Popular Post Jay 37,370 Posted January 1 Popular Post Share Posted January 1 Happy New Year! Coming January 16th our first release of the year -- a brand new expanded edition of James Horner’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. https://www.facebook.com/groups/95015405220/posts/10168655536485221/ Once, Tydirium, OneBuckFilms and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneBuckFilms 323 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Another excellent release. Between this, Octopussy and Live and Let Dis this is already a good year. Yavar Moradi and A. A. Ron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,529 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I see the cover quality's kept consistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy 2,391 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Nice, we didn't have to wait much for the first 2024 Horner release 6 minutes ago, Holko said: I see the cover quality's kept consistent. Oh yes the stretching on the left and right sides is very noticeable. I also immediately saw a big issue on the title: Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 386 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hopefully this retires the laserdisc isolated score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 I haven't seen this film. How is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 7,466 Posted January 1 Popular Post Share Posted January 1 This is such a wonderful time to be a James Horner fan. So many holy grails being released! Keep'em coming! Yavar Moradi, Tydirium, Raiders of the SoundtrArk and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 907 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 2 hours ago, Chewy said: Nice, we didn't have to wait much for the first 2024 Horner release Oh yes the stretching on the left and right sides is very noticeable. I also immediately saw a big issue on the title: I like it! It looks like a treble clef! It's been so long since I wrote that word, I first thought it was "cliff". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,139 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Jay said: I haven't seen this film. How is it? I like it a lot, but disclaimer, I was a kid when I saw it. It is a Disney family spooker, and I guess there were some production difficulties, but it’s perfect for Halloween time with its Atumnal splendor and creepy setpieces. Jason Robards is pretty good in it. The villain is creepy. Pam Grier is in it, but sort of wasted. I haven’t watched it in a few years, but I remember it being pretty damn good. The score helps. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jim Ware 526 Posted January 2 Popular Post Share Posted January 2 This is a good excuse to post this again! Edmilson, JTN, Jay and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Laserschwert 475 Posted January 2 Popular Post Share Posted January 2 14 hours ago, Holko said: I see the cover quality's kept consistent. And it would have been so easy to do it right. Guess I need to apply for a job with them. Trope, JTN, Tom Guernsey and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,035 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I haven’t seen the film nor heard the score. Is this release recommended? What I mean is, is it copy-paste Horner or original and great Horner? The video @Jim Ware posted sounds promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 2 hours ago, JTW said: I haven’t seen the film nor heard the score. Is this release recommended? What I mean is, is it copy-paste Horner or original and great Horner? The video @Jim Ware posted sounds promising. Check for yourself. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,139 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 The score is great. Well balanced between pastoral Americana and horror elements including eerie choir, one spider sequence of Aliens style anvil and shrieking woodwinds, and a Main Title for the evil carnival that some say melodically resembles the Imperial March, but it’s quite good. I can’t think really of other future scores that copied and pasted things from this. The lighthearted Americana is actually derived from the previous Deadly Blessing score, but it’s done better here. The more I think about it, this is fairly unique for a Horner score. I mean, it is 100% trademark Horner, but he really didn’t reuse these motifs. This end title is just great. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 37,370 Posted January 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 2 I'm really looking forward to this! I remember in March-April-June 2009, Intrada knocked it out of the park with three huge Horner premieres, scores that never had OST albums: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. All were crafted as listening experiences, not complete releases. Will them revisiting this one, I wonder if they're gonna do the other two as well? Andy, Raiders of the SoundtrArk and JTN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,035 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 An expanded HISTK release would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I have wanted to watch this movie for several years, but it's not available anywhere. I mean legally. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 Oh wow, you ain't kidding! JustWatch has nothing! https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/something-wicked-this-way-comes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Disney decided it no longer exists; they can be quite dramatic at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,742 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 4 hours ago, Laserschwert said: And it would have been so easy to do it right. Guess I need to apply for a job with them. Yeah it’s pretty upsetting when half of us could do the job better than the so-called professional. Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 29 minutes ago, Bespin said: I have wanted to watch this movie for several years, but it's not available anywhere. I mean legally. You can, you know, just sail the high seas Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,139 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Jay said: I'm really looking forward to this! I remember in March-April-June 2009, Intrada knocked it out of the park with three huge Horner premieres, scores that never had OST albums: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. All were crafted as listening experiences, not complete releases. Will them revisiting this one, I wonder if they're gonna do the other two as well? Journey of Natty Gann is phenomenal. A little bit of temping from The Natural, but it is sumptuous. 1 hour ago, Bespin said: I have wanted to watch this movie for several years, but it's not available anywhere. I mean legally. Disney did put it out on Blu Ray with their “Movie Club”. Copies can be found on eBay for reasonable prices. But for those just wanting to rent it, yeah they’ve left this one behind, along with Watcher in the Woods. Both products of Disney experimenting in creative ways with edgier subject matter. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Listened to some of the YouTube tracks. And I think, I will pass on this. The score seems as usual well crafted, but Horner rarely impresses me with his themes. Here - again - he doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,035 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It's always "great" when opinions are so mixed on a score. @Andy @GerateWohl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,358 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, GerateWohl said: Listened to some of the YouTube tracks. And I think, I will pass on this. The score seems as usual well crafted, but Horner rarely impresses me with his themes. Here - again - he doesn't. @Nick Parker "Good thing themes are overrated and are not that important" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, GerateWohl said: Listened to some of the YouTube tracks. And I think, I will pass on this. The score seems as usual well crafted, but Horner rarely impresses me with his themes. Here - again - he doesn't. Still, I think you should buy the expansions not only for Something Wicked but also The Mask of Zorro, Sneakers and Dad. Not because you're going to like the music (you won't) but your comments here saying how much you hated those scores and how a Horner score never did anything to you and he's an overrated talentless prick will make you look awesome in the eyes of the many, many Horner haters that lurk in the forum. Receiving likes on the internet is better than anything according to many people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Edmilson said: Still, I think you should buy the expansions not only for Something Wicked but also The Mask of Zorro, Sneakers and Dad. Not because you're going to like the music (you won't) but your comments here saying how much you hated those scores and how a Horner score never did anything to you and he's an overrated talentless prick will make you look awesome in the eyes of the many, many Horner haters that lurk in the forum. Receiving likes on the internet is better than anything according to many people. I said none of these things, but thank you. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mstrox 6,651 Posted January 2 Popular Post Share Posted January 2 Yeah, I think you’re putting my words into his mouth by mistake! Jurassic Shark, GerateWohl and JTN 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demondm810 399 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 7 hours ago, Jay said: I'm really looking forward to this! I remember in March-April-June 2009, Intrada knocked it out of the park with three huge Horner premieres, scores that never had OST albums: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. All were crafted as listening experiences, not complete releases. Will them revisiting this one, I wonder if they're gonna do the other two as well? Holy Hell how was that 2009 Seems ok to be optimistic we get a revisited and complete Honey i shrunk the Kids. JTN and Andy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 Right? FIF - friggin TEEN years go! Andy and bruce marshall 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jim Ware 526 Posted January 3 Popular Post Share Posted January 3 Horner (RIP) was involved in the 2009 releases, hence the ‘album style’ programmes. I don’t know what’s missing from this one, but Honey, I Shrunk The Kids left out a few fun cues. The first generation masters of Journey of Natty Gann were missing. I believe the Intrada release utilised an unreleased album master and additional cues from secondary sources in Horner’s own archive. Incidentally, Something Wicked This Way Comes was an early digital recording, using the same technology as The Black Hole and Star Trek II - there’s only one machine left capable of playing it! JTN, Andy, OneBuckFilms and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crumbs 14,318 Posted January 3 Popular Post Share Posted January 3 Threw this together in less than an hour, thought you folks might enjoy it. Click for a high-res 2K version. Holko, JTN, A. A. Ron and 6 others 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badzeee 110 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Now, this is a surprise. I loved this adaptation of the great Ray Bradbury’s book when I was a kid… but haven’t seen it for many, many years and damned if I can now recall a single thing about the music. Certainly worth investigating. