Recent Viewing Part IV

I like Speed both as a movie and a score. Mancina's action scoring is energetic and aggressive but in a very listenable way (if that makes sense). And his more emotional passages (especially for the death of one of the characters (a great example of a cue title spoiler)) are, to me, quite strong.

I saw Argo for the first time last night, and loved it so much! Very impressed by Ben Affleck as a director, and it had all the elements that I love most in movies, a little comedy, action, emotional drama...the score from it is also my favorite Alexandre Desplat score, but I had never heard it in context before. Great film!

Perhaps an example where an album's track order has nothing to do with the chronological order in the film, nothing to do with the musical experience being the best but rather slapping a lot of exciting tracks at the start to get people to buy the album.

Potential buyers listen to the clips from the first 6-7 tracks and think "yes, this sounds great", buys the album and then hears the rest and thinks "well, the first 6-7 tracks were good!"

Watched the first episode of Tales from the Loop. Anyone else watch it when it first showed?

I quite enjoyed it. Maybe it wasn't executed as well as it could have been but I liked the ideas. And it's always nice seeing Jonathan Pryce - born here in my current home town.

I've watched only 2 episodes now and, although I do like the descending piano motif as a musical idea, I find it very distracting because it's so recognisable it drags me out of the story rather than supporting the story itself.

The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)

Sometimes you wonder, are it the 37.612 people that are wrong (who rated it 7 or higher), or you the 1 that absolutely thinks this is rubbish? Knew nothing about it, so totally unbiased and saw it was getting great ratings at IMDB and I literally had to stop after 37 minutes because I couldn't take it anymore. Now only the stupid animation was irritating me but also the utterly non hilarious comedy that was being pushed in your throat.

So I know I can't grade this honestly, but am I wrong to stop at 37 minutes, or did anyone quit before it?

Just watched the first episode of KATLA, an Icelandic drama about people being unearthed from a glacier as a volcano erupts. And enjoyed the interesting score by Högni Egilsson which I hope gets some sort of a release.

You won't like the music much.

It's an interesting story (only watched the first episode so far) but the look of the show is very impressive. Some of the imagery so far is spectacular!

Though I don't think that I would like to live there!

So far, not a lot of Netflix series wowed me with their music. So not expecting much

I just watched that disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow from 2004 for the first time last night in honor of my dad's birthday. I scanned the reviews and mainly the complaints were about the plausibility (or lack there of) so I thought it was the perfect movie to celebrate my dad with. Even though he passed away suddenly in 2016, he would have enjoyed ripping a movie like that to shreds with commentary on how ridiculous parts were, as we watched it, so that made me smile and want to see it. It was entertaining fluff, not bad Gyllenhaal acting, pretty bad Quaid acting, and by a composer I hadn't heard of - anyone know much about Harald Kloser? Is the score any good on it's own?

It's a great movie that I watch every other year or so.

It's Kloser's best score, although I'm one of the few who also really liked his and Wander's MIDWAY - also for Emmerich.

So finished KATLA. It was a pretty good show -- a kind of Icelandic version of the French series LES REVENANTS. Love the mood. It's better than the last couple of feature films Kormakur has done; harkens more back to his excellent first film THE DEEP. Seems to set up for a second season too.

Ted Lasso: season 1

Wow. I love soccer and few movies have treated this well. Somehow it doesn't feel the same to recreate the same feeling as other films can of other sports. So I want to thank the makers solely for getting it almost right. The authenticity I mean. However everything's right about this series. It's so funny, it's so witty, and it's so love-able. It's been done before yes, but when it's done right I do not care about it at all. I just open my heart and let it all sink in.

Damn brilliant and utterly memorable, the characters made this a hoot from start to finish.
Go team Richmond.

Thor and Alan, somehow (you as a fellow soccer fans) might love this too.

Goodness, that bad the score?