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Oh no! I totally forgot! I used to take great pride in not blocking. But now I realize it does wonders for enjoying the forum again!

I am adding you to the ignore list with Hornist. Sorry, nothing personal, I just block idiots with strange obsessions!

He should have. But that has nothing to do with writing good music. He also betrayed George Lucas in the process. No honor! I don’t know how you sleazy pursed-lip Londoners behave, but in America we take loyalty to our friends seriously.

They are both an unnecessary expansion of the repertoire of evil themes in Star Wars. Now get out of my thread and take your vote with you!

The Emperor's Theme in Falcon's Flight sounds too anemic for my tastes. It's an okay action track otherwise. I actually like some of the moody things he tries in "In the Desert" with the Resistance theme more.

Clearly John Williams wanted to show Giacchino how you write a knock-off evil theme, aka NOT the Imperial March. Which one is you favorite knock-off Star Wars bad-guy theme track?

I'm not! You should try it. The experience here is much better.

Oh yes.

There is about 15 seconds of action treatment to the Force theme in “Battle of the Resistance” that sounds genuinely heartfelt, solemn, and ironically given that it’s an old theme, fresh. That’s about it.

In a lot of ways. I can’t tell if it’s the mix or the writing. Nothing quite hits like it does in previous albums (all 8 of em). The action doesn’t have sonic impact.

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You’re right. I don’t think it’s just JJ and the film though. A portion of it is John, you can tell because the music exudes it, he’s just having light airy fun with this stuff at this point. Revenge of the Sith was his last Star Wars. He knew that in his head and he scored it as if it was the end. There was a solemn quality there that you can best hear in each album’s finale tracks. It’s completely missing here. So with this one he’s getting one more last time, and he’s basically saying, “I already did this....” and just having fun with it. In the way that only an old man who knows this is all just a bit of fun and we all eventually die would. The way he leaves the audience is the same way he left the audience when he thought he would be leaving them last time. It’s the same phrase of music, but if feels like it’s delivered with a wink and a smile this time. This is the encore of an ending. You were never gonna get anything fresh or new.

He’s a literal talking puppet corpse except for like 30 seconds.

Album is much better than FYC. Thankfully it excludes the anemic action Emperor track that everyone bizarrely fawns over. No oomph.

Your TPM description is on point, Nick!

Riiggggghhht.

He was wrong.

Twice. It’s fine.

Even if you’re not synesthetic, this might be fun to try for you. What textures/feelings/colors/sensations does each score, in its totality, evoke in you? Here’s the sensation each album in its totality evokes in me: 1. Star Wars (1977) - A grey dilapidated, rusty, dirty and old, very old world. 2. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - A wet...grimy brown and rusty disgusting sewer...the kind you walk through with puddles and condensation on the walls. 3. Star Wars Return of the Jedi (1981) - A dense northern forest 4. Star Wars The Phantom Menace (1999) - Marble halls, huge columns, the Roman Empire and its bureacracy 5. Star Wars Attack of the Clones (2002) - A summer’s eve, just after a storm, and just before sunset when the sky is big...filled with puffy clouds turning more orange. 6. Star Wars Revenge of the Sith (2005) - World War I trenches and battles in the old fancy marble buildings and cities. 7. Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015) - The Old American West, Railroad tracks and old trains, The Grand Canyon 8. Star Wars The Last Jedi (2017) - Kids playing war in the backyard on the first nice day of summer. 9. Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - A North African desert at noon, the inside of an Egyptian pyramid.

Why do people care what these buffoons think? If an English major came up to you on the street and said I watched this movie, here’s what I think you should think about it, you’d tell ‘em to fuck off. If an English Major comes up to you on Rotten Tomatoes and says I watched this movie and here’s what I think you should think about it....you see it as god’s word!

Who is this people? Almost everyone I know prefers the Prequels to the Disney Sequels. The Prequels were something special and risky, unlike any other movie until they arrived and any movie since. The sequels are well-made corporate formula movies. No, TLJ isn’t bold and risky, it’s a Marvel formula applied to Star Wars. The Rise of Skywalker is another well-made corporate film. They’re throwing money at it but taking no risks.

Why wasn’t this called The Fall of Skywalker? Never listen to critics.

I hate you. Anyways, kudos to JJ for making John record the Star Wars main titles one last time from scratch.

I miss you.

It’ll be midnight NY time.