Pieter Boelen

I personally quite like James Newton Howard's action music. It always works very well in the film. One of the best examples is, I think, The Final Three from Hidalgo. You already know who is going to win the race and it wouldn't be exciting at all if it weren't for the music which makes it a very exciting scene as far as I'm concerned.

I found Peter Pan almost like a prequel to Hook. It was an enjoyable film, but nothing really impressive. The score was nice enough and I think I heard some Hookish influences every now and then. Hook is a pretty nice film with an absolutely amazing score.

Personally I would welcome any Episode II version that contains the music that DID leak out along with a couple of DVD rips of the most important scenes.

Do I really post that often in MV related threads? That's not good. I have no real interest in MV music, except for a bit of interest in PotC. My main interest goes to full orchestral scores, preferrably composed by John Williams and other truly great composers. Apparently I should pay a bit more attention to what threads I post in.

I am officially confused here. I have no interest in bland modern underscore. It's just PotC 1 I like. At one point in the past I liked it a lot, but my opinion on this score has been put firmly into perspective as soon as I heard Cutthroat Island. PotC is OK-ish in an enjoyable kind of way, but nothing really more than that. I highly prefer proper orchestral scores, though I still like the first PotC score, for which you will just have to forgive me. :oops:

That's a shame. I still don't have any extended Episode II version and I really do want at least one.

Nice!

I have once posted a list of a whole bunch of things that are just plain crazy. In general I think they have put a lot of unimportant things into the film and took a lot of important ones. I just had way too many "what the HECK" moments during PoA to consider it the best film. As far as I'm concerned it's John Williams' score that saved the film, which is the single reason why I still consider it a reasonably good film.

I would personally have preferred it if the film was two hours LONGER, but that's just me. As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't too long at all, although I do understand why other people would consider it too long.

As far as I'm concerned: PoA looks very good and the music is amazing, but story-wise it's entirely messed up.

The first PotC was one of the best films I have seen in recent times and I like it a lot. I like just about everything about the first PotC, even the score, though I admit the music isn't the best. DMC is a worthy sequel as far as I'm concerned. Not at all as brilliant as the first film, but a pretty good sequel nonetheless. I'm very much looking forward to part 3.

He does tend to use a lot of choir, even when it isn't really required for the scene in the film. It does always sound great, though.

He's cool as far as I'm concerned. He wrote Cutthroat Island for crying out loud! How can anyone write Cutthroat Island and not be cool? Also I consider being a "nice guy" one of the main reasons for a person to be cool. As far as I'm concerned people who are not nice guys (or gals) can never be cool.

I could upload the file when I have the time, but at the moment I don't have much time at all. If Damo wants me to upload the file, I'll do so as soon as I can find some time to do it.

Personally I don't consider "pop stars" cool at all. My idea of cool is not "driving a nice car" or "getting angry quickly" or "being a pain to work with". I personally find it truly cool if a person is humble, kind, talented, well-spoken, intelligent, etc. John Williams is all of that, therefore he is seriously very cool indeed in my book. Or "sub-zero" as is the apparent term for that in this thread. I seem to be too late to actually vote here, but my vote would've gone for "sub-zero" beyond any doubt. As far as I am concerned, John Williams is about the coolest film music composer that I've ever heard of. And that is actually because of the reasons mentioned above why he would not be cool.

Yes, it does. I have seen that same issue before and it does cause trouble for some people. I have the luck that I can open it, even though it is weird, but it might explain why some other people have trouble with it.

I did manage to open the file with WinZip, but I did find that it was zipped weirdly. It included a lot of small files in some sort of MAC_OS subfolder. Way weird. :?

Nice! I'll be looking forward to it. Or hearing forward to it. 8O

Definitly my favourite Horner score. What are westerns scored by Jerry Goldsmith? I do have Bad Girls but I don't know of any other westerns by Jerry Goldsmith.

You can find extended versions quite easily on Soulseek. That's where I found some versions. I could upload them for you, but that would take quite a while, so I think it'd work quicker if you just get them yourself.

There is an SFX-less expanded version, but it doesn't have much new music and might have been made based on a DVD rip as well. I don't think it's in the proper movie order either.

There's at least one person here who is interested. I always liked the music. It might not be brilliant, but I find it quite nice anyway. Is there much SFX in there?

I personally don't really like the added percussion to the tracks. I can hear the rest of the music much better without the percussion. So when I'm going to make a special edition out of this again, I want to use as much percussion-less tracks. Is it possible to have Boys Into Battle without percussion? Like on the album track?

Could you please make an extended album version of Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith? I want that track with all the missing music put back in place, but I always fail when I try to make it myself. And every other version I downloaded so far has added war drums and/or is missing the piece of music merging the Main Title with the rest of the music.

If you like them, feel free to use them for your own edits as well. If you want I can change the text on the cover for you. Maybe replace "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" with "Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack"? Perhaps add some text that you made the edit? I have been unable to find the picture of Anakin and Padmé embracing in a reasonably resolution, so I couldn't use that. I'm not sure it would fit with the other covers either. But if anyone finds that picture in a reasonably high resolution, I might have a go at it for you. Has anyone listened to my Special Edition edit? Or is anyone else interested? I would most appreciate some comments on my work; I want to be able to make a better version, but I can't as long as I don't get any comments. A question to all people doing music editing: Which programs do you use? I used Sony Sound Forge 7.0 for this edit. But I don't really find that a very good program to use. Does a program exist where you can edit your edits easily? The way I do it, I simply do a mix with the next cue, but that way, when I want to improve the edit, I have to do it all over again. Is there some better way?