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Ok, I saw Solo yesterday. I liked it very much, although I rate TFA, TLJ and RO a bit higher. At least for now. Music is great! Above all, John Williams rules in this film! His two Han Solo themes (or two parts of one theme, I don’t know) appear in many places, usually separately. One is more marching, although it is not a march - think about the very beginning of Rey's Theme on light steroids - and the other is very heroic - a bit in the mood of the Poe's theme. Older music also appears in different arrangements, especially in the second part of the movie. Of course, we hear and , but also a bit of ... . However, there is a lot of Powell in this movie. And he put a lot of work and heart into it! The nostalgic dimension of one of the themes is not very far from his How to Train Your Dragon scores. Another theme has a very romantic feel, reminds me of Golden Age scores. And there is also a theme that sounds like a Avatar and Adiemus mixture, due to the vocalization, but it is much more wild, crazy. There are also some choirs. It's a pity that music, unlike in TLJ, loses a bit in battle scenes with sound effects, but in more intimate moments it sounds powerful. There's a lot going on here, it's hard to remember everything after watching a movie once. I can’t wait for the CD and look forward to seeing the movie again!

I’m watching Last Jedi for the 7th or 8th time tonight. I hope Domhnall Gleason gets the opportunity to really up his ham game in IX. He’s such a campy fun part of this movie. And that Dreadnought commander is such a good quick character. Makes a great impression for his 2 minutes of screen time Love leaky Finn. Everything on Ahch’To is fantastic. Luke throwing the saber makes me smile every time. The whole vibe of the village and the guardians, the weird local animals. All great strange world building Adam Driver smolders off the screen. Riveting performance. The movie sets up how Snoke is overplaying his hand a bit right from the start in terms of nakedly manipulating Kylo. Rey’s little smile to the thala siren is the highlight of the whole movie Love the Supremacy action sequence. The action scenes are sooooo good. Forget the haters, Leia in space makes the hair stand up on my neck every time. Magical. The music is perfect. Captain Big Nose Lady has an instant classic character actor in Star Wars look. Looks like someone who would’ve been in the original trilogy. Love Holdo’s slightly haughty aristocratic air but you totally buy her confidence as a military leader Finn’s reading of “May the Force be with you” to Rose is very funny. I find each main character’s arc of maturing in their own needed way very elegant. The conversations between Kylo and Rey are the actual highlight of the movie. I like how the long distance ones are done without any needless special effect. Can’t wait for the weird little monocle alien on Canto Bight to get his own spinoff movie in 2055 after Tesla buys Disney or whatever. “Old man Snoke’s boudoir”

God everything on Ahch’To really is just engrossing The scene of Yoda and Luke just talking as master and student is perfect. Can’t wait for Ghost Luke in IX

Order of the Phoenix is actually one of my favourite Potter movies. Ironically, it's the shortest film (I believe) but the longest book. Which is fine b/c that book probably had more that could be comfortably removed than any of the others. It's not perfect (none of them are), but it's one of the better ones. And Imelda Staunton kills it.

CD songs.

JW: I hire only the best people!

I think what is meant by "Williams wrote a bunch of themes" or more than one theme is, as someone stated in a previous page, that Williams wrote a bunch of different themes and ideas for Han and then they settled on these two being the strongest. Not that Williams wrote more than Han's theme and that some of the other themes are his as well. Also he might have orchestrated and recorded different ways the theme can be used and changed throughout the movie and those orchestrations and variations are in there. However still, only Hans Theme is Williams, both part A (Hero) and part B (Searching) Can't wait to hear it and to hear Powell's themes and cues as well. Interesting to hear what older themes return, especially a certain one which, for right now, makes no sense to me at all. Why would it be in the movie?!

Music Composed and Conducted by William Ross Additional music by John Williams

He's dead and he's still writing better music than everyone else! He's just that good.

I'm surprised it doesn't say Han Solo song and original Star Wars songs by John Williams, and Additional songs by John Powell.

