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I've done a bit of digging... and think that the film is going to have really cool aesthetics: The "Wolfenstein" opener: Wolfenstein Pt. 2 Cool locations: Fancy old-fashioned interiors: Old-fashioned New York, with an All-American parade: Actors looking really good, wearing suits or uniforms in many scenes, which reminds me of that polished feel of Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill's M:I: Fallout More vehicle / action eye-candy Other things: Mangold is doing a good job, he is an energetic director like Spielberg when the latter was young. He is certainly not a couch-sitting grandpa Lucas, and after Logan's handling of de-aging and CGI and the overall competence of Ford vs. Ferrari, I have full confidence that this film is guaranteed to be enjoyable, whether it ultimately rises to the level of the original trilogy or not (I have recently rewatched The Temple of Doom and I have to say that the bar is not always that high). After TROS (how technically impressive that score was despite the mess and nonsense of a film it accompanied), and with Williams's recent ambitious plans (Vienna, Berlin, Boston, New York, Violin Concerto No. 2...), I think maestro is going to really make an effort to close another series of scores with one better than KOTCS. The only missing factor influencing the potential for a soaring scoring is the for now unknown editing style of the film. P.S. A final thought, on Indiana Jones being old: in East-Asian cultures it is completely normal to have stories of 80-year old monks, warlords or martial arts masters kicking ass. People enjoy them for their symbolic value, even if a literal reading seems hard to believe. I think a ca. 70-years-old Indy, helped by guns, wits, and younger allies, is not going to look ridiculous if the fight scene choreography is done with a brain.

I’d rank it my favorite of the three Marvel series thus far. Pretty good. Definitely the best score of the three.

Mike Mattessino and John Williams should collaborate with NBC to release a compilation album of these phenomenal cues!

Time to break out the 8 bit I guess https://www.spitfireaudio.com/stargirl EDIT: Winners announced:

John has essential been a New Englander for 30 plus years. He loves a good grinder sandwich from a nearby Jewish or Lebanese deli. At least twice a week he eats fried whole bellied Clams flown in from Ipswitch along with some steamers. Saturday mornings is a large breakfast of blood sausages with scrambled eggs. On drunken nights he's been know to hit El polo loco for all the chicken he can throw up. Back in his 70's he'd close down a Jack in the Box 😉 in Chula Vista. He "allegedly" would drive down with his buddy Jimmy Horner. They'd be drunk and once they brought along Hans Zimmer. He was so exited to be asked. They made him get sick on the loaded tiny tacos and jalapeno poppers, then when they stopped to let him out to puke they dumped his ass without his cell phone and no way back to Santa Monica.

"Big" Summer Order done!

No Williams music in this one, but it is very good. Williams is especially upbeat and smiley during the jazz orchestral pieces during the last part.

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of Final Fantasy IV, a fantastic game with such a memorable soundtrack ! And so I thought it was the perfect moment to release this new little project of mine A 17-min progressive rock piece based on the FF4 OST, featuring 25 musicians and singers from all over the world

Wow. That’s so cool to see kind of a “timeline” for the various locations and sets. For my part it didn’t feel spoiled at all. Just more excited to see it. The sequence with, what appears to be, Ford’s stunt double riding a horse through the parade will be a fun musical opportunity for Williams. I imagine it will be the Basket Games-esque scene for this picture. Just please don’t score every action scene like that Mr. Williams🙏 PS- Looks like Mangold’s checked the box for the “Giant Goon/Thug” character 😃Fingers crossed he gets a grizzly end!

Yeah, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for this competition, just because I think it'll be fun to score in a superhero style, but man that clip makes that show look like badly acted, cheesy, wannabe dramatic horseshit.

The score vote is quite clear. Would not have expected that. As if we were here in some kind of John Williams fan forum.

KotCS is very underrated.

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Admit it, the theme here wasn't the year, but "strangely discoloured faces".

Haven't seen it yet, maybe this weekend

Man, asking to choose between HTTYD and TRON are like trying to choose a favorite between two children. While I always will thank the latter for essentially being my second gateway into film scores after Spidey 3, the former really is a superb effort in film scoring Ultimately though, T:L is too important to me to not award it my personal top spot of the year.

Minari is an A24 film Alex.

None of the above for Joe. Figure Dragon will win, someone here thinks its a masterpiece.

My favourite score of 2010 is INCEPTION (Hans Zimmer). But of the ones you listed, it's easily TRON.

