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google exists so you don't have to post blog entries just to ask questions that already have answers.

... Kind of an aggressive response, no? He watched a music video, was surprised, and blogged about his surprise. On his own blog. If he wants to do that he's perfectly allowed to.

I loved Lincoln.  I have "The People's House" and "With Malice Towards None" on a special John Williams playlist of mine.

 

I enjoyed the music for Episove VII and am glad that it had a few memorable themes, but I also liked the music for other movies more.  People criticize George Lucas, but he did a very good job of getting the best music out of John Williams.  Episode I was a musical masterpiece.

I listened to the Lincoln score almost every day at work for a good stretch. It's wonderful.

My preference for prequel music considering the whole movie is Episode III, but "Across the Stars" from Episode II is my favorite piece of music to come out of the saga. I am still holding out hope that we'll get the extended scores for Episodes II and III the way we did for Episode I and the OT.

I wanted to see this movie before leaving, but unfortunatly other priorities got in the way. i will see it eventually... but not for a while.

The trailers didn't strike me as lighthearted, but rather a more action heavy version of the original. Sure there's Chris Pratt mouthing off jokes the way Chris Pratt does, but doesn't the original have its share of levity as well? I've seen it before, but it's been a very long time and I don't really remember.

I am not entirely opposed to remakes. The Coen Brothers' True Grit is far superior to the 1969 version. Ben-Hur (1959) is a remake often listed among the greatest films of all time. Magnificent Seven, the original, is a remake. A very indirect remake, but a remake nonetheless. So that's not a complete turn off for me. I am inclined to judge it on its own merits. Maybe one day I will watch it. I'm sure I will since I love westerns, but it won't be any time soon.

I love almost everything John Williams has done (that I've heard), but this score did nothing for me. Absolutely nothing. The scene with the X-Wings skimming the water was painful because the music was so lifeless. I couldn't even listen to the score on it's own aftward because it was just... bland. My least favorite Williams score since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and probably my least favorite out of everything I've heard from him. I thought for sure that the music was the one thing about this movie that was guarenteed to be good, but even that fell short for me.
 
I will admit upfront that I know very little about music. So maybe there's some secret genius in this score that goes over my head. I just found it totally bland.
 
 

Well, he's done a HUGE amount of music in the past for all sorts of things.
 
He's probably getting really tired.

 
He recently scored Lincoln. I loved it. Thought it was one of his better scores in a long time.

"Fantasy world" was the wrong term, and I realized that even as I posted but didn't go back and correct myself. I think I read that it takes place in Colorado, but don't quote me on that.

There's nothing fantasy about it. Just a good old fictional western. But the nature of the film itself, 7 men against an army, and all the great tropes that come with western films (fast gun draws, typical action shootout shenanigans) is still pretty unbelievable. Can seven men really outdodge a gattling gun?

...Although the most unbelievable thing in the trailer to me was Chris Pratt. He does not look like he will be remotely convincing in this movie.

"..and Tex, well... I don't remember where Tex come from."

...but more so for the fact that it reminded me that I really needed to watch The Seven Samurai (which I still haven’t…)

That makes two of us, and I am really embarrassed about that. I saw about a third of it when it was up on Hulu, but had to stop for some reason or another. Next time I went back to it, it was Hulu Plus only. So I never got to finish it.

Diversity is good an' all, but honestly, as much as I love the western genre, the trailers for this look pretty bad. So while I can appreciate the diversity of the cast, it's still not getting my money.

... Not like it would get my money anyway since I won't be near a theater when it comes out, but irrelevent.

As for the cowboy stuff, Asian cowboys break suspension of disbelief for me

Of all the things seen in the trailer, I feel like an Asian cowboy is the most believable thing there. I don't know where this movie takes place, but there were tons of Asian immigrants in California, and in the fantasy world that is this movie I don't see any reason one of them couldn't be a cowboy.

You've got three John Denver songs on here. I approve.

I also have a soft spot for "People are Crazy." While you don't have any on the list, I also love me some Brad Paisley and I don't care what that says about me.

Frontier still wins for nostalgia though, which is probably the opposite to how the people who started with Adventure and Adventure 02 see it.

 

Yup. I've been watching it from the beginning, and of the four series I've watched, Frontier was my least favorite. It takes away the Digimon-partner relationship which, for me, is the core of what makes the show so great in the first place. I don't hate it, but it's only series I saw that I have no interest in going back to rewatch.

Tamers, on the other hand, is fantastic.

Pokemon Mac and Pokemon PC.

Yeah let's restart that war!

I put my food in a take home box at the restaurant this morning and forgot it despite the fact that it was sitting in front of me. I am notorious for forgetting things. I am the most absent minded person I know.

El Dorado so I could find it and lay claim to its riches.

Speaking of cool names, my friend's coworker has the last name of 'Falcon.' I am super jealous.

Whenever I walk through the kitchen in socks and step in a puddle.

...

Okay that doesn't ruin my day but boy do I hate that hate that hate that.

For a serious answer, losing things that are important to me, or realizing that I lost something important to me.

So many places in Europe. Scandinavia looks beautiful.

I confess I don't really have much to say about this review since I never saw the movie, but:
 

One of the less reliable movies that I've seen recently was Eddie the Eagle, which took massive creative liberties for a story that didn't need them.

 
I loved this movie when I saw it, and then when I looked into the real story the next day was retroactively disappointed in it. I could tell when watching the movie where obvious liberties may have been taken, but I had no idea truth was stretched so much. I'd probably watch it again and like it, but I don't know if I'd watch it the same way.

As my avatar sort of kind of suggests, I love Disney animation. Love a lot of their movies. Love Tangled. It's the most watched movie in my collection. And yeah, I'll go out and buy the merchandise too, if it looks like something I'd enjoy. No shame.
 
