The Black Hole/ Dark Crystal/ Time Bandits / Tron

^ I really appreciated that, thanks for posting the music.

Note: If you respond back and I don't respond back to that, it's just that I will be off-site for some time to catch op on things with less distraction. Once I get posting, I often spend too long at it. Self-control is not one of my better virtues, , and too often I use posting as a tool for procrastination and as a distraction technique.

Edited by Logan - July 21 2021 at 15:32

Jerry Goldsmith is not enough mentioned on this site, often unmentioned, but as important as Williams, Morricone, Horner and Shore.

I never saw "The Black Hole", but of those I do know I will give my vote to "The Dark Crystal"

Robin Hood: The poor are going to be absolutely thrilled. Have you met them at all?
Randall: Who?
Robin Hood: The poor.
Randall: The poor?
Robin Hood: Oh you must meet them. I'm sure you'll like them. Of course they haven't got two pennies to rub together, but that's because they're poor.

Edited by The Dark Elf - July 19 2021 at 18:07

Time Bandits by many light years. The dialogue is hilarious!

Logan wrote: verslibre wrote: But if I had to pick one to watch right this moment... The Black Hole.  Maximillian. Ernest Borgnine. A fantastic score by John Barry. 1-2-3! I love the scores for both of those films. I love the opening and closing music for Time Bandits too. That John Barry The Black Hole soundtrack is one of my very favourites. I think of the big name kind of Hollywood composers, John Barry and Jerry Goldsmith might well be my favourites. I prefer them to John Williams. Of course Wendy Carlos has produced amazingly memorable music, which has become part of my DNA (I adore A Clockwork Orange and The Shining and her music adds considerably to that).

Icarium wrote: Btw i have seen Dark Crystal twise and part of Tron but not the other two, so I will not vote.but Dark Crystal is very good.

Vote or not vote as thou wilt.

The Dark Crystal is an amazing film -- I still find it very moving and it has awed me. If you have yet to watch the Netflix spin-off series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, I do recommend it. It is quite game of Thrones-ish. I like that they kept with puppeteering. I had hoped that they would do a second season, but apparently Netflix decided not to. It would have been very laborious and expensive to make. I think a cartoon series could work well, too.

As for Tron, I found the sequel, Tron: Legacy (2010) very good as well. It's been interesting with some of the kinds of sequels, continuations (or prequels) that we've had for "classic" films (and TV shows and/or books) over the past years, like with Blade Runner, Tron, the Dark Crystal series, Picard (if that counts), The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, Twin Peaks...

Time Bandits is brilliant -- proof that Evil can be so very good. ;) I think various people coming into it were disappointed as they were expecting it be more of a Python comedy. I don't think they marketed it as well as they could have. If anyone has an hour to kill, has seen it and has the desire, The Rule of Three is one of my favourite podcasts, and they did Time Bandits. https://play.acast.com/s/ruleofthree/davidquantickontimebandits

I continue to love all four of these films.

Logan wrote: The Dark Crystal film was on Netflix here. I really enjoyed the series they created a couple of years ago based on it called The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

Shadowyzard wrote: Icarium wrote: Mio min Mio is one of three high fantasy novels written by Astrid Lindgren I heard it (the movie) is an adaptation. Was it (the novel) translated to English?

well its an English (U.K) produced film based out of an
Swedish young adult novel called Mio Min Mio, (Mio, My, Mio), one of Christopher Bales earlyest movies.

The two other fantasy books by Astrid Lindgren is Ronja Röverdotter (Ronja Robber doughter) and Brödrana Leyonhjærta, (Brother Lionheart) both are filmetized into live action, in Swedish, Ronja is even made into an anime.

And to answer your actual question im pretty sure it might be translated into English, Astrid is quite popular actualy.

Edited by Icarium - July 19 2021 at 14:48

Mio min Mio is one of three high fantasy novels written by Astrid Lindgren