[Closed] Recent Viewing Part II

Birth

Really liked the premise of the film and found it to be an interesting watch. Nicole Kidman shines like never before. Desplat's score is the high point of the film for me. Gorgeous opening scene ('Prologue') and another lengthy scene at a concert where the focus is only on Kidman. Perhaps this is the kind of music he needs to do to win an Oscar-- give them something big instead of being subtle.

ah, you see?

Oh, OH!
NICE!

Oh, I *do* like the second one (but then I like my cheese sliced THICKLY. With PORT. By THUNDER.

(Could you maybe post the original as well, for comparison's sake? I have NO memory of how the original track sounded)

I'd like to see someone do a Rahman version as well! Wouldn't it be cool to see Iron Man BHANGRAAAAAAaaaaaaaa... well...maybe not.

The second holds that cool theme statement I love so much, and it actually works cheesy enough

Good work Eric, you understand easily enough which music can work with which scene Ps, have you checked out my trailer version I made of Transformers II?

FFS... I completely blocked that out when viewing it.
Amazing how the whole portent of a scene can change simply by applying a musical tweak: now rather than a video game, it's suddenly a superhero movie.
That's how much difference the proper music makes.

FWIW, a fan-made clip of Spiderman-2 set to music from an early 90s work by Rahman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aDsXVlrp1M

This is like one of those Maxibon icecreams that just seem glued together.
It just doesn't work at all. What was the point in that?

(Thanks for even trying though, BhelPuri. )

it's fixed, now check it

Yeah, but I was hoping for tabla madness.
I'm so disappointed.

Glad you liked it, of course I'm stuck to the course of the original trailer, let me have all the freedom these trailer guys receive, and I can perfect it to the bone, but I'm pretty proud of the result

But as said, you good too man

With all these great clips from Erik of matching up good music to films, I thought it might be fun to put together something which matches so badly, the laughter is enough to make your sides hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCK0AQ4tYYU

Actually you picked the only scene where the score works

Oh man, what a boring and stupid movie that was.

I liked the premise of the film, but to me the end of the journey determines a lot of what I feel about the film, and despite the sublime final minutes of the film, the ending of BIRTH let me very unsatisfied. But the score! What a score!

Recently viewed... W (Oliver Stone). Ok - Stone pitched this one in the right territory. There's a lightness to this film that works a lot better than the apocalyptic tone of NIXON would have. Josh Brolin makes for a great George W Bush, and most of his team - from Dreyfuss as Cheney to Scott Glenn as Rumsfeld - are very well cast. The problem with the film is that it doesn't really have a strong sense of narrative drive about it, it ends up playing father/mother/lover/brother flashback games (when NONE were needed), and it doesn't really find a good ending to the story.