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It's excellent. The same people who made those Star Wars reviews. There's also another show called Best of the Worse where they watch and discuss awful films.

On youtube?

Come on Postie, Santa or whoever, just get my copy to me quickly!

I completely disagree. Barry's Black Hole (and, to some degree, Moonraker) score(s) defined "dark SciFi scoring" for me back in the days. I think they create a terrific sense of scale and foreboding I've never ever again experienced in a SciFi movie.

Yes, that overture theme doesn't fit a bit, but it's still a part of the whole experience for me, since I was there when they actually used it the way it was intended, as an overture before the curtains opened. I had never had an overture before, so that went well with me.

The story part will seem random if you watch them randomly, but it doesn't matter too much as the bulk of it is movie reviews and discussion. I tend to agree with them a lot, although some of their recommendations have left me a little cold (like Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Enemy'. Boring is shite.) But they often have some very insightful comments on movies, particularly when reviewing bad films like Pain & Gain.

Or better yet, Thor would hate it.

Cheers

Well, he was spot on!

Just the same as SOME of us!

While all of us may have, only some of us are. Of those we can only hope a number might have been and are no longer, although aving had would entail medical problems beyond reckoning. Such as they are.

They should get off Tinder then.

Better late than never. One of those very true clichés.

NP: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - Howard Shore

This is mind bogingly awsome. I remember the shitstorm that this score met with two years ago. It's beyond me. This is awsome symphonic music. Shore has crafted his very own Ring cycle. They should perform it in Bayreuth.

Volker

I'm with the captain - I don't get it. I just don't.

Directionless?? Shore's Middle-earth scores are meticulously planned right down to the tiniest orchestrational details. Is every single one of his dozens of themes/motifs 100% memorable and worthy of a concert suite? No - but there's so much thought put into it that I just can't wrap my head around how some people either can't or refuse to hear it. What other large-scale blockbuster scores are as rich, detailed, varied as these? Seriously, can someone please tell me?

In other words - can I understand not loving the scores? Easily; tastes and all that. But so many people seem to outright dislike them or think they're not worth much. I'm sorry, but when there is so much effort, so much attention to detail, so much thought put into music, the least people can do is acknowledge that achievement. I'm not the world's biggest fan of Alexandre Desplat at a personal level, but it would be absolutely churlish of me to deny that he's one of the best film composers of the last decade, because his music is constantly slapping me in the face with how clever it is. Shore's music is equally clever (albeit in very different ways) and to have it be sneered at by so many people - often the same people who bemoan the lack of exactly this kind of nuanced, intelligent scoring in blockbusters - is heartbreaking to me.

Rant over.