[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Everything these days in the news is covered as far as Trump is concerned

If they hear such a thing, doctors will throw you either in a 'home for the elderly' or the insane Get well mate. My wishes are with you.

That sounds tough, Tom. All the best to you. Draw strength from the music you love.

Volker

All the best Tom!!!

That is absolutely galling.
Very best wishes for your recovery and coping with this situation, Tom.
It's a horror being 'locked' inside a 'machine' that simply won't keep up with an agile mind.

This guy walks into where I'm at. He just looks like an idiot.

And the whole time he was there -- probably half an hour or so -- he never stopped making noises. I'm not kidding.
It.
Never.
Stopped.

Random moaning noises.
Random "music" humming".
Random rap beats.
Random hitting of things.
Random weird bodily noises like sucking on his snot.
Hitting the keyboard hard with his fingers. Yeah, that'll make it type correctly!

Finally the asshole leaves. And was he truly an idiot? Well, he didn't shut down what he was doing and left his wallet behind.


He's a real life version of THIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWdik29MTrE

The new trailer for Close Encounters of the Third Kind's 40th Anniversary

Watch it and weep.

So in essence it's a trailer for modern audiences that require no emotional connection with music.

I hope Spielberg didn't greenlight this piece of crap trailer.

And I'm absolutely happy to be the opposite of modern.

By comparison, check out the 30th Anniversary trailer, which actually uses Williams' score, so a 100 times better.

I know it's only a trailer, but imagine the entire movie scored like that, which it would be if the film were made today...

I care. They're completely misleading new and young audiences with this cynical, focus-group marketing. It's not just the generic epic music, it's the way it's edited to make it seem like a Christopher Nolan film. It isn't that. Not even remotely. It's a dishonest way to promote what most seem to agree is a classic.

Bearing in mind I'm not even a fan of the film. Love the score, it's one of my favourites, but the film has always left me a little confused as to what the whole point is. But at least market the re-release honestly without reducing it to this generic garbage.

We actually kind of love those five overtones.

It's dishonest to put triumphant music over the 40th anniversary of Close Encounters? Dishonest to edit in the most exciting scenes?

Triumphant isn't the problem; it's the style that is. The music just isn't fitting (and the same goes for most modern trailers -- they suck).

And yes, editing can completely shift the tone of a film. If you're advertising a film, it has to reflect at least in some way the tone. This trailer doesn't do that. At all. It wants us to think this is a modern action thriller. That's just plain dishonest and not to true to the source material.

There's making it look marketable and then there's making it look like a completely different film. Honestly, this is the easiest thing to rebuke. It's a modern, generic and misleading trailer for a film from a completely different era. If you like that, fine. But you'd have to be dumb, deaf and blind not to notice the disparate tones between the film and this trailer.

I agree with Steven. Why not even let the magical Williams score in it, would've made it a lot better.

It's almost they're embarrased that CE3K has THAT kind of music in the film so they try to attract a new generation that maybe expects not such an operatic glorious score. Because that would be too old-fashioned.

Yeah Hollywood needs some new trailer script doctors, because I don't think four more changes will suffice.





Couldn't resist, so I'll get my coat.

I know this is reputation suicide, but I don't think art is significantly worse today than in the 80s or 90s. I don't subscribe to the "back in the good ol' days everything was awesome. Today, it's all computers to keep the kiddies entertained."

Trailers today are (aside from BRAAAAMS) better than at any other point in history. There's the occasional stinker, but overall, I'll take "Thor: Ragnarok"'s energetic immigrant song instead of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture's" freeze frames and stately voice, "And William Shatner as Kirk." I'll take the "War for the Planet of the Apes" trailer over the raucous Independence Day trailer.

Just compare the trailer for 1977's Star Wars to the Star Wars: Force Awakens trailers. Its a massive jump in quality. I'll take anachronistic "epic" music for Close Encounters over the stale, old style any day.