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At work, I whistle well-known tunes from famous films that I KNOW my colleagues will know but can't place, and when they ask me to reveal the film's name, I just keep on whistling...
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Danny Elfman is wonderful at coming up with main themes, but then the rest of a score begins and I lose interest.
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Does anyone else here have things they'd almost rather not admit to fellow score enthusiasts
No. And if I did, I'd almost rather not admit them here.
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Feb 10, 2017 - 7:21 AM
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Thor
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Not many posts after the bump up. I guess we're less confessional than we used to be...
Well, for my own part, most people know my "minority" views on most things (beacuse I've been so vocal about them in the past), so hardly any need for confessionals anymore.
But to recap:
* I hate complete and chronological releases
* I never understood the big appeal of STAR TREK or JAMES BOND
* I never understood the appeal of Michael Giacchino or Alexandre Desplat
* I think Jerry Goldsmith was a fine composer, but overrated here at FSM
* I think there are as many good scores coming out today as there was before. It's only a matter of where you look.
* I think Hans Zimmer is one of the best film composer of all time
* I think Junkie XL is one of best and most interesting composers currently working
* I have major issues with certain parts of Ennio Morricone, John Barry or Bernard Herrmann
* Big, bombastic, rambunctious, classically symphonic adventure film music tends to bore me to tears these days
* Give me a soft, ambient, electronic texture any day of the week!
That's a start. I have plenty more! 
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Posted: |
Feb 10, 2017 - 8:41 AM
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ANZALDIMAN
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Pre-9/11 thread with a whole bunch of folks who posted that are long gone from this board.
Starblade, cine-cin, ahem, Brutus, Kimiakane, Beatty, Spacehunter, Marian Schedenig, H.Rocco, Andre Lux, Matt Perkins, K-9 (RIP) Batmusicfan, CAT, Jostein, JohnSWalsh.
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My confession is I love Thor even though I hold almost the polar opposite opinions on almost everything he says.
Except on Jerry Goldsmith. What he said, I agree with.
Cheers
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Other confessions:
I've hated almost every 'blockbuster' score for the last 20 years. Generic.
I'm not impressed by the whole 'crash bang wallop orchestra and great grand choir of the apocalypse' thing that seems to dominate film music today.
I hardly notice the score in films any more and on a new film it's one of the least likely things I'll comment on.
I think 'action' music is generally the lowest form of film music, not the highest. (Jerry Goldsmith could elevate action scoring to a higher form, though.) I'm more impressed by the ability of music to create a sensitive, emotional moment than I am it's ability to be loud and noisy.
I post in this forum and I read it for news, but I don't enjoy this forum like I used to.
Cheers
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