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Craig Armstrong's middling Incredible Hulk but not Elfman's Hulk? Oh and Batmans Returns > Batman.

This gem just appeared on Youtube a few weeks ago. Cool stuff.

@loert. I can see Luke and Leia swinging over the chasm. My CD of this has always skipped at 3:29. Funny to hear it correctly after 19 years. LOL!

I love love LOVE this bit between 4:12-17: Sounds like it comes straight from a symphony somewhere!

It needs to be comparably powerful and far less reliant on device gimmickry otherwise it's gonna get absolutely hammered again like the Wii U.

I know, but it's Horner in twee happy heroics mode, which is always a cornflake too far for me.

Lesser Horner? I disagree. "Jenny's Theme" is one of the most romantic and beautiful cues he ever wrote, in my opinion. Too bad it was never presented as powerfully in the film as it appears on the album.

That's sort of how I feel about Superman (maybe not to the extent of being a lesser Williams score though I feel like it pales in comparison to his best scores from that time period)

It's a good list. It could have been worse.. a lot worse.

Well all the deserving usual suspects are there indeed.

It's not a bad list. All the significant ones are on there. Karol

"The May 1 concert with Denève and Ma will be broadcast live on WRTI, 90.1 FM" FYI.

In light of the really awfully/muddy sounding 'Journey to the Line' production from Zimmer's concert, i put on the album again - not the session tapes i acquired years before but the old album. It's a filigree exercise in stillness and that one theme at the tail end of the cue above still rates as one of Zimmer and crew's best (who knows who wrote it...). The only thing lacking is the Fauré paradise music (for obvious reasons) but other than that it's a wonderful album and has - for this composer - an unexpected depth especially in its divised string and woodwind writing. Also in light of the concert a friend urged me to listen to 5 concert suites from 'The Dark Knight Rises' (not on the official album), a score that i find drab and insufferable. When all's said and done, it will have been a Zimmer-heavy week...

Yea yea Happy Hogan blah blah

Just placed a nice order at Intrada to take advantage of their 25% off sale. And sadly Back To The Future Part II Expanded is temporarily out of stock so I couldn't include that one in my order - bah! Total including shipping was $203.00 - not bad considering six out of the ten are $30 two-CD sets!

I have absolutely zero problems with making a direct sequel to Alien/Aliens that ignores Alien3 and Resurrection completely.

They should cast Mae Whitman!

Thanks! Clones and Sith will be coming up, and then the Star Wars films will be complete. I may move on to other Williams scores like Minority Report or AI. War of the Worlds also could use some captions I think...

Creed by Ludwig Goransson. Now this is one badass action score (if you can call it that). It does does fondly look back at the franchise's past and then adds its own modern personality. And while there are contemporary stylistic fingerprints all over it, it's a terrific piece of music that works extremely well on album. Well structured and intelligently composed. And it's one of the few instances where I could actually hum a theme after watching a film and bought this soundtrack album immediately after walking from the cinema. Fantastic stuff. Poldeouris and Goldsmith would be proud. And I'm pretty sure Conti is. Karol

There are some nice shots in the trailer that just seem primed for some JW magic, like the glowing tree at night and the BFG making those shadow paintings. And there's no way he doesn't get that whole kidnapping and traveling to the Giant country sequence pretty much all to himself, right? Could be a great cue.

Thanks for sharing that brief interview. I don't think he looks old for his age at all. Yes, his face has become a little wrinkly (due, no doubt, to the harsh California sun), but the important thing is how lively he is. I don't know many 84-year-olds who have that. The John Williams historian in me would have wanted specific questions about specific pieces -- preferably old ones or those not often talked about -- but I must say it was refreshing to just hear him talk for a few minutes about something else than the tired, old stories.

That Philly orchestra interview is one second longer than TFA featurette.

Although Williams repeats a lot of the same sentiments he has said in several interviews in the past, it is always a delight to hear him speak on his music and music in general, which he seems to celebrate continually and is still in awe of his journey of exploration through it. And I don't think he looks too old or tired, quite the contrary.

That was a wonderful little interview with great insight by Williams into some of his concert works. His connection to the Violin concerto is quite touching.

Looks great to me! Even if you were to skip evaluating him physically, his mental vitality is enviable at any age. And thanks for posting!

Here is Part 2

Reminds me of that episode of Stargate Atlantis where Dr Weir wakes up in a mental ward, and everyone tells her that the Stargate program was all in her head. In Episode VIII, Rey wakes up in a psycho ward on a planet called "earth", and people call her a strange name "Daisy Ridley", who was an actress committed because she thought her role in Star Wars was "real", but she defiantly still believes in her "delusions" and tries to return to a galaxy far, far away. It turns out it's one of Luke's Jedi training tricks to mess with her head, and "earth" was never real.