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The back of the box says it will be on the normal Blu-ray.

Even though I’m only 27 and I am a tech guy, I have a 4K BR player and a BR collection for one reason. When Netflix and all inevitably shut down, people will look back at their 10 years of subscription at 16€/month. They’ll realize it amounts to around 1920€ for owning NOTHING. Now you’ll ask: why would Netflix collapse? The industry is trying to mimick the success of Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, Tidal etc. But almost everything is the same on these platforms to the point where you can pay only a small amount and get all the music you want. Now we have Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney+, Peacock and whatever else is being created right now. Each service recalling there content to the point where you will have to pay for all of them if you want the convenience of being able to watch whatever movie you want. At the end of the day, It’ll go back to being as expansive as buying BR. So I suspect people will massively go back to illegal download, sadly. And this is why I think this business model of subscription won’t last. On a personal note, I’d rather pay the same price for a physical Blu-ray than for countless subscription For music though I’m sticking with deezer and I hope the music industry won’t do the same as the movie.

Be right back, spending the next 365 days listening to Buck Takes the Lead.

Ugh, tell me about it. It's on the bottom of my Williams list, right along crap like Jurassic Park with that generic and anonymous fanfare that doesn't represent a single character in the whole thing.

Alex North, 2001. Truly disgusting, as I expected.

What an amazing concert! @Bellosh they did play Mutt’s theme at the end of intermission, which was a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately there were a few folks who left at the beginning of the end credits, soooo annoying and disrespectful! My only complaint is that since I was in the upper balcony the screen was so small and lacking in quality, but it was still a great time.

Greetings, all of you! I wanted to share with you my first major feature score, written for André Øvredal's MORTAL. The film will be out in theaters worldwide this year, and the soundtrack is already up on Spotify (and elsewhere eventually; CD will be available as of next week). It's been a great privilege working on this, as André Øvredal is such an incredibly gifted director (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Troll Hunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe), and also deeply passionate about film music. The score is performed by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Budapest Film Orchestra, and features solo work from Nils Økland (Hardanger Fiddle), Ditte Bræin (Soprano) and Kåre Nordstoga (Organ). Hope you'll enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/album/4ULpjMKTlWxQAZZyxvEJpV?si=TwRrf8y0SKOu3TSsRjyQCg

I think that there's a solid hour of brilliance in there on a level that Williams had never achieved with the other ones and hasn't matched since. From around the point where Anakin turns to the dark side, it's nonstop operatic drama, epic testosterone-fueled masculinity and tragedy in musical form. It's also married perfectly to the movie itself in a way none of the other scores are since the original, which wasn't nearly as dense. They all have bits that were chopped out or ditched because they were unnecessary/poorly spotted or tracked music but Sith has literally everything in that hour intact. Every moment is scored immaculately, from the Imperial March when Anakin becomes a bad boy, the Force Theme as Obi-Wan and Yoda are kicking the shit out of the clone troopers, the epic chorus for the Emperor, somber strings as Padmé is departing, that badass booming Mustafarian rampage stuff and just...everything. It's better than everything.

Hey, make your own thread!

Start selling lightsabers.

First thing that popped up in my mind when I heard that. Probably a coincidence.

What is this, 2010?

The longer they delay that song, the better.

I chose no, but that's not really correct: I bought one in 2011 and it broke down after three months, hardly used it. It's still somewhere in a drawer I guess.

I wonder why GP deleted his OP.

It's actually the Disc 1 version that has an "aaaahhhhh"-ing female choir from aroind 1:31.

Wha' ??!! A huge, faceless, money-grabbing company that doesn't want your cash?! I've never heard the like.

