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Should have replied, "No! Try not! Do or do not. There is no try."

Here is my favorite Christmas song of all time by Jean Sibelius. Although the singers are great in this rendition, I personally would like longer line in phrasing. And the tradition of Christmas music in Finland is obviously different than in America...

I get the same way when I listen to Christmas Star from Home Alone 2. Gorgeous, sumptious harmonies in the "starlight star bright" section.

After building such strong credentials as the resident master of witty sarcasm I can't tell whether you are serious or using your finely honed skills for clever humour with that statement.It's been awhile -- I have to go back to 1999 -- since I've listened to a new Williams-produced album that I enjoyed so thoroughly. I don't find the score especially indebted to War Horse. There are the usual melodic and stylistic overlaps that attend consecutive works in a composer's career, but no more than that. As some have suggested, the score might be in some ways a closer cousin to The Patriot, as you can hear the rough structural contour of the Ann/Gabriel love theme in certain cues. But Lincoln is a much more ruminative and introverted work than either. For one, it sounds a little less disjointed. And while it clearly retains Williams's trademark warmth, it's less ostentatious and sentimental. It helps when you're not charged with evoking the pastoral grandeur of the English countryside and trumpeting the wonders of human-animal friendships in one breath.

Is it just me or can I hear a hint of dragon fireworks music from FOTR right after that? Karol oh god... I want to listen. this thread is poison! I'll stay away from now on.

I hope this is a refreshing score.

I never quite understood what people find so bad about The Patriot. Besides it not being terribly original, it is actually damn fine. Karol

Air and Simpler Gifts you mean?

Yeah, that's what too much alcohol does to your innards...

Awesome! Can Gertie come out and play?

Hehehe...

I never thought I'd see better console fps graphics this gen than Killzone 3, but fuck me 343 Industries did it. Some how, Halo 4 looks as good as Killzone 3 - but instead of tiny, rigidly scripted corridor missions with no physics and lots of smoke and mirrors rudely interrupted every five minutes by annoying cut scenes - Halo 4 offers large expansive sandboxes rich in emergence and crazy silly physics flying past your head every left right and centre. How they've managed to build such wide open game spaces, packed full of strategic and unpredictable opportunities with such high fidelity is fucking witchcraft. I'm only half way through the campaign so it's too early to say anything lasting about the game itself (so far it's been brilliant), but on a purely technical level this is by far the most impressive console game I've ever seen. The imminent Digital Foundry article on it will be essential reading in that regard.

I'm sure John will try.

My favorite is ceremony of carols by Britten, other completely British recordings of choirs singing traditional British carols.....yeah yeah yeah. Also the carpenters Christmas album. And Sinatra and Bing.

Millions of people die when Alderaan explodes in a matter of seconds, but one Ewok dies and John Williams gives him about a minute of his own sad music that is instantly recognizable in its Battle of Endor: Part 47 track. Were Richard Marquand (lol) and John Williams just heartless, or are Ewoks more important than Alderaanians?

Who?

He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.