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  1. I just want to continue the discussion that Anthony started; Lately I’ve been truly obsessed with the Mars Needs Moms Recording Session album, as it contains a lot of unreleased gems that it’s mind boggle Powell didn’t put it in the official OST I think I remember reading that Powell came very very late into this project. This is a similar case with Pan when he replaced Dario Marianelli at the last minute. And also just like Pan, what he delivered under the time constraints is truly commendable, and in fact, we are here aware that many people have ranked Pan high among Powell’s works, just like Mars Needs Moms The Mars Needs Moms score, for many general listeners, was popular as being HTTYD-ripoff, as one of the theme (at least some section of the theme) is a direct lift from Test Drive theme. But considering the time, I can forgive. Especially as the other themes are really strong and among the best Powell has ever written. Here I want to share some of tracks from the recording sessions that were unreleased in the official OST that really needs to be appreciated. “Bed Remorse”: 03 Bed Remorse.mp3 The sad statement of the main theme here is really lovely, and really plays well with the scene ( I remember I shed a bit of tears during that scene) ”No Time”: 13 No Time.mp3 I always adore how Powell can play around with his already great theme to make it even greater, as heard here ^^ “Capture-Fall” 17 Capture - Fall.mp3 A nice action piece ”Time Running Out” 24 Time Running Out.mp3 The best out of the unreleased. Such such mindboggle Powell didn’t put this track in the OST. Listen to that statement of the theme in the beginning and tell me if that isn’t a glorious Powell moment!
  2. Nice playlist. If I may to add some comments 😄 1. Unique way to start 😄 2. This track is also a gem. Odd he didn’t put it in the score album, as this track is perhaps the highlight of Rio 2 3. How about “Z to the Rescue”? I consider that the highlight of the ost. Too long? 4-8. Agree! 9. I can’t connect to any of the Bourne stuff, especially the first one 10. Drumline is such an underrated gem. Agree with that track as well. 11-12. Agree! 13. For me, it’s “Boat Chase” 14. Can’t connect with Powell’s rom com too 15. “Hog Chase” is indeed on the best action piece Powell ever wrote 16-18. Can’t comment. Will check though (But agree with the “To The Roof”, but that’s still “a low bar” for me) 19. “Escape” is a nice summary of Robots. But “Train Station” is also a stand out, love the theme in that track: 20. Can’t comment 21. Agree. The suite album presents it better (IA 2 is such a way inferior work compared to the third movie; i found the themes in IA2 rather clunky) 22. For X3, you need to edit and stitch to make it into one big suite. Dark Phoenix theme, of course, but don’t forget this as well: 23. same, need micro edit for Happy Feet 24. Tangiers! I also ranked this among the best action tracks he ever wrote 25. The theme in this score is lovely, but there is one statement of that theme that needs to be put into the list, here: 26. Agree! 27-28. needs edit for this one. Made even worse by how the OST is split into tiny little tracks 29-33. Agree! 34. I can’t comment on HTTYD. It’s becoming too mainstream to my taste 😄 35-36. Agree. Though for Mars Needs Moms, I highly recommend you to listen to the Recording Session version. There are tons of unreleased gem! ( That version also made me rank MNM very high) 37-39. Agree 40. Hmm, needs stich & edit for this one. 41. For me, well pf course, “Madrid Finale” 42. Solo is too much 🙃 43-48. Agree!
  3. This one, right? The very best theme from Powell! As if the angel itself guided him to write it. I'm sorry HTTYD, you are quite nothing compared to this theme.
  4. Yeah, you got me. I'm not really fond of Powell's live action score. That being said, each of them has its own highlight in the OST that I'd rank high amongst Powell's best tracks, like "Hogchase", etc. But as a whole album, I just can't connect. 😄😄 Happy Feet is truly a gem! (People often dislike it because of the presumed "uneven-ness" in the middle part, which is certainly not the case) I found this is Powell at his "most restrained", but at the same time still delivering his usual bonanza. Hence, making it a good listen. Not too heavy. But that's not the reason why I adore it. It's the themes,.....those themes though,.......... 😍 Happy Feet, along with Antz, and Horton Hears A Who, were the one that first welcomed me to Powell. That's why I put them at the very top. I still remember when I was teenager, how I always repeat & repeat the scene where the "Hero/The Alien Ship" theme appears in Happy Feet. And how powerful the "The BIg Shoe" theme in Antz. And how I might perhaps shed a tear when the "We Are Here" scene started to play in Horton.
