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"Luke's Escape" is also pretty kick-ass.

My favorite action cue from ESB is "Luke Pursues the Captives".

Walken luring Penguin Devito down the stairs to press conference with raw fish. The campaign trailer rocking back and forth as he rides the mini ride-on Batmobile. DJ Keaton spinning the disc in the Bat CD player. Great speech, Oswald! A blur. I mean, not complete amnesia. I remember Sister Mary Margaret puking in church and Betsy Riley saying it was morning sickness. In HD. Best ever way to spend Halloween? Yes. Another great flick. Too bad it failed. I was a fan of both the original and Return growing up. Return freaked me out, naturally. It's fascinating and sad to look bad at that film. The production was surely epic with tales of Disney literally shutting the whole thing down until George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg came over to the studio and gave it their endorsement. Of course, the thing still tanked. The music, special effects, sets and the various characters are all pretty wonderful. It's just awesome to see the Tin Man, Lion and Scarecrow as they were illustrated in the books. Also, Dorothy as a little girl. I don't own the original movie, but I do own Return. Now if Disney would just give it a more respectable release...

I only recently picked up this classic 1990 compilation of concert music JW recorded with the "Skywalker Symphony Orchestra". Somehow even with its bargain pricing and extreme availability, I never got around to picking it up in all the years of seeing it alongside every other SW CD (back when you could find them at retail stores). I had listened to it by...other means, and found many of the recordings to be pretty much along the lines of what I already had on CD. Now I own it. I am not a fan of the Cantina track. I'm not sure what they were thinking with that one. The sound effects that aren't even from SW?? My vote for the best track goes to "Jabba The Hutt". Worst: "The Cantina Band". "Princess Leia", "Luke and Leia" and "The Forest Battle" don't really have much to offer you can't get from the original album recordings. A glaring omission is "Han Solo and the Princess". Vader's theme is a nice recording, but I think "Yoda's Theme" and "Parade of the Ewoks" are just wonderful.

I don't agree with this at all. I feel pretty much exactly the opposite. A.I.'s got some nice material, but on the whole is mediocre and certainly drags. Actually, a lot of its lesser material is on the stupid CD. I can't get through it anyway.

"Is anyone eating this?" *takes dish of food*

I honestly feel just a little bit closer to heaven whenever I listen to Debney's SpectroMagic parade music ("On This Magic Night") for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Disney typically employs the absolute cheesiest music for their entertainment, thank God that magnificent music still echoes through the night at a dimly illuminated Magic Kingdom. It warms my soul just thinking about it.

Batman Returns in HD on ABC Family? Still the best Batman movie. And boy did it look good.

That's just being nitpicky.

I've only skimmed through this thread, but most of this nitpicking is stupid. The real error is the PT.

I did. Best 15-20 mins. I've spent reading the internet in a while.

Neither. I just don't like it.

Both versions of E.T.'s credits are wonderful.

The DVD. Anniversary. Right alongside A.I. and Amistad.

Discuss.

Well I'm currently over my SE phase. Back to the Anthology. I don't know, it has its problems, but all three scores in the box set sound better to my ears than the SE's. I also like the sequencing of cues like "Inner City", "Training of a Jedi Knight", "Heroic Ewok / Fleet Goes into Hyperspace", etc. It's a wonderful collection.

ROTLA and Schindler's List over E.T.? Uhh...nope, can't say I'll ever agree with that. E.T. is on its own level. The only JW scores that come close are Jaws and Star Wars. By many accounts, perhaps Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Oh. Sounds like Imperial March to me.

It's amazing how film color palettes change between video releases.

It still catches me off guard when the Concord "Indy's Very First Adventure" continues past falling into the train. Even though it's not the true film version...and what's with the tapping now? Still good enough for now, I guess.

This is a good thread. I didn't know WHAT this piece was until I inquired on these boards. I remember it from the Young Indy trailer but especially from the finale of my wonderful souvenir Universal Studios Florida video from the 90's. See . I had musical/imaginative/emotional sex with all three before the movies opened. Raveers, I've listened to your edits and others as well. Although I generally despise DVD-sourced music, I'd be down for anything new you come up with. I have also fondly experienced the unreleased/unused music in the TPM and Jedi Power Battles games (for example) on the Playstation. I still remember getting so stoked hearing this unused Imperial March music from TPM in the Naboo levels, and later appalled when so much of that music appeared at the finale of AOTC!

Yeah. Actually, the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack left me quite cold when I listened to it recently. Admittedly, there's a lot of good music missing and some horrible edits on the CD, not to mention some of the less interesting parts from the overall score being presented rather than aforementioned highlights. But it just really didn't do it for me. I still remember "Duel of the Fates", "Anakin's Theme" becoming Vader's theme, the Force theme segueing into DOTF in "Return to Tatooine", the finale of AOTC with the dark female soprano, march and the love theme. Nowadays the prequel scores are more like highlights amid a lot of fairly generic modern JW underscore. Certainly not on the level of anything like the 70's and 80's JW or Hook...or even Jurassic Park? Maybe I need to listen to the complete scores with all unused music to really appreciate them again. But then, those would need to be released.

"Adventure on Earth" "Abandoned and Pursued" "Indy's Very First Adventure" "End Credits (Raiders March)" "Journey to the Island" "Welcome to Jurassic Park" Arrival at Cloud City - finale of ESB Those come to mind.

Elfman's music during Nicholson's speech to the martians near the end of Mars Attacks.