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Never gonna happen. Jay Roach is a fucking cunt of a liberal pansy that won't do something that would have such a negative ending. One could say that about 2008's "Recount" because it didn't go "their way", but I don't think the Hollyweird machine will let Roach show the pant-suit hag melting down and drinking herself into a stooper as it's been said from back then.
Yep - saw it in the theater twice, actually, back then. It was a great experience and oddly enough, first time I watched it the theater was about half-full. Second time (the following weekend), the theater was packed.
Well, I guess.... He got a chainsaw in his balloon knot. Poor bastard couldn't get a nut before he bought the farm.
Would have been even more entertaining if TUNEMAN would have spelled "bomb" like "bom" in The Last Boy Scout and Canoe Reeves would have told him that "bom" means "fuck you" in Polish.
There's a girl that's getting her squish mitten pounded in the shower but you don't see tit or vag until she's been SPOILER: chainsawed...
sharpfish has a perfect synopsis of this. He definitely didn't want chemo or radiation because of watching his wife suffer.
Yeah, no.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA No.
Brucccce Kasiaski.... San Fransico University... Tight End....
Next year I hope to be a WIIIIIDE Retheeever!
Tam,
I spit my coffee out!! HAHAHA, I totally forgot about Black Rain and I remember liking that score when I was younger. This is great!
Also, not sure if you remember this one. This was an actual trailer for Avatar and they used "My Name is Lincoln" from The Island (2005). I thought that was a good testimony to Jablonsky but I was surprised they used it in an Avatar trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSNL1qE6VY
Yep - a little "borrowing" from his original mentor, haha.
Definitely "Arrival to Earth" in the 2007 movie as well as "Skorponok" (the thundering theme of the A-10 attack). Also check out tracks "Decepticons", "The All Spark" and "Bumblebee Captured".
In "Revenge of the Fallen", there are a lot of rehashed moments in the score but there's some really catchy melodies in "Infinite White".
100% agreed. This was way too long and so many hokey scenes... Keeping up with the spirit of our Backdraft score discussion, I will say that the score for ROTF was a banger. But yes, the first is a masterpiece compared to this one.
Good points, but I know that the judge does tell him in the first minute or so that "approving a lawyer from out of state is an informal process". And of course, it was 1992 and the web was just introduced at that time so I think that the speed by which information is acquired was definitely slower.
Schenker is a great player - he influenced a ton of people. I've been into the Shrapnel folks (Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Jason Becker) to the mainstream guys (Steve Vai, Eric Johnson) and the fringe ones (Shawn Lane, Michael Romeo, Guthrie Govan). I agree that King Eddie was good in both versions of VH. I was lucky in that I got to see him live a bunch of times throughout my life.
Oh, and I watched Toy Soldiers again last night. That still holds up!
You nailed some excellent choices there too. I love the Toy Soldiers movie, totally underrated. Basil Poledouris is great for those thundering scores. I love the Klendathu Drop from Starship Troopers. Harold Faltermeyer is outstanding. For so many years, I wanted the track from the training sequence which is a play on Cheap Trick's "Mighty Wings" and they just recently re-released the expanded score. Jerry Goldsmith is great too - a lot of catchy pieces in the movies you mentioned.
I know the first Young Guns is different but I think that's why I liked it. I am an instrumental guitarist (well, I used to be - all vocal now) but I grew up listening to the shredders and I liked the guitarists that you could "sing along to" whilst enjoying a barrage of arpeggios, haha.
Van Halen... well, to put it simply - yes to both. I think they both brought value to Eddie's playing. Humans Being, Dreams, Dance The Night Away, Atomic Punk, Ain't Talkin', Hot For Teacher and even Tattoo. Different singers, different vibe but unmistakably Eddie!
Oh, and thank you for the correction on Titanic's score. It was late, haha.
And yes, Pearl Harbor is a great score with some good soundtrack choices as well.
What are your favorite scores/composers?
Oh man, you had to go there! Haha!
Howard Shore - Return of the King (from the movie of the same name), in fact, most of the scores from all three movies in the trilogy are amazing
Alan Silvestri - The Real Hero (Avengers: Endgame) and Portals is badass... I also liked his work in Cast Away and Forrest Gump as well as Contact (even though that's a rehashing of Forrest Gump's music)
Hans Zimmer (of course) - Days of Thunder, Gladiator, Hannibal, Backdraft, Black Hawk Down, Top Gun: Maverick, too many others to list
Steve Jablonsky - Lone Survivor, Transformers (the first two films have great scores), The Island ("My Name is Lincoln" is my all-time favorite movie piece of music)
James Newton Howard - Titanic (some of those pieces are really beautiful)
Anthony Marinelli - Young Guns
Bill Conti - The Right Stuff (this one is one of my favorites that got me into film scores)
John Debney - Jobs (2013), I really love the "Recruiting Team Macintosh" piece and there's also Daniel Pemberton that did the Steve Jobs movie (2015). I love the "Revenge" piece and the "1998 The New iMac". Very synthy and just catchy.
There's a few others... Danny Elfman is really great for the Burton films and others.
Much respect to the OG John Williams of course, but I always regarded his music as "Themes" where some of the modern composers make "songs". It's hard to describe sometimes.
Oh man, that is an INCREDIBLE score! I agree that he, and others, do recycle certain themes - I think that's the nature of the industry they're in. But, yeah, Black Hawk Down is sublime. I have also grown to really like Steve Jablonsky's work - and I know he worked with Zimmer on some stuff. I don't care for the Transformer movies (except the 2007 one) but Steve's score on those is great.
Always good to chat with someone who appreciates the movie music.
I noticed that POTC had some re-hashed themes from Gladiator (which I think is incredible) but I definitely liked the themes from the Dark Knight and I really thought Interstellar's was a nice departure from the thundering scores that many action movies he's worked on.