  5. It's very heartening to see such great praise for John Powell here. It’s further cementing that after John Williams, the next greatest composer of this decade is indeed John Powell. But as a Powell fan, I guess it’s not wrong to place the HTTYD trilogy scores not among the very best of him. HTTYD's score are too "heavy" for me. HTTYD is a Powell score that I rarely revisit (albeit how masterpice it is) Even if ranked, all of HTTYD's scores do not make it into my TOP 3 best Powell scores, which is here my TOP 20 ranking for me: 1. Happy Feet 2. Horton Hears A Who 3. Antz 4. First HTTYD 5. Mars Needs Moms 6. Ice Age 3 7. Migration 8. Third HTTYD 9. Chicken Run 10. X-Men 3 11. Kung Fu Panda 12. Second HTTYD 13. Call of The Wild 14. Robots 15. Pan 16. Evolution 17. Ferdinand 18. Solo A Star Wars Story 19. Rio 20. Bolt (Yes, I put Solo that low. Solo is too too much for me)
  6. I’ve never read all of the books, but if that’s the case, then the movie is already giving too much 😄 So I guess this is in keeping with “Dune-style” which is fully atmospheric Jihad also wasn’t mentioned ever here in the second movie, I don’t know whether they will in the third. And yes correct, I also get why they didn’t, as Jihad has a very strong essence in Islam, and of course for westerners it’s post 9/11
  7. Just saw Dune Part Two in IMAX. Visually, it truly is a SPECTACLE. This is what cinema was made for. But I was quite surprised of how strong the religious tone in this part. Being a muslim, I knew from the part one movie that they borrowed some of Islamic elements; the Lisan al-gaib, etc. But here, it was pretty on your nose. This is not a spoiler of course, but in this movie, Paul often repeatedly called "Mahdi" and then to watch his quick accession to that title, is truly scary and goosebump-inducing (For those who has seen the movie, you know what scene I'm referring to) Scary because it's pretty similar to our faith, that it is right before the end of time, a leader called "Imam Mahdi" will rise and will lead around 7-9 years "holy war" on evil; which is basically the same with what's going on in this movie. And seeing it in theatre full with mostly muslim, and to hear their faint gasp and awe (acknowlodging how it's similar to the faith), is truly something. One main issue in this movie is the editing, I think like above has mentioned as well; the first act moves so slow, and then, the second and third act moves jarrringly quick and jam-packed with many plots. The main battle in third act, it's already visually stunning of course, but I can't help but feel it could've been better with a more steady pace, like Lord of the ring. But nonetheless, it's a 9/10,but can't decide whether it's better than the first. I think in the end it's better, just because of its sheer spectacle.
  8. That’d be wonderful! Let’s hope he is indeed working on this. In fact, it’s not so far-fetched, as John Powell has already once collaborated with Stephen Schwartz in the past, providing music arrangement to one of his song in The Prince of Egypt, hear it here: ^^ You can clearly hear Powell there. This is perhaps one of his best song arrangement in my book. So imagine Powell does the arrangement for this iconic Wicked song: Well, Powell’s arrangement of existing song is always a gem to hear, as I’ve described in my post here:
  9. ^^ Yes, if Powell does indeed work on this, I guess he will only do the underscore between song numbers. I can imagine the credit will be like Original Music & Lyric by Stephen Schwartz, Score by John Powell. But what’s the point anyway. Schwartz’s original music and songs are already the most iconing thing about the original broadway show, any of Powell’s inventive input in the movie will clearly be overshadowed by it. But this will be an interesting assignement nonetheless.
  10. So apparently, Mike Knobloch, NBC Universal’s President of Music, just tagged John Powell on his Insta post for Wicked the movie: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3OilCyP9jd/?igsh=MWRncmdyd3ZmN2pnOQ== ^^ is this a mistake/typo, or Powell will indeed deliver music for this movie? Because it’ll be out of nowhere assignment if this is true. (But do also notice how Mike Blonoch postioned John Powell tag in a group along with the original Wicked broadway musical director Stephen Oremus and award-winning music producer Greg Wells) What do you guys think?
