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I disgaree. The Mission is fantastic, and teh theme is the best Oboe writing in film history (sorry John but its true)./ Maybe not Top 10 but a deep, rich and moving score nonetheless.

Naboo: regal, proud, brass fanfare sound

In the films: ATS (obviously). As themes: a tie. As concert arrangements: Fawkes.

Exactly what I was about to start a thread about. That was not the Classical Brits 2005 - that was a highlights show. It was false advertiseing. What was particulalry disappointing is that Classic FM, who were heavily involved in organising the awards, really like soundtracks - they usually have a programme a day devoted to them. The Best Soundtrack award was also billed as one of the highest profile. But alas, ITV did not consider it thus. Grrrr....

(Dunno if this is included in any of the above but) The music when Yoda, Mace and Obi Wan are in the ship on Coruscant, going to drop Yoda off for his trip to Kashyyyk. When they talk about the prophecy. Includes a chilling version of the Emperor's theme as they land.

That is the worst example you could have used since Galactica came out in 1978 and many of the people who worked on Star Wars's effects worked on that show and it wound up having wonderful special effects. Neil Apologies I was just quoting a (supposedly) generic sci-fi TV show pre-SW.

Maybe the beginning of "the establishment" making amends for the Oscars...

I am confused. I have seen the film twice, and I still do not know where this cue (or where the bits of the cue) were in the film. Can someone enlighten me (need help getting to Nirvana anyway).

Sorry to burst the whole bubble but I think this type of thing is totally stupid. None of us have the slightest idea what these cues are going to sound like. For all we know the prologue could be warm, bubbly and happy. Apologies for being a bit down but this seems to me to be idle speculation par excellence.

Totally agree. "hom"auge is for those who want to join the "critics class".

One of things Star Wars is known for is its remarkable special effects. That is one of the reasons that people were so amazed when it came out in 1977. From watching Battlestar Galactica on TV (dig the space ships on strings) to seeing Star Wars was an amazing experience. The problem nowadays is that so many films have amazing SFX that SW can seem "just another". Still I would disagree (still think it is a travesty that TPM did not win in 1999 regardless of the quality of the rest of the film). ROTS had SO many SFX it is almost inconceivable to us mere mortals just how little of the backdrops were real. But did it have too many? IMO no. It had as many as were needed.

The only really good film I have seen from the 1930s is, of course, Gone with the Wind.

JW "Boring" is Stepmom. ROTS is not boring.

I wanna know what people think is the funniest moment in ROTS. Here are some of my nominations: 1. Yoda taking out Palpatine's guards with a cool force "flick" 2. The way the thinbg Obi-Wan rode moved 3. The actor who is meant to look like Peter Cushing not getting any close-ups just in case 4. Jar-Jar getting about 2 seconds of screentime, and no lines 5. Mace being killed. Am I the only one who thought it was by far the worst scene in the film, and that the sight of him flying off into the distance was actually quite funny? Or am I a sadist? What do people think?

I am pretty sure there is some nice Grievous stuff, e.g. when he tells the Separatists to go to Mustafar, unreleased.

I went with which one made me the most satisfied with the experience. ANH is, let's face it, rubbish unless you "were there". And I wasn't. ESB is good, but a little one-sided and the stuff when they don't have lightsabers (the throwing suff) I think detracts from the experience. ROTJ is amazing, if fo rno onther reacson than the emotional power as Luke goes ape and kicks Darth Vader's butt. But for excitement, you ahev to go for the Prequels. CGI has hel[ped immensely in this resepect: the duels can do what Lucas wants them to, not what ILM say is "possible" (cos now anything is possible!). AOTC duel was a little fragmented for me - it was basically three separate duels that wree all too short for real excitement (although Anakin withy 2 lightsabers and Yoda were great). ROTS duels were excellent, but I agree that the best (ie Anakin v Obi Wan) was sometimes a little excessive. Also, i am not a fan of the use fo "force powers" in the duels - it seems a little lame to me (except fo rthe Force theme in the background, which is great!). So for me, TPM is the best. Long, exilerahting, personal, some amazing moves and not too fragmented.

Its a shame because I thought that the rest of the seduction of Anakin was so well done... the sow but sure playing on his fears of Padme; the placing of two paths in Anakin's mind, and then leading him down the Sith one; the revealing of his "Sithness", knowing that Anakin would only half-heartedly turn him over. But then "KILL HIM! Well done." "But I... Yes Master" "Rise Lord Vader" "I serve you, and you only". Oh dear... (but then I suppose it might have been better than a painfully long and drawn out "conversion").

Sorry but apart from the brief (ie less than 30 secs of a 3:42 concert arrangement) playing of the Force theme where else in Battle of the Heroes - note not Anakin v Obi Wan but the BotH theme itself - is there any other non-new music?

Better than I thought, except for the scene where Mace is killed and Anakin "folds" pathetically easily.

That is nto quite true. There were many many Sith pairs before Sidious and his master/apprentices.

And to be honest, in the end they are ENTERTAINMENT. Not some kinda quasi-philosophical metaphysical thesis.

Like them both, but for me BotH just edges it.

Couldn't he just claim it was another weapon for the Republic to win the war that he had ahd an idea about?

Remembrances from Schindler's List always makes me well up inside (although being Jewish that could not totally to do with the music)

Yep! And the Force is a damned good excuse to everything....