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This is easily one of my favorite pieces of music ever written. It's one of those that instills wonderful feelings in you, right from the first note. It's powerful yet humbling, noble yet gentle, and just so expertly crafted. Not only are the two main themes fantastic, the arrangement that weaves through them is perfect without a wasted note. The piece accomplishes everything it needs to in more in just over 4 minutes. There's no doubt it will be used for the Olympics for the rest of mankind's time on earth. The Bugler's Dream opening version is terrible! A bad idea badly executed. It's a shame it got included on the Summon The Heroes album so will live on forever. I actually first discovered the piece via Erich Kunzel's recording, which is a true A+ performance and recording: This and the Summon The Heroes versions were all I had for a long while; I never heard Williams' original 1984 recording until years later via the internet The first time I heard it performed live in concert with a real goosebumps, arm-hair-raised moment. Transcendent.

I mean. Like Aspect Ratios...it depends on the movie and the reason for doing it. Some things simply don't call for bright oversaturated colors, I certainly don't want everything to look like that. If it did, we'd all hate it. So yeah, sometimes "desaturated" colors are great. Sue me. Do I think it's done too much? Sure. Doesn't mean I hate the concept and sometimes it's done wonderfully. Ugh. You're one of those people are you? Lol. Just get a TV for every aspect ratio and you're good to go.

Hero is a good movie with a great score. Tan Dun does better work in Hero than he did for Crouching Tiger. Memoirs is a bad movie with a great score. I think it is another example of JW being inspired by something other than the film itself, leading to an amazing score. In this case, I imagine it was his love of the book that inspired his score.

I own Memoirs. It is an excellent dust collector. My post is more effective if you read my post in Commander Data's voice.

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I agree! I like Bugler’s Dream just fine in it’s own right, but I’ve never liked the sudden shift from that to the Olympic Fanfare. Very sudden and awkward to my ears. Between the sudden key change and the difference in style, it really doesn’t work very well. Give me the original version any day! The problem with this recording is it uses an abridged version of the opening, which I feel robs it of some of its power.

Things we know well, but explained beautifully.

You don't need more than 1500 copies?

Almost time for another Olympics to start -- and NBC is still using JW's cues in abundance. Not just re-arrangements -- literally the original recordings conducted by JW. It's glorious. One of many examples is this video, which uses two of the cues JW crafted based on his 1996 "Summon the Heroes" piece:

One of Williams's many gifts is to take a style of music and distill it to its pure essence in a way most (maybe all) composers cannot do--like a perfect essay with no filler, unnecessary words, or bs-ing. Moreover, I think this piece is the perfect instance of this gift. Just think how many fanfares had been written, over centuries, prior to this. Yet, Williams makes it not only fresh, but complete, like this is just what a fanfare is. That he combines it perfectly with the lyrical theme is just crazy good. As you can probably tell, I think highly of this piece. That being said, the Bugler's Dream version--why, oh why?

Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984) One the most enduring and recognizable of all of Williams's music for film or concert, The Olympic Fanfare and Theme is a extremely rousing concert overture written to open the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. Williams sought to capture the human striving inherent in the Olympic spirit, and the powerful moment when the fanfare theme and the lyrical theme come together especially accomplishes this magnificently. The piece was premiered in concert with the Boston Pops in June, before it was performed at the event for which it was commissioned in July. As well, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted it around this time in a concert that was recorded for radio broadcast. Williams made an official recording of the piece in Los Angeles, which this video purport to have. Here is the piece being performed at the opening ceremonies. Here is a Boston Pops recording, I believe from the 1987 By Request album. In 1996, Williams recorded a new version of the work that was commissioned by NBC to feature Leo Arnaud's Bugler's Dream, which Williams included at the start of the piece, replacing the opening herald fanfare. Finally, here is a recent live recording of the piece (slightly modified in orchestration I think) with Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with the original opening restored.

Yeah, you're right. The only one that springs to mind is AVATAR... and that blows everything else out of the water that year.

There is little room in Skarsgard's heart for anyone but Skarsgard.

I have both.

The clip they chose is absolutely dreadful.

A lot of the effects aren't even CGI. Nolan doesn't like to overuse it. Anyway, the SFX of BB are good enough for me. When I think of the best Nolan Batman, I don't even think of SFX.

My favourite of 2009 is AVATAR. Of the poll options, A SINGLE MAN.

Up was a broken clock being correct twice a day, or the blind pig 🐖. It is very good, But Avatar is on another level, one that Giacchino will never achieve.

In The Sixth Sense, we know Bruce Willis is dead.... Er, never mind.

Truly glorious. Also, looking forward to catching the Olympics, and not just to hear more of the Maestro’s music.

