Pieter Boelen

John Debney for me. Cutthroat Island is reason enough. Then Lair is also really good. As for the James': I never was much impressed with James Horner, so James Newton Howard it is.

Merry Christmas to you all and the very best of best wishes for the coming year.

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That list looks interesting. Is there any actual new SFX-less AotC music in there that we didn't know about?

I find Armageddon to be great entertainment. It has quite a lot of exiting stuff and gave me a lot of good laughs. It is even the source of one of my family's film joke classics ("Is this good or bad?"), along with others like "Nooooooooo" (Empire Strikes Back) and "I'm back!" (Independence Day). I am not really familiar with any of his other films.

The Best: 1) Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Awesome music for an adventure movie. Would be great for a life-action version as well, apart from the slight mickey-mousing on occasion. There is some additional goodness on the complete bootleg, most notably "The Crew's Conscience". 2) Mulan: Just plain awesome in its complete form. 3) Dinosaur: The main themes can compete with John Williams' work as far as I'm concerned. Very good. 4) The Polar Express: Some really beautiful themes and good music. The extended promo release surely does help, even though it's still far from being complete. 5) The Incredibles: Just watched the film again yesterday and the film is great and so is the score and they accompany each other very well. 6) Shrek: Very fun. Escape From the Dragon is cool. Main themes are very good, beautiful music, funny music, it's got it all. 7) Ducktales: The Movie: I remember really liking this one as a kid. Nicely adventurous and egyptian-styled music in there.

I don't remember exactly when. It was somewhere halfway into secundary school, I think, which would put it at about 6-8 years ago. My dad had just found out about illegally downloading music (ahum) and I thought it might be fun to try and get some of the music from the films I liked, mainly Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Star Wars and Back to the Future. Strangely enough I had only ever seen Indiana Jones for the very first time not so long before that, even though I had always wanted to see these films being convinved that I loved them even before having ever seen them. I had seen both Jurassic Park and The Lost World in primary school(!) and remembered liking the music. Then I don't know how Star Wars actually fit into the whole picture. I rented Episodes IV-VI on video at one point, which was the first time I ever saw them. Back to the Future we lent on video from some friends and I might actually have seen that before Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Before getting into film music, I was convinced that music was pretty useless(!). Just random notes (classical music) and random beats and words (pop music) and really I don't have much interest in that. The difference with film music is that film music actually has got something to say. It's got a story to tell, it has emotions, which all these other types of music don't do to the same extent. I always liked the memorable adventurous music best, which is why John Williams is my favourite composer. He has a gift for writing music that you remember after seeing a film only once and even when knowing nothing of film music. Originally I thought John Williams had written ALL good film music in existance. I thought Back to the Future was written by him as well. Of course the mis-tagged music I downloaded didn't really help in that respect.

I love British accents. And Scottish and Irish and Australian. American not so much (sorry people). I'm not sure if I have an accent myself; I prefer to think that I have no accent over me having a Dutch accent. I would very much like to talk with a decidedly British accent. That would be cool. I never really manage to do it properly though.

LOL. What should it have been if not "Having spelling difficulties, are we?"? I thought that was correct, but if not, I'd be interested to know. Always happy to improve my English.

It keeps amusing me how much of a fuzz some people make of spelling mistakes. I don't mind them, unless posts become really unreadable. I always try to spell properly myself, but I am not perfect either: being Dutch, I also make spelling mistakes on occasion. But I see no need in making a fuzz out of it.

I liked the first film. It's no LotR excellence, but then I don't think it was ever trying to be. It was trying to be an enjoyable film that would also be acceptible for a less adult audience. I think they succeeded. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Having spelling difficulties, are we?

Cyclops.

LOL! Thanks for posting that! I checked it out and it's REALLY funny!

There's still the alternate to "The Enterprise" though. That one sounds nicely seafaring-like.

Most unfortunate, as far as I'm concerned

While we're at it: Does anyone know John Williams' religion, if any? My mother was wondering about that.

Some words on I Am Legend here. Doesn't sound all that impressive to me.

I listened to the new suites and they're quite good. There's no 100% exactly repeated material from the OSTs. All the OST music is a bit different in the suites. The suites are pretty much like one suite of one theme, allowing that theme to be much more developed than on the OSTs. Beckett's theme was pretty much ignored on the OSTs of both DMC and AWE, but is nicely represented here with two suites. If you like the music to PotC, you'll like this. If you don't like the music to PotC: This probably won't sway your mind. I'm not complaining. It's nice music with some pretty good parts.

Not released and not available are not the same thing.

It's not complete though. Extended with minor sound effects and better than the OST as far as I'm concerned. But definitly not complete. I would buy a proper extended/complete version in a heartbeat. And I would probably even buy a re-issue of the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom OSTs. I only have Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

At least it's MORE worthwhile than it appeared at first. Almost 50 minutes of (partly) new music is better than remixes only.

There actually IS unreleased music on there! See here. The following tracks contain new music:1. Pirates, Day One, 4:56am (3:46) 2. Marry Me (11:37) 3. The Heart Of Davy Jones (3:14) 4. Lord CutIer Beckett (8:47) 5. Jack's Theme Bare Bones Demo (4:05) 6. Hoist The Colours Suite (5:43) 7. The Pirate Lord Of Singapore (5:58) 8. Just Good Business (5:56) Pirates, Day One 4:56am is the first demo Hans Zimmer wrote for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. As hinted with the title, the cue was finished at 4:56 AM. Jack's Theme Bare Bones Demo is the original Piano version of what would have become Jack Sparrow's theme suite. Hoist The Colours Suite were also used in At World's End end credits. The parachute cue is in "Marry Me" at 2:38.

I'm definitly more excited about Indiana Jones, both movie and score. Star Wars is really good, but I still like Indiana Jones better.

This should help.