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The only La La covers I'm familiar with are Godzilla, Batman, Lost in Space, ID4 and Poseidon Adventure. They all look fine.

This is just bs.

But seriously, when it was announced that Oliver Stone was making a World Trade Center movie, I thought maybe JW would score it and we'd end up with something like this: Prologue: Planning and Construction The Underground Siege Fugitive Hunt The Conspiracy Tribunal In the Nineties/Happier Times Hijacking Planes The Attack Sequence Heroic Rescues Through the Rubble Epilogue/The Coming of War Theme from World Trade Center I also had no idea what it would be about.

Tombstone on Blu-ray. It didn't look particularly great a lot of the time, but it's still good.

I think one awesome part with the COS theme is when Harry finds the cat and the writing on the wall. There's a lot of really nice underscore.

I like that you rank Sabrina up there. 1. Star Wars 2. Jaws 3. E.T. 4. The Empire Strikes Back 5. Superman

COS has the feel that JW did compose the music, but also that he was going through the motions at many points. However, I have to say I take more issue with POA. Everyone goes gaga over that one, but I'm still annoyed that JW dropped most of his established themes. I don't care if the movie has a different tone and was all dark and weird with shrunken heads or whatever, why exactly the theme for Harry and his friends had to be completely MIA is one for the scholars to debate when JW's music is studied in about 100 years. The Nimbus theme is another favorite that would have fit perfectly into the Quidditch scene as opposed to showing up briefly at the very end of the movie.

Kick Ass really dragged after the first scene of Hit Girl killing the people in the apartment. I think that scene especially really desensitized me to all the violence and shocker moments for the rest of the movie. I was bored.

Well, that was quick. Out of my SE phase and back to good old:

Scorcese movies are still good. Departed and Aviator are in my Blu-ray collection. Some Pixar movies are very good like Finding Nemo and Up.

Oh believe me, I've gotten excited. But all that excitement doesn't pay off. The Star Wars prequels, Star Trek, Indy 4, the dull Christian Bale Batmans, CGI-fied and politically corrected E.T., anything former hero Tim Burton does. It's a nightmare.

Must go faster.

I judge all movies nowadays against the remarkable assortment of films I grew up with, most originating from the 1970s, 80s and early 90s. Star Wars, E.T., Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Tim Burton, Spielberg and George Lucas when they were actually good, Jim Henson, River Phoenix, the good Star Treks and Terminators, Disney animated features like Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, etc. Most of today's stuff pales in comparison to the entertainment of that era. I find myself going back further in time to find good movies. I guess I've become a film snob (and a time traveler).

I also noticed the copied theme used in ID4. When I listened to Poseidon Adventure initially, I was like "Negative! Target remains!" Today I did Jaws, CE3K, TPM, Hook, JP, Home Alone and COS.

The SW main theme is still Luke's theme. The prequels haven't done anything to change that. It's no more than an overture in those movies. There's no evidence JW really wanted to develop Anakin's theme. It's not like he just forgot about it. It is (barely) there in the other two scores. It was probably realized that the theme didn't fit Hayden's character and Williams/Lucas decided that Ben's theme or the Jedi theme was more appropriate. The idea that Williams intended to develop Anakin's theme in the other films is one of the JW fanboy wet dreams, along with the idea that JW didn't have enough time to properly score the Jedi temple scene in ROTS or that the music during the Yoda Vs. Emperor scene that quotes The Duel from ESB was originally intended for a deleted section of the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan that would have mirrored the scene in ESB.

There really hasn't been anything that good in the last few years. Movies nowadays suck.

Ben's theme is a theme for the Jedi and the Force. That actually works precisely in that scene in ESB as they communicate through the Force and that's a very poor example. In fact, Williams went to town with the Force theme in the prequels making it even more relevant. It was more of a theme for Anakin than Anakin's theme. What I was getting at is that Luke's theme/the main theme should have been used as a theme for Anakin as it was used for Luke in the OT. TPM is a really good JW score, and that's the most we ever get from JW's prequel scores. It's Williams in his Hook/JP era of scoring. Not as good as the earlier SW movies or scores of their era, but still pretty damn good. AOTC isn't bad per se, but it isn't a very good SW score. ROTS is a very mixed bag.

Exactly. I've never spent more than a few bucks on a CD from eBay. In fact, I love bidding on a used JW CD weeks in advance and later getting a surprise message in my inbox saying I've won it for 0.99! How else would I have even acquired stuff like Sleepers, Stepmom, Boston Pops compilations, etc.

Rebel fanfare in the end credits. How about something new and relevant, John? Also, the main title. It's Luke's theme. It's recalled a few times in the prequels, but it's still Luke's theme. It's irrelevant to the prequels overall. There was an opportunity for something new.

"Bail Out" from Congo

It's entirely possible that Poseidon Adventure is a popular movie and a title from arguably the most popular living composer and that this release was attractive to some 2,000-something film score fans out there on the internet. I KNOW there are plenty of people out there that buy limited editions with the intention of profit, but let's not credit the sale of a majority of these 3000 CD's to people like that.

I do have this to look forward to: http://cinemaworldonline.com/lincoln/cultclassics.asp

LOL. Mickey Rourke really is the most disgusting man on Earth. I want to see Toy Story 3, The Expendables and Inception. I'm not a Christopher Nolan gusher, but that movie combines two of my great man-crushes, Leo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I'm happy it's sold so well.

The Concord Indy set aka Indiana Jones: The Soundtracks Collection. "The Medallion" is in my opinion a mega highlight of JW's career. It's such a great cue.