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ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:47 pm It's an interesting one... I'm very fond of Zimmer and Villeneuve, yet I have no fondness for this movie at all (or BR2049 for that matter) - and consequently, no interest in getting the score. What's it like as a listen?Put me in the timeline where Jóhannsson’s BR2049 worked out (wtf happened on this?) and lived to create Dune as well. RIP to a talent lost far too young.
I picked up the BR2049 score at the time thinking it might be something that would grow on me but I've literally played it through just once. I just don't think it's very good.
ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:47 pm It's an interesting one... I'm very fond of Zimmer and Villeneuve, yet I have no fondness for this movie at all (or BR2049 for that matter) - and consequently, no interest in getting the score. What's it like as a listen?So I felt the same way as you on 2049, but the film did grow on me tremendously over the years and only recently have i started listening to the score again. its not great but it is pleasing in a white noise sort of way, but when the best part of the score is just the cover of the original score...eh, sort of wanted more. i'm not usually all that fond of Zimmer in general, I like about 1/3 of his stuff, so it sort of confirmed that his style isn't always for me.
I picked up the BR2049 score at the time thinking it might be something that would grow on me but I've literally played it through just once. I just don't think it's very good.
Hatter313 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:56 pmThanks fella - on balance it's probably worth me giving it a listen I think. The film, on the other hand, I've tried three times to rewatch and get about 20mins in each time. It's a total bust for me. Not for lack of trying eh? ;)ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:47 pm It's an interesting one... I'm very fond of Zimmer and Villeneuve, yet I have no fondness for this movie at all (or BR2049 for that matter) - and consequently, no interest in getting the score. What's it like as a listen?So I felt the same way as you on 2049, but the film did grow on me tremendously over the years and only recently have i started listening to the score again. its not great but it is pleasing in a white noise sort of way, but when the best part of the score is just the cover of the original score...eh, sort of wanted more. i'm not usually all that fond of Zimmer in general, I like about 1/3 of his stuff, so it sort of confirmed that his style isn't always for me.
I picked up the BR2049 score at the time thinking it might be something that would grow on me but I've literally played it through just once. I just don't think it's very good.
Dune on the other hand i loved, both almost instantly. (I think the movie may gain new fans when its completed, the truncated conclusion gives no release from the build up since the whole film is essentially act 1) I was actually surprised at how much i like liked the score because like i said, i'm not Zimmer's biggest fan, but this one hit me hard.
As a solo listen? I spent a good few hours listening to the sketchbook arrangement on a long drive and its a great mood piece for me, i also really dug the weirder stuff he dipped into with the throat singing and some of the chanting/atonal stuff that wasn't like a lot of other stuff i'd heard in a while, almost Exorcist 2 type wailing. that being said, its the first Zimmer score i felt like i HAD to have on wax, but as you had the opposite reaction and are a bigger admirer of him than I am it still may not move your needle at all.
ScoJo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 2:51 pmhaha yeah i think if you've tried three times and can't even get past the first 20 then something about it ain't for you haha. But yeah maybe the music on its own will do it for you, who knows. I quite like the score to hereditary and listen to it often, and I don't like the film in the least.Hatter313 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:56 pmThanks fella - on balance it's probably worth me giving it a listen I think. The film, on the other hand, I've tried three times to rewatch and get about 20mins in each time. It's a total bust for me. Not for lack of trying eh? ;)ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:47 pm It's an interesting one... I'm very fond of Zimmer and Villeneuve, yet I have no fondness for this movie at all (or BR2049 for that matter) - and consequently, no interest in getting the score. What's it like as a listen?So I felt the same way as you on 2049, but the film did grow on me tremendously over the years and only recently have i started listening to the score again. its not great but it is pleasing in a white noise sort of way, but when the best part of the score is just the cover of the original score...eh, sort of wanted more. i'm not usually all that fond of Zimmer in general, I like about 1/3 of his stuff, so it sort of confirmed that his style isn't always for me.
I picked up the BR2049 score at the time thinking it might be something that would grow on me but I've literally played it through just once. I just don't think it's very good.
Dune on the other hand i loved, both almost instantly. (I think the movie may gain new fans when its completed, the truncated conclusion gives no release from the build up since the whole film is essentially act 1) I was actually surprised at how much i like liked the score because like i said, i'm not Zimmer's biggest fan, but this one hit me hard.
