jamesie
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I voted no because there is that excellent rendition of Double Trouble at the beginning. Plus, later, there is the vocal Double Trouble, which, if you listen closely, is sharper and better sung than the version on track 5. It isn't very noticable, but it's different. That makes me unsure whether all of Mischief Managed was just a slung together bit of all of the themes from the movie... What if he actually recorded all of this in one recording... I don't think they would just plop the music they have already recorded into one piece. It would have perhaps been smarter, but judging by the little differences I found, I think it might have been one big 12 minute recording, as I said before. This is probably all wishful thinking. I would have liked something more original like Harry's Wonderous World, even if I didn't like that song. Perhaps a more flowing, Hook-like version of Buckbeak's theme could have been put in the score. I don't know. I am just rambling.
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Yeah... So how was the movie?? AND how was the music used in it? Did it really make the movie??? Does the frog choir sing anytime in the movie???
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Ok, I'm gonna ask this again cause I really wanna know if I am not the only one hearing this: At the beginning of "Prolouge" in Hook, does it not sound exactly like a sped up version of Across the Stars?
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Well, that's just lovely, considering I didn't ask you the correct way to spell you name...
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I agree with Stephancos in the fact that CoS feels as if Williams didn't have much time to make the score (which he didn't). However, I love CoS and always will... I too listen to CoS more than SS just because of the more memorable, varying themes, unlike SS which has the repeating (though thouroughly enjoyable) Hedwig's theme.............. On a side note, has anyone besides me noticed that if you speed up Across the Stars that it sounds EXACTLY like the opening part of the Prolouge from Hook?
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QUOTE: Woah,you sure had a lot of negative comments about it though.
Ok, all that I wrote were TINY things that I don't like... If you condense all of that, it comes out to be very little. Basicly, I would have liked less crappy action music that requires adjusting the volume constantly. If you would have heard the bad things I had to say bout CoS, well, it would have taken much longer to write about... I loved the second album... But so much of the music was just... simple... no depth... nothing... I mean, John has composed some great action sequences... Like in many of the SW movies, the action music is great... not loud and blasty with things to blow one's ear drums out... The quidditch match from the 1st and second albums were exhilarating and fun. The Chess Match was barable. The Face of Lord Voldemort was cool, while loud, because it had a lot of themes for Voldemort, ones that I wish would have been brought up in the PoA soundtrack... Sure we don't need light-hearted action cues but... GEEZ! I just don't like the stuff I described in my supposedly negative comments... I said before I wrote that stuff that these were the things I would like to change... Here are the tracks that I actually like... However, I said quite a few negative things bout all of these too... Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 18 (somewhat), 20, 21... 14 out of 21... 66%... For Hook it would be 17 out of 17 because all of the songs, including the action ones, are GOOD. But i understand that there are VERY different tones of music for different tones of movies. I won't even begin to write all of the positive things for PoA because it will take up A LOT more space than the constructive critisism that I exhibited earlier. And actually, for a 14 yr old, I have quite a lot more appreciation for this kind of music than anyone my age that I know of. Yeppers.
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Well here are my problems with it. 1st off... WHERE is that song called A Winter's Spell... It sounds like it might be intrigueing and it gripes me they didn't include it in the soundtrack (I'm gonna go through most of the tracks)
Lumos: Too short... It could have had the Nimbus theme and previous themes present in the past 2 scores. Aunt Marge's Waltz: I like this. I expected more of a flying sort of lofty theme... But a waltz is a waltz and it all works. Knight Bus: Interesting. No more. Apparition on the Train: These sort of themes bore me Double Trouble: Where, pray tell, is the version we heard in the teaser? King Mark apparently notices this too that the version released is just silly compared to the version in the trailer. Buckbeak's Flight: It could have been much more fluent... More moving like the best flying theme William's has ever composed: the Flying theme from Hook. My mom said it sounded "majestic" when we listened to it in the car. I say BAH!
A Window to the Past is very good but lacks depth in almost every way. Very moving and sad but very much like other Irish-inspried/ medieval-insprired songs I have heard Still, it's good. The Womping Willow/ Snowball Fight is just ok. The theme which seems to be directed to the tree is simple. And dumb. Not cool. the snowball fight theme is must more interesting and something I would like to hear more of. Secrets of the Castle has nice renditions of Double Trouble and has an excellent, hoppy flute motif towards the end... Not much bad there.... The Portrait Gallery is good in the fact that it too has nice variations of Double Trouble throughout. But then it gets loud and boring with no themes. Yucky. Hagrid The Professor is one of my favorite tracks ever for and HP score... Love the beginning... Nothing Bad.
Monster Books/Boggarts is a loud, in your face sort of theme-thingy that has no real tune or theme to it that makes me want to listen for more than 5 seconds. Quidditch: Third year is a fairly fast, mysterious cruddy piece with no good action music like the 1st HP's match had. Icky-poo-poo. Lupin's Tranformation/ Chasing Scabbers starts off sadly, perhaps to tell the listener to feel sorry for Lupin, which I like. Then it gets LOUD, blasty, no regnizable themes... So yeah. The Patronus Light is cool... Vocal stuff that relaxes one to the point that several of the tracks leading up to this were not that great. The Werewolf Scene is just not "there". Not understanding it. Why can't we have some dark, good, scary music that has a rythm to it? Saving Buckbeak is nice and suspenseful but doesn't have what it takes to be considered "good". Forward to Time Past starts out really neatly... but gets overbearing like many of these songs. The Dementors Converge is yet ANOTHER what-was-he-thinking action que. Finale is good after a little bit of loudness.... Nice bit of Window to the Past theme brough back up here... Mischief Managed is cool... I like medleys. Nothing really bad bout this other than the fact that the themes are very roughly put together.......
Most will not agree with all of this... But these are my problem with the score... It still is my favoirite one so far... So yeah... Love Harry Potter 3.
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To Ender: Sorry, I thought you were getting snippy there. Sorry... My top ten are in order from best to worst (use the term lightly). Hook, Harry Potter 3, Harry Potter 1, Harry Potter 2, Midway, The Reivers, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park 1, 1941, Star Wars
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To Ender: I have listened to MANY JW soundtracks if you doubt me, which you obviously do. Here are 11 off the top of my head: Harry Potter 1, HP 2, JAWS, Hook, ET, Jurassic Park 1, Jurassic Park 2, 1941, Midway, Catch Me if You Can, and Indiana Jones 1. Pretty easy for me. Ya. I may be fairly young but I know my JW. Just saying.
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I just read a spoiler-free review on Leaky Cauldron that said the music was much better - along with everythingelse... So I am assuming this reviewer is right, hence my vote for yes. (and I have listened to the cd many times, which I burned) So my vote is a very resounding yes.
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i'm reaaalllyy super duper excited ... THANKU sooo much Diskobolus for, if anything, making the effort... i wanna listen to this music... i had better be careful... wetting my pants is a side-effect of the incurrable disease of waiting for the Mac listening party to show up... so i'll just wait patiently and twiddle my thumbs.
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i know this is my first post ever and its kinda short and to the point... but uhmm, where is the listening party for mac users?!
Is Mischief Managed a waste of space?
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Maybe it was from pre-recorded music. BUT it still is a nice recap of all of the scores from the movie. I have noticed that if there is really good music in the movie then they will stay for the end credits, just to hear it inn all of its glory. I think of it from that point of view.