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 To those photoshoppers, a question. There's definitely something up with Intrada's cover (I may be a general apologist but I can see those lines on the edge) and while the two versions posted here are better they've still got that intended blur around the edges. So my question is what specifically has Intrada tried to do and either failed at or done badly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crumbs 14,318 Posted January 3 Popular Post Share Posted January 3 Basic colour correction goes a long way... But in technical terms, what the art director has done is select a very narrow batch of pixels on the edges of the painting and "stretched" them sideways to bridge the gap. Presumably this was because whatever element they had didn't fit the width of the cover art. This creates a rather obvious smear of pixels on the edges, because you're taking 20-30 pixels of information and smearing it across 5-10x the width, creating artifacts around the edges. This is probably the laziest of all techniques to fill gaps, and you can get away with it if you're delicate or using simple/blurry backgrounds, but not something textured like a watermark painting. An example of what's been done in the official artwork: Instead, I used AI to generate new material around the edges, then enhanced it with a new watermark texture over the entire image to cover up the seams. Of course, I colour graded the image before anything else. Choosing appropriate fonts is also an art unto itself... it's nice to choose something that compliments the film's logo. I can't say Myriad Pro is the first font that springs to mind for this film's logo... sadly that font seems to be used for almost every Intrada cover, regardless of the film's art direction. Chewy, Trope, CatastrophicJones and 9 others 9 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,529 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Yeah so it's not exactly one thing done wrong, but many things done lazily - the awful colours, the bad stretching to fill the frame, the unfitting font, the weak integration of the text, and the image not even being centered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark 316 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Out of curiosity, was the previous release of Delerue’s rejected score also incomplete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,599 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Nope, it was complete: https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9969/.f The reason the Horner score (and the two other Disney Horner scores Intrada premiered around the same time) wasn't released complete is that for its premiere release on album, Horner himself was involved with Intrada in crafting an "original album". Yavar Stark and bruce marshall 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 59 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said: Nope, it was complete: https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9969/.f The reason the Horner score (and the two other Disney Horner scores Intrada premiered around the same time) wasn't released complete is that for its premiere release on album, Horner himself was involved with Intrada in crafting an "original album". Yavar I would be happy if they included his programme as a bonus actually. Karol Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 Since Roger's post didn't say its a 2-CD set, that seems unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,358 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible to recreate it with the new program anyway. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,139 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 I’m good with a single CD since I have the original program. Some of the 2 and 3 CD sets, though often welcome, are starting to hurt and my wishlist just gets longer. @crumbs thank you for taking the time to make that, and also demonstrate what can be done versus what was done. How many of our talented members here work in some kind of graphic design? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,401 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 On 02/01/2024 at 10:52 AM, Bespin said: I have wanted to watch this movie for several years, but it's not available anywhere. I mean legally. I have waited for over 40 years for Jonathan Pryce to be as good again as he was in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,742 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 @crumbs What's a good AI for extending an image like you've done above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,318 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 @A. A. Ron Adobe Photoshop The latest versions have AI features integrated into the software itself. A. A. Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,358 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 20 minutes ago, crumbs said: @A. A. Ron Adobe Photoshop The latest versions have AI features integrated into the software itself. Paid, or high seas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,318 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 3 minutes ago, Presto said: Paid, or high seas? Paid, it's a subscription model with Creative Cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,742 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I'll look into this. I have CC anyway for Acrobat. Just never took the time to learn Photoshop since I already kind of know my way around Gimp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raferjanders 237 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 @crumbs A far superior cover thanks, though on close inspection I noticed an anomaly - the drop shadow on the title is missing on 'Bradbury's,' the underscored line and 'This.' Can you sort please and repost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,318 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 35 minutes ago, raferjanders said: @crumbs A far superior cover thanks, though on close inspection I noticed an anomaly - the drop shadow on the title is missing on 'Bradbury's,' the underscored line and 'This.' Can you sort please and repost? Sure, I've enhanced the shadows on the title. I'll leave the other version above for anyone who doesn't want that dark outline around the title. raferjanders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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