Not Mr. Big

Not. Yet!

Both of them are pretty mediocre. 

JP is certainly a better movie, that's pretty much a no-contest decision right there.  JP isn't a terrific movie either, but it will never be accused of being unentertaining..  Lost World is an absurdity and an even worse adaptation of a decent novel.
 
JP is what got me into Williams.  The score is one of his many masterpieces.  I enjoy Lost World for what it is, and it's certainly an effective and beautiful score, but I cannot give it my vote.  JP is just too magnificent.

Voldemort's Theme. It is like Darth Vader's Theme but much more... claustrophobic/less bombastic?

Bullshit. 

Which works against it, for me.  The sequels are so far below the original with their more standard Hollywood idioms.  
 
 
Wouldn't have inferred that, if only you'd not felt the need to make the comment about second year music students.  An absurd judgement, and an absurd standard.  I assume you've never dealt with second year music students, nor been one. 

Not good,  but I also didn't enjoy the first score. I've never enjoyed a Bates score.  His main theme for the Guardians returns in a few notable instances, it's still ineffectual window dressing. The perfect songtrack is what's important in these movies.  I love 70s pop.

They can, at points, become overbearingly loud and unnecessarily frenetic (thanks to Dreamworks noisy house style) but especially in Part Deux, Powell manages a dramatic momentum that is head and shoulders above his colleagues working in the medium today (or at least 80% of them). It's still a bit of a number's revue but in the quieter cues he skilfully develops his themes and motifs and a guy who takes his cue from Sibelius (no, it's not just the software) and Vaughan Williams cannot be wholly without greatness.
 

Horton Hears a Hoo 

I interpreted that to be a statement said playfully and in jest.

Hahaha

Really lovely melody.  Need to check the film out! 

I always got the impression Giacchino gets all the big blockbusters nowadays because he's a really nice chap to work with, not necessarily because his actual work is particularly impressive. 
Powell doesn't get much attention because he mainly sticks with kiddie flicks, which probably offer a lot more creative freedom and opportunity (since the actual films don't get much attention, so there's less pressure) than, say, the average billion dollar-budget superhero nonsense. 
On another note, every time I try to listen to Beck's Ant-Man theme, the Mission: Impossible theme starts playing in my subconscious. 

Funny you should that, as I've been looking into Giacchino's family film scores lately. I've always liked Inside Out (both score and film), but they overall feel like music Powell could do in his sleep, yet Giacchino weirdly gets more praise and accolades (or at least more attention). Speed Racer especially made me think of Powell and want to put on his works instead. Ratatouille sounded nice, but it just didn't feel especially energetic or passionate. 
I like Giacchino okay, for the record. But I freaking love Powell, easily as much as I do Carl Stalling, Scott Bradley or Darrel Calker. 

They're great.  John Powell is who many people want Michael Giacchino to be.

"Click-bait" is a misleading title or such that would prompt one to click on a link they would otherwise not clicked.  In this case, the title is perfectly appropriate and not "click-bait".  All of us here would have clicked on any Johnson/Williams video (right?).  We just, most likely, wish there had been more to it. 

Both posters are adequate, but nothing special.

Perhaps it's already finished along with The Post and Williams' is set to work on the Kobe Bryant sequel next.  

Perhaps it's already finished along with The Post and Williams' is set to work on the Kobe Bryant sequel next.  

Perhaps it's already finished along with The Post and Williams' is set to work on the Kobe Bryant sequel next.  

Gonna just carry this over from the discussion going on in the Joann Kane thread. We were speculating on RPO and I did a little Twitter stalking.
 
Found this from one of the co-writers of the film, from back in December:
 
 
So I guess Williams has in fact been working on this alongside Last JedI?

I would say so, considering the overrated nature of his career.  He's made, what, three truly good movies?  Halloween, The Thing, and Christine?  Then there is a smattering of passable junk entertainment, and others that are crap.
 
Dolores Claiborne, Hearts in Atlantis, and 1408 are also a good King-adapted movie that weren't mentioned.

http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/may-the-fourth-spotlight-on-joann-kane-music/