I don't necessarily agree with you, but Morricone is one of my faves, as well. Meanwhile, on the SAW front, the official site is finally up -- and it's a trip: http://www.howfuckedup.net 

Chinatown
The score was responseable for
A great bulk of its odd California Noir mood 

is one of my favorite flms ever. Class in each and every department. 

will always be Planet of the Apes. The music when I first heard it was so alien, and yet perfectly suited to the movie. My first taste of post-modernism -- even though at the time, I had no idea what it was, just thought it was really really cool =D 

would have to be my personal favorite of Goldsmith.

The bit where they discover the big fossilised alien in his gun turret, the music in that scene is great.

I also saw the hunt for Red october yesterday and obviously I was seeing the wrong submarine movies before because this and Das Boot have completely changed my opinion of the submarine genre. 

"submarine genre" ?

That's a new one... 

It's official, biatches! In other news, Star Wars ROTS and has been rotting ever since 1983. 

new scenes :

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1090681214 

Quite a bit has happened this weekend in Movie Geekdom. At Comic-Con, we got the EpIII title, and the first real look at RotK:EE, although I'm not sure I dig what I'm hearing about the cinematography in the Mouth of Sauron scene; I think we got our fill of Rotting Mouth Closeups in Smeagol's Gollumisation sequence, thank you very much.

Now I hear the Star Wars:OT DVDs have been leaked (ROTJ at least), confirming some truly horrific Lucasian Revisionism - Hayden Christensen's head pasted onto Sebastian Shaw's body? I think I'm gonna barf. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/
Has anyone seen it yet? How is it? 

I saw it last night.
The 5 of us got to the theater halfway into the previews, with nowhere to sit, so we ended up lying down on the floor right in front of the screen -- it was like real life fov 120! The movie was good, it continues fairly well from the original, but I found some of the character addition/deletions lacking much purpose and substance. However, Matt Damon is superb as ever in his role, and the action sequences are, as expected, really fucking cool.

Verdict: spend the money for the theater showing version 

I hope the fight scenes in this one are better than the first. The choppy, strobe-like editing style really didn't do anything for me. 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/03/news_6104071.html 

I hope the fight scenes in this one are better than the first. The choppy, strobe-like editing style really didn't do anything for me.

I really dug the fight scenes in the first one. Yes, they were really choppy, annoying, like from a music video, but they really drew me in. I was as stunned as the protagonist when he fought those two policemen. 

I went to see it hoping for an movie in the Alien style. It's really more of a Preditor movie though. If you saw it you would know exactly what I meant. So it's ok, but it's not going to redefine genres for you. 

just caught this last Friday, much preferred the original cut. The 20 mins of extra footage explains the time travel aspect more but hinders the pace and mood otherwise IMO.

Also saw hellboy and thought it was ok but the potential was there to be much much better. 

Donnie Darko Director's Cut
just caught this last Friday

I want to see it, too. :( 

is AvP as shite as I've heard/read? Anyone seen it? 

What am I? Chopped liver? 

I was vaguely considering seeing this, but then I heard they had a facehugger-pause-bullet-time-pan-round-360-unpause shot. Which just about made me want to ram a rusty glave up P.W.S. Anderson's talentless, derivative arse. 

that should be: facehugger-pause-bullet-time -pan-round-360-unpause shot 

You are kiding? o_0
Please god, say it ain't so...




/Kell weeps 

The film takes anything remotely cool from the two franchises, and flushes them down the crapper. But then again I wouldn't expect anything less from Paul "Wretched Shit" Anderson. 

if you go in expecting shit stacked high, you'll come out disappointed.

If you go in expecting anything else, you'll pull all your hair out and then proceed to pull the hair off anyone else in the vicinity.

Yes, it's that bad. And even in the hands of Paul W Anderson, it couldnt have been worse. 

*very* short anime title.

Visually its bloody fantastic, I've never seen animation this good. But its all style, all of it. Luckily it runs for only about 45 mins but its worth a look for the eye candy anyway.

Also finally finished 24 season 2. Silly, preposterous stuff but after about a dozen episodes, it's really fun and interesting.

Season 1 was far more compelling though.