tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post4378435535260778155..comments2023-09-28T10:37:10.743-04:00Comments on Depth Deception the Blog: Best of John WilliamsJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06641691395288365219noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382776884137400610.post-78152127222008006172009-02-06T06:48:00.000-05:002009-02-06T06:48:00.000-05:00A.I. was incredibly sad, but I also remember being...A.I. was incredibly sad, but I also remember being very disappointed by it. Can't remember all the details, but iirc doesn't it involve exploring a city underwater towards the end? I remember thinking the robot-teddy was kinda creepy but at the same time kinda cool. The "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" scene is probably the most memorable scene for me (well, it's one of the few I can remember, lol, so I guess the competition's slim).<BR/><BR/>As for the music, I feel that Williams' newest material is all incredibly inbred and thus uninteresting. Whereas his older work is unique (e.g. compare Episode V's music with E.T.'s), his newer stuff (e.g. compare A.I. with Minority Report) seems to all be derived from the same "mother brain," if you will, or from the same parent-song. They seem less like unique songs in a repertoire and more like variations on some unpublished, hidden 10-minute song Williams wrote in the '80s and keeps at home in his desk.<BR/><BR/>Last thing to say: seems I struck a nerve not only with Blaise (Yoko Kanno) but with you too! XD All I'll say is, you by no means need to be so defensive about these musicians. I love many of Williams' songs too! And I'm by no means going out of my way to knock the man! I was just voicing my discontent that men as talented as him have yet to produce one memorable symphony, that's all. John Williams has many masterful 5-minute pieces, but he's yet to do anything 10 or 15 minutes long that ranks up there with Mozart and Chopin, and that's a shame -- because I think he could do it if he tried. (Or at least I think the old John could have. Not so sure about the new John.)SuiginChouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00028127203782088732noreply@blogger.com