Oh the soundtrack is one of James Horner’s masterpieces. It’s glorious!
It is far too easy to blame the studio for the truncated American version of the film, when Scott was an active participant in the process of paring it down. And he has admitted that himself — watch the documentary on the Ultimate Edition. Even dropping the Goldsmith score in favor of Tangerine Dream was done with his…
Ridley’s commentary tracks are always gold, and it’s great fun to listen to him boast about Oona being a light on the end of a fishing line. He ends the story by pointing out that practical effects are both cheaper and oftentimes produce the more compelling result.
the fact that it was built entirely on a sound stage is pretty amazing...they had a bear eating honey out of a bee’s nest - with BEES!
Here’s my thoughts.
personally I like them way more than the generic commando dudes from Contra.
can I get the Probotectors instead?
I’m still amazed that even 25 years later, they can’t make a better movie than the first one. And that one had a 10th of the budget.
The LttP concept art is fantastic. I really wish they’d start doing art like that again for the games. I love Link’s design in it, too. It’d be great to see it happen in a newer game.
Yeah, recent Zelda concept art seems kinda enslaved by how the characters have appeared in recent Zelda games, instead of being, you know, a new concept for the new look the character might have in an upcoming game.
The 80s and early 90s Legend of Zelda concept art/manual art is sooooo good. Partly, I like it because back then they still had this little dude out on an adventure, whereas all the concept art nowadays is of bishounen Twilight Princess/Skyward Sword Link. Also a serious lack of cool landscapes on newer Zelda concept…
Considering they’ve admitted Miyazaki is one of Zelda’s greatest influences.... I dunno seems kinda redundant lol
Reminds me of the classic Zelda manual art.
The non-military service stuff was retcon by Heinlein. The book is absurdly pro-military, pro-death penalty/corporal punishment as a way of ensuring order and the whole “military service as a prerequisite to voting instituted after a rebellion of veterans (implied paragons of civic virtue)” is pretty damn fascist.
Verhoeven’s finest 2 hours.
Don’t forget how surprising prescient it was. Some bizarre race we don’t understand suddenly catastrophically attacks our cities, launching us into a war in remote deserts where we hunt our enemies in caves and kill entities that are alien to us and we suffer unexpectedly large casualties instead of immediate victory…
I always feel like Heinlein gets mischaracterized a lot as a right-wing nutjob b/c of Starship Troopers, when that’s very far from the truth. When you think about it, it’s pretty amazing that the guy could’ve written essentially both the right-wing bible (Troopers) and the left-wing bible (Stranger in a Strange Land)…
Shortened version:
Don’t scare your cat, because the cat gets scared.
From now on, every time I see a box of Frosted Flakes, I will think of Liam Neeson crying.