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Is there a top 10 overall favorite film music themes thread? Or I should start one? Although, again, I'd like it to be a non-Williams thread, because I'm sure for most of us Williams would dominate our lists.

I just won this in an ebay auction for €64.36 (incl. shipping and VAT). It's my favorite of the Mad Max films. I didn't like the first one, and I cannot remember the second. Maybe I should watch it again?

This is an unusual choice...

Nah... you didn't convince me...

Well, I always watch the theatrical cut first, to see what the audiences experienced at the time of release. Although, not having the whole wave thing plot in the end, I was left with questions in the end. I mean I felt "this is it?"

A 1957 film with Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, Gone with the wind like. It's included in the 100 essential film scores of the 20th century. https://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/100filmscores.htm It holds a special place in my heart because it was the first soundtrack I've ever heard (I mean as an album, apart from the picture) and the reason I'm now a film music lover. I also think the Love theme is my favorite love theme ever! (more even than any of Williams's love themes)

Yeah, I guess you're right. But somehow, I expected more for this kind of theme (although I haven't seen the film).

Nope. Favorite John Williams theme I guess is Schindler's List. (although favorite score overall is E.T.) (I'm a sentimental and sensitive kind of guy! )

I was thinking of starting a thread about 10 favorite non-John Williams scores ever! (if I was to post my list for 10 overall favorite scores, I'm sure 8-9 out of 10 would be John Williams scores) But I might as well post here my list: In no particular order: Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian Elfman - Batman Returns Kilar - Dracula Rozsa - Ben-Hur Green - Raintree County Howard - Waterworld Horner - Braveheart Goldsmith - Legend Nyman - The piano Menken - Beauty and the Beast

What cut did you watch?

How can an Oscar nominated composer and and Oscar winner composer collaborate and make this outcome, I will never understand...

I hadn't seen that for over 10, maybe 15 years and I finally decided to buy the blu-ray. Masterpiece and a masterful score that gave me a couple of hair-raising moments!

Well, surround is not always a good thing. I have watched old films that have been ruined by boxy sound in the 5.1 mixes (or even missing elements), which sound perfectly fine in stereo (or even mono).

I don't know if you guys have followed the debate and arguments in blu-ray related forums about the new UHDs of James Cameron films (namely Aliens, True Lies, The Abyss, Titanic). They have been degrained and AI upscaled resulting in controversial results. Here's an interesting article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/movies/ai-blu-ray-true-lies.html The 2 sides are those that like this new re-visualization look, including the esteemed film preservationist Robert Harris who has given the releases a 10/10 for picture/audio quality over at hometheaterforum and the so-called "purists" side. If you ask me, I prefer the original look of the films with grain, and in no way I'm gonna support this travesty by buying these discs. What is your side? Both sides have become the object of hot arguments and sarcasm from the other side, and generally there is a heated debate in the internet.

Stereo is just fine too. Why everything must be surround? Especially in drama films.

No. The Blu-ray has also a stereo track. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100404/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm

I am not sure what's exactly wrong with this movie. I love biblical epics (Easter is coming here in Greece in half a month, it's my favorite period of the year for watching favorite religious films) but I slept in some bits ().

I see this is a rejected score. How it compares to the actual used score by Lurie? Do you know? Better or worse?

I don't understand. This is not by Christopher Young. Or you thought you were in another thread?

Can anyone recommend any good drama scores besides Murder in the First, The Shipping News, Creation and Something the Lord made?

Hmmm.. Haven't ever heard of these. I'll check them out!

I think it's a pity he has been type casted as a horror composer.

This release that you linked with this cover seems to be from the new restoration! I have the old restoration with this cover: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cinema-Paradiso-Blu-ray/170340/ and honestly I think I like the color grading more in that one. If you check every comparison here, the old one is more saturated and colder, than the warmer new restoration: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=15062&d2=15060&s1=157230&s2=157199&i=0&l=0&a=0

If you like drama scores, you should definitely check Murder in the First. I think it's Young's masterpiece!

As I was watching I thought to myself: Wow, Bridges should have been nominated for an Oscar. He plays the alien wonderfully. And after finishing the movie, I saw that he was indeed! Not a great movie (I prefer other Carpenter movies), but a classic.