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I'm with you on this

That's cool. Would you buy the new CD if it was what you wanted? I kind of given up feeding more money to the Lucas Machine.

Well, people who say stuff like that don't know shit, bombastic??? WTF??? If the scene calls for it yeah, sure but it's not like the guy chooses one chord and hits it until we are bored to tears. There is sophistication . thought and complexity about what he does, even in his.... oh hell All who talk crap about the guy just listen to the battle of Hoth and S**t the f**h up!

fair enough, I personally thought it was a good release that sounded better than the original. I have to say, I'm not a purist (and please, I mean this on the most respectful way for those who are) and I thought the release was pretty good. I did hear the edits you mentioned though. But didn't infuriated me

Very simple, Williams: 300 hundred years of musical orchestral evolution, being respectfully studied and evolved with own style via complex musicality, respect for complex integrity. Modern composers: Hans Zimmer Wannabe’s-Mac-Logic-east West-Hollywood Strings driven unable to anti-gravitate from one key moronic composers. I rest my case. Write shit music??

Hold on...didn't they release the whole thing on a two CD super duper release, why another one???

MG keeps letting me down. Star Trek was THE most disappointing score of my lifetime as a filmscoring fan, Cars 2 was not very good, Super 8 was just OK...hmmmm still waiting to be blown away by the guy...

Crappola, sorry I don't elaborate but even this one word review is too much for it. Avoid.

really??? the guy is terrible... Why you think so? I thought Timeline is a great score. His more techno-style output isn't exactly my taste though. Btw, I am not in bad company, as JW suggested him for the Donner movie. Well, Day after tomorrow (forgive me if he didn't do it) was really bad, same for battle for LA. John suggested him?? Really surprised. He even has a YouTube video where loads of the orchestra/Choir isn't even there, blatantly a promotional playback . I don't know . He doesn't feel like the real deal to me. He most definitely doesn’t belong on the list you compiled, again mho. With Steiner? Williams? Goldsmith? These guys were/are giants!!!

We are on a JW forum aren't we?? I voted, way and above another Hans wannabe, yawn worthy, virtual flopchestra, electro plasticola composer our there. Since Jerry passed away John has no one to be compared with. Over and out really??? the guy is terrible...

No more Superman movies....please....this one will be a miss for me

HA hAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA , Hilarious you guys have finally lost your mind Boua haaa haaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA H hAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm sorry no really....seriously??? The one note guy for Batman The Dark Night???? Really??? The one big brass block chord at inception??? I mean really, you compare him to Mozart??? These two names should never NEVEE be typed at the same sentence. But, thanks, I haven't laughed so much in a loooong time, cheers mate!!

Well, let's see, If by chance you went by John's house and you saw James Horner's car parked outside, heard bottles of wine opening indicating a drunken night, the sound of Pirates of The Caribbean blearing out and James and John pissing them selves laughing at the ridiculously idiotic score, then yes, he did watch it. Other wise, NO. Williams is too busy 99% of his time and wouldn’t spent his 1% listening and watching a film that would unjared him with synth based crappy music. My 2 cents. That isn’t going to happen

Too bad Shawn Murphy makes them sound like 2 XD

I am so really sorry in advance for this but, *ahem* HAVE YOU LOST YOU F***ING MIND????????????????????? Powell has 10% of John's talent and 4% of his knowledge HELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO???????????????????????????????? Reality check PLEASE!

The last Pirate was nothing more than a joke of a score, I thought HP with hooper was the point when film music hit rock bottom. Well...I was wrong. I have to admit, it would be fun to hear it though

Agreed, this is what Williams does best. Themes. Catchy, simple but with complex integrity.

I have The Empire Strikes Back on 2 vinyl & a CD and ET on two CDs and 4 LPs (one of them is a picture disc) All of the rest are single purchases.

Let me see, it doesn't contain the following chords: Am,F,C,E. Also no taiko drums and super bass synths...yeap, it's weak

Agreed, but I was never really blown away by his work. Just my opinion.

He is OK, nothing incredible about his writing, but he is not terrible either. His work for the last 2 HP movies was OK. I was happy to not been jarred out of the film by some terrible Hooper music.

Nope, terrible idea. The CG dinosaurs are the best to date. The Animatronic dinosaurs had glitches but to me that's part of the film's charm. It was what it was, just leave it.

Why is that surprising? A lot of John Williams OST's have really bad edits in them, the Phantom Menace being the biggest culprit. It's also atrocious to what they did at the end of "It Can't Be" (Anakin's Dark Deeds on the OST) for Revenge Of The Sith. You're right about the track you mentioned. But in this case I was talking about bad edits from a technical standpoint. An audio edit can create a click if the two audio files that are meant to be put together aren't cross faded. Definitely I've always noticed a 'click' in The Battle from Gladiator where two sections have been joined and the editor has made no effort to crossfade them. In this case, I hear all the clicks and none of them sound to me like a bad edit. I think they're either something very weird/clear in the orchestra or a digital artefact of some sort. A good clue that something is an edit is that some instrument in the mix suddenly stops/starts or its 'vibe' changes suddenly. Either caused by two separate cues being joined (hence different instruments) or two different takes where the player does something slightly different. On a casual listen to this cue I don't hear any of them. Now the 'uck' - that's just strange. Doesn't sound like it is related to anything else, just 'pops' in and out again. Well, I would love to agree, but, this is a high level orchestral production at a multimillion recording studio and such noticeable clicks are not really right. In addition they could be eliminated in the mastering process. The 'pops' can be seen when you open and stretch a file and then ironed out. It's a simple procedure. I really think they didn't check it properly. And yes you are right about edits, you can hear room sound changes when two files are stuck together, even though nowadays things have improved hugely to try and avoid signs that give edits away. But as I said, it's more of an observation than a complaint. I can live with it, no problems.

Did anyone think that the orchestra was about to break into a 'Yoda's Theme' ala Empire Strikes Back on 'The Return To Marlinspike Hall And Finale'?? (3:20) Damn, this is a GREAT score. Sounds better every time I hear it!!

Why is that surprising? A lot of John Williams OST's have really bad edits in them, the Phantom Menace being the biggest culprit. It's also atrocious to what they did at the end of "It Can't Be" (Anakin's Dark Deeds on the OST) for Revenge Of The Sith. You're right about the track you mentioned. But in this case I was talking about bad edits from a technical standpoint. An audio edit can create a click if the two audio files that are meant to be put together aren't cross faded. In this case we maybe have a reference master that wasn't supposed to hit the market, or they just made a mistake and due to lack of time they didn't manage to hear it.