Alex

Is it really unreasonably to think Luke could be a very different person 30 years later?

JW having fun with source music this year, it seems

I disagree with the word “enthralling” haha

You’re damn right I do!

I've been thinking more about the humour and it's actually starting to bug me because I really enjoyed the film. Humour that worked for me: - BB8 - Leia/Poe interactions - Yoda page turner etc - Luke tickling Rey's hand - Luke telling R2 to "watch his language" Humour that just... ugh... cringe: - The caretakers - The Porgs for the most part - Rey asking Kylo to put a shirt on - Poe/Hux interaction at the beginning - Projection Luke dusting off his shoulder after Kylo fired the canons at him - C3PO - The character is just there for the hell of it now It's a shame because the humour that worked was genuinely quite funny. Unfortunately the rest was incredibly forced.

The version of main theme in "Flower Festival" (from about 1.00) really reminds me of a piece of classical music, but can't think of which one. It's great btw.

The cymbal crash at the end gives me life

Nice analysis, Will

Would still be better than most modern film music tbh

Oh cool, why am I finding this out now? Incidentally I got goosebumps when this played in the film.

This is probably a stupid question but why are people referring to the Tie Fighter Attack music as "Here They Come"? Did JW write a concert arrangement of that theme?

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but...

Honestly I think it was worth having the Canto Bight scenes just for the music JW wrote. I can't stop listening to "Canto Bight" or "The Fathiers"

The man is 85 years old ffs, be grateful he's still writing anything, let alone Star Wars music! It's a great album. Quite frankly it's incredible how superior the orchestrations and lines of writing are compared to any other current composer.

Oh right, thanks!

Apologies if this seems like an ignorant question but why don't they just release FYC albums instead of the OST albums?

Rogue One is a waste of time imo. You know what's going to happen, there's too many characters they expect you to care about. Plus CGI Tarkin..

Fair play to Rian Johnson for actually trying something a bit different. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm glad he backed himself and didn't make a safe, generic, fan appeasing film (words that could potentially be used to describe TFA).

The Fathiers is slowly becoming one of my favourite JW action cues

Episode IX will end with a new arrangement of Yub Nub, do not worry.

I'm actually finding myself drawn more to Rose's theme than Rey's 😬 *hides*

Loved the Canto Bight stuff

This score reminds me a lot of Prisoner of Azkaban. JW is clearly on top form here and there are some outstanding individual cues (we must remember that he is 85(!) years old) but I do agree with some of the previous comments that there isn't really an "identity" as such.

I think the first track is my favourite ever opening to a Star Wars movie.

I also feel this trilogy will suffer due to having different writers.