Just so we are clear, this is a Williams' score through and through. Powell did nothing but adapt a couple of cues.

OST cover (already posted on the Powell score thread):

I never meant to say TDK started the gritty trend, but it's the most popularised example of how it cemented itself as the default style and approach in mainstream cinema. I can't remember a film being as hyped in the last 15 years.

How's it? The Intrada samples sound much better than the YouTube excerpts of the score. This is a weird dinosaur, Jay.

Maybe the OST will have ONLY the Williams themes on track 1 and every bit of it will be micro edited out of the rest of the trakcs

SPECTRE does contain some noticeable efforts to put the chuckles back into 007 ... who'd have thought you'd have got an airbag-deployment gag in a Craig Bond, or exiting the Aston Martin in a way you'd have expected of Moore? Although Craig has freely admitted in the past that he's not good with 'shtick', as it were.

Hardly a review, more of a live blog. I just love Star Wars movies. It’s nice to hold on to one series you turn off your adult critical faculties for and just watch like you did as a kid. I mean look at the prequels, in general those who despise them were adults when they came out and those who love them were teens or younger. It’s funny to watch the exact same thing happen again with this trilogy. All these prequel defenders who now get their very own “ruined my childhood!” moment.

Had to include CE3K again, it feels as if it belongs with E.T. Currently on order: Jaws (Intrada) Damnation Alley Warriors of Virtue (composer promo) Home Alone (25th) Twister (LLL) Superman Returns (LLL) Lair (LLL) So what does the mini collectible poster look like?

It's so interesting to me that JW wrote several themes and recorded several cues that Powell says are used throughout the film. I wonder if JW wrote any music for an action scene. If this score produces some new kick-ass SW JW action music, it would be a real treat.

I'm kinda freaking out right now... WHAT A SOUND! WHAT A PERFORMANCE! magnificent. Even the Imperial March sounded so fresh and powerful. And what about the Cantina Band, right??!?!!! I never heard a concert version that gets so real to the original. I didnt know that there is actually such an arrangement. Also, how nice to include Luke and Leia and The Forest Battle! And by the way, that's how I like filmmusic to be performed: no film clips, no light effects, no costumes, no stormtroopers, no silly presentation by the conductor or host... just the f****** glorious music.

Online Tolkien Fandom: In dramatising the forging of Nenya, Narya and Vilya, how will they visualise Celebrimbor? I hope they don't combine him with Feanor because the creation of the Palantirs and Silmarils clearly aren't related (duh). Amazon Executives: We need to have the new Viggo be athletic enough to cut off gnomes heads & shit.

In the 2000s, suddenly everyone became embarrassed by art, cinema and music being cheerful, funny and escapist. For a while, we were suffering through this post-modern crap that tried to be all dark and mournful (a post-9/11 reaction?). Essentially, there was a demand for films to be more "realistic and relatable". And because people generally live their lives with great hardship, they sought catharsis in films (and film music to an extent) that reflected that. You could see this happening in all that Dark Knight shit and Harry Potter, and even 007. But then the 2010s rolled in, and we slowly recovered from all that grim reality shit, and Marvel made movies fun again, for better or for worse. But here's the cool thing Marvel did - the characters were certainly more realistic and relatable than their campy, fantastical 60s/70s/80s predecessors, but they didn't have to be fucking depressing all the time. Tony Stark is a (wealthy) dude who builds great stuff, has some trauma behind him, but he still knows how to lighten the mood! I'm only using Marvel as an example. Cinema in 2018 as a whole seems to have well and truly recovered from the pseudo-oppressive moodiness of the 2000s. And now we're entering the 2020s, which might continue this trend. Or Hollywood's delayed reaction to it's own anti-Trump hysteria will again manifest in self-pitying, dark bullshit cinema. His election seems to have hit these artsy fartsy types pretty hard, so brace yourselves for more "realistic and relatable" crap.

Some of us love that movie

Here are two concerts dedicated to Williams.

And because you're as sad as the rest of us.

