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The year is 2236. Yavar has just installed his detached head on to his newest cyborg body before sitting down to discuss Planet of the Apes on The Goldsmith Odyssey. He says the goal is to get to Logan's Run by 2500, but no promises.

Boring, a little less boring, possibly boring, possibly boring.

I found something rather interesting. Not really important at all, but interesting. I've been going through my rip of Jedi: Fallen Order (I've only examined a handful of files thus far). There appears to be a little bit of prequel music, but I'm not sure how much, or if there's any unreleased material. What is interesting however is that, and Gordy talked a little bit about this a few months back, is that ALL of the in-game music, including the music from the films, has been mastered in 7.1 surround sound. According to one of the EA devs, it sounds like JFO is pretty much the first game to utilize a full 7.1 mix. For instance, I just loaded up the game master of "Lament" from ROTS, and it is indeed in true 7.1 surround sound. Unfortunately at this time I am unable to get the files on lossless quality using current tools, only compressed OGG files. Just thought that was interesting. I'll continue to sift through the files to see if I can find anything else.

I'll probably end up looking stupid for saying this but... I think it's Williams. The only part I'm a bit doubtful of is the last few seconds. The first part sounds like pure JW sequel trilogy to me.

New poster too

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Thanks for your efforts, @Manakin Skywalker. Definitely appreciate the work on your part, not just in this regard, but overall in trying to obtain and make available all this wonderful music for us.

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That sounds far more like a real orchestra than the Anthony Daniels videos. The piccolo flourish around 0:11 is very Williams as well, and this isn't out of place with his other writings in the sequels thus far. I think this could actually be legit. The beginning sounds a bit like the theme from TLW?

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the flourish at 10 seconds..

The Last Jedi will be on the US version of Disney+ on December 26th, 2019.

Tried to isolate the music. I personally don't think it's Williams.

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It does sound the most like Williams to me than anything else we've heard, but I dunno. They've never debuted any of his music, whether actual or trailer-ized, in anything that wasn't directly promoting the movie, right? This is my problem. We scoured and debated so many random tie-in commercials for TFA and TLJ and none of it was him. The only thing I can think of was the Galaxy's Edge Coke commercial that had a bit of the suite we hadn't heard before but that's kind of a different situation. Even that was technically advertising something you had to go to Galaxy's Edge to get, not like a branded thing you can buy at Wal-Mart. I just feel like, when they use new Williams which is exceedingly rare, it seems like they do it for specific "go to this movie/park" stuff and that's it.

It also didn't prevent it from becoming on of the best, and most balanced, Star Wars scores.

The Yoda Baby Show.

Technically he's not denying that he could be working on Star Wars, he's just denying this particular video was intended as a tease for any theoretical release (which is surely true, because MM wouldn't be so overt with such a thing).

The film version is better.

My first thought was Giacchino's Spider-Man theme ha Do we have a tally of how many times we've actually heard new Williams pre-release, outside of obvious clips and music promos/featurettes? I remember Jedi Steps in the ABC TV spot, trailerized The Spark in the final Last Jedi trailer, Galaxy's Edge in the Coke commercial. Is there anything else?

If you feel morally-obligated to buy this, get the OST as you can probably find one used in good shape on eBay for $4 or so. The 2012 LLL release is still going for over $100 on there.

I've always preferred the film version for "Banning Back Home" compared to the OST. The OST just seemed a little lifeless. I don't know if a proper MM re-issue for Hook will happen or not. I'm betting not.

I also doubt the filmakers have let music from the recording sessions out to the marketing dept either; new score isn't needed to promote this film or its tie in products. But you never know.

It's obviously Bill Ross. JW hasn't written a single score since Chambers.

Someone on the OriginalTrilogy forums already got ahold of the raw lossless files for the isolated score in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. I already shared them in the "downloads" PM chain a few months ago. The stereo file was only mixed in 44.1khz / 16-bits, as far as I'm aware there is no 24-bit master of the isolated score.

It's boring as fuck compared to S1&2. Great swathes of nothingness, punctuated by occasional moments of fleeting intrigue and wonder, but they are few and far between.

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Great! You approach this project the same way I would do a Williams book, I think. An almost ADD-like adherence to covering everything.

You crazy man!

Chewie then Chewie now

According to JJ, there were reshoots on TFA than on this one. Was this massive reshoots rumor for TROS ever confirmed?

