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Alien and Gremlins 

Well, after listening the new Ultimate Edition of Hook, is now in the top 10... Maybe at 8 or 9 place, so bye bye to IJaToD

1 The Empire Strikes Back
2 ET
3 Star Wars
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark
5 Superman
6 Revenge of the Sith
7 The Force Awakens
8 Jurassic Park
9 Home Alone
10 IJ and the Temple of Doom 
 

Cant stop listening to this score...definately one of my favorites from giacchino.

Take out all of Williams' contributions and Solo is still easily the best Star Wars score outside of the main line series. There is nothing in Rogue One that is as good as "Into the Maw." I would argue Powell did such a good job with the score, Williams' contributions were insignificant.

I like Batman Forever's score a lot; it's freaking great, brimming with over the top excitement throughout. I find something new in it everytime I listen. 
 
But no, I don't prefer it over Elfman's two. Each of those are truly revolutionary masterpieces to me. Two of the most important scores in my collection, two scores that helped me realize what it is I like about film music and what Elfman brought to the genre. 
 
If I could never hear Batman Forver again, I'd be bummed, but not feel like I Iost access to something crucial.  If I could never revisit Batman or Returns again, something would be missing in my life. 

This forum has  a "report post" feature and this is now the most reported post we've ever had in the entire history of this forum.
 
This post is a reply to one short sentence: "Seems like 2015 is when the BF slate started having really high profile releases"
 
I am shock and dismayed that a label representative, let alone a label owner, would choose to sign in to our forum to post a reply like this to what is a very innocuous post.
 
The post never read to me as "Boy, LLL sure sucked in the past, 2015 was the year they FINALLY got good!", it read as "Boy, 2015 is when they kicked things up a notch!"
 
There are many "score collectors" who don't happen to like Star Trek music, or don't happen to like Lethal Weapon music, or don't happen to like Home Alone music.  Why would you want to bully and shame them when all they did was express positivity towards different titles?
 
This forum is full of film score fans who are constantly praising and purchasing from all the specialty labels, and LLL gets more attention than any label for a number of factors, such as the sheer amount of John Williams releases you've put out, and the fact that we skew younger than a forum like FSM so there is more discussion of 80-00s scores and you've also released more of those than the other labels.

Day after day our forum members are constantly say positive things about LLL and we as a collective are always looking forward to seeing what's next, and I have spent lots of my free time doing what I can to promote LLL releases in the forums as well as via main page articles, which gets shared all over social media, providing more exposure to the great work you do.

I can't believe you'd decide to come here and pick apart a post that you perceived as a negative one, when there is an ocean of positivity on this site about LLL across too many different threads to ever count.  I also can't believe that you'd go beyond disagreeing with the opinion shared, but also elect to call his statement "stupid" and a "dumb ass comment".

I think you should apologize to Richard, who has provided two followup posts that detail what it was he was actually trying to say:
 
 
 
And I hope in the future you don't plan to attack your paying costumers on our forums, even if they do express a dislike of something you've released.  Every single score collector on planet earth has different opinions of which scores they like and which they don't.  You should know that as a whole, we appreciate and admire everything you do, and can't wait to see what's next.

I can´t wait for Lalaland´s The Michael Giacchino Jurassic World Collection in 2039!

I can´t wait for Lalaland´s The Michael Giacchino Jurassic World Collection in 2039!

Confrontation with the Hutts. Preventing Imperials from finding out more about this Skywalker kid. They could fix the long standing plot issue that Luke was "hidden" on the same planet he dad was from, the same farm where he grew up actually. It would be two hours of Obi-Wan waving his hand making every Storm Trooper who comes near the Skywalker farm forget about it!

"Everyone" is not saying that, not even close.  Most here seem to prefer TFA over it.  

Funny to see a lot of people originally saying the score was a disappointment slowly starting to like it more and more.
 
Told you, guys!

