One of Randy Edelman's best scores btw...

Watched this this morning...lovely new transfer, and the movie remains a breezy charmer (albeit too violent/scary for kids, some odd tonal shifts at times). Randy Edelman's score is indeed one of his best.

And hey, Angela Bassett...!



"Breakfast, sir...?"

Also one of the ankle-biters in Arnie's class is a young, pre-Cloverfield Odette Yustman!

The movie also LOOKS like a million bucks, with the attractive Astoria, Oregon settings (also the setting for The Goonies) crisply captured by cinematographer Michael Chapman, of all people. This silly, throwaway 1990 comedy looks far more "filmic" and cinematic than most $200 million Netflix or Amazon Prime productions these days.

The art of cinematography is mostly dead and buried in the digital age. Everything mostly looks glossy and very much the same. It's why you go back to movies from decades ago and just the look of them is, as you said MJ, interesting and different.

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:39 pm The art of cinematography is mostly dead and buried in the digital age. Everything mostly looks glossy and very much the same. It's why you go back to movies from decades ago and just the look of them is, as you said MJ, interesting and different.

It just shows how the art of cinematography has devolved greatly since the mid-2000s (when digital cameras started creeping in). A romcom from the mid-90s has more elegant photography than a $300 million action tentpole like Dial Of Destiny these days, partly due to the glossy hollowness of the cameras used today, and partly due to everything being digitally manipulated in post. And it's depressing that Kindergarten Cop got a more proper, "filmic" 4K transfer than the recent spate of James Cameron releases.