Word: soundtracked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly one of the more dramatic. The movie begins with Mufasa, king of the plains (NOT the jungle--the Disney people are too smart to fall for cliches here) presenting his small cub, Simba, to his assorted subjects. Elephants trumpet. The soundtrack rises in pitch. And then, the scene suddenly disappears from the screen, abruptly replaced with "THE LION KING"--blood-red, no less (more on that later...
...film is best when it doesn't have to worry about establishing convincing characters and it can concentrate on basketball. The conclusion consists of non-stop basketball action--slam dunks, slo-mo, the whole shebang--all to a thumpin' hip-hop soundtrack. The film achieves its ultimate triumph with not one, but THREE twists which include two last minute jumpshots and three slow-motion shootings...
...four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...
...this storyline carrying your average "entertainment venture" with quick scenes, bright colors, beautiful people, an inspirational soundtrack, and a cartoonish treatment of violence. Instead, Tarantino locates about three fourths of his film in a huge, dismal, echo-y warehose. There, ugly guys scream at each other for so long and with such intensity that we feel like we're at a play. The lack of background noise (no violins or "Jaws" sounds to screw with our feelings) is broken up only by a few funky songs from a "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show. And the violence...
First there was music, then there was Yanni. Not sure what this Yanni stuff sounds like? Imagine planetarium music, crossed with a grade-B movie soundtrack. Now imagine the musicians are a '70s rock band, accompanied by a full orchestra. All that remains to be added is a dose of '90s new age spiritualism, the sexy Greek presence of Yanni and a sky full of stars. Yanni Live at the Acropolis provides all three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark...