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I recently watched Indy trilogy (How you know if you read my recently open and recently closed thread ).

I didn't watch them for years, Ironically they are some of my all time favourite movies. Why I didn't buy it before???? Sometimes I can't understand what happen in my head...(Ok, a lot of people here either)

Now, When I know more about Cinema and about Scores Im really amazed with this trilogy.They are shoot with a masterful hand!

Ok, the second one seems wrotte for a child (Sometimes it seems a Sommers movie), but if you can pass this (im sure you can) you have 3 briliant movies with an incredible sense of rythm and fun.....I can't still believe how Spielberg makes this kind of comic-like set pieces! truly incredible!

(example: this action set piece in the mines when Indy is fighting and then the camera moves to short round in the background is fighting too)

Lots of viewing over the last days:
Balls Of Fury
Enter The Dragon with ping pong. Sounds funny. Isn't.
2 out of 5

Casino Royale
The new Bond is one cold son of a bitch, without any of Moore's sense of irony or Connery's elegant viciousness. Really, he's just a brute. Interesting reboot of the franchise, with an opening scene that's absolutely eye-popping (the "jumping" sequence)...but the pace sure could have benefitted by cutting out 45 minutes or so. It's VERY long...
3.5 out of 5

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Overly long, ovely chaotic and without any direction or goal, with operettesque Pirate Kings and Pirate Lords (and Gods... ) thrown in in a very uncomfortable mix. And not nearly enough Depp, who really kept this franchise afloat as it was! The Wagnerian ending rings hollow and just leaves the door open for part four...which they probably'd better skip.
1.5 out of 5

The Hogfather
An utterly charming and beguiling TV version (and a hugely expensive one at that!) of one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories: the Hogfather (the local equivalent of Father Christmas) is missing, presumed under fire by the Keepers Of Reality, and Death, in a desparate attempt to keep Faith and Fantasy intact assumes his role. Sir Ian Richardson is an excellent Death, and the whole thing is as enjoyable as a Christmas grog mug filled with cocoa! Lovely!
4.5 out of 5

I Am Legend
Will Smith is the last man alive in the world. Will Smith looks pained. Will Smith looks troubled. Will Smith looks buff. A lot of CGI Gollums come up to eat him, but fail, as he isn't the last: there's a girl whom God has given coordinates to man's last hide-out in Vermont. Will looks pained. Will looks troubled. Will looks buff. There are fights with Gollums. Will blows up (but very pained, troubled and buffly) and girl finds hide-out. The End.
Absolute shite and a complete waste of time, without any redeeming virtues whatsoever.
So of course a sequel apparently is already in the making.
1.5 out of 5

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Saw this the third time now, first time on DVD, and it gets better every time. Those fights in the Ministry are just fantastic. Umbridge is perfectly cast. And I still like Hooper´s score.

Die Hard 4.0
First viewing. I was actually surprised. It was much better than I would have thought, though totally over the top at times, but fun nevertheless. I was totally surprised to notice some Kamen action themes, never would have thought that.

Oh, I didn't care much for Pirates 3 either. It just felt enormously contrived, especially the humor, which was the real shame. I even liked Dead Man's Chest a lot, but this was just a mess. The only thing it had something going for was the visuals and the music.

Bruckheimers only sense is his sense of money, and that, I believe, was spot on with this trilogy. He might consider it his crowning masterpiece.

DIE HARD 4.O ROCKS! Hear that? ROCKS!

You can please people round here, you're just cherry picking the negative comments and blowing them out of proportion! There are more positive things said about films and film music than negative on this forum.

And the score is mixed too high, it's utterly distracting from what is a very bad film anyway. I didn't find it funny in the least. (Although I prefer my humour to be satirical, sharp and witty... hence my straight-faced expression -save for the wincing and cringing- throughout the entirety of its running time.)

I'm off to watch some South Park...

Okay, but you're still taking my comment out of context. I'm complaining about the inappropriateness of the music itself. Whacking the volume up only accentuates its stupidity.

If it's a good piece of music accompanying a deserving scene, then I'm all for loud music in a film. Lord Of The Rings has some pretty loud mixes in the soundtrack, but I'm certainly not complaining about them.

Well then you've misinterpreted the context I'm referring to, because I haven't disputed that. Perhaps I should have put the emphasis on Eshkeri's name in that statement? Perhaps then the context in which it was written will become more clear?

Yes, I DO think it's mixed too loud in the film. And I shall repeat: I'm complaining about the inappropriateness of the music itself. Whacking the volume up only accentuates its stupidity. (The latter here being the context I based my statement on which you quoted.)

Among other reasons, I dislike the score because it is unoriginal and, in the aforementioned 'heroic' scenes and shots, its inappropriateness. So of course I'm going to complain about its volume if it's loud!

(...lord, there's nothing like explaining things in-depth that do not require it!)

Oh I see, it must be MY fault. Of course.

Not at all. I accept it was my fault for assuming people would be smart enough to know I was referring exclusively to Eshkeri's score since I had already expressed my disdain for it, and not scores in general, which appears to be what you were accusing me of.

Next time, I'll be sure to include a footnote to avoid any further confusion of contextual matters.*

*May include some irony.

...but...must...have...the last... word...at... ALL COSTS.... !!!

That was the one episode I turned on this year, and I thought the script was possibly the best I'd ever seen on a Doctor Who episode in any era.

Does that mean it was good?