Recent Viewing Part IV

Kubrick is a moron for the way he treated North.
Tom

Never heard of this film. Sounds like a prequel to Luc Besson's NIKITA.

No relation Thor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nikita

Nut gut.

Saw The Lone Ranger a while back and enjoyed it a lot! Just so much better than I expected.
The score is great too. While watching I noticed some wonderful music that is not on the score album...

Just watched David Cronenberg's Crash again on YouTube in order to hear Howard Shore's score again in situ. I could only find the whole film in French - which didn't help - and it all seemed so slow.

Shore's score was still a positive highlight. And the upcoming complete release of his score on Howe Records adds a couple of tracks from the film that weren't featured on the original release. But most of the rest of the extra tracks seem to have been dropped from the final film. But, these additional cues do add a bit of variety to the original album.

That was an offer you couldn't refuse.

It was!

One of the greatest films ever made. FACT!

You what!?

FACT!

It took me some time, but when I did a rewatch, I had warmed up to the idea [spoiler]that the "alternate universe" stuff from Season 6 actually wasn´t. I found the idea to have the characters reconnect in afterlife to be able to pass over quite interesting and, finally, a lot more touching than when I saw it for the first time.

The cruel and, at times, unnecessary deaths of some characters in the real universe, however, left me a lot more sad this time, knowing that they wouldn´t be erased eventually, which I was thinking for the whole time when I watched it during the first time. I was really bummed when I found out that the alternate universe wasn´t and they they really had been dead.[/spoiler]

Godzilla 2014 (the new one)

Well I liked the first hour (the build up). Mostly because the trailer didn't show anything of that the film goes mostly about. The surprise, the build up up to the point we finally see Godzilla. Then when it's finally about the fights, it becomes boring. There's a great visual style here and I like how it really pays hommage to the old Japanese Godzilla films. But character wise this is a joke, you don't care for any character (something Emmerich's Godzilla film did do so enjoyably. Plus Desplat's score started to irritate me as well in the film.

For all intended purposes, give me Emmerich's 1998 movie anyday. It was fun, had silly characters which I cared for a hell of a lot more and it had an amazing score. This one is a real monster movie but with zero feeling towards the characters and a score that did do more harm in the picture than outside. A good monster film yes, but really rather forgettable.

6 out of 10

I will never watch the 1998 Godzilla again. Dreadful movie and the crappiest Godzilla design of them all ( Godzilla. Twinned with Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Hill... FACT! ) and I agree with Edmund, except I'd have slapped the cast in quick drying cement and drowned the whole sorry-ass bunch of them.

I would give the 2014 Godzilla 8/10. I do agree with Thomas on one thing, the characters. I didn't care a jot for any of them.

Desplat's score is better than Arnold's but I enjoy Arnold's more than Desplat's.

I share Japanese studio Toho's feelings on the '98 Godzilla, and its reaction once the rights reverted to them.

To be sure: Godzilla: Final Wars is not the best Godzilla film out there (in fact, it's pretty poor, playing like a 60s Marvel comic where the overall story is nothing more than "hulk smashes fifteen random adversaries one after another"), but this scene made it worthwhile enough to become a part of my eclectic collection.

Wellllll...