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John Williams'  Dracula.

Depressing?  Get a life.  The #4 album on Amazon's list is a FILM SCORE.  Not a songtrack soundtrack of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez songs.  You should be happy at this prospect, not crying in your coffee that it's Zimmer.

Besides, Zimmer can be a gateway drug to other soundtrack artists.  If someone buys Zimmer because they like listening to background music, they will eventually fan out and buy other composers' works and may find out that the older stuff is better.  Or they may simply like Zimmer's rock anthemic similarity to other heavier music, and stay in the kiddie pool of soundtracks.

Point is, soundtracks are being sold.  Why so sad?

Agreed!

SawDark Knight Rises yesterday...appeared to be a three hours documentary on terrorism - not exactly my thing. Batman didn't even have the chance to shine, being beaten twice by Bane (who's appeared to be a whining puppet in the last moment). Screenplay big chaos. Music as generic as it comes. Very low entertaining value. All pointless.
Disappointing, 5 out of 10. BB I would still rate 8.5 out of 10.

I absolutely hated the fact at the end when they tried to humanize Bane.  There was no need for that.

I thought it strengthened the character, personally. After having a main antagonist in TDK that was hardly even a person at all with Joker without any room for sympathy, it was nice to have a villain with some semblance of a heart underneath the monstrous exterior. I thought Hardy really sold it with the tears. It also kind of puts Bane's motives in a whole new light in so much as he was trying to honor Talia through fulfilling what her father set out to do.

Yet he hated her father because he was expelled from the League?? No logic.

As the title says, a lot of times people diss Williams' because they consider him too complicated (musically, so to speak) and not personal enough... But we're gonna prove those folks wrong! In your opinion, what piece/s of him are the most personal? The ones you hear and you can hear Williams very own soul.

For me, is this one:



When I hear this, I can actually hear our dear own John Williams speaking to me, telling me about his life, his beliefs, his music... There's something so gorgeous about this particular piece of music that just connects with me, and probably lots of other people. This particular piece represents everything he talks about when he refers to movie music, particularly the Golden Age of Hollywood, charged with so much innocence and a lot of nostalgia.

What about you, what do you think?

You picked my favorite JW piece of all time