All kindsa awful movies have Vangelis-style music
Best not be including Gallipoli in that.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Volans - Sep 10, 2004 2:26:48 pm PDT #3797 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Betsy HP - Sep 10, 2004 2:30:18 pm PDT #3798 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
t thinks about Gallipoli
t tears up
Kathy A - Sep 10, 2004 2:57:17 pm PDT #3799 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Would you consider the score from Ladyhawke Vangelis-y? It's strange, but even as widely anachronistic as that music is, I have a serious love of seeing Rutger Hauer galloping across the land with that thumping synthesizer track in the background.
Hayden - Sep 10, 2004 5:30:54 pm PDT #3800 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Best not be including Gallipoli in that.
Peter Weir has a permanent get-out-of-Vangelis-free pass from me. I don't remember the music from Ladyhawke, but that movie was a bit girly-girly for me. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2004 5:56:14 pm PDT #3801 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I thought that Ladyhawke was the example par excellence of deeply wrong, anachronistic-yet-now-datestamped score.
Volans - Sep 10, 2004 6:12:06 pm PDT #3802 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Huh. Just watched Ju-On. I don't get it. I'm trying to decide if I missed so many cultural references that I didn't stand a chance of making sense of the story, or if there just wasn't a story. Or possibly, the Japanese don't feel that they need to abide by the same rules for horror movies as the Americans.
Fucking creepy-ass scenes though. Some of the scariest visuals and THE scariest sound effects ever.
Vonnie K - Sep 10, 2004 6:26:57 pm PDT #3803 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Isn't Ladyhawke music by Alan Parsons Project? Thundering cheesy electronic rock backdrop to Medieval romance. So funny, so wrong.
I'm actually fond of the Vangelis score for The Blade Runner. I remember it as this strange, pulsing, rather dreamy electronica, which suited the mood of the film pretty well.
evil jimi - Sep 10, 2004 6:46:35 pm PDT #3804 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Or possibly, the Japanese don't feel that they need to abide by the same rules for horror movies as the Americans.
This. Haven't seen Ju-On yet, though it's been out on DVD in Oz for a few weeks but it's definitely this. The Japanese march to the beat of their own really large drums.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2004 6:54:01 pm PDT #3805 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm trying to decide if I missed so many cultural references that I didn't stand a chance of making sense of the story, or if there just wasn't a story.
Also, remember that it's not a standalone -- it's part 3 of a trilogy. (The first two were direct to video, and AFAIK have never been released in the US.)
evil jimi - Sep 10, 2004 7:03:10 pm PDT #3806 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Isn't Ladyhawke music by Alan Parsons Project? Thundering cheesy electronic rock backdrop to Medieval romance. So funny, so wrong.
Yep.
Legend used a Tangerine Dream score b/c the studio execs didn't like the original Jerry Goldsmith score.
The Goldsmith score was used for the European version. Thus, a European electronic trio did the music for the US version, while a US composer did the music for the European version.
Shows how fucked the studio execs are b/c the Goldsmith score is far superior. You can hear it on the Director's Cut version on the 2-disc Ultimate Edition DVD.