Alexandre Desplat To Compose "Godzilla" Score

It has been announced that Zero Dark Thirty composer Alexandre Desplat will be composing the score for Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. Godzilla.

I am not familiar with any of his other work with the exception of Zero Dark Thirty (the story of the nighttime raid to get Osama bin Laden).  But that was an excellent score.

"Skyfall" Wins Two Oscars

Above, Daniel Craig and Judi Dench.

Finally, at long last, a James Bond title song was awarded with an Oscar.

It was Skyfall for Best Original Song (music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth).  Skyfall also took an Oscar (in a tie with Zero Dark Thirty) for Best Sound Editing (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers).

Several Bond themes and scores deserved Oscars (Goldfinger immediately comes to mind along with many scores by John Barry), but were passed over.

Zombies and Osama bin Laden

I managed to see a couple of movies today from 2012.  They could not be any more different.

The first was Cabin In The Woods.  This movie is a horror-comedy spoofing the slasher and zombie movies that are so much in vogue these days.

Cabin in the Woods was directed and co-written by Drew Goddard and co-written and produced by Joss Whedon (of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and Angel fame).

It had some good laughs in the typical Whedon way.  My grade: B+.

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The second movie is one that is under consideration for the Academy Awards (in fact, we saw it on an award screener DVD).  It is Zero Dark Thirty.

It is the story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden by the Central Intelligence Agency and his ultimate execution in Pakistan.  Thank goodness it didn't have Barack Obama parading around with bin Laden's corpse a la Weekend At Bernie's.

Zero Dark Thirty was typically Hollywoodized, but it was entertaining.  My grade: A.