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You'll be surprised to learn that they do list bootlegs on there! Lots of them, in fact. Some that haven't even leaked yet (Aquaman for example). It tends to take a bit of time, since it seems they get listed once Hybrid knows that it's out and about. The only time I heard anyone from the team getting angry was allegedly Zanelli for POTC5 leaking so soon. But Zimmer must've calmed him down, since it is on the site. Hybrid apparently does know Zimmer and co. well, since he's been able to confirm a lot of stuff (here's him answering my questions about Ring Two for example). I still believe that we'd have heard something by now if there was any discontent going on. I suppose the Spotify thing was a solution for whatever might've happened behind the scenes. I think it just rests on "it depends on the project" too often to get a concrete answer, which likely makes things more frustrating. Doesn't help when the information doesn't get to be consistent (Jackman is credited on all instances of the love theme in 3, down to even the suites, but is nowhere to be seen on 4 and 5 credit wise). It's probably a bit easier when the work is heavily theme driven, since you'll be able to pick up a bit easier on who did what. Back to TASM2, with the ridiculous amount of names involved, you can very much see who's responsible for certain sections (Junkie for the dubstep parts, Mazzaro on the Goblin material, Andrew K for the subway scene, etc.). Of course, it's not always like that, but it can happen. There's likely a particular energy that comes with working with Hans or certain others that doesn't get to translate to solo ventures. Someone once actually brought up an interesting opinion that Balfe does a much better job fleshing out other people's ideas than creating very compelling ones on his own. While I haven't heard enough to ultimately say, my ambivalence to two of his most popular works (GitS and Fallout) does somewhat have me agree. A&D was fun enough when I heard it, but I couldn't be bothered to remember much of it besides 160 BPM and DVC callbacks. And DVC's best piece was done by Richard Harvey ("Kyrie For The Magdalense"), so the Langdon series likely isn't what will pop up when I think of Zimmer. It's a bit of a mixed bag on the RCP mocking front. The last few examples are clearly lighthearted, and some certainly don't mind the MV crew much. However, it becomes pretty clear when others just seethe hatred on even acknowledging HZ's existence alone. And admittedly not without reason, as even I can admit that these are pretty dire times for film scoring, thanks to the industry loving TDK too much. But as someone who's grown to take a lot of appreciation for how Hans's methodology relates to the electronic music that even got me here to begin with, it gets a bit tiring to hear the same old comments. Certainly means something when even a friend who hates modern film scoring is more respectful about how the RCP process goes than many here. Guess I just need to get a bit more accustomed still.

That's always been my main point of criticism towards the guy. That, and his extreme tendency of self plagiarism. Regardless of whether you bother about it, they still get their credits.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt.1/2 The Shape of Water Valerian

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You need a good wallop to the mug!

Why?

Still, he'd have to adhere to JJ's infamous inconfidence. It's about getting your rightful credit, which any creative mind would understand. Pop song writers, to use your unaccurate comparison, even get that to a greater extent than those who work on HanZ' productions.

Thanks @rpvee! I just might have to take you up on that challenge...

perhaps i was racist as a kid.

This is....superb! I bought a copy off iTunes and convinced Mrs. Blume to do it do it too. Congratulations Marcus.

Sorry this message board is only for posts related to Zimmer & Giacchino bashing. Anything else is automatically deleted.

I wish I could find that really funny without realising it might well be the truth.

A woman with a thing on her face? You missed the 90s man.

Everything in it, the new themes are gorgeous, little bit softer style than in(brilliant) TLJ, wonderful orchestrations and performance by the orchestra. Great closing for a great decade!! Love this man.

I know Daisy, I could've done more, but they're all dead.

We're working on it. We need all the help we can get.

No love for New Moon or Deathly Hallows? ☹️

THANK YOU!!

please god stop with the williams/daisy jokes im sorry i literally cant take it anymore

One of the following: The Painted Veil The Golden Compass Godzilla Monuments Men Isle of Dogs The Ghost Writer The Queen The Imitation Game Karol

Valentian and the city of a thousand planets

Fuck the consumer, that's what the point is.

Wow, @Aaron Fullan! This is so neat! I agree that the pacing could be smoothed a bit, but I love the more creative moments that have fresh takes on the themes - particularly the chorus added to Luke and Leia (my favorite theme), and even more so, the Middle Eastern vocal added to Rey’s Theme (what an amazing sentence that was to type). I love Middle Eastern music, and would LOVE to hear that unique take of Rey’s Theme expanded upon!

Black Panther by Ludwig Goransson. I bloody love this score, definitely one of the more fun, colourful, imaginative and just plain fun blockbuster scores in the past decade. It fulfils all the modern fad requirements of big studio film music and at the same time is cleverly written and carefully crafted. There are ideas and textures in it that vividly describe the world portrayed on screen and these ideas evolve and develop. Bit like Avatar but better. It's just a joy to listen to. Karol

I like the information crumbs provided, but not the attitude that was provided with it

That was one of the best Whittaker era episodes. She finally kicked some ass with something that was an actual moral dilemma. I read Frankenstein recently as part of a book club so this was rather nice timing. The reference to Frankenstein's monster from the half-converted cyberman was very clever.

Zimmer scores have “ideas”?

I think @Kasey Kockroach will like this.

STAR WAR HORSE

Any consideration into adding themes from WAR HORSE?