The movie looks good, Shaiman said that its the best movie he has worked on and it can gives him a chance to write a very MOVING, TOUCHING score.. do you remember Patch Addams and Simon Birch..
those scenes: "action" by car, motorbike, parachutes.. and the illness/cancer theme, can give a great chance to write a moving score!
Im willing to see the movie and heard the score... and so many changes for Oscar nominations.. Nicholson and Freeman are getting nice reviews...
It's not like Shaiman has been attached to that many really good movies...this one looks cute, little more. Maybe the first decent Rob reiner movie since AMERICAN PRESIDENT. I already can feel the diabetes acting up after Shaiman's ultra-sweet score.
I will go see this movie and take a GIANT box of Kleenex with me. I love schmaltz and saccharine. In the midst of all the gore, violence and supposed reality that permeates some of our current movies, I'm ready to watch a movie that taps into the human heart. I know this will be a cliche: someone is dying and only through being terminal does he come to value life's gifts. Been there; seen that before, but it is a message that bears repeating every so often. We need reminders now and then about the "lights" in life.
I'm sure Shaiman's score will be sad and sweet and (shock!) even melodic. That's okay with me. I grow weary of ambient noise and uber-reality, but I never grow tired of watching Cary Grant realize that his love is wheelchair bound in An Affair To Remember, nor do I tire of that lovely melody in the movie.
Those with hearts of stone should avoid this movie. I've got my handkerchief in my hand and am ready to avoid bile and embrace, for a few shining hours, huge dollops of sentimentalism. So there!!!
Well, that's fine, Joan, but I rarely get touched if they smear on too thick with the schmalz. This is unfortunately the case with Shaiman in most cases (although he's done some fine things when he's not working in that genre). It's about doing those "light" issues with finesse, restraint and dignity. THEN I'm there!
But seeing as this film will star my favourite actor of all time, Jack Nicholson, there might be something worthwhile nonetheless and I'm definitely seeing it for that reason alone!
Well, that's fine, Joan, but I rarely get touched if they smear on too thick with the schmalz. This is unfortunately the case with Shaiman in most cases (although he's done some fine things when he's not working in that genre). It's about doing those "light" issues with finesse, restraint and dignity. THEN I'm there!
But seeing as this film will star my favourite actor of all time, Jack Nicholson, there might be something worthwhile nonetheless and I'm definitely seeing it for that reason alone!
I saw the film yesterday. Good one, but really not more than that.
Marc Shaiman was clearly (and thankfully) more understated here than he has been in movies like The American President and Patch Adams. Some of it reminded me a bit of Zimmer's jazzy Renaissance Man, with the trumpet performed by Chris Botti.
