Gruesome Son of a Bitch

The General Grievous one is brilliant for comparing the stupid spinny lightsaber scene in Episode III to those annoying kiddie spinny light thingies.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/46710540.html I don't even really like the prequels much and these are hilarious.

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/daily/article.cfm/articleID/6347/An-FSM-Glossary-of-Terms/ Bottle Cap - Attributed to the late Jerry Goldsmith who commented on the sometimes fanatical desire of his fans to want to own every single thing he did. He stated that some of his scores were not necessarily worthy of album releases or really listenable to as stand alone experiences, but some fans clamor for them all the same. He likened the practice to collecting Bottle Caps. It has come to mean collecting a score, for the sake of collecting regardless of the merits of the score or whether the collector actually likes the music or not. Bottle cap collecting is generally a practice of Completists, a name given to those who want and collect everything from a composer’s output. Although the term Bottle Cap is used regularly in reference to Goldsmith’s scores because of the origins of the term, it has since been applied to other composer's scores as well. Not necessarily a derogatory term, but it can be used as such. Bottle Cap collectors have been known to adopt graven images such as the white ponytail and worship at the altar of composer X.

I had some great fun listening to this last night. This is Arnold's best work without a doubt. I miss when he was more like this.

I think I'll be ordering Superman, Monsignor, Black Sunday, Amazing Stories #3 and Images. I hope you're kidding. You shouldn't sell off awesomeness to finance more awesomeness. They're just things. Things can be replaced. John Williams scores cannot.

The Amazing Stories music is a necessary purchase for the Mission episode, Ghost Train and the titles. The three releases are annoying however since they each include some desirable music and cost 30 dollars. I would recommend #3 if any one.

I've been seriously thinking of selling off my vintage Star Wars figures to finance John Williams CDs.

The 90s was so much better for film scores than the new millennium. I feel like we're in a dark age now.

I still need that damn Superman set. Also Black Sunday, Monsignor, all Amazing Stories and possibly Accidental Tourist. The 60s stuff doesn't interest me. It's all just so expensive.

Lots of great scores here. I can't narrow down any sort of top 10, but I do know the #1 spot is Hook.

Masters of the Universe is so misunderstood.

My first copy was the Yoda Doc Brown cover where it looks like he's using dark side powers and inspired debate. My Target copy is the Anakin/Padme one since it was either that one or the lame Jango Fett cover. If I had a choice of them all, I would have definitely picked the poster. With Chamber of Secrets they included both the poster cover and the character one (I got Ron).

Goldsmith has First Blood in his catalog. Williams has never done anything quite like it. We're talking definitive action film scoring. But then, JW has ROTLA and Goldsmith doesn't have anything like it.

When was the interview done? Maybe he confused it with Last Crusade. Actually sounds like it was around 89'ish because I think he's talking about scoring Final Frontier.

Just First Contact, one of my few non-JW score purchases. Most of the Goldsmith music I have is not on CD.

4 Williams scores. 1 year. You listen to any one of them, you want to listen to them all. The nostalgia of having to choose from 4 different CD covers and also having to buy another copy of Star Wars at Target because you had no idea that there was a bonus track. Hearing the Chase Through Coruscant in Chamber of Secrets, thinking to yourself when John Anderton says he's going to kill Leo Crowe that, musically, you've been here before with that goof Hayden Christensen and the Sand People. Why is the music so low? Should I be complaining to the guys in the projection room? I'm still logging into this and Star Wars fan sites via my crappy dial-up connection for news on the Episode II Ultimate Edition. Anyday now, it's coming. Crap. Canceled?? Then there's Catch Me If You Can. That's a fun one, and, wait, is that some of the AOTC love theme in the opening title?? I call this 2002 syndrome. Does anyone else suffer from this condition?

The earliest JW music I can remember is the Return of the Jedi main title when I first watched the movie videotaped off television at 4 years old. Then there was Hook, which is one of the earliest movies I remember seeing in the theater. Then I got into E.T., Jurassic Park, Indy, the other SW movies and I was hooked fo life. Other kids were listening to shitty grunge rock and hip hop while I built up an arsenal of JW soundtracks (and eventually programmed chronological orders on my crappy portable CD player and listened to the scores on the bus rides). I even used my Talkboy (from Home Alone 2) to record a bunch of music from Temple of Doom before I had the soundtrack (got it around 2000), the main titles from Seaquest and ST:TNG and also a scene from TNG episode "Final Mission" for the music when Wesley goes to get water and save Picard. I wish I still had that thing.

Harry's Wondrous World on the COS soundtrack is the same recording as the first movie/album, except it has a new ending that's been used in concert performances.

William Ross must have thrown on the AOTC soundtrack when composing/arranging/adapting/whatever music for COS. He couldn't get around the copy protection though, unlike with Harry's Wondrous World and the tagged-on new ending.

The ending of the movie isn't that bad, and I can be really cynical. POA had a God AWFUL ending with Harry yelling like a fool and the totally out of place PAUSE with his goofy face. That was bad. But then you have the totally lame-o endings to the last bunch. They just sort of...end. Is the ending of the first movie the only genuinely good one, or does that one suck as well?

COS sounds far too Williams for me to believe that Ross made any significant contributions overall, although I'll admit that many of the orchestrations of music from the first movie sound are enhanced in COS. Ross seemed to pull all of the magic out of JW's music and it seemed like Williams was more restrained when recording the first score. It could just be the LSO or it could be that Ross is a damn good conductor/adapter. Either way, COS is a desirable complete score. ..."Harry's Wondrous World"

William Ross would be the next Michael Giacchino.

I would describe it as charming as well. My favorite character is the bad girl geisha. She was great.

Your signature news article quote doesn't really help since it sort of contradicts itself. William Ross didn't compose any new material, but he wrote material based on material Williams wrote? So he did end up writing material in some way? The hell?

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