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Please don't tell me there is more score that is not in the special edition

There was apparently a bunch of last-minute scoring, especially for the climax. For instance, "A Good Omen" was completely rescored in the movie.

(Sadly, as that's my favorite cue.)

Yes! It's terrible that this is not in the score. It's a superb variation of a theme in Return of the King. There wasn't much Gollem music on it either, right? Or did I miss it in between the 70 other tracks?

you said, you don't like Waterworld and you think The Expendables 2 rocks

I read that: you fancy The Expendables over Waterworld.
Still pulling things out of asses?

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I think you're missing the point. I'm simply pointing out that you rather prefer (in my ears at least) unoriginal action stuff from Tyler than a masterful epic score (in my ears again) like Waterworld. I wasn't commenting on JNH, nor on Tyler. It's a simple comparison where one enjoys a score more than the other, even if it's not by the same composer

for goodness sake, we do it all the time.

Watched another poor movie (actually, skimmed through) called "Cry Blood, Apache".


A group of gold prospectors are partying with a small group of indians, while on their search, when they get rowdy and one steps o na pot and crishes it, revealing gold. They get violent upon finding the gold and a fight ensuesand they kill all the indians except one woman.

One of them, however, doesn't take part and protects the woman, unknown to the others, as they use her to find where the gold was taken from.

All the while an indian hunter who came upon the scene and found the salughtered indians, including one woman holding a baby, tracks them.

The film had it's good and bad elements, but as a whole I just found this poor. At the end it seemed to be nothing more than the indian killing them in horrible ways, like a rattlesnakc in a sack put over the head of one of them,, and trying to fool the rest about the misleading.

One of the bad guys carried a bible and quoted it and tried speakign to God; in the end it was very sour as this seemed like nothing more than an attempt to paint religious people as stupid folk who do anything in the name of God.

And in the end, when the indian comes upon the good guy and the squaw, you'd expect common sense, like the squaw speaking up and telling him the white man saved her life and that he was a good guy, right? No, she stands there and watches the knife fight. Then she picks up and loads a shot gun. At that point you might expect a surprise reversal and that in the end, she might shoot the white man dead, for after all, good though his intentions may be, he was part of the bad guys and a member of her slaughtered group was there to save her. No, she shot the indian dead for this false sense of love for the white guy which was never fully earned and didn't pay off as a result.

One fucked up piece of bullhockey.


And Elliot Kaplan's orchestral score was only a few notches up from the bland and boring efforts Leon Klatzkin gave consistantly on "Gunsmoke".


Thank goodness I skimmed through the long, almost painfully long, out-drawn sequences. What a waste of time.

I haven't actually. Unfortunately I was travelling when HOLY MOTORS had its brief Sydney release, and I don't think AMOUR has had a release yet (but doubtless will in the new year). I didn't go out of my way to see them at the last film festival they were at here, as I assumed they would eventually receive distribution.

You will love Hobbit

Demetris. The new Jordi. :P

-Erik-

Where did i say that? I said it was obvious that stretching 1 book into 3 films is also done for the moneyses, but i never said it was 'commercial nonesense'. You're making it all up. Plus, where did i ever suggest that a film that makes money can't be a good film? It was loads of fun, the essense of big hollywood fantasy blockbusters and of course they're going to make a shitload of money out of it!

As for the score, i also never said i didn't like THE HOBBIT; you only assumed. If you go back and re-read what i wrote, i tried to repeat several times that i did in fact like it, but it's not at the level of lotr, nor he'll ever reach those, imo. But you seem to understand that i suggested that Shore sucks oh well. I'm off work a 10-day vacation with my dear wife, a well-deserved one after finally graduating from the Master's degree (and now what?). It'll be much-better than hanging out with you dicks here on Christmas!

Congratulations indeed! Have a good time!

Ow yeah!

Enjoy that well-deserved break and see you soon!

Damn that iphone predictive text. Not even I can figure out what I thought I was saying here.

Yesterday night I saw the first two episodes of

"Downtown Abbey"

that startet airing on German PBS. I'm not so much into this kind of productions but I like this series quite a bit. Great cast, exelent dialogues, excelent production design, interisting story, if not too original.

I also liked the score by John Lunn whom I've never heard of before. I will now investigate.