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Topic: current obsessions

dantoris

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Just a fun little, semi-off topic post I felt like doing. What are you currently obsessed with? Me:Score-wise:
"Galaxy Quest" & "Army of Darkness" - for some reason, I just cannot get enough of either of these scores.Movie-wise:
"The Mummy" - I saw this baby five times in the theater, and an additional 12 since buying the DVD. (Can't wait for the sequel).TV-wise:
"L.A. Heat" - it's virtually "Lethal Weapon: The Series," every weekday at 4:00PM on TNT.
"MonsterVision w/Joe Bob Briggs" - what can I say? Joe Bob rocks!!
[This message has been edited by dantoris (edited 24 February 2000).]
posted 02-24-2000 11:02 AM PT (US) 
Scott

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Well Dantoris,Galaxy Quest and Superman are the two scores that are just playing and playing at home.
Movie wise: Nothing right now
TV:The Practice and West Wing as well as Touched by an Angel are a must for me.
ScottNP:Close Encounters of the Third Kind (*****/*****)
posted 02-24-2000 11:08 AM PT (US) 
JoeInSanDiego

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Damon Intrabartolo's bare is the disc I cannot stop listening to.My script of this rock opera is the only movie I can envision at this time.
NO I AM NOT OBSESSIVE!!!

posted 02-24-2000 12:01 PM PT (US) 
JEC
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I got my Galaxy Quest a few days after it came out and I've still not taken it out of the wrapper!
posted 02-24-2000 01:25 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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"Much Ado About Nothing", both movie and score. Watched it last week when it was on TV, and will watch it again on Saturday (again on TV). Of course, I also have it on tape, but...NP: Angela's Ashes
posted 02-24-2000 02:03 PM PT (US) 
DjC

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Movie wise: Magnolia,seen it three times in theater, picked up new stuff every time, I love MagnoliaScore Wise: Titus, and Magnolia, both are excellent CDs...Especially Titus
By the way, I absolutely hated the Mummy, it was cheasy, the music was o.k., and the acting sucked, the FXs looked fakey, and well i hated it...explain why some people love the Mummy, for i consider it the worst movie i have seen in a long time...i am not trying to be a prick...just wondering
posted 02-24-2000 03:20 PM PT (US) 
robin4

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Why do I love The Mummy? Let me count the ways...the score was enthralling and set the mood perfectly. the egyptian-type music mixed with the old-time epic score sound of the earlier score masters is perfect.
the movie itself was fun and exciting. The opening set in Ancient Egypt is just what I love. We need more movies about Ancient Egypt. And then it cuts to the opening scene with Fraser which is, in my opinion, an excellent scene which, again, brings me back to the older epic movies of the cavalry and there last stand. Then it just gets better! It's supposed to be a fun movie with some serious stuff mixed in to make it more exciting. It reminds me, most of all, of the great b/w classic Gunga Din with Cary Grant et al. If you haven't seen it- you should.
In short, it was a fun movie that brought, at least me, back to the old, fun movies that just aren't made enough in Hollywood. Don't get me wrong, I love the occasional all-out action bonanza that Brockheimer (sp?) loves to do, but my heart will always lie in the fun and exciting adventure movies like The Mummy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Mask of Zorro, and older films.
Those are just some of my reasons!
N.P. The Mask of Zorro <****/*****>
posted 02-24-2000 03:35 PM PT (US) 
dantoris

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robin4 - You said basically everything I had on my mind regarding the situation.
posted 02-24-2000 03:50 PM PT (US) 
DjC

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BUT, The Mummy is nothing like Indiana, for the chracters are weak, the action is o.k., and the music was decent. Indiana was amzing, the music, the characters, the acting, the adventure. The Mummy was cheasy, stupid, and well, horrible. Story? What story...you don't need lots of money to make a good adventure flick, the mummy on the other hand blew millions to create a piece of filth...in my opinion of course, and every one I know.
posted 02-24-2000 04:57 PM PT (US) 
Wedge

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Well *I* enjoyed it. A fun romp through action cliches, no brain required, infused with that exhilarating Goldsmith magic.
posted 02-24-2000 05:06 PM PT (US) 
Cole

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score wise I am going through a John Barry Obsession. I feel like I have ti have every Barry score written. I do this with composers a lot. last year it was the Hans Zimmer and crew. and before that it was Doyle
posted 02-24-2000 05:21 PM PT (US) 
Sean Bires

