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Sorry PS

HP:POS is one of the best scores of the last twenty years, as well as being one of the best fantasy scores of all time.

CMIYC, for same reasons as before.

CMIYC. Can anyone honestly imagine playing it in 10 years' time? At least with COS you have Fawkes and the COS track!

Mozart. Duh...

Blackadder Goes Fourth

I would say CMIYC is worse than The Terminal, and that the two scores are very similar. I voted WotW. I rarely listen to it now, and it is less than a year old.

I would agree, broadly, that the CD is defined by Track 1, after which the score is largely forgettable. Not bad, as such, but just not memorable in any way.

JW using JW's Yoda theme in ET.

The Patriot

There's no accounting for taste...

What made JP such a good film was the mix of action, awe, SFX, tension, suspense, character-building (note in TLW there is no scene comparable to the Flea Circus Hammond scene from JP, no attempt to explain the characters' feelings, motivations, reasons for doing anything), good dinosaurs, bad dinosaurs etc. TLW is basically Godizilla. Hence JP > TLW.

TLW is a shocking film. Leaving aside the fact that it completely (and I mean completely) ignored the TLW book (like leaving out all bar one of the main characters and not following any of the plot), TLW suffers a number of other flaws. Principally: 1. Total lack of "awe" and "wonder" of the dinosaurs. This is replaced by more action, more silly set pieces (I am thinking that ridiculous digging race, and that brat of a kid's gymnastics) and more killer dinosaurs (where, for example, are the Brachiosauruses?) 2. No attempt at explanation of how dinosaurs where made, why they bothered with another island, how InGen observed the dinosaurs, why InGen released the dinosaurs in the first place, why there are so many carnivores etc (all important in book, and huge plot-holes in film) 3. The whole ridiculous subplot in San Diego, which is an insult to the whole series 4. Malcolm loses his character. He is meant to be dry, sarcastic, withdrawn, detached etc. In TLW he is basically the character Grant was in JP 5. The heart-warming ending (to be fair, JP suffers the same flaw), which is incredibly incongruous considering the team basically failed, many people dies and a dinosaur got loose in a major city. Those are just off the top of my head.

Are we talking score or film? Cos if we are taking film I couldn't disagree more. But to be honest, the films are not a patch on the books (The Lost World book is awesome; shame the film is so totally different as to be basically unreconginasbale as the same story, bar the name).

JP III was an improvement on the sheer crapness of a film that was Lost World.

In absolute terms, I would say it is among the best five scores of the year, and hence I would be happy.

More awards potential. The BAFTAs (British film awards) have just announced their nominees. Here's the relevant one: The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in film music Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla The Constant Gardener - Alberto Iglesias Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams Mrs Henderson Presents - George Fenton Walk The Line - T Bone Burnett This looks like a promisingly rubbish list, apart from good ol' Johnny. Hence I have a good feeling about this. Could this be a JW sweep year?

I suppose 2001: A Space Odyssey also should go in there, although of course the process of making this film was almost reversed (film adpated to music, rather than vice versa).

I prefer the Patriot theme to Dry Your Tears, Afrikam but I prefer the Amistad score to the Patriot score.

Yeah the "envelope" was a bit weird. maybe more accurately called a "roll-up-lope". Stupid design.

Batman - Elfman Stargate - Arnold Various Bond scores - Barry The Hours - Glass They are all, to my mind, perfect.

I agree - well deserved. It just amused me.

He has 5 wins out of 7 nominations. One of the Oscars is for Best Song. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awa...e=1137506983545

Yes this is excellent news. Oscar #6 beckons... By the way, did anyone see this result (winner in bold): Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives Teri Hatcher – Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman – Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria – Desperate Housewives Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds That amused me.

Yep. The Golden Globe win makes the Oscar much more likely.