Malte Müller
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Of that series yes. But there are also two older movie attemps with other actors already:
https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0476603/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_73
https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt1156519/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_66I recognize your misgivings, Malte, but I am a bit more optimistic nonetheless. Which says a lot, because I’m known for my misanthropic pessimism, LOL!
Yeah, don’t let that been taken away by me! 😉
I like our cozy little group here. But I understand you, Thor, that you feel permanently on duty to reanimate this prefinal patient of a forum. That shouldn’t be so much depending on you only.
Yeah, I agree to that. And I don’t like Facebook for that, too. I am not even actively lurking in any group actually. Just sometimes when I use the standard feed I see posts from the FSM, Intrada ones or so.
So that’s on top of regular customs, then?
Yes, for now until there are new custom fees in place. As far as I understood at least…
since the exchange rate for the dollar is lower than it has been for a while
Probably soon transportation cost will kick in due to oil prices and such…
I am sorry but I am just less optimistic or let’s call it more realistic 😉 The forum has to get its standing and nowadays with competition on lots of channels that takes time. It’s not open again for even year I think.
Post more about topics on Facebook where the older guys like us are still maybe, too 😉 Although the algorithm will likey interfere…
I’m not comparing us to mastodont messageboards like FSM and JWFAN with thousands of members, many of whom have been there for 20+ years, and probably 100 active users, minimum.
Well, it is comparing and it is the same problem. They have thousands of members that also don’t participate much but due to the number the few look like more activity.
There is German board that is lucky to have a handful of posts per day and has the exact same problems. (Yes, I am part of it as I only lurk there as well…)
Maybe more quantity than here. But quality?
Indeed, the plain number of posts should not the primary goal!
Interesting that you discovered a German score like DIE DREI??? TOTENINSEL 😉 The audio plays have a huge following in my generation still for 40+ years. The movie attempts didn’t fully convince me but the score to a precedessor was quite okay and unexpectedly orchestral even. Two earlier ones by Annette Focks were also not bad.
Seems the EU has decided that there will be an administrative charge of 3,- Euros for all packages imported witha value below 150,-. They also plan some custom changes that any package will have a customs fee.
This is aimed at the loads of very cheap China imports via Temu or Shein and such. But as far as I understood so fare it makes no difference from where the import is. Certainly will also make everything else more expensive…
That’s not really out-of-reach, I think, when you think that that’s the amount of new posts on FSM or JWFAN within 10 minutes. But we’re not there yet.
This is still a quite high goal even first that there are well established forum like FMS and jwfan already and second forums are a bit out of fashion. There must be a good reason to yet again sign onto another forum when you have limited time and are already on two.
As you know I am lurker on the others as I hardly have the time and motiviation to post on several. Or even on one. I try here because I am involved but it certainly eats time.
FYI, we are currently 64 registered users here (legit users, no spam accounts…they are deleted regularly), out of which 6-7 are active.
That’s not a bad quote actually for 64 users. It is always the same that only a few will be active. As I mentioned I am running another forum, basically a mixture of forum and mailing list, with now 160+ members. Only around 15-20 are regulary active. Most never do anything and since it is via mail primarily probably don’t even lurk ( = don’t read any mails since they already get loads of other mails and other platforms to look at). It was not even different when some years ago there were 320+ members.
You go to the doctor for your weird taste??
Probably just chronological for completeness 😉 (of course health issues are actually not funny)
he sat there and wondered: when are they going to start singing and dancing!
Funny story indeed, Nick 😉
I am not really familar with Bollywood movies and haven’t seen any completely I think. It became a bit of a parody of itself by now. But I surely can value/honor the logistics/choreography of all the mass dancing and the overall production efforts GerateWohl mentioned already, too.
I do like cover versions that transform something into a totally different style. I even do like Meco’s Star Wars and else disco covers. A bit cheesy yeah ;-).
Especially in the 70s there were lots of great ones make things groovy or even more groovy. Willi Bobo’s cover of the Kojak theme is great and even.
The Oakenfold mentions were also good. Or Moby’s Bond theme take although it is not really far from anything Arnold did.
A great cover of Barry’s tv theme to THE PERSUADERS is Neo’s “Persuaders”:
Moroder’s Superman cover is indeed a not so great example. His Battlestar Galactica is more convincing (although I like Phillip’s own take best). The 80s had some cheesy stuff. I admit back then I was a big fan of the ROCKY theme disco version mixing it with EYE OF THE TIGER:
I still have that maxi single 😉 They also did a version of Goldsmith’s FIRST BLOOD which was less great.
I am not a techno fan so I quite dislike for example the techno version of Doldinger’s DAS BOOT.
Only watched that animated series back then very occasionally and the live action one by Netflix not at all. Still a great theme by Yoko Kanno:
Yeah, I was also surprised. I did not expect dissonances but more Latin Jazz influences. Maybe they are in there somewhere in the harmonics but I also didn’t hear them directly.
@Malte: If you don’t need your copy of ANGEL anymore, maybe we can trade?
Sorry, I only have it digitally.
I just remember that I saw that animated ASTERIX Netfix series with his score and found it quite fitting and enteraining within.
Just looked I have two Rombis: Angel and Une Hirondelle a Fait le Printemps. Haven’t listened to them for ages but “records” say I liked them.
Apparently he didn’t click as with Nick. Sometimes that happens never or later. I think even Goldsmith was not “love on first sight” end of the 80s/early 90s. I think I heard First Blood and Alien among the first and didn’t get into the dissances first.
I think there is really no drive anymore that cannot burn. (Btw, have actually a Verbatim drive, my monitor is an LG)
affordable
That’s an important point 😉 I think an English term for that is “staycation”? In German we often call it “Ferien in Balkonien” (“Balkon” => “Balcony”, so “Holidays in Balconia”.). Does Norwegian have a term for that, too?
External CD/DVD/Bluray drives tend to be better than built in ones anyway, don’t cost a lot, are easily connected when needed.
I don’t have a laptop, but same with my Mac Mini. I also have a LG drive which didn’t cost a lot indeed (I have CD/DVD only as I don’t use/have BluRays at all). I also primarily use it for reading as I rarely burn media anymore.
As an amateur composer of soundtracks and stuff myself,
Cool, maybe post something on this topic!: https://celluloidtunes.no/forums/topic/have-you-ever-composed-any-music/
I had just posted the video on the other topic, too: https://celluloidtunes.no/forums/topic/the-r-i-p-thread/page/2/#post-9394
Sounds like it captured the original feel of the score.
I think you cannot expect less if Leigh Phillips is involved. Will for sure sample it, haven’t listened to the original album for a while. Great that Quartet still proceeds with new recordings.
And not driving saves a lot of petrol money!
Indeed, unless you drive so few that your battery makes trouble (I know first hand) 😉
Probably get it now. Hard drives are going to escalate in price, as the (global!) supply of one of the chips they need has been gobbled up by data centers built for the AI competitors.
Yes, primarily the large ones and SSDs I think and I read their stock is already gone.
As we spoke of ICEPRESS FILE: Quartet Record just announced that they will release a new recording of it:
Produced and orchestrated by Leigh Phillips
I have the old album digitally. Nice one from IMHO Barry’s best time.But I didn’t really long for more or a better recording…
