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Recent Viewing Part IV

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  1. O, scores. Truth be said I have seen neither of the film so far. What I said is based on the music only.

    Edit:
    I don't watch summer blockbusters in cinema any more. I have somewhat estranged the audiance I meet there and it's patterns of behaviour. So I buy the DVD around Christmas (never made the change to BluRay), maybe call some friends, and watch the films at home.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2014
    Timmer wrote
    Can I use it?

    Steven wrote
    As long as you promise you'll be... ♪back in time♪


    I'M BACK!

    Darn! I'm early.


    Great scott!
  3. Demetris wrote
    Erik Woods wrote
    How To Train Your Dragon 2 = FAN-FUCKING-TASIC! Godzilla, take note. This is how you do epic film with monsters right!

    -Erik-


    Except for the score, right? wink I mean Desplat's Godzilla > Powell how to train your dragon 2

    Not by a loooooooooooong shot.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2014
    I'd say they're about equal, but I much prefer Godzilla.
  5. I guess I could say that they're both equally accomplished scores, but the Powell is just more my kind of music - lively, soaring, vibrant, colorful, joyous. The Desplat is dark, relentless, aggressive, gloomy...and very good at being that, mind you, but as an album it becomes quite wearing to me after a while.

    Also, in the Godzilla stakes, I'd easily take Arnold's score over Desplat's.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2014
    Edmund Meinerts wrote
    The Desplat is dark, relentless, aggressive, gloomy...and very good at being that, mind you, but as an album it becomes quite wearing to me after a while.


    Yeah, I'd agree with that.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2014
    I think thematic presence and score coherence keep it from being boring wallpaper music, as often the case these days.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  8. Oh, for sure. I don't think anyone is suggesting it's wallpaper. It's just, you know, not the most varied of scores.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Or indeed a 1968 Ford Galaxy.


    I'm not sure if this get's played on radio anymore?


    Last year I heard it several times (due to the Doctor's 50th I'm sure).
    For the rest, no, I would doubt anyone would find much artistic or aesthetic merit in it still.

    ...I still have the 45" single, though. dalek


    As to radio play I was thinking more the fact that it samples a Gary Glitter track.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014 edited
    Ah, I was not aware of that.

    Keeping with the Doctor, I thoroughly enjoyed this Saturday's episode Robot Of Sherwood.
    Lightweight fluff, to be sure, but very wittily written and with great chemistry between all main characters.

    Interestingly I noticed a picture of Robin Hood in between the Doctor's "not a historical figure" diatribe that I was sure was Roger Delgado (the second Master from the pre-reboot era). Turned out it wasn't, but it still was an inside joke: the picture was of a 1953 Robin Hood stint by Patrick Troughton (the second Doctor)! So I got the right idea at least! smile

    And to make things even more self-referential, apparently main antagonist the Sheriff Of Notingham (a wonderfully moustache-twirling Ben Miller, taking a strong leaf out of the Basil Rathbone/Nickolas Grace book of Evil Sheriffs) was made up to resemble Anthony Ainly (the very first Master). Squeeeee!

    (Yeah, OK, I'm a sucker for little inside jokes like that.)

    Oh, and I didn't read any actual reference to this yet, but Gold's music during the final duel very noticeably pays hommage to Michael Kamen's Prince Of Thieves.

    All in all, a very good evening's entertainment for me!
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014 edited
    To be honest, I thought the Robin Hood episode was ridiculous -- a throwback to a particular 'classic Who' style I never particularly cared for. I prefer things to be more serious, and I think Capaldi would work better in such a setting.

    But like you, I also noticed the similarity of Ben Miller's make-up to the two first Masters (Ainly and Delgado always looked alike, IMO). It must have been intentional.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Battle: Los Angeles

    I really expected this to be better than it was.

    It was a pretty generic war movie (except the enemy is aliens) in the Black Hawk Down school of shooting (heh) vein: loads of HD grain and chaotic explosions. Unlike Black Hawk Down though Battle: Los Angeles never really engages. I don't care about the characters because I cannot see where they are or what they're doing. The action scenes are messy and poorly defined. And most annoyingly of all, the film follows the current trend of cinematogrphy in apparently giving a one-eyed drunk a camera and asking him to run as fast as he can in any given direction while intermittently pushing the [record] button on and off.
    Very gritty, very dark.
    Very nausea-inducing.

    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Here, we definitely agree. This had great potential, but it was thrown away quickly. Right-wing propaganda movie, basically, with tons of American patriotism and without any kind of self-irony or subversiveness.
    I am extremely serious.
  14. Entertaining Brian Tyler score, though, if you don't mind a bit of RC influence.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Yeah, one of his bests.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  16. Martijn wrote
    Battle: Los Angeles

    I really expected this to be better than it was.

    It was a pretty generic war movie (except the enemy is aliens) in the Black Hawk Down school of shooting (heh) vein: loads of HD grain and chaotic explosions. Unlike Black Hawk Down though Battle: Los Angeles never really engages. I don't care about the characters because I cannot see where they are or what they're doing. The action scenes are messy and poorly defined. And most annoyingly of all, the film follows the current trend of cinematogrphy in apparently giving a one-eyed drunk a camera and asking him to run as fast as he can in any given direction while intermittently pushing the [record] button on and off.
    Very gritty, very dark.
    Very nausea-inducing.

