Pieter Boelen

That sounds... somewhat unbelievable, really. :?

Sound quality is the same as well?

This is a rather a hard choice to make; it is all very good. So rather than voting, I'll just try to give some very short and very unprofessional comments of my thoughts. Jeshopk - "Rattlesnake Jake Theme" Sounds like good fun and I actually found myself humming it in my head on the way to the store on day. It sounds perfect for the purpose it was written for, though perhaps not so much as actual Indiana Jones music. Very good though. Bowie - "An Excavated Affair - Love Theme" I like how there are hints of the Raiders March in the piece. Very nicely incorporated. David Vincent - "Crystal Skull Theme" Sounds mysterious and somewhat dangerous and threatening. A little bit crystally perhaps as well. Good one! Marcus - "Russian March" Sounds really quite Russian. It's not nescessarily a hummable march tune, but I can see it working very well in a scene of Soviet trucks driving through a snowy Russian landscape. Impressive. MSM - "There Will Be Adventure!" This one is really good fun and I can actually see it playing in an Indiana Jones with son on motorbike chase sequence. Perhaps a bit too cheerful for a real Indiana Jones film, but then so was Indy's Very First Adventure. It seems to be somewhat in the same vein as that cue, which can only be a good thing. In short: Good job everyone! I would very much like to hear the rest of those Indiana Jones IV fan scores. Though I know you probably won't go through the trouble of composing them, I would still like to hear it if ever you do.

Chamber of Secrets: It has some really good new music and Attack of the Clones very much lacks actual "Battle of Geonosis" music. AotC is still good though.

I'd very much like to talk to John Williams about the thoughts he put into his scores. I would be most interested to know WHY he scored his scores the way he did.

I'll vote for Bad Girls, because it's a lot of fun. There might be other good ones listed here that I've never heard, but as far as I know Bad Girls is the most fun of them all.

I am overage and don't drink either.

I have only heard the original and James Newton Howard's version, but I like JNH's more.

I'm not sure if I'm clicking the right link. The link in the first post of this thread brings me to a page where the music sounds nothing like John Williams. Are you sure it's the same notes? Completely unrecognisable.

There's a lot of old films I'd like to see one day, but it seems that hardly any of them are readily available for viewing. They're never shown on television and they don't rent them either. They're hardly available for purchase even and I don't particularly want to pay a lot of money for a film I might just want to see once. Very annoying.

I don't think anybody claimed it was. Personally I would like a good epic fantasy score by John Willams. But also a pirate score. And various other types of scores as well. John Williams adventure scores are always most welcome. But it seems we'll actually be GETTING one of those soon!

I suppose each film, even if it's bad, could generate a good score. However, a bad epic fantasy film would generate a good epic fantasy score. Many people would like that. Me included.

I know neither. Is that bad?

They could make for good scores though. That being said, I somewhat enjoy the first Narnia film, though it's obviously not of the same quality as Lord of the Rings.

I'm afraid so. Now don't get a heart attack. That'd be messy.

That'd be nice. Though I think I'd prefer Williams for Harry Potter 7 over Williams for Narnia.

I don't know if they were talking about the CDs, but I know I was. I was talking of the 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition thing.

Quality sounded good enough for me. Though I don't know what the OST sounds like.

Agreed. There really is not much of interest in the second score. Many, many boring tracks on the OST and even more boring music in the film. Really the guy was, I think, not very inspired when writing the music for that film. AWE is much better in that respect, but I don't think there's much interesting music in the film that is not on the OST. For DMC I would've liked to hear the "flying dress" scene without SFX. Actually, the theme itself isn't all that bad. Unfortunately the modern digital "beat" thing in the background truly spoils anything that might've been good about it. I like the "dramatic" part of the track with the organ when the ship is slain in half. That part actually does work pretty well. But then that part doesn't have such a notable touch as the rest of the track. Really that modern touch is lethal for both the music and the film.

I like the main theme to The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, but have not been able to get into the rest of the score for some reason.

Is this out yet? Did anybody get it? Is the sound quality improved at all? Or is it really and truly the same thing... again?

Is there anything in there that sounds like a somewhat patriottic western with nice action music? I really like Bad Girls in that respect, but I have no knowledge of any of the others, so I can't vote.

- John Williams for Harry Potter 4-6 (oh wait; I was not allows to post that!) - Basil Poledouris for The Lord of the Rings trilogy (now THERE's a good idea) - Basil Poledouris for Cutthroat Island or the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy (he is excellent at writing orchestral music and he loves sailing; that would qualify him for the job in my eyes) - Alan Silvestri for the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy (truly that would be a dream come true; that guy knows what he's doing!) - Jerry Goldsmith scores for Star Trek II, III, IV, VI and VII (just to get some consistency) - David Arnold for The Patriot and The Day After Tomorrow (he could write some good stuff for this like STargate, Independence Day and Godzilla)

Most of the music for those movies I can appreciate and enjoy and some parts I really quite like, but then some parts are also really distracting. "The Kraken" being the most obvious and hate-worthy example for me. I find that the good of the PotC scores are pretty good, some parts are even excellent, but the bad is REALLY bad. In general: It is a very uneven effort, mixing the very good with the tremendously bad. I wished Hans Zimmer would have written scores for those films with a consitently good and APPROPRIATE quality, rather than a completely varying quality and appropriateness (is that even a word?). I KNOW he can do it. He - just - WON'T- DO - it. Which makes him THE most frustrating composer... ever.

Didn't Spielberg say on the Jaws DVD that he very much knew that the exploding cylinder at the end of the film was not realistic, but he put it anyway because he felt the audience deserved to have a big pay-off? I pretty much agree with him. It works wonders and as long as you watch the film, you believe that is possible. Of course once you finished the film, you'll recognize that couldn't really happen in real life. Then next time you see the film, you'll believe it again until the film is over. As for Signs, I really don't remember much of that film. Not of the film itself and not of the score either. I never bothered to listen to the music on its own, even though I consider James Newton Howard to be one of the best composers out there and certainly one of the most productive ones at the moment. I just can't believe that I would like the score to a horror movie. Same goes for The Village, The Sixth Sense, etc. I know it is said these scores are good, but I can't see myself liking them. Obviously this is based on absolutely no facts at all; just on what I think of when I think "horror movie". The score to Jaws I do like for three reasons: 1) John Williams 2) The two-note motif works amazingly well 3) SEA-FARING AND PIRATEY MUSIC! If anybody could tell me what is there to like about James Newton Howard's horror movie scores, go right ahead and I might check them out.