MARK McKENZIE

I've been looking forward to MAX AND ME for a long, long time. Should be another brilliant effort from a composer who has yet to write a bad score.

-Erik-

Look who's talking, Justin.

-Erik-

No, actually it's not an equal comparison at all. Thomas' review is full of of what I'm tempted to call Engrish. I had my mistakes in that review, but it's not even remotely the same playing ground.

In the review we have an incorrect word uses making a sentence have to be read twice toi understand, odd references to the score by the reviewer that question the reviewer's own opinion, sentences a little askewed, an incomplete setence that was obviously meant to connect to something but it doesn't, and imporper punctuation use (whi9ch could have been forgiven if not done repeatedly). I had to re-read sentences again and again to try and make out what he meant vs. what he typed.

Instead of pointing to me, how about we point to the countless reviews that do make sense here, at MMUK, at FilmTracks, at Movie-Wave, etc.? By any of thsoe alone you can see something is clearly wrong with this McKenzie review.

Oh, both reviews are definitely in the same universe. Actually, I'd say they are close neighbours. At least Thomas has an excuse. English is not his first language.

-Erik-

I always felt that Justin's Grammar Nazi approach to posts is something quite wildly ironic.

That said, he may be dyslexic of course and then we can't judge his typos that badly.

On the other hand, it's not just the typos. Justin's style is plain atrocious, so it's more than just that. Judging others' reviews while not being able to conjure two coherently built sentences is really... ironic.

His dislike for Hans Zimmer also goes beyond reasonable including failing to properly spell his name everytime (if it was dyslexic, that's one, but constantly writing Hansi is just disrespectful to the man).

Marc Shaiman did it first.

I'd forgotten this. It's brilliant! That tune is based on something though, I can hum it in my head but I don't know the title?

No, I got it from that song number.





You know, Volker, the issue isn't whether a person from another part of the world had good written English; we've all seen bad English at one point or another. The issue isn't that he or she makes spelling errors (are we twelve years old or can we move on and be adults about it?). The issue isn't even just to point it out and make fun of someone because of their inability. The issue is that when it was pointed out earlier, instead of addressing it or asking for some help to clean it up, the reviewer doubled down on it and bafflingly said McKenzie had no problem with it. Which, by the way, makes me think McKenzie has some problems for a grown American adult when he thinks that was fine, or is lying and being nice (which I've often seen a composer do).


Jon was right. Now instead of tripling down on it, ask for some help. This is a current score and it is still being talked about and therefore likely to get clicks from people interested in the review. It's not like somebody reviewed "The Happets in the Kingdom of the Sun", which next to nobody is going to read.


If you bash into a telephone poll with your car and people point out you have, don't say the guy standing next to your car thinks it looks fine.

What he did there isn't style. Otherwise THSI is clearly shows I have style.


Does a person have to be paid in order t owant to write something comprehensible? Hell, none of us do to post here, yet we not only try but also like to point out other's errors. Maybe when somebody, for example, points out a spelling error I make, I'll tell lay them a line about not getting paid to post.

Well, for starters -- I don't need feedback. Everybody keeps pointing in every other direction and making excuses other than address the problem: the review. And again, another excuse made. I bet we've not exhausted those yet.

I don't need feedback, you don't need feedback, nobody but Thomas does. But oh my goodness -- if if's and but's were candy and nuts, what a merry Christmas we would have!

I didn't want to be negative about Mark McKenzie's new score. But I didn't like it at all

Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire

yup, Direct to video or DVD fare

Luckily Mark was kind to me and appreciated my honesty.

I'm biased as well towards Mark's music. But I couldn't ignore the immense difference between the second and fourth Dragonheart score. Plus it barely contained Mark's signature themes or melodies. Hell he did darker movies before and they never sounded so flat. So I couldn't enjoy this score, even though I wanted to with all my heart