  11. Powell won Emmy for this! https://deadline.com/2024/01/2023-creative-arts-emmys-winners-list-1235696511/ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/01/07/john-powell-wins-emmy-award-for-still-a-michael-j-fox-movie-score/ Beating JNH’s Light & Magic and Hans Zimmer Company’s Prehistoric Planet A photo of his win https://www.reflector.com/news/national/the-television-academys-75th-creative-arts-emmy-awards---night-2---show/image_63377aa5-b1ed-5ebe-95a0-5e056011299b.html —- ^^ Anyway, check the breakdown above to understand why this score is such a hidden gem (albeit maybe a small minimalistic gem)
  12. Happy new year! To open with good news, John Powell has won his first Emmy for Still https://deadline.com/2024/01/2023-creative-arts-emmys-winners-list-1235696511/ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/01/07/john-powell-wins-emmy-award-for-still-a-michael-j-fox-movie-score/ Beating JNH’s Light & Magic and Hans Zimmer Company’s Prehistoric Planet Edit: A photo of his win https://www.reflector.com/news/national/the-television-academys-75th-creative-arts-emmy-awards---night-2---show/image_63377aa5-b1ed-5ebe-95a0-5e056011299b.html
  13. Hahaha thank you! 🤩🤩 And the avatar, done 👍 (I actually like the one @Luka having 😄)
  14. ^^ Thank you so much! I am also having fun creating this ----- Anyway, Themes Breakdown (Part 2) 2. Mallard's Family theme, B section (maybe) Some might say that these A & B section are its own different theme; the reason why I classified as A & B part of one single theme because it mostly the case the 'B part' always played right after the A part. But let's see, let Powell confirm this. The B section theme represents more on the 'joyful', 'happiness', 'togetherness' side of the Mallard family. This theme is perhaps the most played in the movie. It makes me think that this maybe in fact 'the main theme' of this movie. First time we can hear this theme is during the opening track Bedtime Story at this particular moment (which is right after the A section like I've shown you before) until 0:21 It appears again, in second track What Else is Out There , the opening intro track. Like I've told before, this theme played during happiness/joyful montage of the intro sequence. Hear it in this particular moment until 0:58 then appears again still in the same track at this moment until 1:32 ^^ Really love both of these statements. That horn part, glorious! Appears again in the next track, Join Our Migration This is played during just basic conversation between the two kids of the Mallard family, hence this is the 'mundane' statement, hear it below until 1:30: Fast forward, this is the 'rejoice' statement of the theme, heard in Let's Fly track, hear it below: ^^ Just beautiful 😍 Of course, we all knew this track is played during first time the Mallards family break free and fly to their migration. Now this is one of my favourite statement of this theme. In the track Night Time, Day Time at this particular moment until 2:30 ^^ Freaking love it! Pure classic Powell, with its up and down flute/string writing and that 'da dum' timpani. Fun fact: this track is played during one of the most beautiful scene in the movie, when all the Mallards having fun flying through the cloud. Honestly, it's a unique choice Powell did this scene with this kind of style, instead of grand epic style. But nevertheless, this current style works beautifully! Fast forward, now this is probably the 'main statement' of this theme, heard in the track Migration Continues hear it below: ^^ Also loving this! It has a certain meditative quality in it. Next, just like the A section theme, this B section theme also has its 'tragic' statement, in the track Helicopter Attack at this particular moment until 1:22 ^^ This statement is so powerful. This music plays when some members of the family are forced taken away, Interestingly, it culminates with Elfman's Batman-ish fanfare 😄 Lastly, this one is also one of my favourite statement of this theme, in track Jamaica, hear it at this particular moment until 0:53 ^^ Pure pure beauty!😍😍😍 FYI, I am sure you'll get goosebump when you hear this in theatre (I for one also look forward to hearing this in theatre), because the scene when this music played is quite heartwarming. ----- Continue again later! 😄
  15. Haha thank you! Well I knew way back then you were a staunch Powell fan 😄
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