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Anyone else here a fan of his action/chase music? I love the musical complexity. So I'm trying to expand my John Williams library, so does anyone have any awesome selections of Williams Action cues?

Ah, I got the Blu-ray first (still waiting for the 2-CD set to come) and the isolated score sounds AWESOME! Even has some unexpected pre-cue speaking. And source music is there, too, which was almost unheard in the old DVD. Since The Fury is my favorite score (tied with Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith as three scores I simply cannot choose between, but love dearly), to hear it isolated with a beautifully remasteted print is worth every penny. And at $30, that's a lot of them, haha. Now can't wait for the 2-CD set. This is one score that I am SO happy they are giving us everything. And considering that I have a sealed LP, two different releases of the OST CD and the Varese 2-CD set.... throw these two into the collection as well. Thank you La-La Land and Twilight Time! Curious... To those who got it already: Did you order direct from La-La Land or Screen Archives? I was having trouble getting the LLL's checkout system to work with one of my PayPal accounts, so I ordered from SAE. SAE got the Blu-ray to me faster than expected, but still waiting on that 2-CD set. The Blu-ray will hold me in the meantime. People mention Dracula, that would be good. A complete film version of Images seems unlikely, but very desired by me as well. And hoping/praying that all six Star Wars scores get complete/remastered treatment. Someday they will. Disney? Oh God... it took how long for that to come true with one of my other original childhood faves... The Black Hole? Ugh....

Apologies if I am going off on a tangent, but how should one analyse Diagon Alley? Horizontally, vertically or somewhere in between?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjiP57ma0yY This is among my 5 best scores of all time!!

"Die Hard" is one of best Christmas films ever made. It's also one of the two best "textbook" films on how to make a Summer blockbuster. The other film is "ROTLA".

Glad that you've come around to "The Red Violin", Blume. Now...try "Altered States". Fan-frackin'-tastic!

I actually feel it holds together very well as there are few interludes with other thematic material to give the album more nuance and variation. There is a great feel of intrigue and unease in the score and the composer retains a consistent tone throughout. Desplat's penchant for minimalism is especially helpful here, the constant subtle forward motion driving the music (and the plot) on. The musical story arc is not pure fireworks but follows naturally the film's dramaturgy.

Regarding the similarities to War Horse, there's almost always bleed over between subsequent scores of roughly similar genre. It's happened throughout Wiliams's career. It's inevitable. You are where you are in your artistic journey.