Red Mosquito

Ms Harmless wrote:I much prefer a poetic mood piece than a gore fest when it comes to horror

Ms Harmless wrote:one thing I love about Michael Giacchino's score is that it's totally lacking in obvious, generic, thuddy floor-tom "action drums" (a la Nolan's, yawn); it's nearly all subtle, quiet mood-pieces instead (with occasional classy trumpet stabs to bring the kapow); it brings the film much further towards Horror than Action (and alas, I see a lot of people wanting an action movie were disappointed with it in general)

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Wright was soooo fucking boring

I dare anyone to point to a single interesting Geoffrey Wright performance

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Wright was soooo fucking boring

I dare anyone to point to a single interesting Geoffrey Wright performance

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Wright was soooo fucking boring

I dare anyone to point to a single interesting Geoffrey Wright performance

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Wright was soooo fucking boring

I dare anyone to point to a single interesting Geoffrey Wright performance

His Belize in Angels in America is outstanding. Just phenomenal.

I would be interested in seeing this. After posting I realized I did kind of enjoy his Basquiat performance, so I'd be open to this as the characters are in the same ballpark.

Ms Harmless wrote:one thing I love about Michael Giacchino's score is that it's totally lacking in obvious, generic, thuddy floor-tom "action drums" (a la Nolan's, yawn); it's nearly all subtle, quiet mood-pieces instead (with occasional classy trumpet stabs to bring the kapow); it brings the film much further towards Horror than Action (and alas, I see a lot of people wanting an action movie were disappointed with it in general)

BurtReynolds wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:one thing I love about Michael Giacchino's score is that it's totally lacking in obvious, generic, thuddy floor-tom "action drums" (a la Nolan's, yawn); it's nearly all subtle, quiet mood-pieces instead (with occasional classy trumpet stabs to bring the kapow); it brings the film much further towards Horror than Action (and alas, I see a lot of people wanting an action movie were disappointed with it in general)

Didn't care for the score either. All I could think of was Imperial March.

tree_ wrote:Reminds me of something I've been thinking about; is everything derivative of something else because of our age? Or because it legitimately sucks? I'm beginning to think mass media consumption begins to wear us thin as we get old. What impresses you anymore? It's so hard to experience anything new, right?

tree_ wrote:i was replying to burt's comment about it sounding like the imperial march

tree_ wrote:Reminds me of something I've been thinking about; is everything derivative of something else because of our age? Or because it legitimately sucks? I'm beginning to think mass media consumption begins to wear us thin as we get old. What impresses you anymore? It's so hard to experience anything new, right?

Jorge wrote:

tree_ wrote:Reminds me of something I've been thinking about; is everything derivative of something else because of our age? Or because it legitimately sucks? I'm beginning to think mass media consumption begins to wear us thin as we get old. What impresses you anymore? It's so hard to experience anything new, right?

There's something to this but I'm not there yet. Still constantly blown away by stuff I identify as artful and/or exciting (and, conversely, pissed off at stuff that I identify as stale, artless and boring).