Not Mr. Big

I keep forgetting that in a few months, we'll have a new Star Wars score and (hopefully) a new Spielberg drama score, and (hopefully) another sci-fi score a few months after that!

I keep forgetting that in a few months, we'll have a new Star Wars score and (hopefully) a new Spielberg drama score, and (hopefully) another sci-fi score a few months after that!

I keep forgetting that in a few months, we'll have a new Star Wars score and (hopefully) a new Spielberg drama score, and (hopefully) another sci-fi score a few months after that!

We should just be grateful for the fact that we can even discuss new Star Wars music by John Williams in 2017!

The scenes were rearranged so Ani and Padme get married before they start to kiss.

I wish they had revoked Birdman's Oscar.

Caught the theme from The Mission in a commercial. Actually . . . so far, the Oscar commercials are better than the Super Bowl commercials this year.

The Newt theme from Fantastic Beasts played live by the orchestra sounded outstanding.
 
JNH was robbed of an Oscar nom.
 
 

This is cannon. 
 

I have 2.0 ears. I have 7.1 toes after the snapping turtle got me last summer. 

Another weekend, another Morricone/Tornatore collaboration. In the proud italian tradition of sprawling, multi-generation dramas about heroic communists, this is really an ode to Sicily: the opulent overture takes all but 30 seconds for another one of those big, plushy Morricone string thingies before taking a surprising turn into what best could be described as a rustic, earthy collage of the country. Sicily has a proud tradition of folk songs, expression of a long peasant tradition, and it's not only elated tarantellas but also outspoken lamentations and Morricone creatively draws from that, featuring several male vocalists and a duduk-like instrument that ping pong with the the expansive string backing. At the 7-minute mark, he indeed takes the collage idea to its literal conclusion, taking what appears to be recording snippets of sicilian daily mixing them with the score. It's a wonderfully creative, unexpected way of getting into the story's groove (refreshingly un-Hollywoodian, too).
 
Morricone was 80 when he wrote the score and while it naturally draws from the maestro's back catalogue, the epic scope ranges from brittle to the earthy, from the cheerful to powerful (an agitated revolution march, that has just the right kind of quichotic futility for the impossible dream of overhtrowing capitalist oppressors) and last but not least to the unblinking nostalgia that has always been a hallmark of the Tornatore collaborations, thinking of 'Cinema Paradiso', 'Malena' or 'The Starmaker'. 

You mean Jurassic Park. 
 
The "I could have saved more" scene is a bit of a shame, but it's also nowhere near as universe collapsing as some here make it out to be. It's okay, it fits. I've always thought that plenty probably used it to have a bit of an emotional clear-out. Some though... they act like the film is rendered an unwatchable disaster because of it, which is so internet hipster it makes me want to indiscriminately punch stuff. 

I find it worrisome, most of all. Seems anyone who cheers Ford in this movie for being a great president got their wish with Trump. And while it seems outrageous enough to seem baffling that it could be meant seriously, it never gives the impression that it tries to be satirical. "Mindless fun"? Perhaps, but with dangerous implications.

His last little hold over the fans he despises so much, his final little victory. 

I really don't care about what logos are at the front, or whether the original has 'A New Hope' above the crawl or not.  I just want the movies I fell in love with in the best possible quality.
 
It's pretty annoying when people (not you, necessarily) take some imagined moral high ground, saying that we who hate the altered versions are blinded by nostalgia.  Say if they replaced a lot of visual effects in The Wizard of Oz with jarringly incongruous CGI, I'd be equally pissed.  It just doesn't make sense.
 
And I'm forbidding anyone from trotting about the BS argument about the VHS versions not being the original theatrical editions.  False equivalence!
 
Anyway, if they do release high quality versions of pre-97 original trilogy you won't see me re-live these same arguments over and over.  I will be happy.

Finn/Poe theme on Marimba

Finn/Poe theme on Marimba

1:51 - 2:07

I only have a passing interest in the works of Desplat, but I'm always excited at the prospects of a huge score, especially for a space opera.

1:51 - 2:07

Nuke Town is probably my favourite part of the entire movie. It's bizarre, uncanny, and it has a great look. It's visually unique in the Indiana Jones aesthetic. 

There are far worse things in Indy 4 than the Fridge scene. And I love the whole fake town sequence

TFA sounds fantastic! Reference quality recording and performance!

Its fantastically bullshit! Pulp rubbish 

TFA OST 
Still great!  Great track-to-track flow and sound quality.