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Topic: Let's Roll!
sean
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United 93 is a great film! A little too long, but still pretty impressive; the last 20-25 minutes of the movie is pretty extreme and emotional. One thing that impressed me most is the tension that is built up around the initial take-off of UA93, it's very well done. The parts that lag are mainly the control centre scenes in the air towers and at N.O.R.A.D. ... they seem to be only there in the film to show the real people who were involved in the air goings-on of 9/11, and not for any other driving device for the picture (real-time or not).John Powell's score is basically themeless and not as "atmosphereic" as I, and other people here, had thought it would be. For the most part it's a lot of dark bass undertones with strings and percussion (that sounds a lot like the percussive action in "Goa" in his excellent Bourne Supremacy). Thankfully, Powell doesn't stray into the I-think-this-film-is-ridiculous-and-will-score-it-like-a-cartoon mode that he's often employed, instead of at least pretending to take the material seriously (something Hans Zimmer does so well, as 90% of the films he scores are utterly ridiculous). There are some Midlle-Eastern like cues near the end for the hijackers of UA93, but it's pretty subtle stuff. He should have gone with the tortured ethnic voice route from scores like Team America and Stealth for the hijackers; that'd been gold right there! (I kid, I kid.) Nice music for an overall successful film.
NP: Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 (Bear McCreary) *****/*****
posted 04-29-2006 02:39 PM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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The score is about what I thought it would be and what I said it should be on another post here.I liked the film. I also saw the docu-drama on TV, which was good. Very well done film. Burnett and Beamer and several others did a great job trying to do something. A plane of heroes.
J.
posted 04-30-2006 12:16 AM PT (US) sean
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quote:
Originally posted by John C Winfrey:
Burnett and Beamer and several others did a great job trying to do something. A plane of heroes.J.
It's true, but strange that Beamer or someone else actually said, "Roll it," (probably reffering to the food cart) and not, "Let's roll," and that the latter makes it into a film that is supposed to be accurate.
posted 05-01-2006 08:53 AM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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Thats interesting. I could see that being the case too.I used to say "Lets roll" many years ago and when someone heard me say that a couple of years ago they thought I was copying Beamer on this. The fact was its a common thing to say. I used it in jr high and high school over 40 years ago. J.
posted 05-14-2006 08:21 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB