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This is a nice score. Silvestri is a great composer and great guy. Glad he's getting some big projects this year.

What about the Disney Records attack on "On the Conveyor Belt"?

That's a really weird thing to say.

This page made me realize "On the Conveyor Belt" is an underrated masterpiece and its absence from this new release is causing psychotic breaks on some people.

Silvestri interview from the L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ready-player-one-alan-silvestri-20180330-story.html

Here you go

Well, it's bad enough. Sorry, for being nitpicking, but I always want soundtrack releases in their original form. Especially when the translation sucks.

The movie was alright.

Why do you say so? I find it has a fluid, poetic, reflective essence that is quite stirring. It makes my top 10, which is as follows: 1. Memoirs of a Geisha 2. The Book Thief 3. The Patriot 4. ROTS 5. WarHorse 6. TFA 7. A.I. 8.Catch Me If You Can 9. TLJ 10. Minority Report

Happy Easter!

Now, I've noticed a tendency for this forum to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Posts about whether or not Han has a theme, or whether there really is a Battle of the Heroes quote in The Last Jedi get very silly indeed. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do, except perhaps @BloodBoal and some of his friends. Oh yes, and @Disco Stu. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point. Now let's have a nice clean thread about these wonderful complete Star Wars scores coming out.

The range, maybe. The resulting movies (after 2005)? Hardly... As for RPO, as superficial time beater it works, it's like a benign Michael Bay movie (if such thing is possible). Its script (and resulting content) is the most sloppy thing Spielberg has submitted himself to since the days of 'Always' and '1941'. Consider how it pays lip service to things like the 'get a life' mantra without ever dramatizing the awful truth of a life wasted in virtual isolation - and Spielberg doesn't care, either (he has to fill the perfunctory action scene quota). It's really a movie, and here i'm contradicting you, that feels like Spielberg doesn't give a shit about any of the underlying themes - the final result is a first, namely a Spielberg movie bordering on cynism, or at least directorial neglect. I suspect when he realized what he had on his hands it already was too late. I doubt that he feels very proud of it.

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.... (Looks at the calendar.) Oh shit!

I fell for it for 5 seconds

I recently watched TLJ again after seeing it once on the big screen. It's held up. I'm surprised the Canto Bight scenes happen so early in the movie, I somehow remembered them taking place towards the middle or end. They're by far the worst segments of the movie -- Boyega and the Asian girl add nothing and detract quite a bit. Cut those out and you'd have quite a lean movie that kicke ass in a nunber or scenes. Almost everything from the the throne room to the showdown in the salt planet is stellar... Best bits of Star Wars since possibly ever. That cue when Luke ventures out to meet the big cannon. Whoa. I honestly don't get the hate this movie has received. It is so much watchable than TFA, which I found unbearably dull on second viewing. But I guess that's the Star Wars fandom, filled with strict adherence to formula and adverse to any risk taking.

My God, the ending of "There's Something I Need to Do" is absolutely magnificent. You just don't hear that classic, big romantic sound very often these days. Those rich harmonies... Also love the Christmas-y bit earlier in the cue -- the bells-with-emotional-solo-woodwinds thing is of course far from original in film music, but it always gets me. I assume the RPO bit must be for when the snow starts falling and a certain two characters kiss. I think this film will stick with me for a long time, and a large part of that is because of just how well the film merges with the score in certain key moments. I can't even really say I regret JW not doing this. Silvestri did very well.

Not everyone's life revolves around these movies. Some of us have lives outside the cinematic universes, you know? You know how a normal person gets up and goes downstairs and eats breakfast and kisses somebody goodbye and goes to a job and...you know? I used to care more about SW when the prequels were coming out. After I lost my fandom around Disney's acquisition of LFL, I just couldn't ride anymore. Until I heal.

Why are you so condescending? It's pretty clear you're not much of a Star Wars fan, so it's fair to assume that some might react differently to the movie than you. You seem to have a hard time grasping the concept of subjectivity. I rewatched TLJ last night, and for me, it's definitely in my top 3 Star Wars movies in terms of emotional resonance.

Ready Player One I didn't go in expecting the second coming of Spielberg and I certainly didn't get it. I enjoyed myself. This feels like a movie Spielberg made in the 2000s in an alternate universe where he didn't go on to make a bunch of boring historical dramas that put me to sleep. It shows how little popcorn movie Spielberg has grown since then. The Oasis scenes look like A.I.'s Rouge City on steroids. The real world IOI scenes were fucking Minority Report. The graphics didn't feel advanced beyond that era. The story at its heart about Halliday being a lonely introverted antisocial guy who preferred the virtual Disneyland world to reality was realistic and relatable. While I don't share Quint's enthusiasm for it, it didn't put me to sleep. The various references to pop culture things got to be a bit much for me. I realize that's the source material, but it was a bit too wink/nudge with that gimmick. In the case of The Shining, it was literally just ripping off iconic scenes from that movie and making them scenes in this. They call it a "reference", "homage" or "love letter", but it was just sort of a lazy ripoff.

A classic!

Didn't I make this thread last year too? I can't remember at this point... Probably the year before that too...

The best damned Bond score...ever!

You don't watch much political television coverage, do you.

Two of them are included. It's the half. There are just too many scores that I prefer.

The Prisoner of Aazkaban A.I. - Artificial Intelligence War of the Worlds Munich The Philosopher's Stone Minority Report War Horse Lincoln The Last Jedi Attack of the Clones

It's called "ranking"...

You had me @Manakin Skywalker! Well played.

Probably something like this: 1. A.I. 2. Harry Potter 3 3. Memoirs of a Geisha 4. Minority Report 5. Catch Me If You Can 6. Munich 7. The Patriot 8. War of the Worlds 9. War Horse 10. Attack of the Clones or Harry Potter 1

Even with "I could have done more?" Hmmmm....

Ah! I bought a reissue, of this. It's good, isn't it?

It is for our wallets! OK, preorder placed for these friendly prices. Should be able to cancel them for a month or so, right?

What the hell... Is it time for the first preorder in my life?

YES! FINALLY! Look at the last lines - is that a clue for the Indiana Jones scores coming up next?

Bad Moon by Daniel Licht The Howling by Pino Donaggio

It really isn't.

I heard it too and it seem damned deliberate to me as well

I like Star Wars enough to read most of the recent tie in books too. I also quite like The Last Jedi. I also never really invested much effort in various theories. The only one I cared about was Rey's parents, which thankfully played out exactly as I thought it should.

In no way was it a game changer.

The OT isn't THAT good. People need to learn that enjoying something and that very thing being any good are two different things. Karol

I've now seen TLJ, and I like it. Personally, I like it a lot more than TFA. Its funny, thrilling, unexpected, and moving, with moments of visual poetry. To all the detractors... Johnson wrote it, the main actors (not to mention Kennedy, et. al.) read it, and The Mouse green-lit it. They all had ample time to make changes through production, and in post, if they needed to. Eventually, this version - the one that they were happy with, presumably - was released last December. Unfortunately, this is the only EPISODE VIII that we have, or will ever have. Everyone has a right to like it, or to not like it, but to rage against it, is childishly Quixotic. It's only a movie.

Kylo's march into the Crait bunker was surely tracked with The Arena. And that spectacular ending to The Last Jedi feels like it was temped with the big Mustafar fanfare that ends the second act of ROTS. No exact timestamps but I think a lot of the opening battle with BB8's antics was tracked with R2D2's material in ROTS' opening space battle. No complaints from me though! ROTS is easily my favourite of the three prequel scores and I'm so glad JW revisited this dark, edgier style of writing before the series was done (especially with JJ returning for IX, which will probably be far lighter in tone than the dramatic gut-punch that TLJ was). He hasn't written in this vein since 2005, when he did 3 of his 'darkest' scores to date (WOTW, Munich and ROTS) in the one year! Depending on my mood, I love saccharine/cute/patriotic Williams as much as the next guy (War Horse, Lincoln, BFG, Tintin, Book Thief) but TLJ is a welcome divergence at his age.

Get Daisy Ridley to present it to him, and it's a done deal.

SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! HE DID'NT KNOW!

Richard, my man, I've seen King Kong more than I've drank water or breathed oxygen. This was certainly my first time seeing it in a theatre though! Which is to say, yes, I know all too well about the spider sequence. The re-recording we have of Steiner's score is satisfying enough as is, but I crave something even better someday (like London Symphony Orchestra playing the score, or something like that). Williams' The Lost World is a reasonable facsimile though! I kind of unconditionally love every Kong movie on some level. I love the character so much, I'll watch him in any garbage they've stuck him in (I even love King Kong Lives, god help me). My only main gripes are that I never have the patience to endure Jackson's 3-hour love letter to the original and seek out 90-minute cuts whenever I'm in the mood for it, and that Kong: Skull Island's score is poop. Other than that, I can handle anything Kong-related.

I've yet to see a single SW film that feels like it makes sense. Karol

The Suchet one is my favorite, against all odds (I loved the Finney). I thought they added some really cool elements to the story in terms of giving Poirot himself more of a character arc in the story. It had a darker tone that I really dug. I actually think it'd be cool to see really well-done anime adaptations of Christie stories. I kind of like it when Japanese animators adapt classic Western literature, like that version of Heidi that Takahata/Miyazaki made in the 70s.