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Going to see the Sopranos movie on Sunday. Very excited. Not sure if I should get high beforehand or not.

I will write a detailed review. Do you plan to see it?

Dream episode was too long

I know it is not good to put all your eggs in one basket but I really wish movies streaming exclusively on HBO Max or Disney Plus were instead just available on Amazon. I really rather pay for the movie upfront than have to subscribe to a service I will literally immediately cancel after I am done. Splitting content between half a dozen services makes pirating appealing again. I rather pay someone to download the movie for me on their computer than have to go through HBO Max.

I was thinking of watching the next Potterverse movie to see if they do anything with Rowling's gay Dumbledore reveal. As the forum's foremost expert on gay issues, mac, what are your predictions?

I have low expectations as well. I'd be surprised to see another Roger Rabbit or Coolworld out of any of these types of movies.

Was "free guy" some sort of regional thing or gen-xer talk? I usually just heard "extra life" or "1-up."

I barely remember any FF movie except the youtube clip of the tank chase, which was pretty rad I guess.


(e: 60% sure i've posted this before in a similar discussion)

see also james bond, indiana jones

in dune's defense (the original rather than the movie; haven't seen it), it's pretty unique to consider 'humanity' and 'human cultures' from a non-western perspective. the heavy influence – orientalist though it is – of middle-eastern cultures is certainly something different from other sci-fi fare. reading authors like heinlein or asimov today is like processing through a gallery of bad 1950s white conservatism.

a lot of the ecology/gaia stuff does get pretty hippy in a sort of 'motorcycled through afghanistan in search of good hashish in the 1970s' kind of way. it's part of its charm imo. and i like that future worlds in dune don't all conform to a sort of sterile, western scientistic view. having desert cultures makes a lot of sense.

official soundtrack:



sketchbook soundtrack:



Like with Avatar, safer music choices strike again, I guess? OST probably fulfils the role of a movie soundtrack finely (I haven't seen it yet), but it would have been interesting if something like the sketchbook had been rescored to the film. I don't think the score used is bad, just maybe less daring sounding. I'm glad the sketchbook was released though. I wish more like that would be (again, Avatar).

(e: dune is a sci-fi)

Does he do much outside of movie scoring? I've been considering always doing movies to be a bit of a creative bottleneck, especially in recent decades. People going "wow that's really creative and unique, but can we add more of a European flavor and get some horns in? Maybe make it forgettable so it doesn't overpower the stories and characters?" Pirates was safe, but I suppose was allowed to have some personality within those constraints.

First video has a really safe score that I guess fulfills the requirement that music takes the most background position it can without falling off the stage. I kind of miss music as its own character, though. One of the reasons I still rewatch spaghetti western sometimes is Ennio Morricone's more legendary scores.

Games like Dune 2000, Emperor, I think were allowed to be more lively than Dune '21:

Emperor: Battle for Dune Soundtrack, David Arkenstone / Frank Klepacki / Jarrid Mendelson, 2001
https://www.greatestgamemusic.com/sound … oundtrack/

Things were more interesting on the music side of things. Emperor: Battle for Dune featured the same three factions as Dune 2000 had a few years earlier: House Atreides, Harkonnen or Ordos (the latter a non-canon addition to the Dune universe which allowed the developers to add some variety to their games). And as on Dune 2000 – and of course the Command & Conquer titles – RTS game music superstar Frank Klepacki was drafted to write the soundtrack. However, this time Westwood requested a distinct style of music for each house. That effectively tripled the workload, so Klepacki brought in additional composers he had worked with in the past – David Arkenstone and Jarrid Mendelson. Arkenstone had collaborated with Klepacki on Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny and Lands of Lore III, while Mendelson had made crucial contributions to one of the Command & Conquer franchise’s most unusual entries – Tiberian Sun.

Something for everyone.


love mendelson's ordos, great RTS fare. here's another:




arkenstone's easter egg track for dune 1984 fans (see 1:44)


klepacki's straightforward orchestral synth

Never read Dune or saw any of the movies. Still awaiting everyone's review of Many Saints.

Regarding Hans...

A OST with orchestra music is meh in 2021. I am sure many major universities have graduate students in their music department who can make a OST with orchestra music that would be indistinguishable from any other OST with orchestra music.

An OST with vocals tracks, many vocals tracks, is more impressive. That is why it is almost always Disney movies winning best OST every year.

Did you know Disney rewrote the entire movie Frozen because of the Let It Go song? Elsa was originally going to be the villain. After the executives heard the song though they decided that it was too beautiful for a villain and they had to rewrite the script. Christians weirdos complain about Let It Go being a song about being gay never realizing the song was originally about being evil.

Although unintentional, the song's composition was pivotal in the film's characterization of Elsa.[37] Although Elsa was originally written as a villain, co-directors Chris Buck and Lee gradually rewrote Elsa into one of the film's protagonists after "Let It Go" was composed.[38][39] About that, Lee later explained, "the minute we heard the song the first time, I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie."[22] Buck further clarified: "Jen had to go back and rewrite some pages in the first act to build up to that scene..... You have to set it up well enough in advance so that when the song comes, the audience is ready for it and there's an emotional payoff."

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I skipped the first one because of reviews, didn't occur to me to check out the ost.

Tleilax in that Roly Porter album is really uncomfortable to listen to and I love it in sci-fi game backgrounds.

That screen, definitely not for the epileptic, lol.

I also recall Geidi Primes, "regretfully" Dune-associated. From wiki:

Grimes did not expect that the album would be successful and so assumed that no one would ever hear it. She quotes this as being behind her reasoning for the album title and track names, though has since mentioned that the "decision has kind of haunted me".[3] She has also stated that she now feels that the album was "naïve".[3]

Wiki said the album got generally favorable reviews. The track that stuck out to me most was the one I posted. It's definitely not Roly Porter stuff, but still a little spooky in its own right.