JAMES HORNER

A few years ago I thought the Oscars banned this anyway (for that precise reason).

I'd have thought that if you wanted to impress people who are not necessarily big film score fans with your music for a film, the best idea would be to produce a Thor-friendly 30-minute selection of highlights, not send out something that's 2.5 hours long and will therefore never be listened to.

Having said that, Avatar is the only score written in the 2000s so far that I could face listening to 2.5 hours of, so I wouldn't mind this!

There are really only three films - shortly to be four - that have been fully scored in the traditional sense by composers. Zimmer turned out well, although there's a degree of temp track adoption which probably played a part in that admittedly; Horner turned out not so well, and his inability to understand the dramatic implications of the temp track played a part in that. We'll see how Desplat goes.

Badlands never had a score, or a composer. The lack of a success of a composer who never existed in working with Malick is a a bit spurious.

I don't count Morricone's as a butchered score, because the European tradition Morricone is from works in such a different mindset. They provide a suite of music to be used by the filmmaker, sometimes adapting it very closely to the picture, but the sense of a cue being 'used' or 'not used' for a scene is quite different, since it was never really spotted to picture in the first place. A cue might serve a dramatic idea from the film, and scenes were edited around that piece. This is the same way Malick worked with Morricone, and the way he has worked with Zimmer / Horner / Desplat. (It was the main reason for Horner's frustration, since he could not write to picture, which is the cornerstone of his technique.) But most of the score, as released, is in the movie. Some cues appear more than once. As Zimmer also experienced, music from other sources is there. Morricone even, like Zimmer (or whoever was working on the film at MV at the time), interpolated Saint-Saens very clearly in his 'Harvest' theme.

I'm sorry, but I find your case for the superiority of Zimmer as Malickian collaborator not exactly ridicule-proof.

Michael, I never mentioned Badlands.

When it comes to Morricone, yeah, possibly it's the European school and Days of Heaven still is something I gotta see as a movie and I was honestly repeating some opinion. I never said the score was butchered, too, I just said that it might have been used *instead*.

415 $ at the time of writing ! YOWZA !!!!

We know, we've all seen your posts in the Now Playing thread.

Well, of course -- that's what I get when I play garbage like "Enemy At the Gates" and "Krull". You were perfectly justified in noting that.

One of us then ?!

Followed by the first Batman.

I said elsewhere that if I had them I would sell them but I would be generous and throw in free P&P.

Well, auction will be over in about 2 hours and the price of the 3-disc-set has already reached 1'525 Dollars... that's really creazy! ;-)
Go for the 2'000 mark! ;-)

Well, it's occured to me before, and I was reminded of it when someone brought up similar thoughts at the FSM messege board, we're assuming it's a collector who won that. Maybe it's the studio bidding on it to make sure it doesn't leak out.

In my view, simply forcing the auction to end by complaining to eBay, would still leave the item in the possession of the seller, and cause undue trouble to someone who actually hasn't committed a crime yet. Selling a promotional CD that isn't authorized for sale, is supposed to be a crime, but if it's still selling, it isn't sold, and there's no illegal profit yet.

So, it finally sold for $3060. I think the studio thing is correct because if it's indeed a fan who won it, he's both insanely wealthy and retarded.

Yeah, it certainly looks like that.

...and it's just been leaked on the Internet, if you know where to look.

Could be Ron Burbella striking again. He has automatic bidding software that often gives him the object at some outrageous price. I remember he paid $500 for the BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN promo.