TSMefford

It's a shame because Harry Potter 1 and 2, whether you like them or not, are phenomenally well made movies, with great practical effects (and great cgi in the second film), good camera work, great direction for the adult actors, fantastic sets and atmosphere, and great music. Stuff like Fawkes and the Basilisk are practically perfectly realized. You compare that to Percy Jackson and Pixels, and it seems like he's not even trying. 

For everyone who have mentioned or will mention LOTR on this thread:
 

Yeah I disagree that Beyond “didn’t click with fans.” I think most people waited for it to stream, but the fans who actually saw it, generally seem to have liked it.

STID: Star Trek Into Darkness. Popular enough to get a sequel. Beyond was the (good) movie that tanked Star Trek.

Damn! I remember him on my Lost scoring sessions.  They were all top notch, and I didn't realize how great they were.  Emil Richards literally proudly showed me his custom percussion instruments that he identified as being made from airplane parts.  In the booth was Dan Wallin who was a true professional.  Focused and mixing in near real time.  Our session was just three hours and he had it mixed live.  Superfast to keep us on time and budget.  He was a true pro. RIP.

This part is not always accurate.
The M style are not fake.  What they are.. are the ME's version of the slates (and also 'their' version of the titles) based on how they work the score into the film.  Sidebar--these are only deemed fake because they are not what people are used to seeing and thereby result to calling them fake(d) or inaccurate.
 
Yes, a lot of the 'Zimmer crowd' use the ascending/non-ascending slates.  Typically, a lot of the M style are utilized by ME's of Warner Bros Pictures and Walt Disney Studios.  FYI.

James Newton Howard - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Source: Sheet Music
 
1m1v39 Main Titles
1m1v40AltPU Main Titles (Pickup)
1m1Bv2 What's in the Case
1m1Cv5 After Immigration
1m2v6 It Was Like A Ghost
1m3v3 Newt Listens to Mrs. Barebones
1m5Bv18 Niffler Bank (Part 1)
1m6v34 Niffler Bank (Part 2)
1m9v2 Jacob Walks Away
1m11v8 Macusa
1m12v6 Macusa (Part 2)
1m13v7 It Could Mean War
1m14v2 Wand Permit Office
1m15v5 A Case of Pastries
2m1v9 Jacob Rejected
2m2v7 Soup and Leaflets
2m3Av2 Hopscotch
2m3v15 Creatures Escape
2m4v7 House Repair
2m5v9 Lollipop Demiguise
2m6v5 Shaw Newsroom
2m9v5 Pie or Strudel
2m10v5 Credence Passes Leaflets
2m12v9 Escape From Magical Apartment
3m1v15 Inside the Case
3m1v17PU-1 Inside the Case (Pickup)
3m2v5 Credence Punished
3m3Bv1 Niffler Car
3m3v4 Erumpent Shadow
3m4Av6 I Made Them Cocoa
3m4v15 Niffler Jewelry Store
3m5v23PUv1 Erumpent (Pickup)
3m6v3 Call Me Jacob
4m3v2 Tina and Obscurus
4m4v7 Obscurus and Senator
4m5v11 Tina Barges In
4m6v10 Obscurus at Macusa
4m7v5 In The Cells
5m1v5 Leaflets In the Air
5m3Bv5 The Chair
5m3v10 Tina and Newt Trial
5m4Av12 Escaping the Macusa (Part 1)
5m4bv17 Escaping the Macusa (Part 2)
5m5v10 Credence & Graves in Alley
5m8v6 Gnarlak Negotiations
6m1v18 Demiguise Intro
6m3v17 The Occamy
6m6v4 Returning Creatures to the Case
6m7v4 Newt's Friend
6m9Bv3PU Credence is the Oscurus (Pickup)
6m9v6 Credence is the Oscurus
6m10v6 Look After My Creatures
7m1v6 Graves Follows Credence
7m2v8PU Into the Subway (Pickup)
7m4v5 Newt Talks to Credence
7m5v7 Graves and Newt Fight
7m6v15 Don't Do This
7m7v13 Graves Fight
7m8v20 Newt Releases the Thunderbird
8m1v15 Jacob's Farewell (Part 1)
8m4v5 Newt Says Goodbye to Tina
8m4v7 Newt Says Goodbye to Tina
8m5v4 Jacob's Bakery
8m6v3 End Titles
8m7v2 End Titles (Part 2 Overlay)
8m7v2 End Titles (Part 2)
9m1v8 A Man and His Beasts (Part 3)
9m2v8 Kowalski Rag (Part 1)
9m2v8 Kowalski Rag (Part 2)

McCreary wrote/used the following themes:
 
Godzilla's Theme (Ifukube)
Mothra's Song (Ifukube)
Rodan
Ghidora
Monarch
Serizawa's goodbye
King Of The The Monsters (Overall Monster theme)
 
That's 7 different themes
 
Holkenborg wrote the following:
Godzilla (uge brass statements)
Kong
And an electronic motif for Mega Godzilla.
 
And as someone who likes GvK's score I am wondering why Holkenborg keeps saying that it was sooo hard to use the pre-existing themes. McCreary did it and I didn't hear him complain about it.

Well at least the first two Godzilla monsterverse films had good scores. Can’t win em all.

I really liked the movie! Although Michael Keaton's Batman and Sasha Calle's Supergirl arguably stole the show from the title character halfway into the flick...
 
Yavar

I'm well aware my take is pure cope 😅

To be fair though... he was also "on board" with The Flash and we all know how that turned out.

To be fair though... he was also "on board" with The Flash and we all know how that turned out.

To be fair though... he was also "on board" with The Flash and we all know how that turned out.

Never thought I would hear an epic, trailerized version of the Banana Boat song but here we are. 
 
Can't judge anything, good or bad from that teaser.  But I like to think if Keaton got on board with this, it has serious potential.

Why was Nolan's walk off music He's A Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean?

Who was the genius at WB who let Nolan walk to Universal?

Billie Eilish has two Oscars wow

The trilogy is complete and definitive 
 
As mentioned before, the first two say 3000 copies whereas the last says 2000. You'd think they're anticipating all puchasers of the first two to want to complete the set.
 
I also observe that the printed cover for this one looks fine - no pixellation or major artifacts. It's just the digital version that looks a bit suspect.
 

 

I would like the opinion of experts on the subject of over-editing music in film OSTs now that it's so easy with technical means.
 
I know that editing film music for albums has always been done, but sparingly, with makeshift means, often yielding mediocre results. For instance, in the first Star Wars soundtrack, some tracks were edited and combined, including the theme, but the album still contained many tracks as they were recorded.
 
Today, with technology, we can make dozens of micro-edits in a single cue, which I find somewhat excessive. I would like to know, from your perspective as experts with a better overview of soundtracks released in recent decades, what is your take on this?
 
Are soundtracks where 99% of the tracks are micro-edited becoming obsolete, or are they still relevant? Also, I'm curious to know, around which years there was a decisive turning point (if there was one), or with which soundtrack it became apparent that "Oh, OSTs will never be the same again."
 
Do you have any concrete examples?

Thanks @Manakin Skywalker
 

Oh HELL Yes! Keep buying them people! 
 
I can't believe we're finally getting this after all this time.