DANNY ELFMAN

I think about 4 songs of Nightmare are instant classics. Oogie Boogie, What's This, Sandy Claus and of course This is Halloween are awesome. Singing them all the way through.

Great new interview about Elfman's scoring process - http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/03/29/ … ny-elfman/

To be honest, I found it to be a rather boring interview, a very "been there, done that" experience in terms of the questions asked and responses given (what inspires you? do you read the script first? how do you stay fresh? how's it like working with tim after all these years? blah, blah, blah....). Elfman can manage to squeeze a couple of new things in there nonetheless, but the interview was pretty stale, IMO.

It's funny 'cause it's true!

Actually, it's not true. Elfman was NOT fired from Wolfman; Joe Johnston never wanted to use a different score. It was all to do with post-production schedules, and the fact that the film was being pushed back and back, being re-edited and having new special effects added, so that Elfman's cue timings didn't fit the film anymore.

He didn't have time to re-work his score to fit the new cut of the film because he was involved with Alice in Wonderland, so the producers - reluctantly - hired Paul Haslinger to write a replacement score. However it was Haslinger's replacement score that was rejected for being bad, NOT Elfman's original. So, rather than have Hasligner's poor replacement in the film, they decided to use Elfman's original music after all, and hired Conrad Pope and Ed Shearmur and several others to come in and re-work Elfman's original material to fit the new edit.

Really, Thomas, if you want to be taken seriously, you need to get your facts straight.

I fail to see any factual contradictions between Thomas' version of events and Jon's. The former is simply a sarcastic parody while the latter is factual and more detail-oriented. They're the same story

How factual can one be short of contacting Elfman or the director? Sometimes we have to go with what we can find. It's up to folks in the know to provide corrections. Come on, really -- corrections are made everyday outside the internet; price labels, speeling errors, news paper articles, etc.

Are there only 4 websites with English film music reviews? And we're one of the main ones?



We work on the spelling errors Jon, it's not easy.

Jon, on this point, were the re-worked cued re-recorded? Or just re-cut.

MainTitles is one of the four main review websites?
While I love the idea, I seriously -SERIOUSLY- doubt that (although I have no data. It *could* be true, I guess, but I rather think nobody would have suspected such a turn of events. As far as I'm aware nobody is looking at this site very seriously, aside from a handful of regulars).

Well, as Thomas presumably isn't paid for any of his efforts, and everything here is a labour of love, I'm not particularly bothered with any "unprofessionalism". Surely the punters will find you for that.

Thomas himself has made abundantly clear it's all just a bit of fun, and I'm perfectly happy to take him at his word.

Well, I'm an amateur so it can never be professional, badly produced? Hmn perhaps but I always said I can't deliver the same quality as the other top sites

and the thing about couldn't care less about is, I don't care what people think of me, if they think I'm horrible, that's their impression and I respect that, but that doesn't mean I deliver "couldn't care less" reviews, because then everything would be wrong, from info to the mentioning of themes.

And I read somewhere that The Wolfman was rejected, I would never make that up. It was a bit exaggerated in the end, but that's been my style from the start, it seems some people love it, some people hate it. At least my reviews are different from the rest, which I'm very proud off. That means I put my own style, enthusiasm and heart into constructing them. If that means I write badly produced reviews, then I must work even harder to improve on that matter. But don't forget, English is not my primary language. Sometimes I'm even proud I write so decent at all.

John, I respect your experience and talent wholeheartedly, but I will never change the way I write reviews, because that's my style, I can only improve upon constructing them

Ps, if I would have that care less about attitude, then the overall rating of the members wouldn't be so goddamn equal with my own rating in most occasions, which means I might write badly produced reviews, but I least I know how to rate filmmusic. And if you say that we are one of the top 4 visited review sites (way to go Bregt ) , then it means that people seem to accept and appreciate the way we present our reviews here.

This was what a knowledgeable pundit shared with me:

Believe me, it takes a less than a year for the joy derived to wear thin.

And for Thomas's sake, you have to write these things in a way that appeals to you, otherwise you don't keep it up for long. Jon obviously likes a professional aspect, and his critical role in the IFMCA speaks to that too. Thomas is having his own kind of fun. It's not always my idea of a good read, but there's a review site out there for me when I need it.