Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 You sister likes it a lot more Alvar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 You're a fool Alvar for not liking this! It's one of the album's and film's best moments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 He only likes heroic fanfares! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Andy Price fanboy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Meanwhile.... HELL YEAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Yes, sir. You gotta love this town! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Empire of the Sun - Expanded Archival Collection (LLL)I've had the OST for years, but it was never one I came back to often. Actually, I can't recall listening to the whole thing start to finish more than twice over the last 20 years. Strangely, Jim's Theme is one of my favorite Williams themes, based primarily on the concert arrangement. I just got the expanded release in the mail today and immediately listened to it when I got back from work.I was surprised how emotional the listening experience was. I can't claim to know it very well, note for note, or beat for beat, but it was like I was hearing a new score for the first time. It's one of those strange experiences where you see something anew and fall in love with it. I can't distinguish the merits of this release against the OST since I don't remember the OST well enough to make an educated comparison, but his layout affected me to a much greater degree then I was expecting.Fantastic stuff. "The Return to the City" (there's so much going on in this cue it's ridiculous) Bespin and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 It's a good one!Why'd you wait so long to get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Not sure. It's been on my radar for a while, but I also just picked up a bunch of other Williams titles to fill in some gaps:Empire of the Sun (LLL)Heidi (Quartet)The Poseidon Adventure (LLL)Rosewood (LLL)Black Sunday (FSM)None But The Brave (FSM)Family Plot (Varese Sarabande) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Excellent purchases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Agreed!Ben-Hur (The Complete Soundtrack Collection) by Miklós Rózsa: Discs 1 & 2, the complete score. While not my favourite Rózsa score it is not far from the top and the FSM's sumptuous set further cements this impression. Quite magnificent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 The Patriot Jurassic Park Jurassic World Ok, upon second listen, it's pretty decent. I'd still probably rank it last among JP scores. Look forward to seeing it in context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Jurassic World Ok, upon second listen, it's pretty decent. I'd still probably rank it last among JP scores. Look forward to seeing it in context. Nice and decent yes but still I feel the same, the least of JP scores.The Lost World: Jurassic Park by John Williams: Nearly completely different approach to its predecessor but John Williams pulls it off by writing a very singular work for the sequel with just a reminder here and there that it is indeed a sibling of Jurassic Park. Entirely fitting as the location and story are different, vastly different from the original and I have to say I get a tremendous kick out of hearing Williams crafting a percussion heavy jungle score with a magnificently adventurous theme to boot. It has been said before countless times but this score needs a complete release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Jurassic World Ok, upon second listen, it's pretty decent. I'd still probably rank it last among JP scores. Look forward to seeing it in context. Nice and decent yes but still I feel the same, the least of JP scores.Well, the only real competition it has to receive that honor is JPIII since he has no hope of beating Williams at his own game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Jurassic World by Michael GiacchinoEarlier, I was expecting to be the least of Gia's efforts of the year, but surprisingly it's doing more for than Jupiter Ascending and Tomorrowland did. The key to enjoying this score I believe, is accepting Giacchino's sound and style for what it is. And though it's buried in many of Giacchino's familiar tropes, I can hear an expansion the harmonic colour palette, including more romantic shades of the Silver Age. Orchestrations are skillfully done, and there are more moments of colour than the bland Tomorrowland had to offer. And to top it off, it features a Gia theme I actually really dig, and it's been a while since that last happened (certainly not this year). The Jurassic World theme should have been featured. The family theme is nice (very typical Giacchino though), but the underlying ostinato is grating and amateurish. The mystery/dino motif that opens the score is decent, though oddly stagnant through the whole score. And the action falters (the album is too long), but even that department is pretty solid here. Giacchino really has to learn to stop leaning on those rising supplemental ostinati though. They really brought down plenty of moments that could have been soaring, but instead sounded like an arrangement done by some novice coming straight out of high school. Finally, the album could definitely have done without the William quotes. He doesn't do them very well, the in-verbatim quotes don't really do him any favours. Hearing the Williams' mastery of harmonic language in the classic hymn + fanfare and then going into Giacchino's predictable major and minor progressions doesn't sit well on the listening end.JPIII is definitely the superior score, no contest, but I never expected otherwise.As it is, I like it. And I think it's my favourite of the composer's 2015 output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Lost = Jurassic World > John Carter = The Incredibles > Star Trek 09 > DOTPOTA > Jupiter Ascending > Tomorrowland > STID > Super 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 The Bourne Identity (John Powell)Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Up by Michael Giacchino: Well I listened to this in the movie itself which I watched for the first time yesterday (a great film!). Giacchino did a great job with this one and the music was allowed many opporturnities to carry the narrative from the lovely and bittersweet Married Life montage to the adventurous finale. And now that little ditty of a main theme is stuck in my head. crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Why didn't you ever watch that film before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Why didn't you ever watch that film before?Never got around to it I guess. I am sure you too have a long list of films you have not watched yet but would like to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Have you ever seen The Shawshank Redemption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Up by Michael Giacchino: Well I listened to this in the movie itself which I watched for the first time yesterday (a great film!). Giacchino did a great job with this one and the music was allowed many opporturnities to carry the narrative from the lovely and bittersweet Married Life montage to the adventurous finale. And now that little ditty of a main theme is stuck in my head.I know this movie, Charles Aznavour did the french dubbing of the old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Have you ever seen The Shawshank Redemption?Of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Well, that's good at least! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Did you like the film?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Yeah Up was actually wonderful. Never preachy but got quite a few lessons across for young and old and did so effortlessly and without sacrificing the imaginative story.Shawshank Redemption is awesome too. Film and score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 The Bourne Supremacy (John Powell)That ostinato keeps playing over and over again in my head now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 It's interesting how subsequent chapters get more human and acoustic. I love those scores, it's how you do ostinato-driven action music with brains.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I need to check those out.Are their OSTs considered good representations with the right highlights, or are the complete scores essential? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 OSTs are fine. Powell's albums are usually well chosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 For some reason the third score never resonated with me, aside from one lovely cue (called 'Names Without Faces' or something like that). crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Each film and score got progressively better, in my opinion. "Tangiers" ftw!Hopefully Powell will be back for the next one with Greengrass and Damon returning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Nah, it's all about Bourne on Land! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Each film and score got progressively better, in my opinion. "Tangiers" ftw!The first Bourne is the best of the four films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I don't even count Legacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I've been listening to Song of the Sea by a bunch of different people on a loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I don't even count Legacy.It improves on the third one in one or two aspects though.Renner's character isnt a emotionally void monosyllabic slab who mostly just runs and kills people.I rather like that they made him a motor mouth who needed those meds cause without them he was an idiot. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Superman: The Movie [Original Sound Track] (The 16 tracks Japanese CD, 1990)Superman, that like Empire Strikes Back, inexplicably got a partial reissue for their first release on CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Each film and score got progressively better, in my opinion. "Tangiers" ftw!The first Bourne is the best of the four films.IDENTITY and LEGACY are the best, though SUPREMACY has its moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 The action and chase scenes may have gotten better as the series went on, but the stories got worse.I'm talking about the original 3; Never seen the fourth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Pas De Deux by James Horner.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Pas De Deux by James Horner.KarolDoes it feel familiar? Comfy, cozy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yeah, very familiar. Not sure how it ranks among concert pieces. As a Horner piece, it's quite pleasant.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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