Mr. Breathmask

Yes. In the books, I believe it refers to the coming of World War I.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park Sweet Jesus, this is good. Crank it up!

Did they mention the East Wind in The Abominable Bride? Because Watson mentioned it at the end of His Last Vow, but he had no clue what was going on at the time, so that can't have been deliberate. I rewatched The Abominable Bride before the start of series 4. It's a bit shoddy, and one of the things that struck me as wholly superfluous was the whole Invisible Army subplot. It's a nice statement on women's role in society, but what did it really have to do with the rest of the plot (i.e.: Sherlock Holmes uses an old resurrection mystery to solve a new one)? Now that we know the final adversary of series 4 is a woman (Sherlock's sister, no less), will this subplot gain meaning? I'm curious to find out.

Wait a minute. Are they redoing the mugging scene from Superman: The Movie?

The opening shot looks worse. Still, how hard is it to just put someone on a hilltop, right? Looks fine to me.

Yes.

"I get the deadline" should be "I get the idea". Stupid autocorrect. My point was that the original idea was probably to go with a jungle sound (as you'd expect from a film called The Lost World). After scoring, there might have been some doubt if the score was adventurous enough for a Jurassic Park score, as it doesn't have a prominent adventure theme like the first one. This was then fixed by tracking the concert theme into the film at various places.

The Rex bares his teeth over Kelly's head, then we pan over to Kelly and see a tear rolling down her face. It's the last shot before it cuts back to Malcolm outside. The piano comes in right as the shot moves to Kelly's face.

I get the deadline Williams chose to score the first half of the film's title rather than then the second. That idea was then slightly turned around in editing by using the TLW theme more prominently via tracking.

I don't listen to E.T. enough.

I would suggest to just let the series retire gracefully, but it's already too late for that...

Look at all those shots of exhausts! Wasn't there a joke in the first Cars that a car's exhaust is basically his private parts? Filthy buggers.

Yes. And it was also in the digital cinema release (although not on the 35mm print). I watched the Obi-Wan/Yoda scene at the end of TPM on Netflix. There's something fake about the way Yoda is integrated in that scene. The atmosphere doesn't match and he looks pasted onto the scene. So by "fixing" the puppet, they've now created another poblem. Which seems to be a running theme in many of the changes made to the Star Wars for the Blu-Ray release.

I was watching The Two Towers the other day and noticed how one of the major strengths of The Lord of the Rings was the huge amount of location work and the stuff shot on outdoor sets. There's a simple excitement to seeing Mortensen, Bloom and Rhys-Davies (or his scale double anyway) race across vast open fields. And it's not just the fact that New Zealand has beautiful landscapes, but the fact that these are actual people in actual costumes exposed to actual sun/wind/rain/whatever. It makes for a much more tangible experience than a lot of the very set-bound Hobbit scenes.

Independence Day: Resurgence I tried to listen to this without holding it up against David Arnold's original score. It was okay. There was a fun action motive. Sure, the score never soars to the heights of the original ID4, but I didn't expect it to. It was trundling along as passable background score that I might grow to like at some point. And then it just ended. No sense of a finale or a buildup. Just another cue and then Arnold's end credits, recorded with much less gusto and fun than the original. In the end, this score did nothing but make me want to listen to the original on repeat again. Star Wars The ultimate digital release or whatever the hell it's called that came out last year. This is actually quite a nice selection of music from the first film. There's some clunky editing here and there, but this album is a very pleasant listening experience and captures the spirit of the movie perfectly. The Empire Strikes Back Again, the ultimate something something. This assembly is a bit more all over the place than Star Wars, but still quite good. You don't get the sense anything important is missing, even though it's fifty (!) minutes shorter than the complete score. Interesting to hear some of the different mixes compared to the RCA release (most notable were Rebels at Bay and The Magic Tree). Next up: the ultimate digital yadayada Return of the Jedi. Looks ludicrously short!

Yes. Puppet Yoda and a shorter podrace, please! Even though we'll have to lose the brief Anakin/Schmi exchange before the start of the race, which actually benefitted the film. Did they change anything to AotC after its cinema release? Because I remember the movie already having two different versions when it was released in cinemas. The DCP was finished slightly later than the 35mm print, so there were some minor changes (Padme's response to a clone trooper after falling out of the transport ship and Padmé holding Anakin's bionic hand during the finale). I believe the DVD was sourced from the digital release. Was anything altered after that?

I liked The Jungle Book when I saw it that made for a more coherent film than the original. Cinderella was a pointless clone of the original. 1991's Beauty and the Beast is great as it is, so why even bother?

Not yet... It's four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. What are you waiting for?

Drunk?

Our first DVD player had the option to switch the audio output between 2Ch and 5.1Ch. We didn't have surround, but if you set the player to 5.1Ch, it would send only the front left and right channels to the TV speakers via the SCART cable. I used to play the LotR movies that way to be able to listen to the full thing, even though that still meant listening through many sound effects, volume changes and some (brief) stretches without any score.

We had a cassette deck hooked up to the VHS to record directly from the source. Ha!

Ugh. Another hero vs. hero film.

Something just becomes less holy if there's a complete sessions leak out there. Can you imagine if we were still listening to only the original soundtrack album of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and a complete score release was announced tomorrow? Or if the Star Wars video games hadn't used all that unreleased prequel music and we were still listening to the albums with the incomplete Battle of Coruscant and that glorious fanfare from It Can't Be never coming to its resolution and we'd still be wanting that music? I remember recording Jurassic Park off a VHS copy onto a cassette, complete with dialogue and sound effects, just to listen to the music. I knew a CD must be out there, but local stores just didn't have it and there was no online shopping to get it. And DVD wasn't even around, so no ripping the rear channels either. You just had to make do with the stereo mixdown. Jesus Christ. I'm fucking old.