bruce marshall

The Empire Strikes Back recording is awful, or at least what I've heard (I don't know about the LP or the Pro Logic releases). It has a very thin, cold sound, and the high frequencies are overly emphasized (the cymbal crashes are hardly bearable). The original LP release of Empire Strikes Back sounds much better.
EDIT: One positive remark: the brass seems to be more clear and vibrant on the Gerhardt CD.

I am not the one who created this poll. Its okay to be needy stuart. You are strong enough, good enough and doggone it people like you.

HA! for once we disagree.
I'm very fond of the original album and I happen to like a lot of the selections there. The schizoid nature of the sequencing matches the discombobulating effect the film has. For long it was one of my favorite movies, but I kind of reassessed it, though. It is still very powerful and engaging, but much of its appeal resided in me buying the narrative and theory wholesale, whereas now I've (partially) revised my position on the case (please, don't start a discussion!)

I personally can't stand the schizophrenic nature of the original album, in which the repertoire tracks completely ruin the flow and the mood of JW's original pieces. I don't want to listen to Tony Bennett, Sidney Bechet or Mozart in the middle of John Williams. It may work for concept album enthusiasts, but musically it doesn't make any sense.
 
I think there are at least 30 minutes of unreleased music and some of it is really cool stuff, imo. Plus, who knows how many alternate and optional versions JW may have recorded. One studio musician who I talked to remembers a cue where the legendary Gene Cipriano had a sax solo.
 
A Williams/Stone boxset collection would be really nice to have, but it may take long in terms of licensing and approvals since each film is owned by a different studio. JFK is also a WB film and at the moment anything from that studio is out of the game (and given the imminent sale to either NFLX or PSKY, who knows for how long it will be inaccessible).

@Jurassic Shark while that's good news from Caldera, I suspect it'll be for another David Shire score and not a surprise release of JFK.
 
 
If they are OSTs, then they aren't owned by Warner Bros. Pictures, but by Warner Music which was split off into a completely separate company. I don't think there are issues licensing music from Warner Music, only Warner Bros. Pictures. Oh, and in the case of The Cowboys, Varese has perpetuity album rights for the score and I guess it was possible to arrange a sub-license from them (as LLL was able to do for Goldsmith's two Planet of the Apes scores, for their PotA box set).
 
Yavar

Roman numbers, not easy for everyone! 
 

Episode XIII?
 
Mattris was more right than he knew. 

I can’t watch the dubbed versions. Way too distracting.  
 
Original language+subs is almost always the way to go, IMO.

I think GOT looked great every year. And more importantly, for a good deal of the run it was incredibly well scripted. Are the production values on GOT as high at HotD? No. But I think it's fair to say that the final product is similar in terms of production values. 
 
In any event, what have those marginally increase production values really bought them? Content that they can only put out every 2-3 years, that isn't a fraction as popular or as much of a phenomenon as its predecessor? Which at its height didn't have quite as high production values but much more compelling characters.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like HotD. I thought the first season in particular was pretty strong. But I think, yeah, perhaps, like many shows, they're trying to mask over the weaknesses in writing with sheer spectacle. 
 

Writing isn’t the strong suit of The Lord of the Rings, and it has aspects which are far worse than anything I can recall from House of the Dragon!
 
It does show some skill in arranging the material and conveying information, so there is a certain amount of utilitarian (as opposed to aesthetic) value, in providing a framework for the cinematic spectacle.

Uber Driver

I did not see (never have seen) Superman at the theater. But we had a friend who had a home movie theater who collected actual film (I have no idea how he acquired them back then) and would show movies for the kids' birthday parties. IIRC I got to see a double feature of Disney's Robin Hood and Superman. I would have been 10 or 11. The scene were Luthor pushed the cop in front of the train scared the heck out of me.

Ignore Nick! 
 
I much prefer lengthy posts researched and written by humans than shorter ones generated by our artificial overlords.
 
Do not bend the knee, Edmilson. 

Quite right, I meant season 2. Fixed.
 
 
Lengthy, well researched, liberal use of "actually" and...charts! @Chen G.? Is that you?

Chen and I have this thing of spending too much time writing long posts on JWFan with charts, dates, sources... Sigh. Next time, I'll ask one of my robotic friends to write something that gets the point across in a more concise and less tiresome (to me) way.

Back in the day, GoT seasons took just one year since the ending of the last one to come out.
 
Actually, seasons 1-6 all premiered religiously in April (or, in the case of season 3, in March 31st) and ended in June.
 

 
Then, season 7 premiered almost one year and one month after the end of season 6, and season 8 came out almost two years (19 months) after the season 7 finale. But sure, those were the final seasons and they demanded more time, blablabla.
 
With HotD, S2 came out almost two years after the first one, though in that case at least they had the 2023 WGA strikes as an excuse.
 

 
However, between seasons 2 and 3, there wasn't another strike or pandemic or anything, and yet season 3 will take more time to come out than season 2 did.
 
Seems that the more TV series grow into big blockbusters (at least in terms of promotion and marketing), which is a characteristic of the "too much streaming" days, the more time they take between seasons. See Stranger Things, where it took 3 whole years between seasons 4 and 5 (yes, there were the strikes, but come on) and actually made the show a target for mockery online because they took too much time, but the screenplay was still crap.
 
 

Same here! S1 was absolutely incredible. Still remember watching that week to week, it was awesome.
 
S2 had it's highs but on the whole was quite the step down. Also hoping they can course correct on S3

I really want HOTD season 3 to be good.  I'd say season 1 is one of my favorite seasons of television I've ever seen, but then season 2 was certainly not even close.  It had high highs, but a lot of lows.  If season 3 is more like season 1, we're really in for a big treat I think.  And I say this having managed to avoid all spoilers about what's going, thankfully.

Sorry, but The Night manager is better than anything. A 2nd season 10 years after the first one. 

Won't be a zillionaire bad guy in the next one, not with Bezos bankrolling it.

Tomorrow Never Dies' megalomaniac media baron looks less and less like action movie fantasy with each passing year.

Page 7 — Not even Chapter 1... the Introduction... and I’m already crying, because I just rewatched those scenes that are mentioned. 
 
 
 
 
 
@Maestro Oh my, really, THANK YOU! 

And the creepy vacuum cleaner salesman in The X-Files.

An actor who looked old when he was young. Always believable though.  Lonesome Dove I need to see.