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 Posted:   Jun 30, 2015 - 6:40 PM   
 By:   bond6007   (Member)

Next up: To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

http://www.movie-wave.net/to-gillian-on-her-37th-birthday/


You did re-review one of my favorites! big grin And it got the **** that I always wanted! Sorry James, I take back all the nasty things about you earlier... wink

Great review, your writing and listening skills have improved so much since the last time you covered these scores. Clever point about the track title, too... of course, "Distant Memories" went on to become a title for the Titanic score a year later (/insert plagiarism claims here razz ).

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 2, 2015 - 5:00 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

New review: Southpaw

http://www.movie-wave.net/southpaw/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 2, 2015 - 5:49 PM   
 By:   .   (Member)


Because I'm not an album producer, and creating albums is more than just assembling personal playlists. Album arrangement is an artform, and best served by the composer him or herself. If the composer is not available to produce/arrange the album, then I would trust an album producer to make a selection. Unfortunately, many album producers do not (at least among the specialty labels), and instead elect to present them C&C.





Like me going to Safeway and buying a cartload of food picked by the manager on my behalf, because I assume he knows more than me about nutrition.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2015 - 2:06 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Red Heat

http://www.movie-wave.net/red-heat/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 13, 2015 - 1:58 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Windtalkers

http://www.movie-wave.net/windtalkers/

I was so convinced in my mind that this one (which I hadn't listened to for years) was very dull, I ended up having to listen to it many times over the past week, I was so taken aback at how far from dull it actually is.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 13, 2015 - 3:15 PM   
 By:   music4film   (Member)

Thanks for the new reviews, James! I'm enjoying reading them.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2015 - 2:05 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Thank you!

Latest one is a score that never gets mentioned, but is really gorgeous: Dad (1989)

http://www.movie-wave.net/dad/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2015 - 2:19 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Today's review is of one of his most obscure scores, 2005's The Chumscrubber.

http://www.movie-wave.net/the-chumscrubber/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 16, 2015 - 2:53 PM   
 By:   c8   (Member)

Today's review is of one of his most obscure scores, 2005's The Chumscrubber.

http://www.movie-wave.net/the-chumscrubber/


There's a movie and a score that don't get nearly enough discussion (and given the info about how many times people saw the movie overseas its little wonder).

The movie is absolutely fantastic--I'm probably one of three people to own it--and well worth finding if you can. Deep, rich, engaging...oh so cynical. Its my kind of look at life and its held up extraordinarily well over the years. The all star cast acts with gusto and the ideas presented in the film speak a lot to even the next generation of kids. Love love LOVE it.

Horner's score fits the film like a glove (shocker!) and elevates it on an emotionally profound level. That jazzy, straight-from Shostakovich (glad you caught that, James--talk about a composer with wildly different sides!) theme just works for the quirky characters. The Beethoven inspired "Dolphins" is hypnotic to a fault, and the reflective, thoughful Digging Montage (when the characters all fall apart) just elevates the drama on screen to a very emotive level.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2015 - 12:02 PM   
 By:   c8   (Member)

One post-script to my last post is that, by request of my significant other, we rewatched the movie last night. I was surprised by how much of the score was left off the album. Most of it consisted of ambient droning. However, the cue "Dolphins" introduces a theme that appears in the score over short snippets to represent the delusions of Ralph Fiennes' character. It usually was tacked on to insignificant cues and thus is little wonder is poorly represented on the album. There's also quite a few alternates. The most notable is Digging Montage, which doesn't feature as much of the pulsing synth and features more of the hypnotic piano work.

I don't think it merits an expansion by any means--the best of the score was on the album--but it is interesting to counter James' point wondering if all the score was on the album.

 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2015 - 1:47 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Latest review: Windtalkers

http://www.movie-wave.net/windtalkers/

I was so convinced in my mind that this one (which I hadn't listened to for years) was very dull, I ended up having to listen to it many times over the past week, I was so taken aback at how far from dull it actually is.


Agreed, I only recently purchased this album from a local used record store, not knowing what to expect other than it had a reputation of being a long-winded, mostly dull listen. I found it to be a pretty great listen with some really strong action cues interspersed with great performances of the main theme. It didn't musically lean on the Native American aspect of the story as much as I thought it would, only at the start and finish, interestingly enough. So, yeah, put me in the camp that really digs this score.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 17, 2015 - 2:20 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

It's funny how the brain works. Another one I was convinced was boring (and wrote such when it was released) is Deep Impact but after a couple of listens in the last couple of days, and a viewing of the film, it certainly isn't.

 
 Posted:   Jul 18, 2015 - 3:55 PM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

I have a similar view of The Perfect Storm. Watching the film last time round, it grew on me so I had to give it a thumbs up. So much so that I now consider it a great film, in no small part due it's perfectly fitting score. We'll never know what happened to the crew and yet the film does them no discredit in fictionalizing their fate, which was so tragic. It is a monumentally significant story about the indifference of the sea. Horner was lucky to have a couple of goes at historical sea odysseys - my preference is the one concerning Andrea Gail.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2015 - 2:54 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review is Radio (2003):

http://www.movie-wave.net/radio/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 21, 2015 - 2:27 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Unlawful Entry

http://www.movie-wave.net/unlawful-entry/

This seems to be one of his least-liked albums and it's not hard to see why, but it's not entirely unrewarding.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 23, 2015 - 3:12 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: *batteries not included

http://www.movie-wave.net/batteries-not-included/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 10, 2015 - 5:25 AM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: The Spiderwick Chronicles

http://www.movie-wave.net/the-spiderwick-chronicles/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 13, 2015 - 2:32 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Deep Impact

http://www.movie-wave.net/deep-impact/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 16, 2015 - 2:17 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Courage Under Fire (1996)

http://www.movie-wave.net/courage-under-fire/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 21, 2015 - 2:35 PM   
 By:   JamesSouthall   (Member)

Latest review: Jumanji (1995)

http://www.movie-wave.net/jumanji/

 
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