    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    I think it's Ok to pass an evening with but not very much more. Just this last Friday I gave the DVD (edit) to the boy who lives in the neighbouring apartment, along with District 9 and Battlesthip. Now he regards me as some kind of a good fairy. cheesy (Of course I asked his parents before if it would be all right to do so.)

    Volker
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    The film? Or the soundtrack?
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    It is times like these that I really need to look myself sternly in the eye and remind myself that taste is subjective and that everyone is entitled to their own.
  19. Martijn wrote
    The film? Or the soundtrack?


    The films, the DVDs. Sorry.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Steven wrote
    Martijn wrote
    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    It is times like these that I really need to look myself sternly in the eye and remind myself that taste is subjective and that everyone is entitled to their own.


    Happiness is having your neck broken in several places while being stabbed to death and having your blood drunk by Michelle Rodriguez on one of her good days. love
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Captain Future wrote
    Martijn wrote
    The film? Or the soundtrack?


    The films, the DVDs. Sorry.


    smile I see.
    Had it been the soundtracks you would have been a True Hero Of The Board, recruiting young members for our Reelsounds Renaissance.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    Steven wrote
    Martijn wrote
    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    It is times like these that I really need to look myself sternly in the eye and remind myself that taste is subjective and that everyone is entitled to their own.


    Happiness is having your neck broken in several places while being stabbed to death and having your blood drunk by Michelle Rodriguez on one of her good days. love


    There's a fine line between 'strong, powerful, independent women' and 'dykes'.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014 edited
    She's kinda one nor the other.

    Even then those epiteths are hardly mutually exclusive, although the latter, stated like that, really is rather too abrasive for me.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Steven wrote
    Martijn wrote
    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    It is times like these that I really need to look myself sternly in the eye and remind myself that taste is subjective and that everyone is entitled to their own.


    You don't like dykes?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Captain Future wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Battle: Los Angeles

    I really expected this to be better than it was.

    It was a pretty generic war movie (except the enemy is aliens) in the Black Hawk Down school of shooting (heh) vein: loads of HD grain and chaotic explosions. Unlike Black Hawk Down though Battle: Los Angeles never really engages. I don't care about the characters because I cannot see where they are or what they're doing. The action scenes are messy and poorly defined. And most annoyingly of all, the film follows the current trend of cinematogrphy in apparently giving a one-eyed drunk a camera and asking him to run as fast as he can in any given direction while intermittently pushing the [record] button on and off.
    Very gritty, very dark.
    Very nausea-inducing.

    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    I think it's Ok to pass an evening with but not very much more. Just this last Friday I gave the DVD (edit) to the boy who lives in the neighbouring apartment, along with District 9 and Battlesthip. Now he regards me as some kind of a good fairy. cheesy (Of course I asked his parents before if it would be all right to do so.)

    Volker


    Have you seen ELYSIUM as well? Pretty similar in some aspects, and equally entertaining.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014 edited
    Demetris wrote
    You don't like dykes?


    I don't like the phrase 'dykes'.

    OK, I know we're a multinational band here and sensitivities and sensibilities range far and wide (which is fine by me. Vive la difference and all that).
    And god knows I am FAR from any type of 'politically correct'.
    But epithets like that simply are not free from being disturbing at best, grieving at worst (even if I absolutely know the lovely people here mean no insult or harm hug ), even more so on an open forum where (lack of) context may fairly easily lead to very hurtful situations.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    True, true, i'll give you that, and whilst i do find her sexy at times, wouldn't you say she's a bit more than usual on that afore-mentioned side of things as well?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Martijn wrote
    dalek


    Hadn't seen this before.

    Love it.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2014
    Demetris wrote
    Captain Future wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Battle: Los Angeles

    I really expected this to be better than it was.

    It was a pretty generic war movie (except the enemy is aliens) in the Black Hawk Down school of shooting (heh) vein: loads of HD grain and chaotic explosions. Unlike Black Hawk Down though Battle: Los Angeles never really engages. I don't care about the characters because I cannot see where they are or what they're doing. The action scenes are messy and poorly defined. And most annoyingly of all, the film follows the current trend of cinematogrphy in apparently giving a one-eyed drunk a camera and asking him to run as fast as he can in any given direction while intermittently pushing the [record] button on and off.
    Very gritty, very dark.
    Very nausea-inducing.

    It did have love Michelle Rodriguez love , though.


    I think it's Ok to pass an evening with but not very much more. Just this last Friday I gave the DVD (edit) to the boy who lives in the neighbouring apartment, along with District 9 and Battlesthip. Now he regards me as some kind of a good fairy. cheesy (Of course I asked his parents before if it would be all right to do so.)

    Volker


    Have you seen ELYSIUM as well? Pretty similar in some aspects, and equally entertaining.


    I preferred Elysium, but it's not exactly great. I'm sure I saw Battle LA but don't remember anything about it at all (a state which I found myself in from the moment it had finished).
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  30. Let me add AFTER EARTH.

    Sadly it's true for most films we have seen in recent years' science fiction renaissance.
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.

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