robthehand 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 In round one Stanley & Iris was voted off, round two Sabrina, round three Stepmom, round four Presumed Innocent, round five Sleepers, round six Nixon, round seven Rosewood, round eight Schindler's List, round nine Amistad, so place your votes for the next to go!REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR LEAST FAVOURITE!!!!Home AloneHookJFKFar and AwayHome Alone 2: Lost In New YorkJurassic ParkThe Lost World: Jurassic ParkSeven Years In TibetSaving Private RyanStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom MenaceAngela's AshesMy vote goes to Far and Away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 SPR,which should have been the first one to go(I did not vote for it for a few rounds to prevent TPM from beeing voted off early...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Freakin' Home Alone freakin' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmanand 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Home Alone 2, then SPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Home Alone 2, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Seven Years In Tibet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg1138 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 <<<<sigh>>>>Far and Away once more...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Saving Private Ryan, what a dismal score, and that Hymn for the Fallen is like shooting up saccharin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I can't wait for the 70's and 80's to get here. It's going to be some nasty fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Saving Private Ryan, what a dismal score, and that Hymn for the Fallen is like shooting up saccharin.Listen to the HP Christmas music and then come to me and speak about saccharin. Hymn to the Fallen is beautiful and there is nothing sugary about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Hymn to the Fallen rings hollow of false sentiment, HP is designed entirely for something different, but SPR is a drama, that isn't served well by its score, and as a seperate piece of music, its better as a dust collector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 Saving Private Ryan, what a dismal score, and that Hymn for the Fallen is like shooting up saccharin.Listen to the HP Christmas music and then come to me and speak about saccharin.Or one of the "Christmas songs" from Home Alone 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Home Alone 2 really should have been gone before Rosewood and Amistad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Freakin' Home Alone freakin' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,690 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Hymn to the Fallen rings hollow of false sentiment, HP is designed entirely for something different, but SPR is a drama, that isn't served well by its score, and as a seperate piece of music, its better as a dust collector.I await the day when I agree with you on something. The movie is served very well by the score IMO. The whole point of it was to feel realistic, and I don't think pounding brassy music would be the right accompaniment.And how can you call Hymn to the Fallen Hollow? That melody, double trumpets and choir all add up I vote Tibet, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diskobolus 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Goodbye Far and Away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpigeon 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Home Alone 2. I like some of the new material, but let's be honest, this is Williams on auto-pilot. And I disagree completely with Joe about Private Ryan. It's not the best score to listen to on CD, but it is a perfect accompaniment to the film. It comes in at just the right moments, is quietly reflective, and evokes the loneliness and slow decay of the soldier's humanity.Notice especially Williams' brilliant work as the Jeremy Davies character kills the german at the end of the film. He does not go over-the-top to suggest anything, but he subtly hints at the hollowness of the act and how he has really just killed himself by shooting the German. It could have been more quietly patriotic, but it was quite different, showing that Williams identified the core of the film and the characters.Ted, who will always defend the SPR film and score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashinyobject 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Far and Away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Far And away if much better then SPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg1138 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Far And away if much better then SPR.On which planet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 JFK. Amistad, like all those others, should have survived it. Next would be SPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Saving Pirvate Ryan. Next should be JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzOutcast 122 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Far and Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 SPR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Home alone , too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo 0 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,690 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Once Upon a Time in the West - Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 JFK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin 2 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Freakin' Home Alone freakin' 2Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Seven Years in Tibet.Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Monumental Saving Privat Ryan losing to the both Xmas-medleys??Hymn to the Fallen by itself , should beat these two easily.Those distant trumpets with military drum,stunning brass choral andand great choir(even if the climax is little bit too much syrup)..and there is so much more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted February 18, 2006 Author Share Posted February 18, 2006 I should mention - I won't be able to start round 11 until Sunday afternoon (about 1 day + 6 hours here), so you have AGES to fume at the results. 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Monumental Saving Privat Ryan losing to the both Xmas-medleys?? Hymn to the Fallen by itself, should beat these two easily.My sentiments exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Monumental Saving Privat Ryan losing to the both Xmas-medleys?? Hymn to the Fallen by itself, should beat these two easily.My sentiments exactly.Mine too. Let's form a club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Hymn to The Fallen is a self-contained piece of music, not a film score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Exactly. Although I think the film score is very good, too.But I can see how people would be bored by the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Hymn to The Fallen is a self-contained piece of music, not a film score.It's part of a film score, is it not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 "The Hymn to the Fallen," which is the music that closes the film-- I may have proceeded in a way for me that was a little bit unusual, in that I think I wrote the hymn as the very last thing. What I have tried to do in many films that I've done is to try to pretty much work the ending out, so that I know where the musical material is going to land and develop. And then decompose it and take it apart, so to speak, so that individual strands of a more mature thing can be exposed singly and then collect together in the end of the film. Not in this particular case."The Hymn to the Fallen" was kind of a set piece that seemed to be required. One felt like - you had the sense that we needed a kind of requiem almost for the people lost in the film. And how to do that tastefully and discreetly and quietly and, hopefully, elegantly was the opportunity that it presented. And of course chorus and orchestra is still the best medium for that kind of thing.- John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 It clearly manipulates the viewer when he leaves the theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Hymn to the Fallen by itself , should beat these two easily.Those distant trumpets with military drum,stunning brass choral andand great choir(even if the climax is little bit too much syrup)The HAs have two terrific versions of one of Williams' best choral pieces, Star of Bethlehem. And there's so much more...Marian - 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 It clearly manipulates the viewer when he leaves the theater.made me want to vomit, while the plebian crowd praise it like its some God sent masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Some scenes in SPR were very masterfully done. Probably the last masterful thing Spielberg has ever done. Please note that I haven't seen Munich yet.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Some scenes in SPR were very masterfully done. The opening and closing battle's are career highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Some scenes in SPR were very masterfully done. The opening and closing battle's are career highlights.Yes, especially the battle scene in the village. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 the battle sequences were very good, almost as good as the stuff in Patton, almost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 the battle sequences were very good, almost as good as the stuff in Patton, almost.I really don't recall any similar battle scenes in Patton, I'm afraid. Something's fishy here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,690 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 It clearly manipulates the viewer when he leaves the theater.made me want to vomit, while the plebian crowd praise it like its some God sent masterpiece.Too much popcorn?I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it's a great track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I really don't recall any similar battle scenes in Patton, I'm afraid. Something's fishy here.Well you know you have to be suspicious of any message Joe's posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McClane 1 Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Saving Private Ryan.The only track I can listen is Hymn to the Fallen. Why they included two almost identical tracks out of 10 tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Actually, I don't think it's almost identical. Sounds like the same recording to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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