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TV-Show/Movie wise: "Neon Genesis Evangelion", another japanese animation. My movie obsessions switch around a lot. The past year I was obsessed with Dark City, Gattaca, Cube, Ghost in the Shell, Nausicaa, Patlabor, Fight Club, American Beauty, etc. etc.
posted 02-25-2000 12:28 AM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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I don't think THE MUMMY was objectively a very good movie, but neither was it very bad. I found writer-director Stephen Sommers' relentless Spielberg cribs to be a bit irritating, but I was never bored and I don't ever recall feeling insulted, which I often do at these overproduced CGI bashes. (Don't get me started about the Evil Twins, Emmerich and Devlin.) And Goldsmith did a wonderful job, from his vigorous anthem for Im-ho-tep onward. It was so nice to hear him writing action music in that particular style again (I was getting a bit tired of the less lyrical style he used in CONGO, AIR FORCE ONE, U.S. MARSHALS and so on -- for the action cues, not the melodies, mind you. And I did like those scores too, even the widely reviled U.S. MARSHALS.)Sommers is very good with actors, which is not common to directors of his ilk -- even his previous DEEP RISING, which was even less interesting than THE MUMMY, had some fine performances (both movies sport nifty supporting turns by the underrated Kevin J. O'Connor, and John Hannah in THE MUMMY was hilarious; Rachel Weisz was fine too, and I've always thought Brendan Fraser doesn't get the credit he deserves. Well, he's a major star now on the strength of THE MUMMY, so I guess he's getting it now. And so on. I find the concept of a sequel a bit of a groaner, but if it really IS going to be set in England, then I'm hoping Goldsmith will do the picture, and return to the GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY style, just as the previous MUMMY represents a return to his KING SOLOMON'S MINES style -- you know, note for note, that's one of Goldsmith's densest and most complicated scores.)
posted 02-25-2000 12:49 AM PT (US) 
Will

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Score wise - The Rock, but I overcame it, used to play it everyday for about a year. I like to play it when I do my school assignments.Movie wise - Star Wars. A few months before the release (trailers), during the release (played the score wherever I go), after the release (merchandise, score).
Game wise - Got hooked on Half-Life Counterstrike, LAN game with my friends.
NP Anna and the King (Fenton) (just got it, so far so good!)
posted 02-25-2000 02:02 AM PT (US) 
Scott

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About the Mummy,there are movies to be watched with popcorn and soda. Just to enjoy. The Mummy is such a movie.
There are other movies to make you think. Schindler's List is such a movie.
Then there are movies...well, don't need to go on I don't think.
NP: Nothing, cd changing. Actually it's a tape, but whatever...
posted 02-25-2000 08:21 AM PT (US) 
Onelegger

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I am Hooked on American Beauty. Movie and Score. Awesome.NP - The Matrix
posted 02-25-2000 08:33 AM PT (US) 
Mark Hatfield
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Neato topic.My current obsessions:
Scores --
GALAXY QUEST
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (2CD)
AMERICAN BEAUTY
THE KEEPShows --
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (great music, too!)
ANGEL
THE SOPRANOS
THE X-FILESTechnology --
Recent acquisition of CD-R drive....I'm gonna be hell on wheels when I have figured it all out & have more time.
NP: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 5/5*
My ongoing, really strong obsession for almost 19 years now.....
posted 02-25-2000 09:16 AM PT (US) 
Audacity

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Well as y'all know I have been obsessed with Waterworld since I got it, and pretty much anything from JNH, recently I can't stop playing the MP3 Jeron made of the Dinosaur Trailer music. But lately I have been playing Burwell, Isham and Chris Young over and over, I can't get enough of these guys. I gotta start looking into some of their scores that I don't yet own.As far as movie, I also have been watching The Mummy quite a bit since I got it on DVD. I curse myself daily for not seeing this great movie in the theatre. I keep watching the same DVDs over and over, while I have a couple DVDs like Bug's Life and Mystery Men which I bought and have not watched yet. I gotta get busy watching them.
Audacity
NP Air Force One Rejected, thanks to a very cool individual.posted 02-25-2000 11:01 AM PT (US) 
JJH

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current obsession:anything by Ennio Morricone I can get my gruuby little hands on. My Morricone collectios has TRIPLED in the last couple of weeks.
Just today I found In the Line of Fire, used, and bought the new Cinema Concerto, Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia compilation new.
This compilation contains a few GREAT re-recordings of some stuff from Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Cinema Paradiso, etc.JJ
NP -- Cinema Concerto, duh
posted 02-25-2000 12:51 PM PT (US) 
James

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My current obsession:Tina Majorino, and everything and anything that has to do with her, including the following:
Scores:
When a Man Loves a Woman - Zbigniew Preisner
Corrina, Corrina - Thomas Newman
(duh) Waterworld - JNH
Alice in Wonderland - Richard HartleyMovies:
Everything in her filmographyJames
NP - Alice in Wonderland (****)[This message has been edited by James (edited 25 February 2000).]
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