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dgoldwas Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Jeron: and who knows doing [b]Daredevil Jeron, you gotta pay a weeee bit more attention when I talk to you.... Graeme Revell is attached to score DAREDEVIL. Dan
posted 05-03-2002 08:44 PM PT (US)

mtodd Oscar® Winner	[QUOTE> Jeron, you gotta pay a weeee bit more attention when I talk to you.... Graeme Revell is attached to score DAREDEVIL. Dan[/B][/QUOTE] Uh-oh, wonder if we'll see a release for this. Remember Spawn? (Liked The Crow, though). Mark
posted 05-03-2002 10:13 PM PT (US)

TimT Oscar® Winner	I agree with most of Hasta's opinions. The movie had nothing going for it but action, and the action wasn't really much. The CGI was bad in some parts, not really ruining the film for me but it lost its magic since I noticed it was a CGI work. One scene that comes to mind was when Peter first figured out he could crawl up a wall. That had Blue Screen written all over it. The biggest thing wrong with this film was that it seemed very rushed. There was no meat and potaoes. It was like "Ok, so this is Peter, he gets bit by the Spider, and now Spider-man Swing!" Never mind how he figured out all the gymnastics! I think Superman is a great example of a good superhero/action movie. That movie had great substenece, I particularly love the first 45-60 min of the movie. Where we get a great story before Kent becomes Superman, or even becomes a todler for that matter. And when it was over I felt like I went through alot because alot of things happened. The events with the Planet of Kyrpton and Kents Growing Up was a story with the story itself. With Spider-Man, all I can remember was the "short" action parts, and when it was over I was like "What? thats it?, but doesn't that guy Harry find an alien suit and become the next Green Goblin? Or something else has to happen!". As for the score its comparible to Planet of the Apes and Batman, but I wouldn't say its unoriginal because how many scores sound like Batman and Planet of the Apes? Both the Batman and Planets of the Apes styles are both original Elfman ideas and the combonation of the two is interesting. Its loud and thunderous music that a "new" ecxitment thats needed for a new superhero movie. On and interesting note, my mom a non score fan, said that the music was scary....hmmmm. [Message edited by TimT on 05-03-2002 to keep Jeron from whining] [Message edited by TimT on 05-03-2002]
posted 05-03-2002 10:37 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by TimT: "What? thats it?, but doesn't that guy Harry find an alien suit and become Venom? Or something else has to happen!" Sorry, this bugs me. LOL. Tim, get your facts straight. Harry becomes the *next* Green Goblin, not Venom. That's another guy. Jeron
posted 05-03-2002 11:10 PM PT (US)

TimT Oscar® Winner	OK, Jeron.
posted 05-03-2002 11:20 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Jeron: Sorry, this bugs me. LOL. Tim, get your facts straight. Harry becomes the [b]next Green Goblin, not Venom. That's another guy. Jeron[/B] But then isn't it some other insane killer that got a part of the Venom suit and became Carnage? Anyway. I saw the film. It rocks. It had a fully realized character as a hero. Everything made sense. Though I was a bit disappointed in some part at the FX sequences, but it just made me realized that everything on the screen was there to serve the purpose of helping the story get its message across. The FX work in here were very hard to pull off. There has to be flaws. I love this movie. I kept thinking about it and how it was just awesome. I can't wait for the sequel. We're just seeing the beginning folks. It's all gonna get so much better.
posted 05-04-2002 02:32 AM PT (US)

Dinko Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Widescreen: Just curious, were you training you ear to the music while watching the film? Hard not to notice it. The damn thing was so loud you could not hear the special effects! Movie: good. Not great, but I liked it. I thought it was a good adaptation. Somewhat predictable, but at least it had some ideas I had not seen before, which sort of kept it interesting. Score: frisbeeeee. Been-there-heard-that yelling chorus, boring percussion, the most banal dramatic music you can find on the market... ultimately nothing more than just generic wall-of-sound underscore. With the exception of a semi-motif which is present for about 10seconds in the main title, and then comes back for a bit longer towards the end of the movie.
posted 05-04-2002 05:47 AM PT (US)

dgoldwas Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by HadrianD: Everything made sense. Well... except, where did he get the suit from? Is he an amazing photographer, artist (apparently), AND tailor? Dan
posted 05-04-2002 10:07 AM PT (US)