I meant if they have to make the release different in order to be allowed.

Same here. I really liked Prisoners (except for the ending), but have not been impressed with Arrival or his Blade Runner sequel. Of course, I will definitely watch it (at home) but I expect a 'not bad but not good either' movie. I really hope I'm wrong.

Wish the Indy book and the ROTS book were released in ebook (and that Disney would release his work from TFA). I gave to his GoFundMe - sad that medical treatment can drive someone into so much debt when there are much bigger things to worry about.

HP 1 CD 1 in preparation for vaccine number 2. I. HATE. NEEDLES.

There Will be blood, easily

I get that. Nevertheless, I think its only fair to wish Villenueve's film commercial success: the great fear for this film is that it should crash and burn such that part two won't be made. I think it will do good for movies, in this franchise-driven world, to have a new kid around the block (in the form of Dune) stirring up competition.

If the "wanna breed" guy isn't in it, no sale. They'll obviously have to recast this crucial role.

Ratatouille! Because it's Gia's best effort

I'll have it this afternoon. It's out for fir delivery. Karol

The NBC/Williams relationship seems eternal. In addition to still using his Olympic themes, aren't they also still using his news themes (at the very least they still used "The Mission" when I was in the US last, in 2014)?

One of my favourite single short pieces of all time.

Every Star Trek score by Goldsmith or Horner deserves to be in print or available forever.

Bit of a shame nobody commissioned him to write a new theme over the past year! Hopefully for LA 2028, right?

It was when she took off in her new jet in the very last scene, before it panned down to the fireflies in the woods Here is what seems to be an informed take, on Filmtracks https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=96613

Just a reminder, all I am doing is posting these as I have found them on youtube. I know the following one has been posted previously. It seems too short to be complete, but it is a good one.

Just a short cue this week that officially completes the transition back to school. Enjoy Cue No. 9: Luna and the Return to Hogwarts!

And I do enjoy the Bakshi.

My favorite score from 2008 is a surprise choice, WANTED by Danny Elfman. One of the rare gems from the lowest point of his career. It's fantastic from start to end! Other favorite scores from 2008 not on your poll LOST Season 4 by Michael Giacchino Cloverfield by Michael Giacchino Speed Racer by Michael Giacchino Quantum of Solace by David Arnold Ponyo by Joe Hisaishi Hancock by John Powell Bolt by John Powell Horton Hears a Who by John Powell Kung Fu Panda by Powell & Zimmer I've heard great things about Fool's Gold by George Fenton too, keep meaning to check that one out From your poll choices, Indy 4 of course - it's great!

As exciting as these clips have been, I'm getting worried over how fragmented it's seeming from the bits that have been posted. Too many starts and stops for the sake of comedic moments. I'm really hoping there's enough long form sequences that can let the score breathe, since it otherwise might end up just being a substance-less pastiche.

2006 was a pretty "meh" year. Some decent scores, but nothing exactly outstanding. Besides the ones in the poll, there was also: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Zimmer) Cars (Randy Newman) Superman Returns (Ottman) Ice Age 2 (Powell) X-Men: The Last Stand (Powell) Mission: Impossible III (Giacchino) The Omen (Beltrami) Blood Diamond (JNH) Apocalypto (Horner) Pan's Labyrinth (Navarrete)

I agree what the wish stone thingy is a can of worms and the resurrection of Steve Trevor is, shall we say, problematic. It hasn't actually occurred to me until this morning. And yes @Edmilsonit is probably largely because of Hans Zimmer's score that I enjoyed this film. And Gal Gadot. Karol

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Personally I like 1920:1

It's kinda crazy to me this 3CD set is OOP. A masterpiece of motion picture scoring that deserves to be in print forever. I thought maybe we'd get a reissue in 2019 for its 40 anniversary w/ that extra cue from the 50th anniversary box set added in or something. Maybe the new director's edition remaster coming to Paramount+ will lead to a reissue of this music set?

You can you can tell they’re not in character because they’re smiling.

Saving Primate Ryan

To me Angela's Ashes is one of the most hauntingly melancholic and beatiful scores Williams has ever written. The movie was okay but the score is a classic. It has the same heart that Jane Eyre does and it really seems Williams connected very well with this film. The theme on track 3 is actually a theme for Angela, the mother, and I think has to do with the religious aspect of the family and I concur, it is a beatiful melody and I wish there would have been more variations of it on the album. The melodic fragment on the track 5 is a variation on the main theme and it is one of the highlight sections of the score as well as the warm melody on track 15 Angels Never Cough. It is simply heart warming. This is one of the best scores for drama I have heard. I love it (How could one not?). -Incanus- who is very glad that Decca released the score in Europe without the narration from the film in the beginning of the tracks.