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Steve Hughes Oscar® Winner	The movie's not been released over here in the UK yet, but I can't wait. The snippets I've heard of Jon Brion's score sound beautiful. Anyway, it's out on 14th March: here's the track titles. 1. A Little Library Music/Going To A Show 2. Showtime 3. Jimmy's Breakdown 4. WDKK Theme 5. I've Got A Surprise For You Today 6. Stanley/Frank/Linda's Breakdown 7. Chance Of Rain 8. So Now Then 9. Magnolia [This message has been edited by Steve Hughes (edited 10 March 2000).]
posted 03-10-2000 05:08 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Can someone PLEASE tell me what the big deal with this score is? I got it after hearing about 3000 people going crazy about its beauty. It's the same music for 50 minutes! To the people who said this is Thomas Newman-esque. Do you know Thomas Newman's music at all? This just sounds like The Thin Red Line's one cue for 50 minutes. Ripoff! Shaun
posted 03-10-2000 10:52 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	My looooooong wait for this film ends next Friday when it hits cinemas in London. Can't wait. Dan (UK)
posted 03-10-2000 12:24 PM PT (US)

DjC Oscar® Winner	Althought the score does go on and on like the thin red line, it has big differences. My fav track is "I've got a surprise..." It is truly dramamtic, even though it sounds like the thin red line at first, it breaks away into beauty and pure drama. I have seen Magnolia three times, i wanna see it again, i have no regrets with the score either. Best movie of the year in my opinion. For those of you seeing this movie, expect weird things, or u might not like it...adios!
posted 03-10-2000 02:24 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Again, not that I'm advertising or anything, but I have a copy of the film on video. It's a screener. Not bad quality. Bad movie, though. I just don't get it! Shaun
posted 03-10-2000 06:51 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Well, Shaun, as among the many thousands who keep raving about Jon Brion's score -- and I love the movie too -- all I can say is, YOU didn't like it, but some of us DID. Nothing wrong with your not liking it, and I'll add that as impressed as I was with the Brion score -- less the music itself, but the WAY it was applied in the FILM -- I don't think I'd want an album of it for myself. I'm sure I'd never listen to it. (I made a similar argument in an earlier thread, "Maybe it's just me, but ... ") MAGNOLIA the movie isn't really about anything but itself, but it impressed me as few pictures did last year. I'm not sure why. I don't much care why. It just did. You're lucky to have gotten a SCREENER, Shaun, I hadda pay almost $10 to get in (Manhattan, curse it, Manhattan ... )
posted 03-10-2000 08:44 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Oscar® Winner	Is any of the score in the film (I never saw it) from the LONG trailer? The one where it starts out and that kid is unloading answers like there is no tomorrow. --Kyp
posted 03-10-2000 11:15 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	I think Paul Thomas Anderson (or P.T. Anderson or Paul T. Anderson or P. Thomas Anderson) and his negative attitude toward other filmmakers is why I didn't like the film. I mean, Magnolia's style is completely lifted from Scorsese and Altman, yet he can wish Fincher testicular cancer when he tries to make an original film. I don't get it. Threatened, is he? In my opinion (there it is, Rocco), Anderson is a spoiled brat. Somebody should call DeNiro and Pesci and have them do a little "two-step" with Mr. Anderson. He's our next Quentin Tarantino. All talk, no game. Shaun
posted 03-11-2000 01:23 PM PT (US)

DjC Oscar® Winner	Um...i beg to differ, bu hey...what can i do. PT Anderson is a spectacular WRITER/director. Even though his camera work isn't all that original, the story is. Well written, well directed. A true drama film.
posted 03-11-2000 03:40 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	While I thought that Tom Cruise and John C. Reilly were extremely fascinating, the film really didn't go anywhere with me. I don't say this all the time, but did Julianne Moore really have to say the "F" word THAT much? Seriously, after the first couple, it's gratuitous. The music was stolen directly from The Thin Red Line (in my previous post, I hadn't even reached the "I've Got A Surprise For You" scene; jeez!), though toward the end of that cue (or was it the next?), the score began to live a little bit outside of Zimmer. Like I said, it's like a spoiled brat rich kid who thinks he's being smart by stealing tricks from Scorsese (I mean, again--there's a line between "inspired by" and "using the exact same editing and camera tricks") and interweaving characters as Altman expertly does. I'm reminded of what a reviewer said of Robocop 3 (quite a leap from the "serious" Magnolia to the "artsy" Robocop 3, eh?). I'm paraphrasing, but this is the gist of it. "As if they took a bunch of scenes and just duct-taped them all together, regardless of sense." Seriously, I want someone to explain to me why Magnolia was such a great film. And why the frogs? What's the metaphor? Anyone? Anyone? This film would be a lot better had I been told that Dirk Diggler had directed it. If you look at it from the standpoint of having been directed by a former porn star, it's a pretty impressive film. It's the "NO MORE JELLO FOR ME, MOM!" film. One of those beat poet types. Self-important and humorless. Ah, what the Christ! Shaun
posted 03-11-2000 11:22 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Also, Steve----go get the soundtrack to The Thin Red Line (or at least listen to track 3 on Amazon or CDNOW). You'll be surprised to hear almost the entire Magnolia score within. Shaun
posted 03-12-2000 04:36 PM PT (US)

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