[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

The samples i've heard suggested nothing more in the quality range than Djawadi's.

From the samples I heard from the score, it only sounds slightly better than Djawadi's score to me too. Let's see how much this one gets bashed at film music forums, seeing it's from a non-RC composer.

DAS WEISSE BAND (2009, Haneke) ****
A slow-burning film of which you'll only come to realize what you've just seen after the film is over. Haneke's black and white photography is often beautiful, as is his pace. He slowly reveals the sinister side of this seemingly peaceful village. Once you start to realize these acts of crime aren't random the film becomes more intriguing by the moment.

Much has been made of the message the film tries to convey, and although presenting my theory would ruin the plot for those who haven't seen it, I'd like to stress (just like Hanake stressed this at Cannes) that he is most certainly not just talking about the German people in releation to the first and second world war. The themes the film is dealing with are much broader and relate to human nature in general and ultimately the blame-question. It also works on a grand, political scale as well as everyday life.

Haneke pointed out he tried hard to pose questions instead of awnsers. The best thing of DAS WEISSE BAND, therefore, is that it stimulates a discussion. And it stays in the mind, which is always an impressive thing to do.

Agree with everything you said.

I found the first movie bland and uninspired, but the sequel is directly annoying.

About the music I can't say very much, because the FX was too loud that I only could hear the electric guitars and some chorus, but Ramin score at least had a "decent" main theme.

I guess Debney is still recording or mixing the album because I guess he will put some "unrealease or alternate" tracks on it. to make a better album.

By the way, Lisbeth scott was hired to sing in iron man 2 , right? because it's not in the movie..

Best I avoid this then? Everyone seems to hate it.

Maybe I'll give it a go on Orange Wednesdays.

I couldn't agree more about movie and score.

I was surprised with the 90 % fresh tomatoes with Iron man, but I'm even more surprised with 74 % for Iron man 2.

PS: I use to love Robert Downey Jr and Paltrow, but in this movie both are annoying.

Meh, she looked sexy enough as expected, but she was too very cold and numb, and not enough screen time. She made 5-6 appearances in total and only 1 one of them was the wow moment. Her character was pointless, same goes for Samuel L.Jackson; most people giggled when their 'purpose' in the movie was revealed.

You mean when she changed clothes in the backseat of the car?

True. Her character was meant to put you off guard regarding her intentions. You should be going, like: "Is she evil? Is she not? Do I need to watch my back?". Instead, I was going: Is she hot? Is she not? Do I want her to rub my back?

I get what you mean, but the weird thing is that she wanted this part so bad, that she died her hair for the character before she even got the part. It would make you think she'd actually work to make the character interesting, or it's her incapability to make the distinction in her performance between cold-blooded to distracted.

What are you saying here, that she actually lied to the press in expressing her love for the first film just to promote the film? I'm shocked and apalled.

Are they just trying to plug The Avengers, Captain America and Thor throughout then?

Speaking of Downey Jr., I just saw Sherlock Holmes and really enjoyed everything about it! It was enormous fun, and one of a very few films made in the last 3 years that I am considering buying. Great characters, witty, excellent dialogue, cool cinematography, quirky and effective soundtrack, etc. The detective himself is so unlike I've always imagined Sherlock in some ways, but that didn't bother me at all while watching the film. It's got some plot holes, but I thought the film was enjoyable enough that they didn't bother me much.

Nimoy just wanted to be more behind the camera, I think, which lent to a very effective movie.

That said, of course, I wish there was more Spock in the movie, just because Nimoy is the best actor in the lot. I think the fantastic chemistry is also due to fact of the movie having relatively little Uhura, who on the contrary, is played by the worst actress in the lot.

Yesterday, I decided to go back with the story and:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I don't know what is the general opinion on this one, but I for one loved it.

More than anybody else, Wise got the sense of "space wonderment" in this movie. The movie is SATURATED with awe, the Enterprise flyover with the theme which almost wasn't composed (Wise originally accepted Goldsmith's first version, but had it rescored and asked for a great theme there, which we got), the V'ger (why the HELL is it called "Vejur" on the soundtrack?) flyover and Spock's Walk is full of suspense and feeling of wonder, it's just wonderfully eerie and the first time in the series I was actually somewhat scared. Cinematography is great, especially during all V'ger scenes and the bridge shots which wonderfully caught all the movement. The bridge scenes were filmed in a tad more artistic way than in the Horner-scored movies, I guess especially actually Search for Spock.

The movie did tend to drag, the flyover sequences were drawn-out, to be honest.

Acting was far more restrained than later, which was a positive especially in case of Shatner. That said, I wish there was more play on the Spock/McCoy conflict, which was addressed twice for less than a minute. Stephen Collins is really good as Decker and again, the conflict with Kirk is shown very well.

The Goldsmith score gives so much. Jerry had the possibility to write his Star Wars/Space Odyssey (a bit more of the latter, this is by far not an action movie and goes in to the realm of harder SF, which perhaps was the reason why it isn't too acclaimed) and this is what he did - a score full of romantic wonder in outer space (and some of the progressions were utilized also in Alien's main title, which is colder, but still tries to infuse some of the romanticism in the first sequence until all hell breaks loose). He got the movie to the core and the marriage with the visuals is wonderful.

With all my lack of experience with much of the genre, this may be one of the VERY best SF movies I have ever seen.