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May 10, 2024 - 5:22 AM
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spook
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Y'all have fun with this....
Cinema has reached an impasse, a turning point.
I feel shaming, people like me, longing for....entertainment or GOD forbid, decent pop art in and from the States, and not shaming-redirecting us to foreign cinema, which I often love, but does not wholly speak to my culture, life, understanding or aesthetic.
I love it when folks here scold us sorry yanks, when we complain about the death of mainstream cinema...go watch some foreign films! Seek symphonic VGM! Ok, fine, it works for me sometimes.
But degrading a "William's born US pop cinema" person to "just go find VGM or foreign cinema" because the music is so much better, is rotten.
It took me a long & winding road to appreciate foreign films. I do....but recent works tend to fall into safe patterns, akin to US cinema. You can only play old Goldsmith, Rota, Horner or Morricone works so much...
Everyone is playing it safe. I'm beyond checked out.
More power if anyone can defend this shite, that will be TWISTERS. See my mock review and diss (sorry Thor, really, I mean it. Odds are I'm close though. I am apologetic to you however for being a real asshole). I'm laying it out, calling this garbage prior to (likely never) viewing. Wooooo. Scared, kids??
Well my friend... I think you're right.. but not wholly. It depends what we're talking about here. If its the current so called blockbusters films that studios churn out then US, International..it doesn't make a lot of difference.. they're all cookie-cutter, formulaic stuff to please an audience that just wants to sit in the cinema, eat popcorn, talk to their friends and probably spend the majority of the film on their phone! Oh yeah...and with a forgettable score to match!
But there's still gerat independant stuff produced in all genres both US and international. And come on...you're one of the few here that like horror films! There's some great stuff still produced and put out, scores included, that I come away from thinking..'wow', that isn't general multiplex audience fodder. All that crap out there makes enough money for thestudios to keep churning them out...and whether we all like it or not, artistic merit doesn't even get a look i compared to 'the business' of movies.
I still go and watch current stuff and enjoy it for what it is, with the odd one even surprising me. But I know if I want certain stuff that i will appreciate more its still out there to be found. So if you want to see things like TWISTERS you should go it know what its going to be....nothing wrong with that. On the other hand i watched a great wee drama last night called KNOX GOES AWAY. No fanfare for it but a veryrewarding experience..... Everybody wins.
Now lets all join hands and sing 'Kumbaya'!!!  .
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May 10, 2024 - 1:00 PM
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CK
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Yeah, I'm with you on this. Back when the original came out, sorry, it was ALL about the spectacle and impressive for then GGI and still decent now to be honest. I enjoy the 2 leads but the rest of the characters were silly caricatures. Mancina's score was good though. This movie is a pointless remake/retread and the effects are now truly been there done that.
Yo, Tomster! 
I'm in agreement with you. I remember seeing Twister TWENTY-EIGHT EFFIN' YEARS ago, and was very impressed and entertained by it. Mancina's score - which was my 10th CD purchase, my documentation tells me - has been a main-stay in my collection ever since, and the LLL expansion was very much welcomed. The movie is corny good fun, and still holds up well enough for repeated enjoyment.
Hope you're doing well, and that there be no twisters in your neck-o'-the-woods.
Hugs from Bavaria,
CK 
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The trailer makes this movie look so bad that words cannot describe how bad it is. Paraphrased from Carrie Fischer’s line about Bruno Kirby’s wagon wheel table in When Harry Met Sally.
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I was invited to a screening tonight at the Academy of Motion Pictures And Sciences.
I loved the 1996 film and especially Mancina’s score. I’m 100% positive none of his theme(s) will be in this one. Benjamin is a solid composer so I’m curious what he comes up with. I would hope a score will be released. I can’t think of the last time a summer blockbusters score wasn’t released.
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Twistitude
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Here's what I don't quite understand:
Alien - One alien
Aliens - Many aliens
Predator - One predator
Predators - Many predators
Twister - Many twisters
Twisters - um…?
Yeah, whatever happened to "Son of...."?
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Maybe twister is like the words sheep or fish.
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