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Might check this one out then (had a bit of MCU-like isekai fatigue for a while). Watched s1 of Spy X Family. Really fun show with a lot of good jokes, I love the first theme song which combines classic spy music with classic family music
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The Official Star Wars Expanded Score Petition Thread
Not Mr. Big replied to ThePenitentMan1's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
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Huh so that came before Home Alone. (Still greatly prefer Somewhere though)
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Will this game have Indy Shouts?
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Jon Burlingame Article on "Wearing Somebody Else's Underwear"
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What Is Better Than Jaws The Collector's Edition Soundtrack?
Not Mr. Big replied to A24's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
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The Most Williams like Score by Another Composer?
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I don't like most straight up pastiches of John Williams but Joel McNeely's A Million Ways to Die in the West is pretty good, mostly because it combines it with pastiches of classic western scores (the Shooting montage and Sheep to the Horizon are particular highlights). There needs to be some kind of interesting "angle" to make it worth listening to for me (not just trying to be another E.T or Raiders) -
One of those was just me though
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First: Tom Sawyer Last: The Rise of Skywalker
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It muddies up the narrative. Too many themes that basically have the same associations (Lost Boys Chase/The Banquet, Stick with Me/Hook-napped) or fulfill the same role emotionally (Childhood/Mothers)
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In general I'm not really huge on Hook as a score, despite having many great individual moments. Maybe if they kept the songs it would have made more sense but the thematic bloat and consistently sugary tone make it hard to enjoy as a complete score. (compared to the more thematically concise Home Alone or the more tonally and stylistically varied Sorcerer's Stone)
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He immediately followed Hook with Far and Away which is a much better score.
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I find myself greatly preferring Believe to its film score counterpart, which turns it into a more generic "wonder theme". The slight changes in accompaniment and melody make it a lot more heartfelt and with a layer of melancholy even. Reminds me of Remembering Emilie from War Horse or even parts of Schindler's List
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96th Academy Awards (2024 Oscars for 2023 films)
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Composer TBC - John Krasinski's IF (2024)
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Other than Star Wars, it's definitely Home Alone. John Williams honed in on the best qualities of the film and elevated them tenfold. It's such an underdog type pairing, with a kind of "normal" movie that (on paper) felt out of JW's wheelhouse and even kind of beneath him but in the end it all works so well together.
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I did and they were right behind me
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John Williams made them as a joke to throw off JWfans. Now every JW expansion is gonna have fake songs based on the score's themes
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To be fair, the forum has always had at least one guy who calls every new JW work a disappointment. It's a JWfan tradition
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I was thinking more like a rap song (ala Hook)
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Like a Jedi Academy theme or something