Joe Brausam

The idea is that the films can be watched, understood, and enjoyed without you ever checking out the other media. The main episodes are all you need.
The Anthology films, books, comics, games, and television shows are not necessary for understanding the main story. They exist to enrich the story. If you enjoy what you're watching and you want to experience more, there is an official avenue for that.
Take Jakku for example - we'll get to experience the battle in Battlefront, but in the film we know all we need to. We can see the crashed ships and the scavengers and understand that a massive battle happened there at one point.
The First Order and the Resistance will certainly be explained either in the crawl, or through character interactions in the film. Just like in A New Hope, we learned that there was an Empire and a rebellion against it. We knew that there used to be more Jedi, and an Old Republic. But we didn't have the events of that transition explained to us. We didn't need it explained either!

I'll commit. I LOVE it alot!!

Same here. 1st person shooters just give me eye strain. At least 3rd persons create a sense of peripheral vision.
Grew up with the first two, and I'll definitely be getting this (ablate on PC this time). Looks amazing.

The most important things to me were confirmed today - you CAN play in third person, which is what I was hoping for. We'll get dogfighting again, all atmospheric. And it looks that there may more or less be a single player conquest type mode. I'm excited!

I don't know how anyone could have something against the trailer music! I personally do think it's 100% Williams, aside from maybe the percussion. But even if it weren't, who cares? It sounds wonderful and evokes exactly the mood that we all look for in these Star Wars trailers. Great stuff!
It's useless to be cynical and over-analytic of these things. Just take it all in and let it affect you like it's meant to.

Riccardo Muti conducting a Williams piece? Hell, YES!

Horrible, isnt it.
LOTR/Hobbit music discussion is pretty much ruined because of this.

It's always been a variation of the B section of the main title, to me.

If Star Wars is to really evolve then it should start to movie away from Williams' music. Why not let every composer do its own thing with it?

No no no no. No. NO. No.
The LSO is a concert orchestra. Sometimes they play new works, sometimes they record film scores, but mostly, like most other city orchestras, they play the same old tired repertoire because the artistic directors and symphony boards are unadventurous, conservative, boring.
The LA musicians, however, play new music every week or so. With little rehearsal time. In extremely varying styles. And many of them are drawn from other groups that do what the LSO does, too.
LSO more versatile? No. There is no comparison.

Not too far from me. Row A, seats 33 and 34.
This time our flight back isn't at 6am the morning after, so more drinking will ensue!

Every orchestra has a different sound, that's not a debatable thing. Music is created by human beings, and different human beings will perform music differently from other human beings. That's why a Beethoven symphony can stand having so many new recordings, the interpretation is in flux in every performance of a work of music.
The question is this - how is a different sound or interpretation more or less valid than another? And if one interpretation is more valid - are people aware that the LSO of 1983 is a different LSO than that of 1999? And that the LSO of 2015 is different from the LSO of 2005? Even if players stayed the same, their interpretations of music will change over time. That's the human aspect of music.

Every orchestra has a different sound, that's not a debatable thing. Music is created by human beings, and different human beings will perform music differently from other human beings. That's why a Beethoven symphony can stand having so many new recordings, the interpretation is in flux in every performance of a work of music.
The question is this - how is a different sound or interpretation more or less valid than another? And if one interpretation is more valid - are people aware that the LSO of 1983 is a different LSO than that of 1999? And that the LSO of 2015 is different from the LSO of 2005? Even if players stayed the same, their interpretations of music will change over time. That's the human aspect of music.

They just care about the brand name. They're like little kids who "ugh yuck!" when they see their parents grab the generic no frills product off the shelf even though they taste the same.

FOR GREATER GLORY is still the most impassioned of all these, infuriating as it may be. And it has hands down the best Horner main theme in decades (the one that sounds like 'One Hand, One Heart' from WEST SIDE STORY).

I like it well enough, especially because it means it's not a Boba Fett, Han Solo, or Yoda spin-off (at least not directly).

This has probably been mentioned before, but I'm too lazy to go through 148 pages of posts: what up with the mastering of BOFA? It's like a bad Zimmer album: all about that bass, about that bass, no treble...

By being badass!

Milan Records posted the following to the FSM thread for this score

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2015/02/10/wolf-totem-soundtrack-details/
Can't wait for this, and his other three 2015 scores!

El Cid.

Is it just possible that Spielberg chose a movie he wanted to do? That, despite their friendship, he doesn't just select films for JW? That he has more in mind than just the music?

My biggest problems with it come down to 3 things:
1. Grievous' characterization, I realize he was a throwaway to get Anakin and Obi-Wan apart, but he was built up so well in the animated series that preceded the film. He had the potential to be a truly menacing character, and he really had the design to seem threatening. There was some lost potential there.
2. The speed with which Anakin gives himself to Palpatine.
3. Padme's cop out reason for dying. Her character has always been portrayed as strong and independent, so this was out of character for her.
Everything else I liked very much.