Recent Viewing Part IV

Ha, ha...this year must be a record year in terms of how different opinions we have on whatever we're hearing. Can't remember it being like this before. Weird.

Just saw a documentary about the German terror group RAF on TV that was scored with Zimmer's INTERSTELLAR. That score has become kind of omnipresent in documentaries hereabouts.

Volker

If they wanted to add a twist of dramatic irony (and terrible punmanship) they should score that documentary with some Ron Goodwin or something.

Just saw Tomorrowland today. Went in with low-ish expectations and left having enjoyed the past two hours. It's preachy, but hell, why not! And Giacchino's fun score works very well on the most part.

Just on Temple of Doom, I think it has some truly great scenes and moments and .....SCORE!
Every freakin' note is brilliant fun! The old album presentation is fine but for decades I'd been waiting for cues that were omitted from the LP. Sadly still waiting for a couple to one day get released in deluxe form.
My beef is that too many parents let their kids watch this treating it like a Disney family film when it contains human sacrifice and immolation in a truly horrific way. I was sixteen when I first saw it and that stuff messed with me big time! So, if that scene was pulled back perhaps I'd like the film even more.
Yes, the end of Raiders is gruesome but it's done with awesome spectacle (and to the "baddies").
But I guess I'm just biased because I LOVE Raiders and would never dare pick on my all time favorite film!

Temple of Doom is a hoot, the best viewing I saw was at Glastonbury Festival in the open with a very lively crowd who booed, jeered and cheered the exploits from beginning to end, easily the best movie viewing experience I've had.

Loads of boozed up ( and other things ) people

For my own entertainment I far prefer Raiders and Crusade.

Yeah, that about sums it up - a good 'bad movie'. As for seeing it with other people, I've become more and more weary of that over the years. Maybe it's because I've been "spoiled" with press screenings etc., but the best film experiences are NOT the ones in regular, public cinema screenings anymore. Too many people without social skills (lighting up the room with their cell phones, chatting, kicking in the back of my seat, friggin' eating their smelly dinners etc.)

My favourite press screening experience was Snyder's Man of Steel and the audience laughing in two moments:

1. When Kevin Costner dies
2. Russell Crowe saying "I am your father".

Anyone watching the documentary, ATTENBOROUGH'S BIG BIRDS on BBC2?

It has one of the most intrusive and terrible scores that I have ever heard. Waiting to see who it's composed by.

This fellow, apparently.

Anyone watching (or has watched) the Swedish drama Jordskott?

I watched the first episode last night and it was a bit intriguing. There also a bit of the supernatural about it, seemingly related to wood/forest. Any opinions from anyone who has seen it?

The second episode is tonight (on ITV Encore) and I will tune in to see how it develops.

Cheers James. I thought that I was the only person who had even heard of it!

I'm still trying to fathom what this is going to turn out to be: either a abduction/murder-solving mystery or a Mother Earth saving the planet from humans/abduction/murder-solving mystery.

There's certainly something intriguing about it that's keeping me watching.

I hated THE LEGO MOVIE. Not only because I didn't care much for Lego while growing up, but because I felt it was a noisy and aggravating affair. I'm well aware of what they were trying to do (the satire aspect and all that), but it was simply not for me. However, your enthusiasm was shared by the editor of the film magazine I work for.

He, he....I know. I was an odd kid. Found Lego boring. I DID have an interest in Playmo, though, and as I grew older, action figures became the big thing for me.