Romão

I really wish they hadn't turned Tolkien into a franchise. It's demeaning

When I heard the fun theme for Khazad-Dum: I kept thinking it reminded me of something I couldn't quite place. Today I finally remembered the piece it reminded of:

In my view, it is the very best big-budget Hollywood production in the 21st century

If they had respect for the comic and its author, they wouldn't do a sequel of any kind, but maybe that's just me

I actually found Lincoln to be far more gripping to KOTCS. It's a superior movie by any criteria, IMHO

The score is the only thing I'm eager for in this thing. This nostalgia baiting is is really getting overboard

Thank you for awesome selections you've posted, @Marian Schedenig, @crocodile, @May the Force be with You, I had a blast listening to all of them. Goldsmith was an absolute giant

John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith are invariably the top two. The other eight, in no particular order: Elliot Goldenthal James Horner Danny Elfman Bernard Herrmann Miklos Rozsa Franz Waxman Ennio Morricone Alex North

Sleepers would be a dream expansion I also don't get the reservations some have with Cinderella Liberty. It's a lovely and rather unique score in Williams' canon

That's much more music for Nixon that I expected. And for Seven Years, since so much music in the OST unusued, there's probably even a greater amount of unreleased music

Cinderella Liberty would be great. As would Nixon or Seven Years in Tibet

I simply cannot respect a filmmaker that treats JW's efforts in this manner.

That's why I wrote "a near-perfect distillation". But you could hardly capture that score in 15 minutes any better

As much as I love the full score (it's one of my top 5 Herrmann scores), I still think the Hermann-conducted 15 minute suite from The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann is a near-perfect distillation of the score

And Hoskins'. All their scenes together are great

Shirley Walker is a clear example of a female composer that had more than enough musical chops to tackle any big budget, mainstream action adventure movie, but still only really had major breaks in her TV work. Wasn't she the first female composer to score a major Hollywood production?

Has anyone played The Case of the Golden Idol? I've heard great things about it, specially from Lucas Pope, the creator of Papers, Please and The Return of the Obra Dinn, which seems like a top level endorsement

I do think it is a great album to get a better sense of how the music is structured. Like a sort of a wireframe view of the score

There are is a definitive common thread between the music of the 89 Batman and the Batman The Animated Series by Shirley Walker, but I'm never sure whereas the 89 sound is due to Walker's involvement or if she did a conscious effort to channel Elfman's 89 Batman sonority in her music for the Animated Series. Probably a bit of both

While I would say TPM is objectively the greater work, Star Trek V still remains my favorite Trek score. And I love it so much to the point I refuse to watch the film, precisely for the reasons you've stated, as I fear nothing in it will live up to the mystic grandeur the music conveys and I don't want to shatter the illusion

The first time I played and finished The Return of the Obra Dinn. It instantly became of my all time favourite games. Of course, playing Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango when I was 14 left an indelible mark in my youth and are experiences and memories I will always treasure

Ewok Feast was pretty awesome to hear live.

My main reason for eventually ordering this is the inclusion of the soundtrack album. However, the description on the website seems to imply that the soundtrack is paired somehow with the game itself on disc, but what does it really mean? A two disc set with the game on one disc and the score on another? Both things on the same disc? The last one seems very unlikely, as the score would have to be really short.

I absolutely agree with pretty much everything you wrote. And Beck's Ant-Man theme is easily one of the best, if not the very best theme in the MCU canon

I don't know if film music in general is better or worse than it was 30 years ago. But film music in Hollywood mainstream productions is much, much worse than it was 30 years ago and it's not even close, in my very humble opinion. And since it's the Hollywood mainstream productions that tend to dominate these categories, there's an inevitable drop-off in the average quality in the roster of best score nominees