#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Pilgim, I didnt see the commercials, could you link to those you found offensive?As for Arvo Part music. Is that relevant? Trailers rarely use music totally descriptive of the actual score. I doubt Godzilla will have Ligetti in it, or even Desplat aping Ligetti. Savinf Private Ryan got some criticism because the music in the actual film didn't have the "americana" feel of it's trailer. Is that really a valid criticism? I tend not to put that much faith in trailers or TV spots anyway. Usually they are not assembled by the director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That would imply he's got a rich emotional life. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 No, it's not a valid criticism, it's just one thing that colored my experience of the film. Also I wasn't "offended" by any of the commercials. They just seemed misleading. And I don't particularly feel like hunting them down. Go for it if you want, to show me how wrong I am.At this point I am admittedly just pissing around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Sadly it never seeps into his films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Christopher Nolan: The Autistic AuteurHahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Go for it if you want, to show me how wrong I am.I have no need to prove you wrong. Since I love the film I already KNOW you are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That's a beautiful thing, ain't it? Mark down another win in your book pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Are you God, Steef? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Yes. We all are. Now lets hug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Autism is cool, anyway.Karol Autism/Aspergers is seen as very cool nowadays.No, not really. The Colorado movie theater has painted them as sickos we need to fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Can you get autism at the cosmetic surgeon's place? I'd be up for some of that cool juice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 watching The Ten Commandments, it's marvelous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That film totally misrepresented itself in its marketing. It wasn't at all what I was expecting, and I'm mad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 what did you expect?it is epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I was just kidding Joey, as I had previously been half-heartledly whining about Gravity's marketing. DeMille's film is a masterpiece, the very embodiment of the now butchered descriptor "epic." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It's an attempt at a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I used to love the old biblical epics when I was younger, but I can't get through them now. The theatrical acting is very much of its time and difficult to take seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I was just kidding Joey, as I had previously been half-heartledly whining about Gravity's marketing.DeMille's film is a masterpiece, the very embodiment of the now butchered descriptor "epic."I figured you meant you didn't expect the Ten Commandments to be at the very end of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It is epic in the plain understanding of the word, yeah. But it's not EPIC.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I used to love the old biblical epics when I was younger, but I can't get through them now. The theatrical acting is very much of its time and difficult to take seriously.it is great acting not what we get today. our current filmmakers are so afraid of melodrama.the christian bale exodus will suck ass compared to the Ten Commandments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 True but that's besides my own point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 The emotional autists that worship the emotionally detached styles of Nolan and Fincher might take offense with some of it. I despise Nolan, Fincher and Cuarón. Where does that leave me?Three of my favorite directors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It is epic in the plain understanding of the word, yeah. But it's not EPIC.KarolI had to laugh, you're so incredibly wrong. Now tell me Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia are NOT EPIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 You fell into his trap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 He's Anti-Koko!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I love TTC and B-H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It is epic in the plain understanding of the word, yeah. But it's not EPIC.KarolI had to laugh, you're so incredibly wrong. Now tell me Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia are NOT EPIC.I was referring to Gravity.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 okay. Gravity isn't an epic,Gravity is a great piece of filmmaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 It is epic in the plain understanding of the word, yeah. But it's not EPIC.KarolI had to laugh, you're so incredibly wrong. Now tell me Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia are NOT EPIC.Both are the meaning of the word. But both are also deeply personal explorations of their respective lead characters. The style of filmmaking and the scope are epic though, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Looking at the scope of films scored by John Williams I see few epics.I see two.The Cowboys and Superman The Movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 And he comically scrambles to defend it, something he criticizes others for frequently! I'm guessing Alex is talking about Mission to Mars. Nothing in that film's highly spiritual finale is as stupid as Bullock going into foetal position.God it's refreshing to see someone talk about that film like that.I have no need to defend the film, its done pretty well for itself.Lee never believed my prediction of 500-600 million, when i saw it i felt it would do numbers like that. It did even better then I expected.I also dont need to defend my opinion of it. But I do maintain that my opinion of a film is of far greater importance then anyone else's...in my opinion.Afterall, i'm not a Brony!Looking at the scope of films scored by John Williams I see few epics.I see two.The Cowboys and Superman The Movie.The Cowboys is NOT an epic, far to homely.ROTS tries to be epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Isn't the OT a bit of an epic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 the Cowboys is Epic in scope StefanRots is not in anyway an epic,TPM flatters Ben Hur, it is the closestStar Wars is not epic but that isn't an insult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 And he comically scrambles to defend it, something he criticizes others for frequently! I'm guessing Alex is talking about Mission to Mars. Nothing in that film's highly spiritual finale is as stupid as Bullock going into foetal position.God it's refreshing to see someone talk about that film like that.I also dont need to defend my opinion of it. But I do maintain that my opinion of a film is of far greater importance then anyone else's...in my opinion..I wholeheartedly agree with that. Don't mistake my accounts of my own experiences with films as assertion that your own experiences are less valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Of course, the genius of Williams is that he inserts a sense of the epic into little personal stories, like in the closing moments of E.T.Little boy bids a final tearful farewell to his friend as he shoots up into the stars. Humankind makes first contact with alien life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 somewhere there is a lost set of Lyrics from Alannis Morrisette's song Ironic about Heston playing films two greatest Jews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Albert Einstein and who else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 ROTS is an attempt at a political film ala Nixon (did not George liken Palpatine to Nixon in the early days of the Star Wars saga?), and it is scored that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Albert Einstein and who else?pitiful, just pathetic. I feel your shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I didn't knew Heston had played Spielberg. Sounds good, was it a biopic?Who did the music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Albert Einstein and who else?pitiful, just pathetic. I feel your shameEinstein's genius and importance in history are matters of proven fact. Not myth and half-baked conjecture as the examples you mean!I didn't knew Heston had played Spielberg. Sounds good, was it a biopic?Most important Jews? Has Chuck played Jesus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Jeffrey Hunter played history's greatest Jew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Heston didn't play Jesus, but you've got to give him his jew nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 so there is an epic film about einstein?Moses is real and more important to History, without his history, then there is no einstein history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Ben-Hur is a fictional character, created by a civil war general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Jeffrey Hunter played history's greatest Jew.Ariel Sharon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Jon Stewart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Jesus, you're dense. :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Jeffrey Hunter played history's greatest Jew.Captain Christopher Pike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,353 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Adam?As in Captain Pike in The Cage?"Who Was Eve?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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