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Hmmm...I know Rourke had a stint in boxing...but professional wrestling was very different from that world. I know he excels at playing washed up tough guys, though, so I -slightly less kindly then Michael, perhaps- rather tend to think of this as yet another type casting (albeit a very good one, and one that may get him the gold! If not as a WWF champion, than at least as a film star. )

There's a smiley there, so you're not serious then?
You DID mean in career specifics?
Or you DIDN'T refer to a term? Or a term but a personality?
Or you're making fun of me?
Do I look fat in these pants?
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:mistrust:
:paranoid:

NP: The Charge Of The Light Brigade - Max Steiner

This is excellent. The liner notes already indicate that this may be Stromberg/Morgan's most ambitious recording ever, but I would venture it may well be the best too! The Moscow Symphony are playing their hearts out as never before, and the recoding really is top notch!

The score itself is one of Steiner's most exciting and lyrical ones, with themes by the truckload (though some of them based on existing melodies: Rule Britannia, quite unavoidably, does pass by a couple of times). Interestingly it sounds like excerpts of this score may have been used as temp track for Alfred Newman's Captain From Castile, as the classic Conquest march from that film may well have been spawned from here! (At least there are some eerily reminiscent echoes).

Stromberg and Morgan really prove once again that Steiner had a very modern sound and is very accessible now, almost three quarters of a century later.

Go Gomez!





(as long as it's NOT Mel giving you weird looks, then i guess you're safe....aren't you?)

ENNIO MORRICONE - love affair

A love affair with the Man's music seems a pretty possible outcome.

And I'm visa versa... but I still prefer The Sea Hawk... and after listening to Charge I still think The Sea Hawk was their most ambitious recording ever! However, She was quite a magnificent and eye opening recording for me.

-Erik-

NP: The Perfect Storm - James Horner

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

NP:Segunda Piel ( Baños) I can type "ñ" hihihih

it has one these themes that really touches me!

And it has some Goldsmith 70's strings like compositions....

I will Play: Boys From Brazil (Goldsmith)

the waltz aside, Does anyone enjoy the other cues?

Same sentiments.
The waltz is very much the highlight of the score.

NP: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - James Horner

IMHO, James Horner single handedly made slow moving spaceships leaving a space dock one of the most exciting and thrilling sequences in the entire Star Trek saga. There is no amount of fast editing or high tech special effects that will ever top the "Stealing The Enterprise" from this film and Giacchino has a daunting task if he is ever going to reach the heights and excitement that Horner delivered in his two Trek scores. I know Giacchino can do it but will JJ Abrams be able to deliver to him such awe inspiring scene as "The Enterprise" from The Motion Picture or "Stealing The Enterprise" from Trek III. We'll see...

-Erik-

NP : Swamp Thing - Harry Manfredini

Typical Manfredini action score a la Friday the 13th , but hey - I like it ...

CHORUS: "And what else can you play???"
SOLOIST: "Well I can play... the GROUCHO MARX!"
CHORUS: "Ooooohh Groucho groucho groucho Marx! Groucho Marx!"

Sorry. "I will play" took me back to a very funny musical comedy act I once saw.

I agree about the waltz. In the film actually, the mischievous potential of the waltz is under-utilised.

NP: Star Trek 3 (Horner)

Agreed about 'Stealing the Enterprise'. (I do wish more of it was Horner's though. ) If you know 'Romeo and Juliet', it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Yes. Me!

Actually, I'm not but I'm listening to it right now on a best of album called The Best of Prokofiev released by Naxos. What should I be looking out for? I mean, I know about the opening 24 seconds or so of the cue which ISN'T in the film but are there any other Romeo and Juliet lifts?

-Erik-