Hi, my first post here. I was irked enough at the situation with the music of Crystal Skull that I had to post my questions here about the REUSED Williams music, to try to get the straight story. Without revealing any spoilers, while watching Crystal Skull I noticed that Lucas (not surprisingly) resorted to cutting-n-pasting music from John Williams from other films (this time from "Raiders" and "Crusade". Going into Skull, I sortof expected this to happen: it happened with Clones (what a jaw-dropping crap experience to hear the same music from Phantom resurface again) and then Sith's music reuse wasn't a big surprise. So going to see Skull, I sortof expected Lucas to pull the same crummy tactic, and of course, he didn't let me down. Again, without spoilers, it sounds as if Lucas lifted the "Flight from Peru" music from Raiders and pasted it in, as well as several of the "Father/Son" themes from Crusade into this film (they sound pretty darn identical.) Another nefarious practice appears to be (unless my ears misheard) was the "flight from Peru" music but SLIGHTLY slowed down, so as to sound original to anyone listening for new music (I think Lucas did the same trick in Sith when Obi-Wan was docking with the Correlian feighter thing... resued Phantom music, but slowed down. Oooh, how sneaky Lucas is.) I knew this was going to happen, and I actually wrote a letter to Lucas a while ago, asking him not to do this. Apparently he didn't listen... Here's my question for this board, following that huge build-up: What is the situation here? Is it: 1) Lucas didn't like Williams music so cut-n-pasted other old Williams music that he (Lucas) preferred more? or... 2) Did Williams just decide that, heck, why rescore this? Let's just add some of MY OWN music here again? or... 3) What Lucas in a frenzy to add more CGI scenes to his film that Williams didn't have a chance to adequately score the film? (thus the need to cut-n-paste material?) As a life-long Williams fan, this practice has frustrated me beyond words, and I'm finally at the point of wanting to post this here, with hopes someone can tell me WHY the score was such a paste job. Same for the Star Wars films: what is the story? Frankly, I don't get it. George Lucas has John Williams, JOHN WILLIAMS, the greatest composer of the last two centuries at his disposal, and he's content to cut apart and ruin his scores, thoroughly disappointing fans of Williams music? Why? To me, this is the most nefarious practice for a film-maker to do for fans of film music. I'm the odd-ball who looked forward to Sith, not for the grand story-wrap up, but rather to hear how Williams would score the climatic final battle. Likewise with Indy 4: I only went to see this film, not to see the implausible story or silly acting, but for Williams music. That's it! I feel like I've been ripped off: paid to see a new film with new music, but instead paying to hear the same music surface again. I also feel like Williams has, once again, been ripped off, unless these reuses of tracks were his idea? Seems unthinkable. Rob