FanFiltration

Here is DC's new re-boot Wonder Woman costume.

WTF? 

I'm just glad something that interests me is coming out for the Wii.

Having never played the old version, I am going into this game with a fresh perspective.  I may be wrong, but from what I see, this game does not follow the "Goldeneye" story plot does it?  There are characters and other elements from other films in the series.  So yes, it does look like they are using the title purely for attracting old school gamers. Is this going to be a true re-make, or more of a follow up plot wise?

I like that "Batman Forever" score too. But I have not seen the film proper, so it's just some 90's action movie music, with no ties to Batman beyond the theme motif for me. And I know that theme only from the endless media promotions for that and "Batman and Robin".

The two "Conan" movies are played often at my house  I also like the score for Kull, but the movie sucked. 

Here is a strange but great one I like to put on when  the moon is full.

"Vampyros Lesbos", a soundtrack from a 1971 low budget horror-sexploitation film from Europe.

One of the more freaky tracks from this film's soundtrack was used in "Jackie Brown".

A CNN story: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/06/23/comments.troll/index.html?hpt=Mid

Man, I remember how many of us on here had strong opinions on how "Star Trek' was going to turn out. I know that I went into the theater knowing I was NOT going to like "Star Trek" 2009.  Funny thing is that I found it very enjoyable. The exact opposite thing happened with "Watchmen".

Another example was that I was expecting to LOVE "The Dark Knight". I was totally absorbed in the hype and publicity campaign on that one. Got my opening night ticket, and did the standing on long lines for hours bit. Yet, when it was all over, I hated the film! Not just disliked, but hatted. Now come to think of it, the same thing happened with "Episode 1". 

So now after a few years, a friend asked me to watch it again. I reluctantly sat down re-watched it on Blu-ray.  I'm not sure why, but I liked it so much more this last viewing.  So much so, I ordered the disc to sit on my movie shelf. It sure seems that the excessive hype and publicity may have seriously hurt setting up the film for me.  Some films you just need to discover without any set up at all.

captainsolo said:

The Bond scores are my favorites and I feel that David Arnold's modern interpretations leave much to be desired. They lack any of the punch and thematics of John Barry's originals. The best scores are for Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I also adore the score for The Living Daylights.

The expanded Bond film scores released a few years back were a true God send. Like you, "Thunderball" is also one of my all time favorites. I love all the early Barry scores (1963 -1971) the most. The expanded OHMSS, Diamonds, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice get played the most of any of my soundtracks.   But still, I wish they would find the lost tracks for "Moonraker", that is a very good latter score. By the late 70's, Barry's scores started to sound very alike from film to film. "Living Daylights" was a truly stand out score that greatly benefited from the expanded release it got a few years ago. The original soundtrack album was not a very good representation of the entire score. Too many of the themes were just repeated after every one or two tracks, and the LP format was much too short anyway.

"View to a Kill" still suffers from that very same problem. The album contains 15 cues, yet we only get 4 new themes repeated again and again on very similarly arranged cues. Just for example, the title "A View to a Kill" is repeated twice in vocal form and twice in almost identical instrumental form. Then we get a action theme that is slightly reminiscent of OHMSS, that is repeated in 3 cues with very little variation in style. The airship theme is also repeated 3 times. And don't forget the obligatory James Bond and 007 themes that sounds as if it could have been lifted right out of "Octopussy" and "Moonraker" sessions.      

Well anyway, here is a list of some of the soundtracks I listen to quite a bit:

The "Alien" films (all 4 of them)

Shaft (Anthology / Best of Shaft)

Apocalypse Now (original CD / Redux CD /Rhythm Devils - Sessions CD) 

Battlestar Galactica 70's series (The Stu Phillips 4-CD Anthology)

Planet of the Apes series (60's/70's) (All 5 Film soundtracks)

Dune (Lynch Film)

The Final Countdown

Dirty Harry Series (all 5 film soundtracks)

Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Music (various cues from 1963-1976)

Jaws & Jaws II

Lost In Space (T.V. Show)

Rocky I,II,III

Fist Full of Dollars, For a few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Superman I, II, III, IV

Star Trek T.V. (various soundtracks)

Star Trek Films (All but Star Trek IV)

Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI)

I just love soundtrack CDs.  Some of them have such a power to bring you right back into the emotions of the film they are from. I own a bit over 1500 cd titles, and 1/3 are soundtracks or music based on a film or score.

