Andy

Not that I’ve ever heard, no. Trek films were always very budget conscious.

I’m gonna answer the OP legitimately. I wish he hadn’t done Spacecamp, but instead applied some of those sensibilities to Star Trek IV The Voyage Home. Plenty of opportunities for Earth and Space drama in that one. I’m sad he never did a Trek, and for its time, it was the most popular among fans and non fans alike. Williams would’ve knocked it out of the park. I like Spacecamp just fine. But if I could trade that for a John Williams Star Trek IV, I would.

Indy trying to shoot the Thuggee swordsmen: ”Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!”

The film itself won’t win any awards for cultural sensitivity. But Dr. Jones himself should! As an impressionable youngster, I saw him model appropriate behavior around different ethnicities and cultures. “You’re insulting them and you’re embarrassing me. “ That’s the guy I wanted to grow up to be. While Willie is being an idiot during the palace dinner, Jones is cool as a cucumber, apologizing to the Majarajah for being insensitive. His is the attitude we are supposed to follow. Above all, we have a role model who is compassionate to “lower people”. While a soldier of fortune like Alan Quartermaine would’ve probably trampled right over the Mayapore village to get to his fortune and glory, Jones is visibly upset at their poverty and sick to his stomach over their children. He could’ve escaped the Temple with his bag of stones, but risks his neck and saves them. I get it. I mean, this is trashy blockbuster fare from a director who has many more “grown up” films on his resume. And the film was made in a time when it was still okay to show a rickshaw driver unfavorably, or suggest a cult of Indian people eat monkey brains. Growing up in the 70s/80s, I can tell you kids like me were far less aware of harmful insensitivities. It just wasn’t taught. But at the end of the day, Jones himself modeled how to respect cultural differences, while still entertaining the hell out of me.

The ads I posted were all positive and Ebert loved it. Variety and NYT were less enthusiastic, but clearly those reviewers had sticks up their asses.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Dr. Jones. Anything Goes!

There is nothing Super about this marketing. The scene where Kick-Ass was trying on his mail order scuba suit in the mirror had more heroic urgency than this. And speaking of rubber scuba suits, I'm tired of the same style for modern superhero "tights". Can you imagine wearing this under your Clark Kent clothes? Do better, Gunn.

I haven’t had an expansion ruin a score with which I was already familiar. I have had expansions that are too much to take in for a first time listen of the score, and therefore sort of, well, yeah, ruined it for me. One that comes to mind is Cutthroat Island. Never saw the movie or heard the OST, just jumped right into the expansion and it was exhausting. Now, that may be just that score. But, if you don’t know the basics of a score from repeated familiarity with the OST, then an expansion is often not a good place to begin. I’ve gotten wiser lately, and if the OST is included, I start with that first. Did that with the 3 Disc Godzilla (Arnold) and fell in love with it. Then, went back to Discs 1 and 2 for more. Im an expansion guy, but I also appreciate a good program.

I think if and when the original recordings are heard, I think a lot of people will be surprised to find there's a better score here than we were led to believe. We've all been conditioned by Williams himself to go, "Oh Sugarland, yeah. That one's no good."

Yes! That’s it precisely.

I may be wrong, but I think a lot of the FSM Silver Age titles snuck through before these things required Williams' approval.(?) I think it was more a matter of studio permission rather than Williams permission. Anyways, I listened to a boot of Sugarland a year or two ago, and was surprised. I rather liked it, more than I like the concert arrangement.

That’s a fun flick. Snake Man and the post nuke sequence were nightmare fuel.

The original version of the main theme is much better (more earnest and natural 70s) than the far too bluesy revised concert arrangement. I’d rather they not do a re-recording.

Amazing haul Amer! I miss when FSM used to do huge box sets. I also wish I bought them all when they came out.

What about Kick the Can? Actually, fun to imagine Williams doing Twilight Zone the Movie. That’s not a knock on Jerry’s score, which is Top 5 Goldsmith for me.