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I watched some old Howard Hughes newsreel footage today, and am now even more impressed with Leo's performance in The Aviator. His physicality was absolutely dead-on.
Leo was damn good in GILBERT GRAPE and THIS BOY'S LIFE, so it's nice to hear he seems to be recovering from his close encounters of the iceburg kind. I heard good things about CATCH ME IF YOU CAN both in terms of him and Speilberg. I should probably check that out at some point.
Catch Me If You Can was a lot of fun. Definitely worth a rental.
I saw Catch Me if You Can and was entertained. I can't abide Leo and I was kind of tired of Tom Hanks (even though I usually enjoy him), but I still found the movie enjoyable. I liked the period caper feel of it.
Speaking of Tom Hanks, I'm told that the original script for Saving Private Ryan is significantly different and much more meaningful and entertaining than the theatrical release. Can anyone confirm that, and if so, have any ideas about how to get one's hands on a copy?
Catch Me If You Can was a lot of fun.
Cool. I also heard that John Williams redeemed himself for a lot of his past transgressions on that one. Plus it sounded like they gave both Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken something to do besides their usual schticks.
I also heard that John Williams redeemed himself for a lot of his past transgressions on that one.
I'll note that John Williams started his career doing very crime-jazz Mancini-type scores. So I think it was a return for him to mid-sixties style jaunty pop-jazz instrumentals.
I'll note that John Williams started his career doing very crime-jazz Mancini-type scores.
Heh, yeah. MST3K did a film called DADDY-O that had Johnny Williams doing the soundtrack. With the "immortal" Dick Contino in the lead.
I wasn't crazy about the soundtrack, to be honest. I know it got a lot of praise, but I thought it called way too much attention to itself, rather than grounding/supporting the film.
I wasn't crazy about the soundtrack, to be honest. I know it got a lot of praise, but I thought it called way too much attention to itself, rather than grounding/supporting the film.
Huh. Well that certainly sounds like John Williams' m.o.
Just as a side-discussion, do you object to soundtracks calling attention to themselves in general, or is it a case specific thing?
With me it's definitely case specific, because certain movies I adore (the mid-period works of Dario Argento for instance) that have what could almost be called "foreground" scores.
MST3K did a film called DADDY-O that had Johnny Williams doing the soundtrack. With the "immortal" Dick Contino in the lead.
Man, this movie just keeps popping up. It was just mentioned on the Lost in the Grooves blog, and James Ellroy wrote a novella based around the making of this movie, "Dick Contino's Blues." Ellroy even tracked Contino down and became friends with him.
Flash Gordon would have been nothing without Queen.