I've only seen 4 of those (BCS, Twin Peaks, Good Place, and Fleabag... all good shows), but want to see the others to varying degrees. I'd rank the order I'l likely eventually see them as something like The Leftovers Mad Men BoJack Horseman Atlanta Halt & Catch Fire Enlightened There are certainly many other shows not on this list I'll likely check out before some of those, notably Rick & Morty, The Terror, The Expanse, Homecoming, Love, Easy, Modern Love, The Boys, The Man in the High Castle... And boy are there a lot of great 2010s show not on that list, like HANNIBAL, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Fargo, True Detective, Black Mirror, Barry, Search Party, Mr Robot, Westworld, Mindhunter, Big Mouth...

Always? I mean, he's done some good stuff, but also a lot that's not so good.

Yes! Why?

It's uplifting!

I'm surprised there's no thread yet for this game and its score because it really is fantastic music (Cal's Theme is gorgeous, especially on flute). I swear I heard an excerpt from Phantom Menace during the game last night but figured it couldn't be, based on LFL's policy of original game music. Guess it was there after all! It was the weird ethereal music as Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan arrive at Otoh Gunga city (at least as labelled on the OST, I'm not super familiar with that score). It was inside the derelict facility on Zeppo. Definitely interesting that the scores have been mixed at 7.1 though. That has to mean they went back to the multi track masters for all the scores (I assume these exist for the OT?) and created new mixes. Surely you don't go to that much trouble unless you're planning to release them in some form, unless these new score masters were used in the Dolby Atmos 4K mixes...?

Grubinger arranged it (or had it arranged?) with Williams's blessing. The whole thing is rather grotesque.

Well, tease or not, I like the video!

I'll say it. I miss Chewie's nice Return of the Jedi hairdo.

Banning Back Home film version was one of the best tracks on the La-La Land CD because it wasn't even on the bootleg. It's a wonder it was included.

There's nothing thematic there, it's just some twinkly percussion (likely vibraphone or glockenspiel) over some cymbal swells. You're being trolled.

I don’t know what it would be, but as a society, there must be something we can do to keep computer scientists from gleefully racing to bring about our destruction from some kind of digital apocalypse. Deepfakes need to be made illegal, like @Bryant Burnette says. More than that, they probably ought be treated by everyone as no less intuitively or ethically reprehensible than rape, eugenics or underage porn. There are several things that we as a species agreed not to do for the sake of preserving our humanity — human cloning, biological warfare — and this is a technology that deserves to be on that list.

- HP: 10 hours of shawm cue - Banning Back Home (feat. blink-182) - Star Wars I-IX (C&C mp3 128kbps edition) - Indiana Jones complete collection (but everything is out of order in a single 5 hour continuous mix) - Hanz Zimmer: the self-plagiarism boxset

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The humour in The Force Awakens works better for me than in The Last Jedi. Its hardly the series weightiest entry, but there is weighty material in it: I mean, the film practically opens with an entire unarmed village being massacred. While I agree its convenient to the plot that Rey is very capable in everything, I don't think it detracts from her characterization. She's filled with uncertainty, with doubts, she's deluding herself regarding her parents. I like her and Finn very much. Poe is a bit too fleeting to leave as strong an impression. Kylo's terrific. I love him praying to his grandfather's helmet. The duel in the original Star Wars really ain't that impressive: two old guys playing with sticks. Empire Strikes Back is better, as is Return of the Jedi, although we were clearly already starting to head into the realm of "cool" jumps and flips. It still works in The Phantom Menace. Rather, its in Revenge of the Sith and especially Attack of the Clones where it reaches absolute overkill. The fight in The Force Awakens is kind of like the earlier films, but punchier. If we put aside the dramatic aspect of the fight in The Empire Strikes Back and refer to both strictly as action scenes, I should think the one in The Force Awakens is the best of the series.

I think the finished version works better, for two reasons. One, its more focused. Lucas mercilessly threw out material partaining to the establishment of the rebellion, the resolution of the mystery from the previous film and other such elements, in favour of focusing on Anakin, and the film feels much more coherent as a consequence. Second, it moved Anakin's motivation from mere lust for power to protecting his wife (which makes it all the more tragically ironic that he ends up facilitating her death) and, more importantly, siding with Palpatine. Anakin's father/son relationship with Palpatine rings more true than any relationship in the prequel trilogy, and it makes total sense that he'd side with him.

That fight is still one of the strangest things in Star Wars. All the awkward closeups and cuts and slow movements that lead into random flips and slickness. What was the original idea? When did Anakin show up in this version? Is this the music I have where it's the cue as heard in the movie but then there's tons of evil sounding music before the actual lightning shooting music?

If he wants Balfe, McQuarrie can just reuse the Fallout score. That was the same droning ostinato background noise for 2 hours, so I wouldn't expect a second score to sound any different.