Figo
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Listening to Williams' The Cowboys today -- the OST, not the overture -- and it is actually quite good! Better than I remember, actually. My recollection is that there was not much beyond what appears in the concert arrangement, but I was quite wrong. The orchestration is a lot more inventive in the original. I assume Williams had to make certain concessions for a standard symphony orchestra. The OST sports lots of interesting touches, with harmonicas, electric something -- cello, maybe? guitar? what the hell is that? ("Bedtime Story"), electronic keyboard, and piano obbligato. This is just about up there with The Reivers, now, in my estimation, and definitely looks ahead to the "Williams sound" we all know and love from his monster hits of only a few years later. I hear a lot of Jaws and Superman in it, and that can never be a bad thing. On the downside, the soundtrack (Varese Sarabande 5540) is only a little over half an hour long, but it is definitely worth it.
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Figo, not just a client, a donor.
Clearly, I misread someone. Why is it every time things start to get a little raucous, I assume somebody said something about a sperm bank?
I pretend to make the same mistake whenever I have to visit a utility company or the bursar's office.
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Whaaa--?
eek2
Figo, aghast.
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Well, actually, I would expect it from Malcolm MacDowell. Most of his movies of the era (If..., O Lucky Man, A Clockwork Orange, Cat People) feature at least one scene of intense sexual perversion, preferably with a lingering shot of his dick. I think that's how he chooses his projects. Lindsay Anderson calls him up and says, "Hey, Malcolm, I've got this wacky film I'm making and I'd like you to be in it." To which Malcolm replies, "Do I get to show my willy? Can we work in a scene with a giant man-goat?"
Helen Mirren is a classy lady, but remember, she did The Cook, the Thief... By the way, is it just me, or is she definitely getting better looking with age? She used to be just plain scary, but now I actually find her kind of sexy.
Peter O'Toole, forget about it -- he'll do anything for the money.
But Gielgud? Someone must have told him it was the follow-up to I, Claudius.
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I don't know if it's stronger than Leia's Theme, but agreed on all other counts. Perhaps some here hold a deep-rooted psychological antipathy for it, because of Luke and Leia's incestuous near-miss. The movies could have been a lot more "interesting," if you get my drift.
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A quick mental survey of the Superman main titles reveals four themes:
Superman themes a & b
Superman fanfare (the one that fits "SU-per-man!")
Love theme
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Gibson basically said so when he was on Fatty O'Donnell.
That's rough. Sounds like the owner of an Irish bar.
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Yeah, it was planned when Lucas said, "Sorry the final cut is so late, John. The film has to be ready for release by the third week of May!"
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No, not at all. Feel free to review my earlier posts on the subject.
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From now on, I'm signing my name KCUFigo.
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On the basis of Scrooged and the Lethal Weapon films, I would guess he is a director who permits a great deal of improv, to the point sometimes where it throws an entire movie off-course. Unless Bill Murray and Mad Mel simply have too much star power for him to veto.
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While we are moving ever closer to an all-out donnybrook over the merits of Star Wars vs. Superman, it is worthwhile to consider the latter score owes a lot to the former. Supermans' b-theme (not to be confused with the signature fanfare that recurrs throughout) is a close relation to Luke's, and there would be no Chasing Rockets without Luke's final pass over the surface of the Death Star.
But you already knew that.
Figo, who stands by his assertion that Superman has the more thrilling main title music.
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Caligula is too much. I couldn't finish it. (Actually, I fell asleep!) It was appropriately disgusting, I suppose, but if there was anything remotely erotic about it, I seem to have missed it. Sir John Gielgud's most shameful hour.
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That's a good one.
Figo, unrepentant.
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There's also a Luke and Leia-like passage in Chausson's symphonic poem Viviane, about the beguiling of Merlin. The piece also reminds me of Make Our Garden Grow from Bernstein's Candide. Still love it, though.
I hope it's some lame acronym like Undercover Fighter or Uncut F***er, rather than the juvenile anagram one might spot at first glance.What's wrong with juvenile anagrams?
Figo, who liked when Thomas Pynchon pulled the same stunt with the radio station in Gravity's Rainbow.
Or was it The Crying of Lot 49?
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Grease is the best bad movie to get me nostalgic for the '70s!
Figo, beauty school dropout.
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I'm sure an enourmous amount of bad movies were made when your were in your teens and twenties.
Yeah, the difference is we're not trying to say they were good. :roll:
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Yet you ignore the other 2 examples...
Stefancos- who thinks Figo is as uninterested in others peoples opinions as Chrushercomix.
Forgive me for selecting the one that bests illustrates my point. I'm sure you would have done the same.
If I gave it any thought, I would concede Star Trek III is better than I, but that doesn't mean it was anything to write home about. I haven't seen Wise's director's cut, so I can't say definitively one way or the other. I just remember the third lacked the fun of II, and Christopher Lloyd was unusually lame.
The Bond movies are so loosely connected, they don't count. In fact, it's an insult to drag Indiana Jones down to their level. Some of the installments were extremely entertaining, but none of them were Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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And Figo, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Man of Steel was created dans La Mer!
LOL
Figo, imagining Chris Reeve on a half-shell, like a Botticelli Venus.
Wrong era, I know.
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We agree?!!!! :wow:
Figo, expecting a snowstorm in August.
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Alien 3 is better then Alien
Thank you for proving my point.
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I can't watch Goonies without a touch of embarrassment. Lethal Weapon III is one of the worst big budget movies I have ever seen. I couldn't bring myself to see IV. Every time he comes out with another Lethal Weapon I have to ask myself, why isn't Donner doing another Superman and why isn't Mel doing another Mad Max?
Figo, who imagines Joe looks a lot like Max's boss in the original.
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i never had the original soundtrack, but i'm sure i would have been just as upset if i did ever own it. and my argument in the other thread has little to do with the song itself, just its inclusion on a fourty minute soundtrack that should have been dedicated solely to score.
This is exactly my point. 40 minute score, padded out with tiresome rehash of TIE Fighter Attack and The Last Battle (as it was once known), Lapti Nek AND Ewok Celebration. That takes up a hell of a lot more useful space than Cole Porter.
By coda, I think he means the wrap-up as the sail barge explodes and the heroes escape. At least, that's what I meant. I always liked that short theme that is unique to the end of the track. It has the tonality of the opening/closing motif from E.T.That's exactly what I meant. Another inspired coda is the moment of relief we experience in Temple of Doom at the end of the spike chamber sequence, which is cut from the same cloth as the music heard immediately following the destruction of the Death Star.
If you don't see how Kev and I still have regular exchanges, you obviously don't understand the Man Code. Besides, I'm the only one who understands the joke of his superfluous initials.
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Harry is more complex, yet Home Alone is practically classic by now. What to vote for? :?