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I've always felt that Die Harder and With a Vengeance were near classics just under the first. Live Free is overall enjoyable, but I've yet to see A Good Day.
For your own sake. Keep it that way. You're not missing much.
I'm torn between morbid curiousity and the perpetual stink eye from my wallet.
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Any chances that this one will be at some point available digitally? 
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But the expanded Fox titles being available digitally also includes releases from Varese Sarabande? Great! I thought it only applied to material previously released by Intrada and LLL Records.
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But it is a real possibility isn´t it? Given the fact that previous limited, deluxe editions from Varese (just a few, but still...) are available digitally now...
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When an action film score could arguably be deemed a ballet.
Well, Goldsmith’s Capricorn One literally became one…
https://vimeo.com/640474670
Yavar
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Mar 19, 2023 - 9:08 PM
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Revisiting this oddly beautiful masterwork by Maestro Kamen, and...despite 'living' with this piece for decades, I'm only now realizing this is Kamen's finest ballet (of violence!), he was able to port onto a film.
The first is wholly married to the film.
The third...half points, but there is a lot of interference.
Die Hard 2 is literally a ballet of violence, absolutely brilliant stuff.
Wondering how others view or feel about this piece?
When an action film score could arguably be deemed a ballet. Any Balfe, Jablonsky, etc works that could be heard this way? Honestly curious if there is an answer!
agree 100% -- and what is it with Kamen and Sibelius? this and The Dead Zone are my two favorites of his. and i think the interpolation of Finlandia, while perhaps less recognizable than Beethoven's Ode to Joy in the first film, is quite perfect in both providing a handy dramatic signal throughout (BAAH-dum!) and bringing just the right ridiculous edge to the tone so that I for one find myself stepping back while watching the film to just marvel at, yes, the splendid tableaux of choreographed violence. it's something Harlin somehow mastered effortlessly in this film, yet which Joel Schumacker, for instance, never quite managed to achieve despite much heavy-handed effort in his Batman films. it's rare to have a film that so deliberately and self-consciously draws the viewer out of the drama, yet comes off not as cynical but joyous, and Kamen's score just absolutely nails the tone. Of course the first film must've had Finlandia blaring in Harlin's head from the get-go...
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I have just been giving this a listen( first in a while), the first disc, so far. And as I have said before it's ' proper music'. Well orchestrated, full of tension etc. Another tick In my book is- no cheap sounding drum beats ruining it all.
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No argument here! Despite amazing highlights in both the first and third DIE HARD scores, I find that DIE HARD 2 plays best as an extended listening experience.
Completely agreed, it’s not even close… and I don’t even really *like* Finlandia. It’s easily my least favorite piece from one of my favorite composers.
Yavar
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KmG, did you get your nose done? Something is different!
He may have wiped the brown off it, that's all. 
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Regarding #4 & 5, did Beltrami ever consider continuing the tradition to include a companion classical piece to his scores?
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