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I'm glad the 2006 doesn't actually show the winner announcement

And OST can be a fantastic album and still be missing incredible music from the full score. The two are not mutually exclusive

And OST can be a fantastic album and still be missing incredible music from the full score. The two are not mutually exclusive

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We've all heard the Star Wars "theme" and the concert suite so many times that I think it can be easy to forget how wonderfully effective Williams' scoring is in the moments immediately after the crawl and its weight and power in the actual movie experience.  This is an incredibly important section in terms of setting the transitionary tone out of the bombastic title march and into the movie proper.  The way it shifts with the strings climbing up frantically as the words disappear into a series of ominous chords, heightening the tension, only to allow us momentary pause as we reflect on the stars.  This fleeting meditation gives way to more rushing strings, giving us yet another pang of unease as they rise rise but we descend.  A new alien planet system is then announced with a massive timpani roll and gong hit before ramping up into a fanfare flourish which is abbreviated due to the sudden overhead appearance of visual chaos.
 
All of this juking around purposefully puts you off balance and is musically striking at the same time.  Williams prepares you so perfectly for all of this in the span of about 25 seconds that it's ridiculous.

He's a terrific album producer. Even when he leaves out terrific tracks, what ends up on the cd always makes musical sense

It's a lot of fun to show the OT to someone who has never seen a Star Wars movie. I few weeks back, I watched the OT with someone who didn't even know that Vader was Luke's father. These movies still work. ESB is particularly timeless

I was just about to post that very same track Great stuff

I really like his score for The Talented Mr. Ripler

Stupid Star Wars movies with X-Wings flying over trees

And it's not like the best movie in the saga had a ground battle or fighters flying and fighting right over the planet's surface or anything...

Great news. I'm expecting something somewhat in the vein of Mission to Mars or this incredible track:

Great news. I'm expecting something somewhat in the vein of Mission to Mars or this incredible track:

Don't know the first thing about these games but I absolutely love this.

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I've grown to love his modern action writing actually. Chase Through Coruscant/General Grievous/Ants!/The Ferry Scene are all brilliant. There is so much information in those pieces that is still present in a concise coherent way. And it's also so unique to Williams. Arguably more stylistically distinctive than his older style (sorry folks but it's just a fact).
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Yeah Silence looks absolutely like a TV shoot....

Those eyes really look realistic...

I'm more excited about the director choice for Episode VIII. JJ, for better or worse, is quite an obvious choice for Episode VII, to the point of being boring. Rian Johnson is a much more risky endevour and left field choice

I found Munich to be gripping

It was only Dave Gibbons. Moore wouldn't be caught dead promoting a thing like this

New Photos from Entertainment Weekly
The captions on the photos on that link do reveal some of the context of the pictures, so I'm posting the photos on this post in case some of you wish to avoid reading them, although is still oficially revealed information

I fall in love with her everytime I watch Charade