You need more Giacchino and Powell in your life

It is a Masterpiece. And I had a real hard time selecting the songs to create that medley, there is just so much goodness in that OST ! I just knew I had to cover all 4 battle themes ( which all sound FANTASTIC ) plus that majestic Ending Theme

Up deserved that Oscar more than Avatar. Giacchino haters may despair now.

I think so. It's an hours worth of fun

John Debney may do a decent work on the score, he is great when he is not attached to silly comedies. And Christopher Young should have done a fantasy movie/TV show long ago. Please, Lucasfilm, take him out of the low budget horror movies!

Avatar might have the best unreleased cue by Horner: Quaritch Down. It plays during the final battle. Don't know why Horner left a cue so good out of the OST. Maybe it should've replaced the boring Leona Lewis song.

The "Esplanade Overture" is cute -- I've always preferred the original version over the "Meeting in Sicily" adaptation; it's a shame it doesn't exist in its original version. The bootleg recording doesn't do it justice. I remember thinking about the piece back in 2014 when I walked around the promenade area in Boston it was written for. I'm impressed that so many people put the "Olympic Fanfare & Theme" so high. I mean, it's a fine piece and I love it, but it's my least favourite of his 5 Olympic pieces. Can't really explain why -- maybe it's a little too "on-the-nose" compared to the other ones (although my favourite, which comes later in your walkthrough, is equally so, but in a different way).

What time will that be (EST)? I don't want to miss this!

Up & Star Trek.

I thought you perhaps were familiar with it. It's arranged by Nelson, man.

Ice Age 3 and Angels & Demons. Bit of a rubbish year for me really.

My favourite of 2008 is THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (James Horner), which also happens to be my alltime favourite Horner. But Elfman's STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is one of his best in the new millennium, and a relatively close second. I'm not a particular fan of any of the ones listed in the poll, so I won't vote in this one.

The missing second half of that show was with Maureen McGovern.

Yeah. Its shocking to me not more people see that influence. Its not even swept under the rug, either: its something Jackson had pointed to time and again - he was clearly struck by the movie. I can't remember which film I saw first, but I saw them both in close proximity and the influence was just so readily appearant. And its a great example of how (to give credit to your argument) an artist can model his work very closely indeed on another, great work and still produce something original and great in its own way.

Things we know well, but explained beautifully.

Philips still makes their 21:9 TVs.

If this is Mutt (and it appears so), I would love for Williams to develop the descending Indy variation he toyed with at the conclusion of the end credits.

There will be at least one glorious scene for Williams to score:

I read somewhere that an Amazon exec said that they need to make Lord of the Rings appeal to a "giant, global audience". As if a story that's sold over 150 million copies, been translated into something like 40 languages and spawned six films that made a billion dollars each needs Amazon to help its global appeal. I think Tolkien might have known what he's doing, and to my knowledge, his only focus group was The Inklings.

I wonder if Williams will sneak in a 60's style cue along the lines of How to Steal a Million or such. It would be a cool full circle moment.

Chris! You're still here!

The amount of stuff JW has coming up means he must be in pretty good health. Performing at Carnegie Hall after completing his fifth Indiana Jones film at the age of 90 is impressive.

Cool.Didn't see the thread until now I hope there's enough unreleased music and alternate to make it interesting

I found this the one concert with the least amount of annoying public sounds I ever experienced (hundreds). The concentration and dedication of the listeners was palpable. I do not remember any coughs or other noises except the clapping at the beginning of Imperial march.

Conrad Pope literally talked about this once. He said JW almost always has the same thing for lunch everyday. Turkey sandwich. I don't think it was literally he always eats that but rather that just like he has a turtleneck routine, JW is very much on a fixed schedule and fixed meal routine as his personal preference. As Conrad observed it, it was a turkey sandwich but just as JW doesn't *ALWAYS* wear a turtleneck though it seems that way, once can assume he sometimes deviates from the lunch sandwich routine but it did cause notice to Conrad.

He likes water.

FIrst post here so be nice. I LOVE John Williams music--and have for decades (back to 1977 and the first star wars movie). However, upon listening to this soundtrack (ok, I heard it first while watching the movie), the track Rise of Skywalker sounds to me like a song from a totally different movie. I starting singing the words "forever and a life time" to the horns---which I know is not from star wars! (I think frozen???) starting at :58...yes, I am probably crazy, but I know that theme from a non-star wars movie. I know that composers reuse themes (ET is in Harry Potter, and James Horner Krull and Star Trek II), so could it be one of his previous themes that I am hearing? Otherwise, I, too, am missing the battle scene music (like March of the resistance or Scherzo for X-wings).

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