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Watched RESCUE DAWN last night.

It was a decent film, not great by Herzog's standards but I did enjoy though the schmaltzy ending could have been junked and I though the feeze frame last image disappeared with the 1980's.

The score by Klaus Badelt was very guuuuuuuu.....

The score by Klaus Badelt was very guuuuuuuu.....

Try again

The score by Klaus Badelt was the opposite word of bad.

Yes, it's very guuuuuuuu

Yes, it's very not bad

Apparently your aesthetics relay has overheated again, Krytim!

Dark Passage, the 1947 film starring Bogart, Bacall, and Moorehead. The Waxman/Steiner score has never been given an official release.

RV: No Country For Old Men
More violent than I would have thought, but also quite a bit more clever, especially at the -quite universally (but in my opinion unfairly)- hated end.

Tommy Lee Jones is excellent as what essentially is the relic of a bygone era, a role which has very little emphasis and only becomes more pronounced towards the end. The supporting cast is universally good, even though Woody Harrelson pretty much does Woody Harrelson again, and with Javier Bardem a chilling stand-out as a psycho killer on par with the likes of Hannibal Lecter or Indio (from For A Few Dollars More).

**Slight spoilers**
The first inkling that we aren't dealing with any properly sequenced crime-thriller is evidenced by the sheriff's visit to his dad's long-time deputy, who admonishes him that you shouldn't expect time and the world to be waiting for you to catch up. "That's just vanity".
That the expected Sam Peckinpah-ish climactic shoot-out, which the film so very clearly works towards, actually is absent, and in fact the viewer is left with what may be described as a morally ambiguous and unsatisfactory end, may indeed be the power of the film...if you're open to it, because it certainly leaves a dramatic void!

Carter Burwell's understated score is functional in the film, but probably wouldn't yield much interesting on CD.

4 out of 5

Really?


That's cleverly done: through the way the film was structured, the idea of a "twanging" soundtrack was ever-present (even though I did notice that -like in Sam Peckinpah films- none of the violent scenes were underscored). I have to admit not having paid too much attention to detail and analysis as I was with a cute girl

My score incidentally was for the film as a whole, not the soundtrack!

Well, that's probably the best way to tell if a filmscore is well spotted or not; the fact that you didn't notice the absence of a score proves that it certainly didn't need one! In truth, the only moments there really was a score, were the opening moments and somewhere near the end, but you really have to pay attention to hear that one. For the rest of the film the Coen's played it blank. Funny how nobody ever mentions it, while everybody talked about the lack of score in Cloverfield... The endcredit cue (also heard in the trailer) is spot on, by the way.

NO COUNTRY actually has something like 12 minutes of music all up, including the credits. I've seen the film twice and I haven't noticed half of it!

You said it man, all those moments are indeed good, but the entire film is one long drag apart for these moments

man why make it so goddamn hard and full with these political plots, if you can create such a fun movie as the first

ah well, at least the music is the best of the three

Watching a lot of television at the moment. Most of this stuff was probably on in the US months ago, but is only now finding its way through to us here in the backwaters.

Dexter - a bit gruesome, but enjoyable. Great main title theme by Rolfe Kent and underscoring by Daniel Licht. A CD would be fantastic.
Dirty Sexy Money - one of those trashy shows where I feel I need to keep watching because even though I know it's rubbish, I want to know what happens.
The Unit (season two) - can't believe this is from David Mamet, but it is sometimes very good (particularly when he writes or directs the episode, but that doesn't happen often, especially now in the second season)
Heroes (season two) - the first episode of this was on the other day. What a load of rubbish it was, too. Much like Lost, I watch this out of morbid curiosity despite thinking it's dreadfully-written (those two shows could have been so good if they hadn't been written by idiots, the concepts are great) but this one was just stupid. I know season two is meant to be awful but I didn't expect it to be this bad.
Mad Men - I love this. Seems to capture the right atmosphere very well. Really, really fine television.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - this just finished. Enjoyed it more than I expected to. Look forward to the next series!

In fact, it IS :
http://www.amazon.com/Dexter-Music-Tele … amp;sr=8-6


I agree, even if it wasn´t worse (well, it couldn´t be) than season one, specially season´s one finale.


Too bad it was a shortened season.
I liked the show, and I liked very much the shootout of the season finale with Johnny Cage´s "The Man Comes Around" in the background. It fits the visuals (and the story) like a glove.

I think they kinda explain it in episode 2 or 3 (it could be 4 or 5 though)....but I´ve totally forgotten it, so....better leave it here...


Hehe...it happened the same to me after listening this song in the end credits of "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). I played it over and over again for days!
It was a nice and pleasant surprise they used it in the finale of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

As Marselus mentioned, I'd think that the re-appearance of the Petrelli brother will be explained at some point in the future.

The Season 2 opener of Heroes was better than I was led to expect from reading Season 2 reviews. I'm trying not to expect too much as the series is never going to approach the level the first series achieved.

As for being too much like Lost? Another reason I'm glad that I've not been sucked into that world.

What I like on TV at the mo...

My Name Is Earl

Family Guy re-runs

Heroes it's okay

Doctor Who


Not much else.

Oh, and come back Harry Hill's TV Burp.....bloody excellent!

Definitely, I agree. ITV's only saving grace. It returns in the Autumn I think, when I won't even be in the country.