SCimmerian Oscar® Winner	Elfman's score just did not work with the film at all. Hello Danny where is the superhero theme,you should not write a score to a comicbook without a theme for the main character.After the first 10 seconds of the main title I knew the score was going to be lame and lackluster and it was.The movie had another pedestrian plotless puerile script,par for the course with these comic book movies.The lead actors were very appealing on screen until they opened there mouths to speak.But one does not go see these types of films for a great story or characters it is after all a comic book; its in the visual design of these films, the eye candy and the action-and this thing was very flat and uninteresting to look at.Some of the web slinging- swinging stuff was fun,but Elfman's boring music just undercut any elan and joy and wonder to those cgi shots,which by the way were generally not so terrific.I think this project would have been more amazing if the whole thing was done cgi like Final Fantasy and had a Jerry Golsmith score or Eliot Goldenthal.Not the worst movie- it just needed to rise a little above the material and have some sort of plot character motivation, and some good dialog, and concept design.Well they have another chance in the sequel to do Spiderman some justice.
posted 05-05-2002 03:29 PM PT (US)

Dinko Oscar® Winner	Quote breakdown! Quote breakdown! Hehehe... I love doing this... Hope it does not screw up the board. quote: Elfman's score just did not work with the film at all. It could have worked if it were not so loudly begging for attention. I think overall the idea of the music fit the idea of the images, but the music was mixed in a way which called too much attention to it for what it was really worth. quote: Hello Danny where is the superhero theme,you should not write a score to a comicbook without a theme for the main character. There were themes, but they were weak. Actually, more like repeated ideas than over themes. If you listen to the Main Titles track, at about 2:50 into the track there is a cute 10-second theme which comes back quite often towards the end of the movie. It's a very typical and not very original theme, but it's not too bad. quote: After the first 10 seconds of the main title I knew the score was going to be lame and lackluster and it was. Problem is, after 10 seconds it gets even lamer, and adds another layer of banality every minute. quote: Some of the web slinging- swinging stuff was fun,but Elfman's boring music just undercut any elan and joy and wonder to those cgi shots,which by the way were generally not so terrific. Which made it so much worse. At these points I was really hoping the next time they did the web flying thing they would have a rock song playing. At least that's something I could have understood.
posted 05-05-2002 04:45 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	And all these opinions after the hope Dan and Jeron put into our little hearts...
posted 05-05-2002 04:55 PM PT (US)

dgoldwas Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Hasta: And all these opinions after the hope Dan and Jeron put into our little hearts... Hey Jason... don't blame me for your lack of taste..... Dan
posted 05-05-2002 05:05 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	Taste? You call this taste? Sorry, had to throw that in there!
posted 05-05-2002 06:19 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	Wow, that was low Jason... lol.
posted 05-05-2002 06:26 PM PT (US)

Quill Oscar® Winner	I for one thought the movie was excellent--true to its roots and quite a bit of fun. I thought the score succeeded in complementing the images, which is its first and foremost duty. Overall a solid effort and a good time at the multiplex...a $114 million take in three days is a testament to that.
posted 05-05-2002 10:20 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by dgoldwas: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by HadrianD: [b]Everything made sense.<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE> Well... except, where did he get the suit from? Is he an amazing photographer, artist (apparently), AND tailor? Dan [/B] Comic book sense? Yes? Did anyone who read the series actually questioned how he got the nifty threads? It's a fact of the comic book world. Uber-cool superheroes has uber-cool costumes.
posted 05-06-2002 02:30 PM PT (US)

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