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- discussion topic Now Playing XLVIII
- Comment It felt strangely dead when I watched it. Like no one involved really had any vested interest in telling the story. (There was no point being made.) But I was sorting exam papers alphabetically at the time, and maybe that's what I needed the film to be. (You don't want a film to be too interesting ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 20th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment Inside-Out deserves a chance at the Best Screenplay Oscar. Being an animated film, it probably won't stand a chance.
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 20th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment [quote][b]Steven wrote[/b] [quote][b]Captain Future wrote[/b] And art house! (Shaun, I mean.)[/quote] Yes, well, whatever art house is I'm sure that would fall under the umbrella of that which revels in its unique effect.[/quote] This was what I was catching.
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 19th 2015
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- discussion topic Now Playing XLVIII
- Comment Funny thing, Yanis Varoufakis was one of the teachers when I first learned economics at Sydney Uni.
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 16th 2015
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- discussion topic JAMES HORNER
- Comment One of his strangest (and for me, best). Horner does Thomas Newman is how I used to describe it.
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 16th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment SHAUN THE SHEEP is art house? I'm sure 80% of its principal audience would be surprised to hear that. But I guess if that's what the adults who like it need to say to tell themselves why they like it... ;)
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 16th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment [quote][b]TheWanderer wrote[/b] [quote][b]franz_conrad wrote[/b] ROADHOUSE is great. The Polar Bear![/quote] That bit was mad. :)[/quote] There's a group of filmmakers I got together with to watch it once. I wish I'd recorded the audio, it would have made a great audio commentary. (Eg in the ...
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 3rd 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment Sounds like you're [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn96jR5Geyk]too stupid[/url] to have a good time. ;)
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 1st 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment ROADHOUSE is great. The Polar Bear!
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jul 1st 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment [quote][b]Captain Future wrote[/b] I'm afraid I haven't seen any Mad MAX film so far. Somehow this apparent mixture of post-apocalyptic freak show and road movie never triggered my interest. Volker[/quote] Ah, finally someone qualified to compare the two movies. ;)
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 28th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment Superb filmmaking.
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 28th 2015
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- discussion topic Now Playing XLVIII
- Comment Extraordinary score, and one of the greatest of all films.
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 25th 2015
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- discussion topic JAMES HORNER
- Comment Well written James. The love of the music really comes through. With all that's been written by Horner over the years, I feel bad that -- ever hungry for the next thing -- I thought about those three AVATAR sequels and how it would have been nice to see him execute a vision on such a grand scale. ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 23rd 2015
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- discussion topic SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI
- Comment So glad this work has gotten a release. Film and score both deserve more of an audience.
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 8th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment :newsflash: Man discovers evidence of a deeply-held belief. :newsflash:
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 7th 2015
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- discussion topic Recent Viewing Part IV
- Comment I think Days of Future Past is fine. (Perhaps the only film in that series that actually works.) I think how you feel about these comic book films largely depends on what order you see them in. So many common beats and moments across films, if you see them later, they can feel cut from a template. ...
- Category Film, TV & DVD
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Jun 2nd 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment I think to be honest it's a sign of the power of a film score. If Williams had made less of a drama of the son running over the hill and then the firestorm that followed, audiences would have had more room for doubt. Here we are again, talking about the little things that make an idea one thing and ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 29th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment On the other hand if your composer makes your audience vicariously feel the sacrifice, you can be accused of being the boy who cried wolf by an audience who would understandably feel cheated.
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 29th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] Personally, I go to Kubrick for Kubrick and Spielberg for Spielberg. I don't judge A.I. "as if" it were a Kubrick film, even if most of the thematic ideas come from him.[/quote] Nor do I, but I don't think it works to suggest there would have been no qualitative ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment Ok, all I'm saying is that one of these things is the penultimate beat in the Kubrick film, and the other is the penultimate beat in the Spielberg one. Last impressions can be quite telling. Their endings were not equivalent in feel. I wasn't actually reacting to you funnily enough. (Surprise ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment Fair enough, but the connotations of a cup of coffee in the morning made by a child in America are rather different to the kid who runs the cocktail bar for his parent's alcoholism. If style can wipe away that difference, I grant you it is content. I don't believe it can. (Nor do I believe the ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] Never had an issue with the son turning up safe in WOTW, nor that David is making coffee instead of Bloody Mary. Both are rather marginal issues. The most interesting thing about the 'coffee' thing in A.I. is the shot of David's eyes and top of his head mirrored in the ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment It's a great film. Just a bit monophonically sweet on the home stretch. To be fair, if you don't think there's a difference in the drink, I can't convince you there is. I just sense the same filmmaker at work that had a computer sing 'daisy' to an astronaut in its dying moments. He had an almost ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment Yeah fair enough. I've never forgiven him for rescuing the son in War of the Worlds. But guys, you've actually ignored the one detail I brought up in favour of unecessary personal slam I followed it with. Bloody Mary switched for coffee. Hell of a change to the final beat. A smiling child who can ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment On AI's sentimentality, Spielberg did change one detail that made a big difference, turned an act that had a real ironic tang into something more innocent. David originally made Bloody Mary's for Monica, not coffee. So at the end he made her one. Sometimes tone is about the little things. Sweet ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 27th 2015
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- discussion topic JOHN WILLIAMS
- Comment Well I will buy AI expanded, you suckers. And I don't buy anything expanded these days.* It's one of the best, and the progression of the first and second acts was sorely lost on the previous album due to the emphasis on Monica's theme and the vocal interpretations of it. (Groban, ugh.) [small]* ...
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added May 26th 2015
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- discussion topic PR: Age of Adaline
- Comment I find it hard to believe INHERENT VICE is less satisfying than 50 SHADES OF GREY. (But you do have a thing for anything remotely near the detective genre... ;) )
- Category News
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Apr 30th 2015
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- discussion topic PR: Age of Adaline
- Comment I agree. He did a great score -- albeit very Arvo Part influenced - for FOXCATCHER. ;)
- Category News
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Apr 30th 2015
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- discussion topic CRAIG ARMSTRONG
- Comment So you [b]do[/b] like things like this thing you didn't like? ;)
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Apr 29th 2015
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- discussion topic Now Playing XLVIII
- Comment I hope it's as good as the first. I was happy to never see another season, as long as they left it on a high. :)
- Category General Discussions
- Written by franz_conrad
- Added Apr 15th 2015