Brian Tyler Takeover: Paparazzi

 We are back to a terrible movie from 2004, Paparazzi.

I'm not going to spend much time here. New big time actor gets mad at the paparazzi for taking his picture. The paparazzi are mob like and start like chasing the actor and causes a wreck that nearly kills his wife and kid. The actor goes on a killing spree of the revenge against the men.

Look this movie was so bad that I barley paid attention to it. I doubt the if this was Mr. Tyler's best work (thank goodness its not) it would have improved anything. 

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Final Cut

 This movie from 2004 is one that shocked me that I haven't heard or seen before, and it has Robin Williams in it! The Final Cut. 

The future is here in this movie! Robin Williams is what is known as a "cutter" for people who have an implanted memory storage in their head. All visual and audio of their lives are recorded. The purpose is to be able to reflect at the end of the persons life and cutter is the one who watches their lives and put together the best part of the lives. This is done and shown to friends and family at the 'Remembery". When a big wig at the corporation that makes the implants dies, everyone wants to get their hands on the unedited version of his life so the true plots of these devices are implanted. Williams character takes great pride in being the best cutter of the business, until he finds out that his parents had an implant installed into him at birth. Now, not only does he carry all the memories of his own life, but of all those whose lives he has reviewed. Which makes him the biggest target. 

Now, I can totally understand why this movie is a little under the radar, but really it's closer to what the world is coming to than a lot of other movies out there. 

Brian Tyler's composition for this film was subtle but, I think it was more over shadowed by the movie.    

Brian Tyler Takeover: Perfect Opposites

 We finally have ourselves a cute little love story! From 2004, Perfect Opposites. 

A young couple that meets in college decide to move to LA on a whim after they graduate from college. Big dreams and expectations come to a head when nothing goes how either of them thought it would. 

So, this was a cute movie, but not remarkable. As for the music. I don't remember anything from it at all. Sorry Mr. Tyler, I hope I can see some your wonderful hand work in the other films that you have soon!

Brian Tyler Takeover: Timeline

 We are still a little bit into the "odd" movie era here today. Today, from 2003, Timeline.

In the modern times of 2003, a group of archeologists are exploring the ruins of a battlefield in ancient France. When a secret Government group of time travelers come to them for help when on the men comes back from the past and dies, leaving behind lots of questions with no answers. They ask the archeologists help, because they would be the best group of people to ask to navigate the time era that they are dealing with. 

I honestly have no idea why anyone thought that this movie was a good idea? I mean, I get they it has both Paul Walker and Gerard Butler, but man was the plot of this movie week. 

We aren't here to talk about the plot of this movie, it's the music that is the focal point of this year. I don't find the music of this movie something to be worth remembering. I feel like there were moments during the battle scene toward the end that are the starts of the magic the Brian Tyler has. However, it's wasn't quite there yet. 

 

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Big Empty

   We are talking about an odd movie today, The Big Empty.

Debt will make you do some crazy things. When a struggling actor gets the chance to get debt free, he takes that chance. He is asked to take a suitcase to a small town in the desert and give it to someone named Cowboy. The town he gets to is strange. There is a man who hold John at gunpoint to try and get his girl back, a conspiracy theorist who believes in aliens, and the FBI trying to find 75 people who have gone missing from this town. 

No this time I got to really enjoy the music of this movie differently. I really got to listen to this movie more than watch because I was ripping up carpet in the living room. So, watching wasn't really happening. However, the music was great... until I got to one part of the film and I was having many questions about why the composition was done the way that it was. It really didn't match the red of the score, or the movie, at all. However, I do feel like the music matched the movie very well  

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Hunted

 So, we finally get to watch one of the earlier movies in Mr. Tyler's career. From 2003, The Hunted.

When a former special operation officer is found to be murdering people in a State Park in Oregon, his former survival instructor is forced to locate him. 

So, this movie is not overall the great in my opinion. It was kind of slow and very easy to  no pay attention. Which is odd because when you have the cast of Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, you asking for a pretty great film. I think that for a thriller action movie it might have needed more of both.

As for the musical score. For the record again, I know nothing about music so I have no clue what I am really talking about. 

It could be that I had a hard time paying attention to this movie, but I don't remember there being so much of a musical score. There was one point of the end of the film that I felt like it was prominent, but I am not sure. That one point of the movie the score felt like it was movie and well placed. 

Hopefully, the further we go down the line the more it will hear and understand. 

Best Picture Challenge: Anora

 So, I took me long enough!

The 2025 Best Picture Winner: Anora

This 2024 film is about a woman named Anora. She is a call girl/stripper that ends up meeting a man, Vanya, who comes from money and is about to go back to Russia to start working. In an attempt to have fun the last two weeks he is here, he hires her to be his fake girlfriend for that time. In the process thy goes to Vegas, get married, and they both think they are going to have it made in their new life together. However, when his parents find out, they come to the states to make them get an annulment. Vanya runs away from the three bodyguards that his parents sent to keeps him there, and this leads guards and Anora on an all night man hunt to find him. 

So, I didn't even hear of this movie last year before is was announced for Best Picture Nominee. Now that I have seen it.. I have no clue why it was nominated or how in the world that it won. 

It starts off like it's going to be some sort of "Cinderella" type deal. That she doesn't have to be a prostitute anymore, and can change her life. She gets like 25,000 total at the end of the film, ends up with and annulment, thinking that the man-child actually was in love with her. I'm watching this going that someone who is that line of work can not be that stupid to think that She was going to get a happy ever after that way. With a "man" like that. I mean he is spoiled boy whose parents all of a sudden expect him to grow up and start working, when he never had to before. He those money at everything, money that is not his and says so at the start of the film. 

So, this is a going into the category of never going to watch again, next to most of the Best Picture winners from the 70s.