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Yes, if it had been only for the movie, I would never have cared for a cd of the score. I´m afraid (lucky us) that Tyler wrote looong cues so that the music editor / directors could cut and chop the cues in mini cues at his will. Damn, the film editing in AVP2 is so fuckin disgusting; at least sometimes we can see something of the film: that´s when the darkness of the film or the poor edit job allows us of course.

The theme is indeed fabulous.

I'm not sure, though, how the rest of the score is. I seem to recall that it's not a patch on something like Space: 1999 or Thunderbirds, etc?

I'd heard some clips from a fan site - maybe taken from some other release (Japanese?) and it sounded a bit psychadelic? I think UFO is showing on one of the ITV channels...I may try and do some "research"!

As well as the great main title theme for UFO, I also thought that the end credits sequence was awesome as well. That final dramatic chord at the end!!! But, nine-times-out-of-ten the ITV announcer would drown it out.

I just saw Papillion (1973) for the first time.
There were portions I really enjoyed, while there was much that I strongly disliked.
I think most of that came from the style of the time period of the early 70's.

For people who come to films today, a lot of fine seventies films don't come across. Personally I enjoy all the zooms!

I did really enjoy it.
I just didn't like some of the jumps made throughout the plot. I understand that this may have been done on purpose to symbolize what it was like for the character. I also thought much more could have been done in adding to characters and what they were going through. It was a long film though. They could not have added much more at all.
McQueen and Hoffman were perfect though. Paillion was such an interesting character to see McQueen play. I kind of want to read the book after seeing the movie.

ONE HOUR PHOTO

A chilling observation of loneliness and what it can do to you, while at the same time a film that might do the same thing for delivering your pictures to a photoshop as Psycho did for the shower. A good pace and mood, with a terrific performance by Williams. Yet in the second act, it gets predictable really fast, rolling into mainstream thriller rather than complex psychology. Which was to be expected, of course. A very good thriller nonetheless.

D-War

So bad that it is funny. But the truth be told, there´s a total mayhem sequence in Los Angeles Downtown that has nothing to envy to the one we saw in Transformers. Pure fun and destruction, kudos to the CGI team. The rest is like but at least it´s only 80 minutes. But I´d be happy if someone explains to me why suddenly, in the last 10 minutes of the film, Los Angeles becomes Mordor: for a moment I thought I was high.
Oh, Jablonsky´s score works pretty well; not that the film was very inspiring though. But nice action tracks.

Totally !0001 % agree!

A true masterpiece of modern times, what a shame this wasn't made decades ago and then we'd never have to put up with idiots continually harping on about shoddy works like Citizen Kane and other mediochre so called "classics" and everyone would understand the searing magnitude of Woo's film which should be bowed to and worshiped god-like by all!

He has the highest wank in Wome!

Anyway, recent viewing for me has included:

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - The best-written dialogue in any film I've seen in a long time. It's not a brilliant film overall, but is very handsome to look at, is beautifully-acted (Tom Hanks is surprisingly excellent, but the show is well and truly stolen by the wonderful Philip Seymour Hoffman) and very well-scored indeed. I'm amazed a pair of Hollywood lefties like Aaron Sorkin and Mike Nichols would produce a film which seems to be so glorifying Reagan-ish gung-ho extremes, but then the underlying message about Afghanistan and subsequently Iraq is pretty well-done (though probably would pass a lot of people by).

I AM LEGEND - Will Smith is a charismatic and engaging actor who has impressed me in many films, from when I first saw him in Six Degrees of Separation, and he carries this well. Sound effects are done tremendously well, creating real tension all by themselves (certainly neither screenwriter nor director is able to do that) but it's not a good film.

LETHAL WEAPON 4 - yes, I sat through this, not quite sure how. Richard Donner - dear oh dear. However, it seemed like a cinematic masterpiece compared with...

TIMELINE - oh Jerry Goldsmith, how did you allow yourself to become associated with such tat. An excruciatingly bad film in all respects, from such a richly cinematic novel (though admittedly a silly one). Goldsmith would have lent it some respectability had his score remained in it, as he always did with this nonsense he scored, and it's interesting how Brian Tyler's score - however impressive it always sounded to me on CD - fails to do that.

TRUE LIES - I hadn't watched this in years, and it was nowhere near as good as I remembered. It's so tongue-in-cheek, but one of those films where I'm not entirely sure that everyone was in on the joke.

THE TERMINAL - I think this is the only Spielberg film other than The Sugarland Express which I hadn't seen. It's pleasant enough, but so inconsequential and requires a lot of patience to forgive the terribly unlikely leaps of logic in the story. John Williams's score, sorry to say, does it no favours, plastered all over it like a gloopy, sticky, sweet mess.

Michael, do you have Murphy's stuff for MIAMI VICE? (i won't comment on your view on the film 'cause.........arrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh!!!!! you know heh)

Let's hope Demetris doesn't see this!

Lost season 2 - I called it craptacular at first, but I'll admit around episode 14 it starts getting good again. I need to get through season 3 quickly as 4 starts 3rd Feb!

Of course, Giacchino's music is excellent, and my favourite theme (loosely called) is still the mad string section for Danielle.

I celebrated the arrival of my wonderful new TV and Blu-Ray player by watching my first two HD movies.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - well-made, but the story seemed rather inconsequential. I lost interest in the books after the third one - I hope the final two provide a little more for the filmmakers to hang their hats on than this one did.

Die Hard 4 (!) - a solid action film, very entertaining, and I'm willing to ignore the silliness of some of the unlikely recoveries from apparently life-ending "accidents" because it features real stunts involving real people on real sets and no CGI. Finally, someone's worked out it looks miles better.

You have to see an HDTV playing an HD-DVD of a movie shot in HD camera to see the real difference mate, not plain dvd.

By chance I saw a Blue Ray presentation of Night at the Museum on an HD screen in a shop two days ago. I swear I could see the tiniest structures on Ben Stiller´s face, whether I wanted or not. Though there was a scene where it´s snowing that really looked spectacular. That convinced me that I was really looking at the next step in home entertainment and not some publicity stunt.