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A Fistfull Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More...
Some of the best music I've heard in films. Ever.

Martinstatic wrote:


+1000
Ennio Morricone 4 the win!

Hahaa, true that!

I wonder how much it would be for a horse and gun..

I suppose it depends on the horse and the gun
Buy the way last film i watched was Pi (π) for a second time

I watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World over the weekend, on the advice of the man at Blockbusters.

It was nowhere near as funny as he claimed, so I brutally beat him with it.

Schoolboy Error wrote:


The leading role was a ridiculous miscast.

Clips of some John Waters films such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. For the uninformed, John Waters isa an American director most (in)famous for his nonsensical films and comedy movies. Pink Flamingos, Multiple Maniacs, Mondo Trasho and Female Trouble are some of the films he directed with actor and drag queen, Divine (born Harris Glen Milstead). In a few of those films, Divine almost always plays a woman though the women he portrays have some questionable morality going from maternal criminal in Pink Flamingos to juvenile delinquent who led a fast life in Female Trouble, which is way more self-explanatory than Pink Flamingos. To be honest though, I'd rather listen to these clips than actually watch them. I tend to listen to documentaries on YouTube and I'm easily bored with watching things.

But the last thing I watched was the Haunted, a horror film that showed up on the retro film channel Turner Classic Movies. It's a ghost film with special effects that don't rely on theatrical props but on lighting, camera angles and shots that makes it seem more frightening than blood and gore. There are four people here who enter the haunted house, one of them is haunted by the thought of ghosts, she's called Elenore. The others are Theo (the androgynous chick) and I forgot the rest. But it's a well done film, better recieved than the remake. It's based on a novel by Shirley Jackson.

Black Swan...pretty straightforward film. Some mentally insa..."psychologically impaired" chick is starring in Swan Lake, but her life ends up paralleling that of the play, with a bunch of unnerving scenes.
I don't like watching unstable people in films, especially when there's a bathroom involved. Or scissors, glass, nail clippers, knives or mirrors.

Warning: Big rant

That being said, the music was composed by none other than Clint Mansell (Pop Will Eat Itself) who did a very good job of playing with Tchaikovsky's pieces.

That being said, because of Tchaikovsky's music being used, the score was exempt from an Academy Awards nomination, despite the film being about fucking Swan Lake.
Meanwhile, Trent Reznor wins a Golden Globe for The Social Network's soundtrack, which ironically only had one track stick out for me; Reznors reworking of Hall Of The Mountain King. How does that work?

My view is that TSN's great reviews were down to sponsors and media partners preventing the likes of NY Times from saying anything bad. NY Post gave it a FULL score, saying "Quite possibly the first truly great fact-based movie of the 21st century." Bullshit, too obvious with your arse licking there. Either way, good film or not, no one can deny that it had no right winning a Globe for it's score, beating Danny Elfman and even Hans Zimmer for the Inception soundtrack, which was genuinely a great soundtrack.



Sum it up; Black Swan was good, TSN was good, TSN got brownnosed too much, didn't deserve award for music, Inception had good music.

Martinstatic wrote:


Exactly, the movie's critical reception was pretty much manufactured. Personally from a movie with David Fischer and Trent Reznor i expected a hell lot more. Sorry Trent your soundtrack was good, but nowhere near the same planet as Inception's.
Tchaikovsky's Lake Swan is one of my favourite classical pieces, teamed with Clint Mansell sounds hella promising.

Chemical Brothers had three tracks in Black Swan that don't appear on the soundtrack

When i saw the first words in your post "black swan" i instantly stoped reading(i am afraid of any spoilers )
Any way the release date here is 27 of this month and i was planning to see it on theaters,of course not for the effects but for the great atmosphere it might have.

I am saying that because i wish i had seen Pi(Darren Aronofsky) in theaters...what do you suggest me?

Black Swan is good Valtiel is right about TSN's (My opinion anyways) reviews, so if you haven't seen either, go for Swan
And Kev's right, I noticed the Chem Bro's names come up, so that's something to look forward to too

The Expendables. Pointless, plotless with lots of explosions. I had to watch Rise of the Footsoldier after to redress the balance. What an awesome film that is.

I saw Black Swan over the weekend, enjoyed the film. As a complete contrast I also watched Machete - quality film!!

nivag wrote:


machete u say....