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I didn't go through the whole thread, so maybe it was already mentioned, but this one for me definitely contains some Christmas moments:

FYI, Lola was responsible for the work here on young Luke, not ILM.

I am not sure this John Williams fella even exists.

Speak for yourself. The scenes with Luke in TROS looked like a parody. A piss-poor waste of his character, especially when you consider the potential future arc that his final words to Kylo in TLJ offered: "Strike me down in anger and I'll always be with you. Just like your father." "See you around, kid." So many tantalizing story options, practically gift-wrapped from Johnson to the director of IX. I believe Trevorrow followed through with that potential, then Abrams threw it all in the bin and decided Luke was better utilized as an exposition-dump in a lazy one-scene cameo.

He's one of those guys the pleb proudly refers to when you say you listen to classical music, and they reply "Yes, me too".

Thanks for the kind words Something like this perhaps? (WIP, will do the final touch-ups tomorrow)

This must be the new album Powell has been teaseing.

Just discovered this on YouTube today -- hadn't heard this particular, pleasingly bombastic arrangement of "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas" before.

Any number of Williams upbeat, fun pieces, such as:

TAXI DRIVER Bernard Herrmann 45 years gone...

And this

This morning selections, not really christmas related... but feel good "family" movies. Oldies but Goodies like Chinese says.

JOURNEY TO PIZ GLORIA, although not Christmasy in itself, because of the accompanying images, always reminds me of Yuletide.

Thanks @Jurassic Shark for allowing me to be part of this, sorry I took so long!

Great music too!

The Living Daylights - a top-notch Bond adventure for the series' 25th anniversary. It frustrates that circumstances prevented Dalton from doing at least 2 more than he did.

That was a surprising moment, when I was listening to the Intrada set for the first time. The micro edit from the OST is quite obvious though.

Probably, it is just the awfull recording quality, that makes you think, it doesn't play properly.

What about his opera recordings? Duh, how did you think he's such a good singer?

You may bash in all the gazillion other JWFan threads as far as I'm concerned, but this thread is one of peace and harmony, and that's how I wish to keep it.

Are you trying to play it on your mobile? These habe sometimes issues with these embedded links. If you don't want to installiert the app you can enlarge the quote, click once and then an option "listen in browser" should occur. Hope that helps. By the way, Merry Christmas everyone.

People listen to the song?! I asked Neil about this a few years ago and the answer was that (surprisingly), the orchestra-only versions no longer exist.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pXb5OgrtoqbxU2ldUG4cVyo0yuFLFgYr/view?usp=sharing has an ossia ending.

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=142525&forumID=1&archive=0

Yeah, for all my issues with TLJ, it does an excellent job of setting up an interesting dynamic for the final chapter: Kylo being beyond redemption, yet still haunted by the memory of Luke. TROS ignored all of that.

Yes! Thank you for this. It doesn't contradict or invalidate the ST Luke, it just underlines the tragic events which befell him in years to come. The backstory between ROTJ and TFA is almost worthy of a trilogy in itself, though Kylo's fall would make for a slight retread of the prequels. It's great that Mando is filling in those gaps instead. Bit harsh to describe Luke as a "loser" given what happened to him. 99% of people in the real world would go into a deep depression if they considered themselves responsible for such death and destruction. I totally understand the criticism about putting the OT characters through such misery and grief between trilogies, but all these story decisions were made by JJ Abrams, NOT Rian Johnson. Per TFA: "Ever since Luke disappeared, people have been looking for him. He was training a new generation of Jedi. One boy, an apprentice, turned against him, destroyed it all. Luke felt responsible. He just walked away from everything." Abrams painted Johnson into a corner where he needed to explain why Luke Skywalker, hero of the galaxy, would turn his back on family and exile himself. Abrams decided on that approach for Luke; Johnson was tasked with justifying it. He could hardly have Luke turn around 15 minutes into TLJ and say, "oops, I was wrong all these years, let's go fight the First Order!"

The music during that scene did not resonate with me either. On first watch, it seemed quite lacking. I've since listened the track on its own. The primary idea it seems to be going for is mystery but it doesn't have the excitement of Vader's Rogue One hallway scene nor the immediate memorability of a JW hype cue like The Spark. Listening to it more, there is something about it that reminds me of music from Terminator/Terminator 2 but I can't quite place the similarity.

