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Startling Stories on the Silver Screen [Movies]
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I'm just excited that Starship Troopers is going in a whole new direction.
Will Rob Lowe's hockey skills be the key to driving off the bugs for good? Or will it be Canadian politeness combined with French rudeness that wins the day?
Why I fear the ocean.
you chose this
PotC rips off HUGELY from the rock. (they are both Jerry Bruckheimer productions)
Satans..... hints.....
The real villain is Vision, that hypocritical asshole.
I have the soundtrack to some Wesley Snipes film that Zimmer scored I picked up for a dollar from a used bookstore a million years ago.
One of the tracks on there is pretty much just a synth demo of one of the PotC songs. Whatever the song is called, where the Kraken sinks the ship.
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his work on lost blows pretty much every other show's scores out of the water, it's a huge part of what makes that show as great as it is
That's one of Zimmer's strenghts I would say. He’s no stranger to cribbing from himself and others (Interstellar could’ve been scored by Philipp Glass) but he’s really good at still making scores sound very distinct.
Partly because I think he's excellent and also because he's shown a degree of being able to work in the train of John Williams before (in the Harry Potter franchise) and I was very curious to see what he'd do this time with the iconic Star Wars themes.
his Harry Potter work was pretty weak, i felt, especially considering a lot of the bigger moments in the movies he did ended up using music from previous movies
a better showcase of his style reflecting Williams' would be his Godzilla score, which, while not perfect, had some solid work, like this one
My love of Alexandre Desplat mostly stems from his work with Wes Anderson, which has been consistently great, but I've enjoyed several of his other scores.
For Giacchino, I never watched Lost either, so I'm missing a great body of his work. But his work with Pixar and JJ has been blockbusterific.
Between the two, considering what I've seen, my impression of the difference between them is that Desplat is less in-your-face than Giacchino; he generally uses more subtlety and evokes more grounded emotions. Giacchino makes more obvious music, and carries a bright and exciting feel.
As I was hoping that Rogue One would be the grittier serious heist/spy thriller Star Wars story, I was excited for Desplat because I thought he might be able to enhance that angle, to evoke the greater tonal difference between this movie and the core Star Wars episodes. I think for the way they've pushed the movie back toward a Sci-fi action adventure, maybe Giacchino will be able bring that out more. But part of me is still really hoping for a Rogue One movie that is more like the teasers than the trailer.
But either way, I don't think either of them is a bad choice. They're both top shelf; I found the idea of what Desplat could bring more exciting, but that's purely personal subjective opinion.
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2
Indiana Jones
Ghostbusters
The Lion King
You can just shorten it to AJ
*well, probably almost good bits in reality. I'm a very forgiving movie watcher and I'm always looking for the good in films which is why I'm careful with what I watch.
**I don't believe in "good-bad", it's just good, but it is a different kind of good which is why I still use the term.
*** this film has more endings than The Return of the King. Some of them twice.
It's far from the worst Christian film. Still far from a good one, but it's at least somewhere in sight of the uncrossed finish line.
I can believe the double-dutch though.
It's not his fault people just wanted the Batman theme over and over.
Which, after having watched it, is about all of that movie I'm going to see.
Yes it takes elements from other things but it's endlessly Hummable and fits that movie just exceptionally well
I love that soundtrack
It's interesting when listening to the scores of the first three PotCs that you can hear how the first movie has comparatively simple arangements and over the nex two movies at least part of the pieces get ever more elaborate and pile on ever more themes on top of each other.
Well the first film, Zimmer wanted to score it but was contractually obligated not to be working on other films at the time, so he churned out the leitmotifs over a weekend and handed it off to an understudy or whatever. Then he took over for the sequels.
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I can't think of a better one since 2000
Zimmer does great work but he's also super prolific so like six times out of ten he just churns out something mediocre, but those four times are really something
I like Marco Beltrami, I think he does awesome stuff that occasionally gets overlooked. Michael Giacchino of course, and occasionally Alan Silvestri or Clint Mansell
But it's rare that film music really penetrates the public consciousness, I think. Especially these days
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Drive and It Follows come to mind first
it's not wholly traditional instrumentation, but it's also not riding that same electronic wave
I really much prefer electronic ones these days tbh
I don't know enough of the genre to know honestly
Those drums, man. Those friggin drums.
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So well chosen though
It is very good
I'd have to try and go through a list, but thats definitely the one that jumps out first