrayed in the books if he "had" been written as gay? I've never understood this ludicrous argument. I find it often comes from people with questionable preconceptions of what gay people can look or act like, due to their own prejudices.
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On 12/04/2023 at 2:33 AM, toothless said:
Somehow, I feel like this piece has huge James Bond vibe. I don't know why.
I know why - it shares some of the musical language that John Barry used in his Bond scores; particularly chords and notes from jazz styles that were very popular in the middle of the 20th century. This piece is consciously evocative of the film noir genre, which Barry was also heavily influenced by.
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12 hours ago, TolkienSS said:
Nintendo is probably the last company to jump on innovation. Nintendo is a company that will ride a concept to its death. Motion controls aren't innovative. The Wii existed 15 years ago. They finally discovered that open world games are a thing years late, then they made a great one (BOTW), and now it seems like the focus is again not on an innovative game, but the same game with different abilities.
That's... really not the case at all. And I'm not talking about things like motion controls when I say Nintendo are innovative (although the Wii was enormously innovative and successful), I'm talking about gameplay. When BOTW was released in 2017 we were approaching critical mass in terms of open-world gaming. But what Nintendo delivered was not only unlike any previous Zelda game, it was also unlike anything else on the market. While other games hammered the player with intrusive icons, empty side quests, endless collectathons and complex, Hollywood-movie storylines, BOTW had a minimal user interface and a lean main quest. The purpose of the game was literally exploration, and everything else was secondary to that experience.
Its intuitive and satisfying use of vertical exploration (with climbing and parasailing) is now all but the norm in open-world fantasy games. When the sequel was announced I was a little disappointed, as much as I love BOTW, I expect something new, fresh and different from my Zelda games. I shouldn't have doubted them though, in my 24 years of Zelda gaming they've never not done something different. Judging by these trailers, neither motion controls or crafting are being used as a gimmick - they're a core part of the gameplay. And knowing Nintendo, those elements won't outstay their welcome (give or take a Skyward Sword).
Also, why are you complaining about "the same game with different abilities" when you previously said you wanted the same game again?
Trailer is incredible.... Wow I can't believe how much they're packing into this game. That wing suit looks awesome!
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I'm glad you liked It's a Sin, @Bespin. I thought it was terrific - heartbreaking, hilarious, cringy, awkward, imperfect and wonderful. Ultimately a joyous celebration of the beautiful people who were taken by a hideous disease, and their silent champions. I can't bring myself to do a rewatch though, it genuinely devastated me on my first watch.
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On 31/03/2023 at 6:40 PM, TolkienSS said:
Why is it with Nintendo that everything always comes down to motion control or crafting?
The last thing I thought about when playing BotW was "golly gee, if only this had lots of crafting!"
What I thought was "god, I hope I can play a Zelda like this again soon".
Nintendo, I wanted you to make an open world Zelda again. I didn't want you to do the same game twice.
Nintendo are about innovation. They will always zag when everyone else zigs. It's how they've stayed in business for over a century.
For what it's worth, open world games are a dime a dozen. Why bother with the same again if we can have something fresh?
Can't wait for this game. Considering the development time I feel like it's going to be something really special.
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This series is going to be a trainwreck. There's so much that can go wrong with committing to a 7-season project like this, just look at what happened to Fantastic Beasts. Who's going to be the show-runner? As proven by shows like The Last of Us and Thrones, the quality and success of these kinds of shows rests on the passion and dedication of the people making it, and considering the state of affairs around Rowling at the moment I imagine the best candidates wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole. That announcement trailer says it all - this isn't a reimagining or a retelling of the story. Why else would they have Hedwig's Theme and an image of the film's Hogwarts Castle? Any creative working on this will not have the freedom to re-imagine the books the way they should. It just reeks of corporate desperation, and of Warner Bros trying to cash in on their biggest IP.
Worst of all is that it'll tarnish the branding of HBO as a producer of prestige television because most people don't know the difference between HBO and HBO Max.
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While on the topic of temp tracks but bringing it back to Indy, I hope the film wasn't just temped with only previous Indy scores (or worse, a generic "Williams-style" approach lifting from any of his scores). This terrific post by @Manakin Skywalkerperfectly sums up my issue with that approach for the sequel films:
Williams is always at his best when he's being challenged, and the best music he's ever written is when he's inspired by better composers than him. Giving him an edit scored with his own music and being told to just do what he would normally do, to me, is a waste of the man's talents. If I was Mangold and absolutely had to use a temp track... I'd look to who inspired Williams back in 1981 for Raiders: Maurice Jarre, Korngold etc. But looking at temp track options I'd also want to look outside of the box as much as possible and remind myself of some of JW's most inspired moments; like scoring a magical three-storey bus ride with an unhinged swing big band piece, or a ballet lightsaber battle with an epic vocal cantata.
