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Yoshida Brothers! Those Yoshida Brothers? I gotta hear this. The thought of that instrumental being played on the shamisen is just mind blowing to me. Those Tiger Army and Rodrigo y Gabriela rendtions of Oogie Boogie’s song may be interesting as well.
Wow, people really seem to be avoiding this thread. I saw it, thought it was a lot of fun and I love the main titles.
Elfman commentary, Burton commentary and Selick commentary as well as a ride through of the Haunted Mansion NMBC overlay. The blue ray release also has a special introduction by Burton. Here’s the amazon page for it:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AIRUP4?tag=thehomeimprovemz&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B001AIRUP4&creative=373489&camp=211189There’s also an a collectors set with a bust of Jack Skellington. Here’s the link to cover art for it:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/coverart.html#aug26AUG. 26th is the release date. I can’t wait for it.
Ugh! You have obviously not seen anime. Do some research on the subject before making any judgments on it because it is apparent you have no idea what you are talking about. True, there is some crap out there but Japanese anime is some of the most beautiful stuff out there and this will be a beautiful project. Go watch some anime guy! That’s my angry rant for the week.
Is there a new DVD coming out? That’s what Beetlejuice needs is a new DVD release. I’ve holding off buying the current one forever because I’ve been holding out for a better release.
Now that looked good. Seems more promising than the first one. I can’t wait to hear Elfman take that on.
That’s funny. I’m watching something with Spielberg on TV right now. Very cool to see them interacting in this pic. Very nice. Cannot wait any longer for this film.
That was the first thing I did as well was do a search for the composer of the score. I loved this show and it’s music.
Look at him cheesing it! That’s great! I’ve never seen him so happy at a premiere. Nice pics. And he does look a bit pale.
I taped it and I just watched that part. Friggin’ sad and hilarious! But he does not score like that. Hahaha!
I would give it to Oogie Boogie on this one. It had such brilliant vocals and some beautiful things were done with clarinet’s. I LOVE it when Danny uses clarinet’s. Even though I do love “Remains” and Elfman did suffer for it I still have to give it to the Boogie man.
Here they come. I promised myself I wouldn’t do it, but it can’t be helped. The tears of JOY are streaming down my face. I cannot wait for this.
Actually I liked the new Batman theme by Zimmer. I think all the hoopla would be about all the synths those two used on that score. Horrible choice. If only they would have used actual orchestra for the WHOLE score it would have made a huge difference in my opinion. Coincidentally, does anyone know the name of the track on the CD that theme shows up on? I think it featured most prominantly during that batmobile chase. If anyone knows the name of that track it would be greatly appreciated.
It’s really nice to have a profesional writer put into cohesive words what we’re all thinking. I really wish he had gotten the chance to write it instead. He got it all right. It was as if they got amatures to write this but Raimi has been making movies for sometime now which makes it all the more disappointing. Tsk tsk!
Everyone seems to be writting reviews of this film so here is my review of Spiderman 3. There may be spoilers so read at your own risk:
Well it’s here. Spiderman 3. And man was I disappointed. At the end of it all I did not feel the urge to watch nor did I feel that they have the need to make a Spiderman 4. It was just too much stuffed into one movie. You can get 2 seperate movies out of this. It dragged a lot at parts. I understand the need for “the two as a couple” scenes but at least 2 or 3 of them could have been cut. Right in the middle Raimi throws in silly comedy and I expect silly comedy from Raimi. But all we need is one sily bit. He gives 2 or 3 which go one for too long. Do we really need too see Peter dance and play the piano for that long? The Saturday Night Fever bit was more than enough. It worked even It was funny but he just had to kill it wth the rest didn’t he.
As for the villians:
Sandman – Over developed, under used.
Venom – Under developed, under used.They give us all this back story on Sandman then midway through he gets reduced to some two-bit Venom henchman. And the attempts to make him a sympathetic character half-way fail. They do make him sympathetic but I don’t want my Spiderman Villians symapthetic. In part 2, Doc Ock starts off good, turns bad then redeems himself but at least when he was bad he was consistantly bad. I want my villians bad and menacing. The script spends too much on Sandman without spending ENOUGH time on him. It’s inconsistant in that way. As for Venom, he sort of just shows up swinging around and causing trouble. “Hey I’m Venom. Let’s go kidnap someone.” Brock isn’t the least bit surprised that he’s now big and black and scary and able to swing everywhere. Then they kill him. Fine! Kill Villians. I’m all for that. But give me some time to dislike him before you kill him. I didnt get a chance to fully grow to hate Brock/Venom so when he died I actually felt sorry for him. I wanted him to stick around for a while. Way under developed.
In fact, other than the 3 main characters (Peter, M.J., Harry) every other character was horribly under used. For what reason Gwen Stacy’s father was in this I do not know let alone Gwen Stacy. In fact, for me she was the best part of the movie. Bryce Dallas Howard is just so adorable to me. Plus she fit the Gwen Stacy part perfectly. She has that perfect, 60’s, comic big eyed look.
Now for the score. Oh did I miss Elfman on this but by the end of it I’m glad he stayed away from this. The main titles were weird. The part where Doc Ocks theme was in the second films’ openning titles was now replaced with Christopher Young’s themes for the symbiote and Sandman. WAY out of place. It felt as though they stole some tracks from a different superhero movie and stuck em there. And those new themes. Was it just me or was that new symbiote theme oddly heroic. That symbiote was not a heroic character so why in the hell was it written that way? It reminded me a bit of X-men 3. And Sandmans theme was in fact WAY too sinister for the type of character the Sandman turned out to be. The music in general ripped me out of the film more than once and felt immensly out of place. Maybe if Young had scored all of the films in wouldnt have seemed so awkward but he didnt and it feels so wrong mixed in with the reused Elfman cues. Very musically inconsistant.
Then theres finale of the film which was sort of odd with the Sandman becoming this sort of big sand mass and Harry a.k.a the new goblin and Spiderman teaming up against to fight the villianous team that at the end of all sees Harry getting killed much the way as his father died in the first film and Spiderman forgiving the Sandman who was the man who actually killed his uncle. Then Sandman flies away, Harry and Venom die and Peter and M.J. are left crying, pondering life. Interesting.
Though there was a lot I didnt like about this film it did have some exciting and fun action in places and had some interesting bits of humor in places. I didn’t hate it but I don’t recommend it. I have seen worse though. Batman and Robin was way worse and it was slightly better than X-men 3. BUT, a Spiderman 4 we do not need.
My grade for Spiderman 3: C
Oh and one thing that really botherd me. In one scene Gwen Stacy is hanging off a building. Then we see The guy shes dating (Eddie Brock) and her father come in and they do this little schitck. Neither of them seemed to be the least bit worried that she is hanging of the side of a building about to lose her life. That was strange to me.
And why does no one stop Spidey to ask him why he is able to produce webbing from his hands. That always bothered me! ARGH!!!!
