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The only downloads I've been really tempted to buy are the Cloverfield end title suite and the complete Arnold Casino Royale, because both of those seem comparatively justifiable as download-only releases (no one expects a ten-minute Cloverfield CD, and the released Casino Royale CD is long and very well sequenced). But for Disney to not release Up and Toy Story 3, especially after both scores are Oscar and Grammy winners, is just plain chintzy.
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I listened to a couple tracks- didn't do much for me but I will listen again before I decide to buy. At least we're given the luxury of previewing before buying. I remember in the record days where you just had to hope in some cases (more for pop albums than scores mind you)
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Mar 10, 2011 - 10:36 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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This is easily my favourite film for quite a while.
I just absolutely loved it.
The main reason is the two main characters, played by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, who have the best on-screen chemistry I've seen in quite some time.
I was instantly sold on their romance, despite the almost ridiculous first kiss in the gents.
Even when some major plot holes started to appear in the film, their situation and the brilliantly realised agents of the bureau kept me tagging along.
I also appreciated Thomas Newman's score.
Sure, it was nothing new under the sun from him, but it had HIS character. HIS style. It made the film somehow more unique. Not just some phoned-in droned-in.
I could easily watch this film again, and probably will.
There are obvious comparisons with INCEPTION, a film I admired technically, but pretty much hated on an emotional level, but it just highlighted the influence of Philip K Dick on a lot of recent/past sci-fi. Even Stephen Kings epic DARK TOWER series seems to be taken straight from the pages of Philip K.
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I listened to the :30 clips on amazon or somewhere and the score didn't catch me at all. Hopefully I'll see the film soon and the score will grab me. I'm more of a fan of Thomas's Fried Green Tomatoes, Green Mile, Shawshank kind of scores.
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I think they're making a mistake with this pricing. And I say that fully acknowledging that the cost of making the physical CD, as important as that is to many of us, is a very small part of the cost of the production of a CD. They're in business to make money, and that's fine. But I do think many will balk at this price.
Steve Jobs argued for years to keep the 99¢/song pricing across all songs, and under $10 for albums, because he felt instinctively that that was a price point people were emotionally willing to go for. But in the face of a full-scale revolt from the labels (who are deeply suspicious of Apple, and not without reason given Apple's power), he had no choice but to give in to a three-tiered pricing model. At least at first, the extra 30¢ a label gets from a hit song priced at $1.29 was more than off-set by lower sales of the higher-priced songs. (I haven't read any more recent reports on this, so that may have changed.)
I work in television, and have watched powerlessly as the shows we make get shorter and shorter as the networks sell more commercials, to the point where a show is fully one-third commercials. I realize that these commercials pay my salary, but I also believe that the shows have become swiss cheese, too short to tell a compelling story and too full of interruptions to get any momentum going. I know that giving up commercial time is anathema to a network, but I choose to believe that if the shows were longer, the ratings would be higher, and they could charge more for each of the fewer commercials.
Similarly, I believe that a lot of downloadable music would sell sufficiently more copies at a lower price point to off-set the lower price.
That said, it's not my money I'd be gambling with. They are welcome to charge what they think they can get, even if I find it misguided. I'll probably get "The Adjustment Bureau," because I'm a big Thomas Newman fan. But the $12.99 has given me pause. (At $9.99, I probably would have bought it already.)
Is a thirty minute show now twenty-one and change? I think that's what I remember these days.
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Its not the point I know...but I'm justifying my purchase. 