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On 11/04/2023 at 8:47 AM, Andy said:Here’s a fun thought experiment.
You are Mangold, sitting down with John to spot the film. As the Director, what would you ask of him?
I would ask him to lean heavily on the March for thrills. This is Indy’s send off. Let that theme soar. But I would ask that he not repeat or quote arrangements from other films (Flight from Peru for example. ) as those scenes are iconic and the music belongs to them.
I would also ask for a percussion heavy ostinato in the classic Desert Chase or Slave Children style.
I would ask him to write the action scenes like a ballet. He can go to town scoring the action and individual moments with flourishes, but I want a through-line - a musical idea that the entire set-piece revolves around. Like Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra, The Asteroid Field etc. I've noticed it's something he does less and less nowadays but they're such joyous pieces.
I would also spend time discussing new themes. Obvious ones like "who is this new character and how can we encapsulate them" but also more esoteric uses of themes and orchestration to create a unique but cohesive sound for the film. A great example is in The Lost World; synth choir is frequently used in a way that evokes an ethereal but unnatural beauty, a wonderful musical interpretation of the genetically-engineered dinosaurs. Another example is the recorder and other period instruments in Prisoner of Azkaban - it's truly a unique score that elevates the film in so many ways with its distinctiveness.
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@Jay, I had the exact same experience as you back in 2006 when I first tried to play the game on Gamecube, and I never picked it up again. But everyone tells me it's one of the best games out there, so I've been curious to give it another go.
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On 17/03/2023 at 1:24 AM, Sweeping Strings said:
There's one they used to use in the Simpsons when anything vaguely 'Bondy' was happening. I liked it.
I know the exact one you're talking about, it makes me laugh every time
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37 minutes ago, Ludwig said:
The theme is in a slow 3 (counting the first 3 melody notes as the main beats), so it's really any rendition that's in that meter. It can have a slightly different feel at that tempo, but I would say the feeling of 3's is still prominent. Take the ones at the end of The Magic of Halloween:
Or the one at the end of The Rescue and Bike Chase:
Dear lord I've been listening to this theme for nearly three decades and I only just realised that it's in 3. It is a slow 3 as you point out - the score dictates a 3/2 time signature in both of those cues - and as such isn't a waltz, which is why I suppose it's doesn't feel like it's in 3 like many of the other examples. Funnily enough Buckbeak's Flight has the exact same time signature, and is obviously very much of a piece with the E.T. flying theme, but I always knew that one was in 3 (or at least 6, which is how I count it).
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Seems like a no-brainer for them to do some kind of Short Round thing, in addition to his rumoured late addition to DoD. I imagine Quan would be super keen, and considering the failure of the Willow reboot and the diminishing returns that is the Star Wars machine, Lucasfilm would be silly not to capitalise on the moment he's having. It's not like they have any other avenues to exploit the Indy IP... although knowing Disney we could end up with Sallah: Origins in 2030.
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That's great news, hopefully a sign of what's to come from the new management of Who! I really enjoy Jemma Redgrave's performance - it hits just the right note between serious and a little bit camp, which is where Who shines the most IMO.
Also, this quote from the article has me excited:
QuoteDavies is midway through the Season 14 edit and he told BBC Radio 2 yesterday that episode four is “one of the greatest things I’ve ever made in my life.”
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17 minutes ago, Jay said:
For TLOU specifically Season 1 of this starting filming in March 2021 and began airing in January 2023! This show has a longer than usual shooting scheduled AND a longer than usual post-production schedule.
Productions in early 2021 were still being severely slowed down by Covid protocols, so that's not entirely surprising. I'd hope that the turnaround for season 2 would be a bit quicker when filming starts, but as you say it was only just officially greenlit, and has preproduction even officially started? At this rate I imagine we won't see either this or House of the Dragon til 2025 which is a little bit frustrating. I understand that time is the price for prestige television, particularly with so many moving parts, but I just don't wanna wait that long!
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This is AI generated by the way. You wouldn't know it, unless you think about just how much time and effort would go into making something like this for real. It's a bit upsetting to be honest.