I also find that many soundtracks I love come from movies I don't enjoy at all. "Krull" comes to mind. On the other hand, there are good films that have what I would consider (by my taste) horrible soundtracks. Now I'm thinking "Goldeneye".  

Anyway, I wanted to start this thread to discuss anything related to scores and music soundtrack recordings. One thing it may be good for is help inform other fans here about recent releases of hard to find scores and the such.  I only found out yesterday that "Star Trek III" had been given the expanded treatment by the Film Score Monthly label a few months back. There is another great score from a lame movie... 

What are some of the scores / soundtracks you people love or hate?

FF

I put in my pre-order for Wii Goldeneye.  I for one am very glad they are not using Snotty Bond's likeness in this one.

Doctor M said:

You all may want to check out BionicBob's edit, "The V'ger Incident".  It came out last month and has TMP cut to a lean 80 minutes... with a Borg reference at the end.

http://fanedit.org/10700/

Some good stuff, some so-so stuff... frankly it's still slow at 80 minutes, but I think that's because some plot threads were removed.

Anyway, it may give you some ideas what to do and what to avoid.

I just saw this edit listed on that other site, and was thinking of giving it a look. 

And I just posted on this forum a few months ago asking why this guy could not pull his life together. Sad to say that for some time now some of us could see this guy having an early and tragic end to his life.

R.I.P. Gary.

I'm expecting two Blu-ray drives (one for my laptop, and another for my desktop) for my birthday in 3 months.  For the past few weeks I've been re-visiting my "Red Curtains: Twin Peaks Revisited"  fan edit.  The 20th anniversary got me motivated on that again, and a blu-ray release of the entire series is not going to happen anytime soon.

FF

doubleofive said:

Is there a real one? I saw the Jimmy Kimmel ones.

I don't look at T.V. much, and see now that it was all a put on.  All I saw was talk about there being some kind of alternate endings, but it must be that Kimmel joke.  Too bad.

FF

Did any of you see the alternate ending I heard they had made?

This is not dead.  I'm just waiting on getting my computers updated with Blu-ray drives.

For those of you who feel you still have so many unanswered....

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291

I liked it, but the show never lived up to the potential that I thought it had.

Well, that is what seems to happen to all television shows that start out smart and gritty.  Networks get involved and demand that the show needs to keep the story telling at around 4th grade level, so they can sell more soap. 

Seems to me that it happened to "LOST" half way through season two. The show became a very popular water-cooler chit-chat topic at workplaces around this time. And, it was about this same time they started dumbing   down the scripts and it got much more sappy.  

FF

Starts in 10 min. (Pacific time zone), here we go....

The main problem I had with doing this project was the lack of quality I was getting from my LD player. It's just not in my budget to upgrade to a high end player at this time.     

For me, this season has been a real dud. The story is not exciting, and it's just so mundane now. 

How to Make Macaroni Art.

Place paper plate on table and decide what you would like to make. You can make a lot of shapes and can use square and rectangular paper to make something with your macaroni art.

You can use any variety of pasta for your art. Just be sure not to cook it first. (Partial cooking may help to re-shape the pasta)

Squeeze the glue over the lines that you drew. Then put the dry macaroni on the glue. Let the macaroni dry on the glue and you have made macaroni art. 

WARNING: DO NOT EAT THE ART!

When you want a fast meal that tastes more like salt flavored tin then pasta, reach for some mushy overcooked Chef BOY-AR-DEE!

Found this and thought some of you would get a kick out of it.

Now you can take any active web page and see how it would have looked back in the late 90's. Just as if some 13 year old would have made it, and then posted it to someplace like Geocities back in the day. 

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

Here is what this forum looks like:

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=9&url=originaltrilogy.com/forum/

Have fun.