There are a lot of books generally geared to younger audiences, or at least they are books commonly ready by younger audiences. Bridge to Terebithia, The Giver, and Because of Winn-Dixie to name a few.
 
Bounce houses. Yeah, bounce houses. I got to play in one Freshman year of college and had one heck of a good time. Haven't been in one since, though. Too bad.
 

• Coloring.
I ran a coloring club at college. With crayons. And silly pages. Was great.

 
Silly pages... or adult coloring book pages?

Chocolate.

Sunsets.

Cloudy Days.

Sitting on a couch doing nothing with my significant other.

Tangled.

In no particular order.

A lot of people seem to like the California flag.  Personally, I'm not really into it, and on a technical level it isn't so good.  However, I understand the appeal of the words "California Republic," since it reminds people that California was once its own independent country like Texas, and it adds gravitas to the state.

The California flag is kind of funny in that there actually are no grizzlies in CA anymore. Don't ask me what it should be replaced with, though as a CA resident myself I could come up with a lot of very snarky suggestions.

Buy a laptop that works.

Pay off debt.

Invest the rest.

Go through the next 27 months with my current relationship staying intact despite the fact that it will be long distance with infreqent communication.

I'll figure out what happens after that.

I always thought astral/etheric projection would be super cool. The ability to go anywhere/see anything would be very, very handy.

The government would pay me millions to be a spy.

Even among things you like it's hard to choose 'favorites.' What is my favorite movie, for example? Well, sometimes I want to watch one thing. Sometimes I'd rather watch another thing. If I chose to watch one movie over another, it doesn't necessarily mean I like it better. It just means that's what I'm in the mood for.

Someone once said your favorite movie is one you can pop in on a rainy day and thoroughy enjoy it. It's an okay definition, but again, it still depends on mood. So to answer this question, I don't really base it off mood. I have list of five favorite films that are chosen because all had an effect on me. I love all five of them. So while I won't always be in the mood to watch any one of these at a given time, they are all my 'favorites.'

Raiders of the Lost Ark - I am a huge Indiana Jones nut. I love the series, even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which some people refuse to even acknowledge. Being the first in the series it will naturally have a special place, but it is also the first movie I remember staying up past my parents' bedtime to watch. I felt so cool staying up late to watch it. And I had a rollicking good time doing so. The truck chase thrilled me to no end, and always does so every time I watch it again.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - I credit this as the movie that got me into movies. I credit it as the movie that got me into film scores. It was the gateway movie, so to speak. I loved its slow pace, lengthy run time, and the fact that it was a character study. It set the bar for what I look for in a great, attention grabbing movie.

Lawrence of Arabia - I've seen long films before, but unless I'm mistaken this was my first real foray into what I can only describe as the 'historical epic' films. It's amazing how the film covers such a large scope yet it still manges to tell such an intimate story of the central character. This is also the quintessential 'falling from grace' story, in my opinion, which is a storytelling archetype I particularly enjoy.

Once Upon a Time in the West - If Assassination was my gateway to film and music, this was my gateway to westerns and Ennio Morricone. It's not the first film I've seen of either (The Dollars Trilogy was), but I found it to be the most memorable of their work. It set the standard from which I judge most of the westerns I watch.

Tangled - There was a time in my life when I thought I was too cool for animation, around high school, not surprisingly. In my first year of college, though, Princess and the Frog came out. It grabbed my attention with its obvious throwback to the more enjoyable Disney films of old, and it got Disney back on my radard. When Tangled came out, Disney shot to the top of my interest list, and from that day forward one of my main interests in film has been animation, with a strong focus on Disney. The film is funny, charming, romantic, swashbuckling, it's everything I want in a Disney movie. If there's one movie I can pop in and watch at any point, it's this one. I've seen it countless, countless times since release, and it never gets any less enjoyable or emotional.

Are these the only five movies I love? No. Heck no. There are lots, but if I have to narrow it down, these are the movies had the biggest effect on me.

I am also a big fan of chocolate. That is my favorite food.

However, I might point that Bryce Dallas Howard's character, Grace, does compete with Pete as the film's main protagonist. It's a minor flaw, since here character is likable, and her chemistry with Pete is believable, but it's worth pointing out in a critical response to the film.

I disagree that this could really be considered a flaw. I was taught in school that there can only be one true protagonist to a film, but I can't say I agree with that. I thought Pete and Grace worked really well as duel protagonists, and their stories compliment each other. On one hand, you have Pete, who's goals (I might add) you aren't supposed to root for. The audience knows he needs to be with a real family, and that's where the drama comes from. What he wants isn't what he needs. Then there's Grace, who loves her forest and will do anything it takes to protect it. The two need each other: Pete needs a family with Grace, and Grace needs Pete to help her understand an unfamiliar element of her forest.

I started out liking Gavin as an antagonist. His motives made complete sense to me: there's a big dragon out in the woods, it attacked him, he rightly thinks its dangerous, and he wants to hunt it. But towards the end when he turned PT Barnum, and I got the impression he wanted to show his prize around, I was a little disappointed. It's a bit tropy and I kind of hoped he would stay a sympathetic antagonist instead of turning into a more stereotypical money driven bad guy.

So long as you don't go in expecting it to be

as classic as the original and judge it on its own merits, there shouldn't be any problem.

I haven't seen the original, and to be bluntly honest, after seeing bits of it online I have no desire to. It just... doesn't look good. I can't say this is an imrpovement since I have nothing to compare it to, but this version of Pete's Dragon will always be the definitive one to me. It wears its sentiment on its sleeve, but (or maybe because of that) I love it. I would happily watch it again.

That's more than can be said for some other movies that had excellent trailers.

Totally should have watched this first instead of Suicide Squad.