[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

Have you read the books Martijn? ( I haven't )

Team America: World police

Excellent movie, excellent score, excellent songs. Perhaps the only soundtrack album where I enjoy the songs as much if not more than the score.

Songs:
America, fuck yeah (spoofing the idea that America is the cure to the world's problems)
Freedom isn't free (Spoof of post-911 patriotic, redneck songs)
Only a woman (Most unromantic love song ever; if you listen to the lyrics. Best ending ever)
The end of an act (Tragic love song that quickly turns into a rant about how much Michael's Bay's "Pearl Harbour" sucked)
Montage (Most self-aware montage song ever)
I'm so ronery (Hirarious song with prenty or words contaiing the letter L)

The score is great as well:
The march
Lisa & Gary

Peter

Indeed!!!

Just added youtube links above so people can listen to the songs and score.

Peter

Fuck yeah!

Rated it 9 on imdb. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are brilliant guys.

Peter

I often use "Montage" in my film score classes, as a selfaware and humourous example of music creating continuity. After having shown a proper 80's montage first, like the "Push it to the Limit" sequence from SCARFACE.

David's watching Once Upon A Time In The West at the moment and we have just reached the final reveal at the end that suddenly makes Morricone's music even more key to the story.

:goosebumps:

The Hunger Games

It's been awhile that I was sitting in a fully packed cinema (always enhances the experience). Anyway it's a good movie. I was expecting an ending ala LOTR (meaning it will just continue in the next movie), but somehow I felt it was a little rushed at the time. The movie gradually builds, unleashing even a complete second half to the arena fight (which the trailers shows little to nothing off). But while all that is delivering a steady pace, somehow the last 10 minutes gave me the feeling it's all going a little too quickly (not natural). The acting is good, and yet somehow I occasionally felt it wasn't natural either. Somehow the lack of music at various scenes didn't make me connect.

The few bad ass action pieces are loud though and there's some exciting material (I love that moment near the end when everyone just jumped out of their seats ) , some tender stuff and some emotional goodbyes. All in all it's good but I was perhaps expecting more.

The same about James Newton Howard's music. It's good and does everything right (there's even some disturbing music for several scenes that feels quite at home in the picture). It's hardly epic music but the emotional music is nice (the longest goodbye sequence is quite lovely), the few action pieces which are underscored are effective and will give a better representation on the album, but there's one outstanding highlight however. And that's the chariot entrance (I assume Entering the Capitol on the album). Wow now that's a heroic entrance, and it's backed up with choir too (I think the only time choir's been used). A must to hear again on album.

Movie 7
Music (so far) 7

It's a good watch but somehow I didn't fully connect. Is it because there's no music in several scenes (action or even drama) that made it harder to connect? Or was it because the 4 girls behind my back just kept giggling and repeating the book vividly? I'll see it again on blu-ray to make up my mind

Cheers! I'll tape it (err...hard-drive it...record it...whatever)

Clash of the Titans (2010 version)

Mind-numbingly stupid but the special effects, for the most part, were surprisingly very well done! I would have loved to see MORE of the Krakan!

-Erik-

Damn.

I was looking forward to seeing it, actually.

Seriously Martijn, it's PANTS ( and not good pants )

and yes, I was looking forward to seeing it too

It IS very disturbing. The cold of Banderas was creepy. The ending was so out of this world, I felt very uncomfortable. But if that was his goal, then it worked very well.

The girl is absolutely gorgeous, especially in the first half.

of course it is a remake, I saw that the moment the trailer came out. Those that saw Carpenter's movie will always see it as nothing but a remake. Anyway, I'm not expecting this to beat Carpenter's brilliant classic, but I'll give it a chance nonetheless

Jep, loved LA PIEL QUE HABITO as well! And though I can usually appreciate Almodovar's work, I normally can't connect with it as it feels distancing. This, however, is great on, indeed, many levels. The twists and turns of the story are often unprecedented, and the whole thing has a lovely macabre ('zwartgallig', in Dutch) quality to it. It's also probably Almodovar's best structured film in terms of plot, whereas his films usually tend to go all over the place. Maybe that's why I loved it this much and felt it more accessible... in spite of the wild places the plot was going.