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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 12/6/07 9:41pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Alex North's The Misfits
	I'm so behind in this thread. I have some serious catching up to do. This post is a reminder for me to come back and do it soon.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/12/08 10:08am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Alex North's The Misfits
	144. The Mission (1986) - Ennio Morricone This is Morricone's first appearance on this list. It took home a Golden Globe, beating out Little Shop of Horrors, Top Gun, Round Midnight and Mosquito Coast; in other words, the weakest slate of Globe nominated scores in quite a while. It was nominated for an Oscar, but in one of their worst decisions of all time, it lost, along with Goldsmith's Hoosiers, Horner's Aliens, and Rosenman's Star Trek IV, to Herbie Hancock's Round Midnight. In other words, the worst one took the prize. Geez. My thoughts: This is quite probably my favorite score of all time; Morricone's one of the greatest composers of history and his music never fails to evoke something very deep in me. This one is no exception. The choir, the orchestra, the quiet oboe, the native music all mesh to create a tapestry of faith, of fear, of love, of grief, of hope, of devestation. It is by turns terrifying, haunting, beautiful. On Earth as It Is In Heaven is a driving open and the Gabriel's Oboe theme is perhaps the most gorgeous theme ever written for the movies. When it returns at the end of the score in a wordless vocal, it is as grief stricken a moment as music has ever given us. This soundtrack album is in my personal top ten albums list. In other words, I like this one. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/12/08 12:40pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Ennio Morricone's The Mission
	This movie is on my never-ending list...
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/29/08 11:57am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Ennio Morricone's The Mission
	145. Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin This score was nominated for no awards. This is Chaplin's second and final appearance on this list. I've seen this film, but, just like with City Lights, also on this list, I don't recall the music at all. I do recall the singing waiter bit at the end, which I found not very funny at all. Again, this isn't a nomination on the quality of the music; it's here because 'Charles' wrote the music himself. Great movie, but the music I don't remember at all. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/29/08 3:48pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Charles Chaplin's Modern Times
	I'm afraid I don't, either. Chaplin often wrote the music himself because he didn't like paying for it. He was a notorious skinflint.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 5/3/08 9:35am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Charles Chaplin's Modern Times
	146. Moulin Rouge (1952) - Georges Auric This score was nominated for no awards. This is Auric's first and only appearance on the list. I haven't seen this film; I wonder if they got confused over the new Moulin Rouge or something . . . -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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packerfansam Registered: Feb '07	Date Posted: 5/3/08 10:36am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Aurics' Moulin Rouge
	It's kind of weird that it would be eligible for the list, because usually one of the requirements is that it had to be nominated for an award of some sort of significance. -----signature----- Help save innocent lives, go to www.petfinder.com. Formerly SeventhAngelicSlayer Detroit Red Wings: 2008 Stanley Cup Champions
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 5/3/08 11:24am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Aurics' Moulin Rouge
	I forgot about the opening credit music to A Man For All Seasons, beyond that the score is all "meh" but the credit score is good. Just for the record, the Miracle Worker score is okay. It works for the movie. The Misfits score to me is boring as is the movie. The Mission... still shocked it didn't win the oscar. It isn't my favorite Morricone score, but certainly one of the best if not best score of that year. Modern Times, it's actually somewhat good. Granted my version of the score is old and grainy sounding, but the tunes are quirky enough for his antics. The big piece to this score is the tune "smile." It's really memorable movie theme. At the end of the movie Chaplin, Barry plays a bit of it in the epilogue. The string work really tugs at you. Moulin Rouge is an odd addition to this list. The only memorable music is adapted from classical pieces. It's very similar to the more recent Moulin Rouge in that it just incorporates previously released tunes into the score. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 5/18/08 11:02am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Aurics' Moulin Rouge
	I've seen the old "Moulin Rouge" [Holy Freudian Slip, Batman! I nearly said "Moulin Rogue"] but with Jose Ferrer chewing the scenery, you don't notice much else.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 5/19/08 2:06pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Aurics' Moulin Rouge - Date Edited: 5/19/08 2:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue1-and-a-half
	147. Mrs. Miniver (1942) - Herbert Stothart This score was nominated for no awards. I've seen this film and the music is sort of the British flip side to Best Years of Their Lives; where the latter score is sort of low key Americana, this is warm and muted Rule Brittania stuff. It works for the film, but doesn't particularly stick in the mind after leaving the theater. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 5/20/08 12:39pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Herbert Stothart's Mrs. Miniver
	The movie was good and the score worked for the emotional moments (especially the end), but it wouldn't crack my top 250. If this list had included foreign scores, this one would never have made the list. Of course there were plenty of domestic AFI scores that could have taken it's place too. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 5/27/08 12:19pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Herbert Stothart's Mrs. Miniver
	I have seen this movie, but as usual...don't remember the score.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 6/26/08 3:07pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Herbert Stothart's Mrs. Miniver
	148. Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - Patrick Doyle This score was nominated for no awards and is Patrick Doyle's only appearance on this list. This is a fantastic score for a fantastic movie. Branagh's Shakespeare remains the best Shakespeare on film and, while he usually does drama, he does a hilarious job with this comedy. Branagh and Thompson are pitch perfect as the feuding Beatrice and Benedick. With this score, Doyle created one of his most beautiful achievements. He puts to music two songs from the play, Pardon Goddess of the Night and Sigh No More Ladies, and he manages to create music of such incredible and profound beauty, particularly for those two songs, that they give me chills every time I hear them. I think I prefer Doyle's later score for Branagh's Hamlet for sheer epic tragedy in musical form, but this is a fantastic work as well and definitely worth of the list. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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JEDIGUNSHIP Title: C&G Game Host BC Single Pick Winner Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 6/26/08 6:08pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Patrick Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
	I disliked that movie! It was so boring. However, it has been a while, so I don't remember the score. -----signature----- Blue and yellow make a green lightsaber. How do you get red out of blue? Council Member in the New Jedi Trials/ Commander-in-Chief of the Rebel Alliance Addicted to Rock Band 2 and Proud of It! SWC Secret Rebel '09 Band Geek For Life!
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/27/08 9:09pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Patrick Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
	This one I didn't see.
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