As a solo listen? I spent a good few hours listening to the sketchbook arrangement on a long drive and its a great mood piece for me, i also really dug the weirder stuff he dipped into with the throat singing and some of the chanting/atonal stuff that wasn't like a lot of other stuff i'd heard in a while, almost Exorcist 2 type wailing. that being said, its the first Zimmer score i felt like i HAD to have on wax, but as you had the opposite reaction and are a bigger admirer of him than I am it still may not move your needle at all.
Hatter313 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 4:36 pmYeah... it's all just too 'dry' (heh) for me. Self important with all those actors doing their 'very important' acting. I was screaming out for a Kenneth MacMillan or a Paul Smith! Or even Mr Sting!! (and god knows I've said it before, but.... pleeeease stop putting that fucking Chamalamolet haircut in every goddam film fer chrissakes! He's the new Ansel Elgort! Like a friggin weaponised charisma black hole hahaha ;)ScoJo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 2:51 pmhaha yeah i think if you've tried three times and can't even get past the first 20 then something about it ain't for you haha. But yeah maybe the music on its own will do it for you, who knows. I quite like the score to hereditary and listen to it often, and I don't like the film in the least.Hatter313 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:56 pmThanks fella - on balance it's probably worth me giving it a listen I think. The film, on the other hand, I've tried three times to rewatch and get about 20mins in each time. It's a total bust for me. Not for lack of trying eh? ;)
So I felt the same way as you on 2049, but the film did grow on me tremendously over the years and only recently have i started listening to the score again. its not great but it is pleasing in a white noise sort of way, but when the best part of the score is just the cover of the original score...eh, sort of wanted more. i'm not usually all that fond of Zimmer in general, I like about 1/3 of his stuff, so it sort of confirmed that his style isn't always for me.
Dune on the other hand i loved, both almost instantly. (I think the movie may gain new fans when its completed, the truncated conclusion gives no release from the build up since the whole film is essentially act 1) I was actually surprised at how much i like liked the score because like i said, i'm not Zimmer's biggest fan, but this one hit me hard.
As a solo listen? I spent a good few hours listening to the sketchbook arrangement on a long drive and its a great mood piece for me, i also really dug the weirder stuff he dipped into with the throat singing and some of the chanting/atonal stuff that wasn't like a lot of other stuff i'd heard in a while, almost Exorcist 2 type wailing. that being said, its the first Zimmer score i felt like i HAD to have on wax, but as you had the opposite reaction and are a bigger admirer of him than I am it still may not move your needle at all.
tim28212 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:51 pmI much prefer that cover to Mondo's. Too bad it's $150 now lolinksb wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:08 pm Any one pre-order the new ET release? Feb ship date. I may pick up a black copy once they finally start shippingI got it the 35th Anniversary Edition from LaLaLand Records. They did an awesome job with it. The track listing is the same.
E.T.
inksb wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:02 pmYea, I realized after I had posted that I left out the fact it's out of print. Sorry, my bad. :/tim28212 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:51 pmI much prefer that cover to Mondo's. Too bad it's $150 now lolinksb wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:08 pm Any one pre-order the new ET release? Feb ship date. I may pick up a black copy once they finally start shippingI got it the 35th Anniversary Edition from LaLaLand Records. They did an awesome job with it. The track listing is the same.
E.T.
monsterworship wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:15 pm SADHad a feeling we would be seeing something along these lines after that announcement of the massive losses FUNKO had last year. Doesn't bode well for Spencer or the others. Hoping they have an exit strategy to keep stuff going
https://www.thewrap.com/funko-mondo-lay ... roduction/
deafmetal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 3:04 am Fuckno “would destroy between $30 million and $36 million worth of inventory”. Utterly depressing bullshit business practice of dumping PVC trash into landfills and oceans. Better not dilute the value of those pops, shitlords.Ugly garbage. And I’m talking before the landfill.
deafmetal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 3:04 am Fuckno “would destroy between $30 million and $36 million worth of inventory”. Utterly depressing bullshit business practice of dumping PVC trash into landfills and oceans. Better not dilute the value of those pops, shitlords.Honestly hadn’t even considered the environmental impact of that when I read the article, smh that’s awful to think about and you’re spot on about the last part.