What confusing credits. They should have just credited it to John Powell Williams.

But gamergate and alt-right are very much young men’s movements. Pathetic 20something dudes. Welsh is a beautiful language

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend by Jerry Goldsmith. Somewhere between Legend, Rambo: First Blood Part II and the The Ghost and the Darkness. An interesting combination, to be sure! Sounds fantastic too. Shawn Murphy used to be good. To answer your question from earlier this week, @Incanus, yeah absolutely get this. You'll love it. Karol

Music Composed, Conducted, and Orchestrated by John Williams Instagram Posts by John Powell

Don't tell me there's going to be unreleased Williams music for this? Reading the Powell article it seems Williams was a lot more involved than we thought and Powell wrote most of the score based on his themes

I've heard them all from his last ten years. There's not one dud among them. Just some are more accessible than others, meaning you probably won't be making a routine grab for Fierce Creatures or The Last Castle.

It was alright. Neither best nor worst. Anyone expecting masterpieces from this franchise is kidding themselves and needs a back injury to give them some perspective.

This score has been haunting me lately. The majority of its listening is cold and eerie, with little moments of serenity....then for its last three cues, decides it's had enough and now it's time to scare the ever loving shit out of you (jump scare warning. It sure as heck got me).

It's a brilliant movie, easily the best in the series since Empire. People will realise eventually.

The entire theater I saw it in groaned every time the film rewinds to the beginning.

I liked when a drunken Luke said Darth Sidious. A surprise, to be sure, but, a welcome one. Disco Stu gushing over TLJ must be how I come across to all of you when I rave about Always. I'm so sorry...

Expand your CD collection? You need to reduce it. Trim out all the fat and leave only the bare essentials.

Out of the prequel trilogy, I liked the makeup and prosthetics on this guy. Very Klaus Kinski. But nothing beats puppetry.

I know there is french. Well I think! What is Elb... Elf?

It was a hamfisted attempt and getting his own political beliefs into the film (which I’m not opposed to but the sequence was just overlong and dull)

I have just been listening some more to Michael Giacchino's Spiderman: Homecoming. I have heard in a few tracks what sounds a lot like an incidental quote of Georges Bizet's Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2. Here is an example, around 1:01-1:15. And here is Farandole. The section I was thinking of was around 0:16-0:33, but the general tune is throughout. Obviously it has no connection and is unintentional, but it stood out to me very much.

I don't want every movie to be obsessed with "grit" - that's a more annoying trope lately if you ask me than Drax's R&R pet peeve, even though it might be the same thing. Let the story dictate the tone logically. Marvel movies should be pretty much what they are. The new DC ones take it somewhat too far and it all feels incongruous. Nolan nailed a more grounded approach, for the reason Drax stated. I - and others apparently - wanted to feel some real sense of catharsis with these films. Nolan's vision of Batman felt like it could actually happen. The moments of stirring nobility are more potent then, and you leave the theater feeling like there's a chance for something good and great in our own world, rather than just having spent a couple hours with escapism.

He relayed a story in some interview recently addressing this. He mentioned that he was going through a creative dry spell of sorts. He was told that perhaps looking at what his greatest fans think of him might give him a boost. So he checked out the local messageboards. From the resulting despair and trials, he felt creatively reborn and rejuvenated.

I'm happy with them dragging out forever and ever. Keep making fun movies about wizards and rogues and hopeful fantastic situations in space. Of course, I want IX to be a satisfying capper to the 'trilogy' in the same way that Jedi was for the OT. But when I first got into Star Wars in the mid-1990s, there was never an Ending to Star Wars. Luke and Leia and Han and Occasionally Lando were always off fighting the next threat - Thrawn, Isard, the Vong, etc etc etc, starting like one minute after their "happy ending" on Endor with The Truce at Bakura. I derive a lot of fun out of these movies being a series of serial adventures, and less in some super-serious statement of finality.

Wait...Giacchino fans inhabit this forum?.. Wow...they must be pretty tough to survive here.

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