JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Still the Helmet cover is akin to having a Titanic score with a modern ocean liner on the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 perhaps but the Helmet depicted is of a more modern design but not quite like those of the 70's. Not like them at all.This is a great point! It's a detail that demonstrates the designer wasn't paying much attention to what he was doing. (And it might've been more fitting to have half of it blown off instead of bleeding bullet holes. . . .) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_Bloke 115 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 It's a great cover, except . . . wasn't the movie about a bomb on a blimp, not terrorists shooting guns? (Harder to represent that on a cover using a helmet, I grant you.)I wish they'd show a pic of those tri-colored albums. They sound very cool.I like the cover, but yes the movie was about a bomb on a blimp, scheduled to go off during the Superbowl. Inside the blimp were also thousands of darts meant to fly into and nail the crowd, propelled by the force of the bomb's blast. Those aren't supposed to be bullet holes on the helmet or the crowd pic: they're dart holes. And yep, I wish they showed a pic of the tri-coloured albums too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 yes the movie was about a bomb on a blimp, scheduled to go off during the Superbowl. Inside the blimp were also thousands of darts meant to fly into and nail the crowd, propelled by the force of the bomb's blast.Sounds like the premise of a bad Batman movie ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Send the script to Nolan & Snyder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Well, The Dark Knight Rises had most of the ingredients.Just these damn darts were missing!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 yes the movie was about a bomb on a blimp, scheduled to go off during the Superbowl. Inside the blimp were also thousands of darts meant to fly into and nail the crowd, propelled by the force of the bomb's blast. Sounds like the premise of a bad Batman movie ...there was only one Batman movie at that time.It's based on a brilliant book by the creator of fafafafafa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 well, this vinyl album should sell like hotcakes, it requires you to be a hard core JW fan and a vinyl enthousiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's very good, but it feels very much like "underscore"...unlike many JW scores, it feels like it was written to accompany a film, rather than to be music in itself.That's why it's one of my favourite Williams scores. It doesn't impose itself like on some of his Spielberg collabs, or feel like it was written primarily as concert suite for Boston Pops.I don't know why you consider 'underscore' to be a dirty word. Most of Williams's best music is 'underscore.' Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,827 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Still waiting for a Bluray of this!With a proper remaster in video and audio, it would look (and sound) great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's very good, but it feels very much like "underscore"...unlike many JW scores, it feels like it was written to accompany a film, rather than to be music in itself.That's why it's one of my favourite Williams scores. It doesn't impose itself like on some of his Spielberg collabs, or feel like it was written primarily as concert suite for Boston Pops.I don't know why you consider 'underscore' to be a dirty word. Most of Williams's best music is 'underscore.'Preach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,012 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I love this score precisely for its underscore and the remarkable sense of architecture that seems to be matched/exceeded only by works like Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I love this score precisely for its underscore and the remarkable sense of architecture that seems to be matched/exceeded only by works like Close Encounters of the Third Kind.KarolDitto. I quite understand why some reviewer back in the day compared it to Jaws in construction as it does revolve around a simple obsessive central idea in a very similar way and the architecture of the score is very precise and strong and never gets too repetetive for the detriment of pure listening experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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