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Isnt the first just a subset of the second?

My favourite French one is La Piege Crystal (The Crystal Trap), known to you and I as Die Hard.

To live: Naboo (its so pretty!) To visit: Coruscant To avoid: HOTH. I can go to cold places on Earth, and I don't like them

TBH, when I downloadeed this I thought "oh not again. a wannabe composer thinking they can be like another great composer". But this piece is great! Unfocussed, yes. Lacking in much structure, yes. Overly dramatic, yes. But fun! And good orchestrations. Loved those choppy strings int eh middle section, and the choir near the end. Seriously, this (if done with real performers) would be awesome!

This is backed up by its later uses. Anakin's swoop bike journey in AOTC is scored with DotF, because again this was fated to happen, and is an important step on the road from the light to dark side of the force. Similarly, in RotS (exclusing its tracked use when Grievous' ship goes down... ooooh that makes me shiver), it is used for the Yoda-Palpatine battle, because this is the final battle in light/dark war. Anakin v Obi Wan is irrelevant - if Anakin wins, dark prevails, and if Anakin loses, dark prevails - but Yoda v Palpatine is important cos if Yoda won, the dark side would be defeated. So basically it is a theme played at key moments in the prequel trilogy when the light to dark fate of the force is in balance.

Maybe deserved a nomination, but I agree, not BEST picture of 2000 (Crouching Tiger wins hands down for me).

Goldeneye?

Agree with you TLW (poor effort except for the chase, the old themes and the Lost World theme). Disgaree on the other two. The Arena in AOTC - if more than the first and last to minutes of it had been played in the film - is a brilliant piece of music. Driving, kinetic, different, primitive and gladiatorial, emotional and coherent. It is one of my favourite Williams long action pieces. MR: listen again to "Anderton's Great Escape". It really is a wonderful "romp"-type piece. Seriously, try listening to it again with an open mind, and see what you think.

Yeah. Particulalrly like those driving rhythmic strings from 6:07 that play for about 20 seconds.

Dark Side of the Moon is an absolutely fantastic album; every track "fits" in a way that only really (IMO) the Beach Boys achieved. It really feels like a coherent musical journey (that is one of the reasons I like orchestral film scores - they lead you on a journey). Pink Floyd should be congratulated for that. And they are apparently going to reform for Live 8 (didnt get tickets but hey), so I'll see them on TV in a few weeks' time.

I went for RotS, because I prefer the choir in BotH to DotF.

Listening to Anakin vs Obi Wan on the ROTS OST blew me away. Classic Williams action music. The last minute and a a halfish (after the ESB stuff) is just brilliant. Listening to various bits on the complete JackChapple version also blew me away (love, e.g., the fanfare after Anakin's first visit to Palpatine, and of course the full ending of Anakin's Dark Deeds). Buckbeak's Flight made me burst out in a smile... beautiful. Those are the most recent.

Sorry, but this is ridiculous. I am not deaf, and I think - note I think, not I think everyone thinks - it is the best performed. When you ask for people's opinions, as you did in this thread, you have to accept that people will have different ones from you. If you don't like that, qualify your criticism. Saying "you're stupid. Even a deaf man could see you're wrong" is offensive, pointless and anti-communitarian.

Hmmm - interesting - hadn't seen this before......but the poll is now well over 2 years old - there have been some good'uns since then What has there been in the last 2 years that would break into the top 10? 2003 was JW's year off, and 2004 had The Terminal - hardly a top 10 score - and POA, which is unlikely (possible I suppose, but still unlikely) to get into a top 10.

I enjoyed Gladiator. Some excellent battle music - if one forgets the synths - and some powerful, soaring elergies make for a very emotional and exciting score. But apart from this and Lion King, and maybe Crimson Tide (for adrenaline!), I find Zimmer dull.

I voted based on what I thought was the best performance the LSO has given. ESB is that, as well as being the best JW soundtrack. Maybe I was misunderstood earlier on, but I still think that ESB is the LSO's finest hour (although TPM is performed brilliantly too).

Hymn to the Fallen is beautiful, haunting and wonderfully paced as a piece. A classic. The rest of the score is good in the film, but who would listene to it otherwise?!

The CGI artists needed something to hook on to....

At the concert with the LSO in February in London, they hinted - strongly - that they had recorded Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Dunno about other HPs though. ESB is JW's best soundtrack ever; maybe THE best soundtrack ever. As such I voted for it.

Mmm interesting. Listening to it again I can see where you are coming from - they do sound stylistically similar. As to whether the notes/intervals are the same, I am not musical enough to tell. We need the more classically trained ears. But I can see the similarity. Maybe, just maybe, JW has done it again!

But would the world miss him?

Or: Wedge Dack Moth Lando All cool names, criminally underused in the 21st Century

Our ex-cat was called Chewbacca - shortened to Chewie most of the time. Cos his ears were like Yoda when he flicked them back. But who calls a cat Yoda? So Chewie it was....

The first clip sounds promising - foreboding, aggressive, powerful. Nice brass. The second there was not enough of to really consider. The third was quite cool, but sounded a lot like Star Wars....

(From the article) ...but the three-fold repetition of this note could also be arguably interpreted as a musical representation of Qui-Gon's devotion to, and grounding in, the Force (i.e., the G, also used in the Force theme, is the lowest note in Qui-Gon's theme, and by constantly going back to it, Williams musically represents Qui-Gon as a person who bases his entire being in the Force. [i know this one is a stretch!])... A stretch hardly covers it...