[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

Well, Bergman was an opinionated fellow. He disliked Antonioni too, who is one of my favourite directors. Nor Godard. But he DID like Spielberg, which is a redeeming factor.

Along very similar lines, Tom, I would really recommend Bryan Forbes SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, a 1964 film starring Richard Attenborough ( in one of his creepy roles ) about the kidnapping and ransom of a child but with an interesting twist, the film also features a very good though sparse score from John Barry.

Happy Feet 2

I liked it. Not better than the second one, but I wish it we're more musicals like this,instead of the Glee/High School Musical teen crap. There's not too many songs as the first one, the score is the primary thing on the movie. Powell uses the main penguin theme from the first one in the most dramatic scenes. And like the first one, there's huge choral writing (Trapped In Emperor Land and Tapping To Freedom are examples).

This is the first time I saw a film in IMAX, and it was amazing.


By the way, I loved that they we're playing Deathly Hallows Part 2's score before of the screening.

I agree, Gilles. It's my favourite of the STAR TREKs. I love the slow pace, the loooong vista shots that are more about the audiovisuals than storytelling. Perfectly designed to let Goldsmith soar too.

But I always LOL at those people in orange suits floating around space in every other scene.

It was ME who continually calls it The MotionLESS Picture ( though I can't imagine some critics of the time missing a trick on calling that one ).

I believe Goldsmith called it his 'Vaughan Williams' score and the ominously mysterious cloud music certainly bares similarities to the great mans work.

Anyway, to say this score is FANTASTIC doesn't do it justice enough, IMO this is JG's magnus-opus, I'm still as thrilled by this score today as when I first heard it in 1979, if this film wasn't so un-moving this score wouldn't be the classic it's considered today, Thor is spot on that this film allowed Goldsmith's score to soar unhindered.

p.s. I actually do enjoy the film.

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AGREE!

ST 5 is very poor but for all that it still exudes great warmth.

That's like comparing an absolute classic to an extended Tv episo..........oh, 'ang on a sec!?

A fantastic timelapse montage of locations in the new incredible looking videogame: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Get totally mesmerized while watching by listening to Jeremy Soule's beautiful and haunting music.

Robert Englund back in monster costume! Looks like B-movie fun.

L'Aventures Extraordinaires D'Adèle Blanc-Sec

Based on Tardi's acclaimed series of French graphic novels, this film is a very enjoyable romp indeed.
It follows the adventures of tough-as-nails pre investigative journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec (the name is a pun on wine, meaning "white-dry") and her adventures in Paris just before the first World War.

This particular film, based on the first of the novels and the suggested first part of a trilogy, involves Adèle searching the globe for a cure for her sister who suffered a terrible tennis accident. Encounters involve a pterodactylus being brought to life as well as some of the most polite mummies I have ever seen.

The script is fun, with an emphasis on the adventurous and the heavy tongue-in-cheek. The settings are top notch (with CGI Paris of a hundred years ago far better than earlier French attempts to break into the serious digital Special Effects scene).
Louise Bourgoin is radiant in the lead, and the score by Eric Serra just jumps on the bandwagon of fun, being at times so lush as to be almost pastiche-like, but continuously fitting and entertaining.

I have just two niggles: first of all Tardi works in a LOT of very strong political and societal criticism in his work (and he really knows what he's talking about too), taking a very strong stand against the French political and military attitude towards and in the first World War (I cannot recommend his "Loopgravenoorlog"-translated in English as "It Was The War Of The Trenches"- highly enough!!!). But sadly this very strong dimension is diluted to almost nothing in the film, which focuses rather on outrageous Indiana Jones like aspects. Fun though it is, it does a disservice to Tardi's writing).

Secondly Bourgoin is FAR too beautiful for the title role. Adèle is basically a very unlikeable character. She's sarcastic, headstrong, unkind. Bitter, even. To have that played by a woman as beautiful as Bourgoin gives a completely different vibe to the character and her attitude than a plainer girl would have offered.

But all in all I had fun, and if a trilogy is made, I will be more than happy to go watch the two sequels!

Watching Top Gear on Dave at the moment. They are driving their Toyota to the North Pole and Ennio Morricone's The Thing is on the soundtrack.

That show sometimes has some good film music selections featured.

Hugo

Very good film, visually exquisite. I've read criticism of the music, but it was brilliant in the film, and a key part of its success. It did sound a little repetitive - perhaps that will be a problem on the album, but Shore did a good job in the film.

I've seen it some time ago, enjoyable enough movie, if you enjoy the campy'ness. At least the make-up's real and not digitally

fun score as well

6 out of 10

I like this score. Never seen the film - I may just keep it that way!