Pieter Boelen

I don't care whether it's David Arnold or Nicholass Dodd. Fact is: The end result is good. In the case of Stargate, Independence Day, Last of the Dogmen and Godzilla anyway.

I also really like Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Hidalgo. Some great action music in there, adventurous music and beautiful music.

Review of the soundtrack here: http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?...undtrack_review Edit: Another one http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/news/the-g...pass-soundtrack And of the movie: http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?...amp;p=tgcreview

Of all the "Media Ventures" scores, I think Kingdom of Heaven is at least a pretty good one with quite some period influences. It seems to me like Harry Gregson-Williams actually put some effort into that one. Unlike certain other MV scores that were obviously not composed with any form of effort to make it good/original.

Guess who isn't missing:

Here's some information from Alexandre Desplat on the score for this film: http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/opinions/e...lden-soundtrack Might be interesting.

Enthusiasm. Don't you just love it?

There is plenty of cool thematic usage in scores. Occasionally though it is very much hidden. So let's discuss here the not-so-well known thematic references you have discovered in scores. Kingdom of Heaven The "Ibelin" theme seems to be the same theme as the Christian choir theme heard in several places, such as 4:33 in "The Battle of Kerak". I haven't heard anybody ever referencing this, but I am convinced it is the same theme, or at least similar. I think this is really cool and underlines the futility of the war very well. Nice job, Harry Gregson-Williams! Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country It seems to me the main theme from Star Trek VI by Cliff Eidelman is based on Jerry Goldsmith's main Star Trek theme. It is modified, slower and sounds pretty different, but I do hear some similarity.

I thought I heard part of the Grail Theme in The Mummy Returns. Can't have been intentional though. Alan Silvestri is too good a composer than to put random themes of other composers in inappropriate places.

Signed all three of them. Let's hope something good comes off it. The one thing I would want to see released in the world would be proper releases of the Indiana Jones scores. The fact that none have been made so far (except arguably Raiders of the Lost Ark) is just insane.

Question about the CRs vs the OSTs: What notable music IS on the OSTs that is NOT on the CRs?

Far and Away is truly very good. Definitly my favourite not-so-well-known John Williams score.

I will not say they are better. But I WILL say I enjoy them more. Much more.

There's the truth of it. With emphasis on "far more than it needed to". He did? I found it completely and utterly boring. Really if I can almost literally fall asleep during the music for the final Voldemort scene, something must've gone wrong. Horribly wrong. OotP might be somewhat unimpressive and possibly inappropriate in places, but it does sound like Harry Potter. I don't know what GoF sounds like, but it's NOT Harry Potter.

I really like Hidalgo; I think it's a really enjoyable score.

I voted for Harry Potter. As good and impressively cohesive the Lord of the Rings scores might be, I simply do not enjoy them as much as any of the Harry Potter scores. I actually prefer Chamber of Secrets (said to be the least impressive of the Potter scores) over Return of the King (said to be the most impressive of the LotR scores). The latter is perhaps better, but I just don't like it as much.

I would love two new Harry Potter scores by John Williams; I think Harry Potter CAN'T cope without John Williams. Or at least Patrick Doyle and Nicholas Hooper both did a tremendously unimpressive job. I think there might be some other composers who might do a good job with Harry Potter (James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, perhaps even David Arnold), but the composers they are using instead of John Williams simply do not cut it. The books are brilliant and the movies deserve better. That being said, if I were forced to choose, I'd still go for Indiana Jones. It's my favourite film and score series.

I have to go for Desert Chase simply because I like the Indiana Jones films more than the Star Wars films. If I were to compare the music on its own, I couldn't choose. They're both just brilliant.

1) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 2) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 3) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

They're going to the Brazil jungle, so Amazon and Piranha's?

Wouldn't it be interesting to actually DO something with the poll results? For example: Make a poll on the quality of certain scores, then make a list somewhere with the JWFan rating of those scores? That way at least we'd get some results that actually mean something. I suppose a problem with a forum like this is that it is not focused on actually ACCHIEVING anything with each other, unlike the other forums I am a member of where we do modding for a computer game or scriptwriting or something else constructive. In many cases here there is just discussion for discussion's sake without actually going anywhere.

"Dueling the Basilisk" vs "AotC unreleased lightsaber duel music"?

I still cannot decide whether Indy 1, 2 or 3 is the best score. They're all amazingly good. I am hoping for Indy IV to be equally good.

CoS has a new final "battle" track in "Dueling the Basilisk". AotC does not. Unless one would argua that "The Arena" is, but I wouldn't agree with that.

I'll go with Temple of Doom. I like Indiana Jones better than Star Wars. And the unreleased music for ToD especially is amazing. Choral Parade of the Slave Children in the finale? COOL! Still ESB is awesome as well.