A. A. Ron

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This expansion is the hope killer. This expansion is the little death that brings total disappointment. I will forget this expansion in a few days, but will be reminded of it as soon as this thread is bumped again. When our hope for new expansions is gone, there will be nothing. Only Muad’Disney will remain. From The Litany Against ”Indiana Jones: The Complete CD Collection”

I was in a bit of a Terrence Malick mood today. Days of Heaven The New World

Speaking only for myself of course, I love all three of those scores.

They reissued their deluxe edition of Star Trek 2009, so maybe. I doubt there’s quite as much demand for this one, but it is Jerry.

Honestly, I reach to turn the volume down on a couple of his scores, but only in their officially released form. The FYC of HTTYD1 for example I do not consider to be too loud, even though the DE and especially the OST are in some places. IMO of course.

Some low quality snippets of the score with a bit of FX here: Someone on FSM described this style as "Dixie Land jazz." It's probably not to everyone's taste, but sounds fun to me.

I'll listen to it!

I assure you, I know many worse readers personally.

I definitely hold Williams’ scores in higher regard, but I also play individual cues from HTTYD more often than anything from Star Wars.

That was one of my favorite shows in high school!

Yeah but 2024 Powell is so good, I don’t mind if he only does 2 a year.

HTTYD2 is my favorite score of the 2010s. How anyone can call it “just ok” is beyond me.

Ah yes I remember that. Great episode of Thrones! Too bad they never made a Season 5.

Oh, well that I don't understand at all. Fellowship is just an unrivaled force of nature as far as I'm concerned, both film and score. I'll agree that the whole last hour/4th disc of the ROTK complete recordings is utterly perfect though. As far as the Dune sequels go, I haven't really heard them called "bad" just weird. I've only read the original and part of Messiah, but I've certainly heard a bunch of crazy things about

Heretics? For liking FOTR more than the other 2? Or for comparing LOTR to Dune? Or?

Without the right producer and mastering engineer we could crap out rushed audio edits or terrible cover art and that’d end your label real quick, wouldn’t it?

The PT was nowhere near this good either. Not even close. That’s wild. There were only about 6 other people in my Saturday night showing.

So they really put Top Gun up for sale at 10AM on a Friday instead of the usual time on a Tuesday? Do we think this is going to be the new normal?

Just saw this film on a whim. Wasn't particularly invested after Part 1 despite having read the book, but I must say I LOVED this movie. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But it was thoughtful, thematically consistent, visually stunning and at least IMO never boring. I wish Zimmer's score had told more of a story rather than mostly serving as trailer-esque wallpaper, but at least it was decent wallpaper. If Villeneuves really does make Messiah, I'll see it for sure! Oh and just for the record, Star Wars wishes it was making movies this good.

Oh I don’t dislike any of those pieces. I just can understand how someone might consider them too much for their respective films or perhaps somewhat exhausting to listen to on their own, especially when in the wrong mood/frame of mind.

I only feel that way with a few specific cues. Battle of the Bewilderbeast and Into the Maw come to mind. And maybe the whole extended action sequence in Tangiers in The Bourne Ultimatum. I love that last one to pieces, but it is relentless.

Yeah I think a lot of Powell's work started sounding a bit more classical after he took that brief break from scoring to write his oratorio. Cues like Exodus and Armada Battle stand out for me as examples of this. On the other hand, I always felt Third Date/Forbidden Courtship had something of a pop influence.

Some other bits of info: Looking at Rescue Mission / Busy Busy Berk, the OST either has different edit points or a couple of quick microedits at 0:33 and 1:15 (timestamps from the deluxe). Busy Busy Berk comes in about 1 second sooner on the deluxe, has an unreleased cue/section from 5:26-7:08, then ends with a 13 second-ish stinger that was on the OST. The 10 second stinger at the end of Grimmel's Terms on the OST is edited differently from the one on the Deluxe/FYC. The OST omits the last 11 seconds or so of Legend Has It. There's a 10 second string sustain in the middle of Dart Trap that's shortened on the OST. The FYC has clean openings for Busy Busy Berk, Grimmel's Terms (a later part of it anyway), Cage Fight, both parts of Armada Battle, Freedom, and Boat Epilogue. The FYC has clean endings for Busy Busy Berk (the first part), Marry Her, Ambush Part 1, The Hiccup I Know, Armada Battle Part 1, Ultimate Sacrifice, Viking Wedding, and Boat Epilogue.

Near Miss Valka was on the FYC, but not the OST.