I work at a theatre, and we're showing the movie on seven screens, so I'm constantly walking past one of them.  They're frequently blaring the score -- and I have to say, the more I hear it, the more positive I am about it.

let me just say that I infinitely prefer Michael Giacchino's work on Star Wars to everything done by Kevin Kiner.

Yeah, I think it was only used in "action" mode in Confrontation On Eadu.
 
And in the movie Baze has lost his faith in the Force/Whills stuff (until the end), so I think we can also call it Chirrut´s theme.
 
It´s funny like now, the less used theme is the Hope one, and it was used at the title of the movie in the infamous rendition that it is hated for almost everybody.

I saw Rogue One in 3D Imax in a good theater, it was a fun action movie. Definitely looked and felt like a Star Wars movie. Felicity Jones, Jiang Wen, and Donnie Yen are especially good. Personally I liked the Force Awakens better, but this is definitely worth seeing.
 
The first live action Star Wars film not scored by John Williams missed his magical presence. Michael Giacchino delivered one of his better scores that really helps the film. But the classical tradition is not his thing, so it's about the sound and moments. Some cool effects. Hope is probably the most emotional cue. Lots of Williams themes throughout the score, makes me wonder if the film was temped with classic Star Wars. The Williams scores have a deeper structure that's easy to hear if you play The Jedi Steps after any RO cue. Emotion, structure, and effects all in one.

John Williams *is* Star Wars, he carries the films into timeless mythology. It's true that MG is a different personalitiy from a different era. But there probably isn't anyone on today's A list of composers besides Williams who could add to the legacy. Sure, I can really like a film that is simply well made entertainment. But the bar is set real high for SW. Maybe Bear McCreary or Laura Karpman could, if given time and minimal interference.

It does raise the question of how many times the first two Star Wars movies can be imitated before people want something new and inspired. For now it's good space opera, all credit to Disney for addressing freedom and rebellion. I'm still on board
 

This shot needed the Mordor theme!

I think I need to explain my position a little better, so people know where I stand when I talk about this, and any Star Wars score.
 
I really like this score, but I'm not an idiot. I fully acknowledge that Williams' Star Wars scores are leagues ahead in quality. 
 
But that isn't the point. Not everything involves pure skill and quality in the enjoyment of something. By which I mean, I enjoy this score more than Attack of the Clones for example. Perhaps because that film is boring to me. I like Phantom Menace because I was 10 when I saw it, and the podracing and lightsaber duel is great. There are zero highlights for me in Clones, and so my enjoyment of the music is unfortunately lowered with the film quality. I know it's high quality music, but my enjoyment of it is lower than the music that accompanies Rogue One for example, because I absolutely loved Rogue One. To me it's the best SW film since the original trilogy.
 
 But there is a difference between thinking a score is better quality wise, and liking a score better.
 
I could like Rogue One score more than Force Awakens, but know it isn't better in quality. I don't actually think that though btw. I enjoy Force Awakens music better so far. But the film has a huge influence for me on how much I 'enjoy' its score. I liked the Rogue One film far more than I liked Force Awakens. And I really enjoy Giacchino's score, but while I may like it equally as much as I do some of Williams SW scores, I know that it isn't of the same quality.

I liked the movie (and the score) a lot more on a second viewing.  All things considered, I think Giacchino did a good job.  It's still leagues less good than the worst of JW's episode scores; but on its own, it's solid.

It's probably my favorite end credits arrangement of all time, then pairing it with the brilliant The Jedi Steps... amazing.

March Of The Resistance is ace!

I agree
 
 
 
Thank you

Just got back from seeing the film, which is exactly how I expected it to be, perhaps a little more optimistic. The score worked wonderfully in the film, even if it didn't have a clearer emotional driving center other than Jyn and Krennic's themes. When the new imperial theme blasted out the first two or three times I noticed it didn't seem as effective as the Imperial March, but a few more times and I loved it, I think it was communicated more effectively than Jyn's theme which I still liked!
 
The Approach to Eadu cue is my favorite from the film, so I hope an official expanded release is on the horizon!