Bilbo

Sacrilege! 

I don't want to hijack this thread as a discussion of the first, so I made a quick sheet noting down all the Gladiator alternates and bonus tracks I know about. There are fan-made names on YouTube but I've used the OST names where possible.
 
It all totals up to 56 minutes, although there are three tracks I'd hesitate to include (approx 13 mins total) - two being Now We Are Free remixes made for this album, and a Homecoming alternate that's so subtle that I'm not even sure what's different. Hence I reckon there are at least 43 mins of definite, solid alternate material, and just shy of an hour if you wanted to render all prior releases obsolete.
 
Of course, there's scope for this to be padded, such as including the entire opening battle to feature the alternate ending, which a producer might do with an aim of making a bonus section more listenable.
 
So we're looking at approximately four hours of music if you include the OST - hence it would fit on 3 discs, but a 4-disc set that spaces everything out a bit and perhaps adds some other bonus material we don't know about, would be great.

Nostalgia. I grew up with the prequels and have a soft spot for them. I enjoyed Kenobi despite its flaws!

The Godfather
 
I’m on a bit of a Godfather buzz at the moment. I’m nearly finished my re-read of the novel and I’m listening to Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. So I figured it was time to rewatch the movie itself. I just got my first 4k tv so I bought the 50th anniversary box set (the fancy one with the hardcover book case and clamshell and all that). Man I forgot how good this is. I’ve always put it up there as one of, if not the, best films I’ve ever seen but watching it again for the first time in years I was blown away all over again. I think it actually really zips along for a 3 hour movie. There isn’t an ounce of fat. The dialogue is superb and everybody gives an amazing acting performance. 
 
The scene where Michael talks to Kay after coming back from Sicily seems a little bit poorly edited in comparison to everything else. It feels like they didn’t have many good takes and it doesn’t sit together too well. But overall the film is a masterpiece.
 
Mean Streets
 
Never saw it before. I was pretty happy with my life before seeing this but now I know I will never be as cool as Robert De Niro walking into a bar with a girl on either arm as Jumping Jack Flash plays in the background. Really good and I think it’s the type of film that is enjoyable on a first watch but will be even more so on subsequent watches. 

The Godfather
 
I’m on a bit of a Godfather buzz at the moment. I’m nearly finished my re-read of the novel and I’m listening to Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. So I figured it was time to rewatch the movie itself. I just got my first 4k tv so I bought the 50th anniversary box set (the fancy one with the hardcover book case and clamshell and all that). Man I forgot how good this is. I’ve always put it up there as one of, if not the, best films I’ve ever seen but watching it again for the first time in years I was blown away all over again. I think it actually really zips along for a 3 hour movie. There isn’t an ounce of fat. The dialogue is superb and everybody gives an amazing acting performance. 
 
The scene where Michael talks to Kay after coming back from Sicily seems a little bit poorly edited in comparison to everything else. It feels like they didn’t have many good takes and it doesn’t sit together too well. But overall the film is a masterpiece.
 
Mean Streets
 
Never saw it before. I was pretty happy with my life before seeing this but now I know I will never be as cool as Robert De Niro walking into a bar with a girl on either arm as Jumping Jack Flash plays in the background. Really good and I think it’s the type of film that is enjoyable on a first watch but will be even more so on subsequent watches. 

The Godfather
 
I’m on a bit of a Godfather buzz at the moment. I’m nearly finished my re-read of the novel and I’m listening to Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. So I figured it was time to rewatch the movie itself. I just got my first 4k tv so I bought the 50th anniversary box set (the fancy one with the hardcover book case and clamshell and all that). Man I forgot how good this is. I’ve always put it up there as one of, if not the, best films I’ve ever seen but watching it again for the first time in years I was blown away all over again. I think it actually really zips along for a 3 hour movie. There isn’t an ounce of fat. The dialogue is superb and everybody gives an amazing acting performance. 
 
The scene where Michael talks to Kay after coming back from Sicily seems a little bit poorly edited in comparison to everything else. It feels like they didn’t have many good takes and it doesn’t sit together too well. But overall the film is a masterpiece.
 
Mean Streets
 
Never saw it before. I was pretty happy with my life before seeing this but now I know I will never be as cool as Robert De Niro walking into a bar with a girl on either arm as Jumping Jack Flash plays in the background. Really good and I think it’s the type of film that is enjoyable on a first watch but will be even more so on subsequent watches. 

That'd be The Force Awakens, somewhere in the $500 million range.

I actually saw a article that basically said "Rings of Power helped me understand/care more about things while rewatching the LOTR trilogy"

Season 2 goes something like this ...
 
Amazon: Season 2 is alot closer to the lore!
 
Also Amazon: HOBBITS IN THE DESERT AND GALADRIEL JOINS ORC ARMY

And people are enjoying this crap? 
 
I watched season 1. That was more than enough for me. Too much. 

People will tell you season two is a huge improvement.
 
It isn't. It's a little more fast-paced and that's it.

oh God

And people are enjoying this crap? 
 
I watched season 1. That was more than enough for me. Too much. 

Daa daa daa dadadadada daaa daaa
 
 

Oh that's nothing. Wait till you see how wasted Ciaran Hinds as Wizard-who-looks-like-Saruman-but-isn't is in this. Or how Galadriel gets stabbed clear through the chest and then falls a huge cliff but is okay because "Of course, Nenya tears have healing powers." which is to say nothing about how Tom Bombadil because a beat-by-beat recreation of the Yoda scenes from The Empire Strikes Back.

Tell us you're old without telling you're old. 

I hope they release a second volume that’s dripping in bad dialogue.

It's from the first score - the length is the same, give or take a few seconds and on Qobuz the title of all the other tracks is From "Gladiator II" whereas this one is From "Gladiator". There's no clean opening commercially (or otherwise) available so I wonder how that'll work.
 
Could not be a more perfect time to expand the first one....

Now that I'd see!

Let's not forget that before GLADIATOR, Crowe was a competent but journeyman actor.
Like it or not, 2 will probably make Mescal a star.

I'm disappointed that you're into stereo. What the heck is wrong with mono? The best film scores are in mono. 

No.

Since we are diving into this again: some scores play better in complete form, others in a curated form. The latter happens when the excised bits are mostly uninteresting or repetitives so all the best/essential parts of a score are what's on the OST. 
 
I did have some bad experiences with boring bootleg recording sessions in the past that made me stuck with the OST as the preferred program.
 
On the other hand, I don't think one can truly grasp what Howard Shore achieved with his Lord of the Rings movies in a condensed form. The OST for Return of the King is rather terrible. That doesn't mean that whenever I want to listen to that score I go through the entire Complete Recordings, but I'm still thankful those exist, alongside the 97 Star Wars expansions, because only with them we can appreciate the full work that went into those scores.
 
In other words: both sides of this discussion aren't entirely right or wrong all the time. And try to force this into everyone only leads to more enmity on the forum.
 
Either way, this is Drax we're talking about. He believes that he (and Justin) are the only sane and reasonable people in a world of lunatics they can't comprehend. They deem every opinion that goes against their own as the words of mad men. Take this into account whenever you're reading their posts, especially if it's on the thread of a label that produces C&C releases.

Pretty fucking weird not to want every second of John Williams' music for Star Wars if you're the kind of person who's posting on JWFan.com.  I mean, you do you; you certainly don't need my permission to be pretty fucking weird.  But... you're pretty fucking weird.
 
I am addressing the hypothetical "you," of course.