Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 In your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It's burning you up inside! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 For me, raw and dirty is how the Imperial March (in it's militaristic form) is meant to sound. The End Credits at least beats the relatively bland album recording, which lacks the important crudity and mad zeal. I think it works better, as a march, in a more refined performance. To convey the Empire's supposed grandness and superiority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It's burning you up inside!Nope, that's the sriracha. I tried it for the first time today and it gave me awful heartburn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 The Magnificent Seven by Elmer BernsteinThe Sixth Sense by James Newton Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 What's next The Fifth Element then Fantastic Four? Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 The Three Musketeers - Michael KamenThe Two Towers - Howard ShoreThe One - Trevor Rabin Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 That was entirely unintentional btw.And from that lot I would take Shore and Kamen over the other three. I should do a playlist starting with 48 Hours and work down from there. Or why not go all the way to 10 000 BC or Million Dollar Baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 FINAL SYMPHONY - Music from Final Fantasy VI, VII and XMy goodness, this is superb stuff. Arranged for the concert hall, but spectacular in every way. FF has always had brilliant scores (yay Nobuo), but to hear the music like this, performed by the LSO no less, my mind is blown.Thanks Bloodboal, consider this already ordered (on CD). Hopefully a little sooner than mid-year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Project X - HornerOnce in a while it just hits me... I put something on that I wasn't ecstatic about on multiple occasions in the past... and BAM !! I hear it in different conditions or state of mind and I discover something I dismissed for a long time.Project X is such a work. I've always been a huge fan of the period that Horner was at the top of his game and his music during that time cemented my love for the orchestral genre. Though for some reason this one I always found a little overbearing or unoriginal compared to much of the scores of the same time.But now I'm able to hear the score on its terms, and it hits right between the eyes that this has everything I adore about Horner's writing, rousing and exciting action music, gorgeous long-lined themes, and that undeniable magical spark in the orchestrations (courtesy of Creig McRitchie).Maybe my new-found love for Project X is due to me enjoying Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (the film) just before this listen, which shares many qualities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Hmmm, I'll have to check that one out, I never picked it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 For me, raw and dirty is how the Imperial March (in it's militaristic form) is meant to sound. The End Credits at least beats the relatively bland album recording, which lacks the important crudity and mad zeal.I think it works better, as a march, in a more refined performance. To convey the Empire's supposed grandness and superiority.I always thought of the Empire as rather brutal and crude, and grand in terms of scale. Take their ship design which like the brutalist architecture of the 60s, is purely functional and cost-efficient. Compare the angular Star Destroyers to the beautifully globular Mon Calamari cruisers--two opposing ideologies expressed in shape.I think Williams reacted to the Galactic Empire in a very similar way to how Alex North saw the Roman Empire in Spartacus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Star Trek: NemesisKarol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Star Trek: NemesisKarolGreat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Star Trek: NemesisKarolGreat!Eh, more like 6/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 What would God need with a Nemesis score review? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Dear god, you easily hold a grudge for the tiniest of things, don't you?Grudge? Good grief I'm just teasing you. This board is really bipolar when it comes to having a sense of humor or taking things very, very personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Obsession. The complete presentation on Music Box Records release is nice, of course. But the original album is a better listen.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Debney's re-recording of Superman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Star Trek music.Debney's re-recording of Superman.Eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I also listened to the score to Nemesis last night, until the alternates kicked in. Pretty good, from The Scorpion or The Mirror, one of the two, it's balls to the walls action music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I love Odds and Ends the most. Such a killer action cue. crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 a selection in the past week or so:Eagle Has Landed, Star Trek IV, Star Trek V, Into Darkness, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and a few others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 All the Star Trek film scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not a film score, but...I listened to part two of the BBC Radio 3 retrospective on JG, this afternoon. His music is AWESOME!!!!The passages from "ST:TMP" took on a whole new poignancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 You guys are all nuts!Of course we're nuts ! We're conversing on the internet by typing words in white boxes using avatars and made-up screen names for identification. Never more beautifully or concisely summarized than this. Bravo! This board is really bipolar when it comes to having a sense of humor or taking things very, very personally.Now what would give you that idea. . . ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Star Trek music.Debney's re-recording of Superman.Eh...Only for academic purposes, I prefer the original recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Star Trek II, III, VI, TMP, TOS Episodes: The Naked Time, Charlie X and Mudd's Women. - James Horner, Cliff Eidelman, Jerry Goldsmith, Alexander Courage, and Fred Steiner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 The very end of that cue is fuckin' awesome.Let's not forget about one of his finest setpieces in Goldsmith's Star Trek series... Final Flight (heard in this video at about 7:00).http://youtu.be/Ez1Oh39Bl4QA New Ending always breaks my heart. The arrangement of Shinzon's theme sounds nothing like the material heard within the score and quite unlike anything in Goldsmith's Star Trek. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 454 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 King Kong - James Newton HowardFor a last minute replacement score, it's still really impressive. I think this is probably one of Howard's finest scores, right up there with Maleficent, The Last Airbender and Snow Falling on Cedars. The main theme, the lovely Ann/Kong motif in "Beautiful" and "Central Park", and the unbridled excitement and drama of "Tooth and Claw", "The Venture Departs", "Empire State Building" and "Beauty Killed the Beast". The care Howard put into the thematic material feels like he spent 2-3 months writing, rather than several weeks writing and recording.It's a shame the movie itself is too long and self-indulgent, there was a great 2-hour remake in this 3-hour epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 The theatrical version is excessive as it is. I really hate the extended edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 The one with Jessica Lange and John Barry kicks the shit out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Anything with The Dude and Charles Grodin is better than anything without. But The Dude alone can't save a bad movie. I realize that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 2005 King Kong is the best iteration. 3 hour run time and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 1933 for me. Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Poll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamTheater 131 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 2005 King Kong is the best iteration. 3 hour run time and all.For me as well. Andy Serkis (Kong) is the star of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 2005 King Kong is the best iteration. 3 hour run time and all. I agree, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Yeah. It's great cinema, even if it's a bit bloated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 What it needs to do right, it does well. However, there is around 1/3 of material that doesn't need to be there.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 One has to wonder how the film might've turned out if he hadn't preceded it with the Rings cycle. What we got was borne of a mentality given to oversized storytelling that had been bred through long years steeped in Tolkien's mythology. It worked well for the trilogy, but contributed to the fattening of his movies that followed. He's never had to suffer the lesson Spielberg learned from 1941. If he had, his King Kong may have turned out a near-perfect movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Before TLOTR, PJ made a few horror movies, though I don't know if any are stinkers on par with 1941. I don't hear anyone chastise The Frighteners as being heinous. The Lovely Bones was pretty dumb, but it came after King Kong so it doesn't apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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