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Good news everyone! https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1341832399957544960 click here for 2048x2048 version Looks like we're getting anywhere from 2 1/2 to 21 1/2 minutes per episode

Yeah, in the OT, you'd never see an old Jedi spend the last 20 years of his life in self-imposed exile on some obscure planet just because he felt responsible for a younger Jedi's catastrophic turn to the dark side. Nope...you see two old Jedi spend the last 20 years of their lives in self-imposed exile on some obscure planets just because they felt responsible for a younger Jedi's catastrophic turn to the dark side! Besides, Luke had a strong mopey streak until he got stiff and boring in ROTJ. Even if running away hadn't been both of his mentors' M.O.s, I totally would have bought his descent into solitary self-loathing. (To be clear, I think TLJ has plenty of flaws. I just think Luke's arc isn't one of them.)

An instant classic. Watched this one the other day too.

Merry Christmas! A new episode, at last! http://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2020/12/23/episode-33-arrival Never would have imagined we'd only hear 3 new episodes this year

OK which one of you madlads did this

Ironically it’s also shown just how powerful the portrayal of Luke in TLJ really is. He truly was a legend - the fear in Moff Gideon’s eyes when he realised who’d just shown up, and the ease with which he dispatched the dark troopers just goes to show how far Luke had fallen in TLJ and why his sacrifice at the end was such a crucial turning point for the Resistance. The problem was never in Luke’s portrayal in TLJ, it was that a lot of people lacked the imagination to understand what he must have achieved - and failed at - to arrive at that point. This episode just helps to fill in those gaps IMO.

Bib ate Crumb after he ran out of Jabba's frogs.

Bib Fortuna in the Mando remembered me how I gained weight this year because of covid-19.

Merry Christmas!

This looks like the kind of guy who corrects people's grammar in chat rooms.

Also after listening through the Rarities while reading Doug's notes again... I always thought that early Sammath Naur here and on the OST was just a bland choral mush, but I suddenly just got what it's doing and now I love it and listened to it about 10 times since Tuesday.

Recently watched this, and thought it was quite good. The new opening and edits (sparse as they are), work wonders, and make a much bigger impact that you'd think. It's now a much more comprehensible and tightly focused story. It's easier to make sense of the Vatican plot now, and there's a momentum to almost every scene driving events forward the film didn't have before. Andy Garcia IMO is the biggest winner here, as the story really focuses on his relationship with Michael, and he has a much more clear arc than in GF III, resulting in Vincent having a significantly stronger presense. Sofia Coppola is pretty much the same, there's only so much you can do there, but I never hated her performance anyway, and the trims her father has made make her look a little better...or at least not as bad (the breakfast table scene where she discusses the Vito Corleone Foundation still sticks out as a low point, however). Two things really don't work for me, both relatively minor. The title screen "The Death of Michael Corleone" is over a shot of the Church where he meets the Vatican banker the first time, and it looks cheesy, like the intro to a TV movie. And at the end, I think Coppola fades out of Michael just a couple beats too quickly. I think the camera should have lingered on him for just a bit more time. As it is, it makes the ending feel a little rushed (resulting also in some unfortunate and abrubt edits to the score). And there's a Sicilian quote* at the fade to black doesn't work for me at all, and doesn't quite work in the way I think Coppola intended. I know what he was going for, but it basically says in words what the final shot was supposed to convey in an image, making it a little redundant and not especially impactful. All that said, it really is an improvement, and I recommend it to anyone who's a fan of these films, and like me was dissapointed with Part III. The story works much better when reframed as a coda, which is what it really feels like, than as the third chapter in a trilogy, which it just didn't work as. So while it's still not a great film, it's definitely a step up from GFIII, and this will be the version I watch when I (very infrequently) feel like watching the third film. *

Just as the credits STARTED? You're a mad man, the special end credits music for the season finale was really cool!

I always let the the episode play all the way until the ending Lucasfilm logo. I like the music.

*LEGO Williams not included

James Horner's American Tail main title reminds me of the Christmas season, I guess at least partially because of how the sequence in the film is visually built around a snow theme. But from 1:45 to 3:20, especially once the melody really gets goin' at 2:40, it's very holiday season vibes to me.

maybe I'll find this at Maison de la Presse Internationale here

"Arrangement in return"? Like an exchange? Exchange with what? Not to cast aspersions, but I think I'll pass. Honestly, is there anyway to get either a physical or digital copy of this upcoming issue of the BBC Music Magazine?

Yes Yes!!