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  1. I've always thought Adventures of Han was closer to Silvestri's Back to the Future theme. They both have the same triumphant, swashbuckling swagger to them.
  2. Luca sounds like a good project for Giacchino to score.
  3. All the SWORD stuff is just tired self-parody at this point - more anonymous government taskforces up to their usual business. I think like Quintus, I was drawn into this show because it offered a different premise to the standard Marvel fare. Haven't we got to the point now, after a decade of the MCU, that all this pomp and circumstance of superheroes (not just in Marvel) is just retreading old ground? Even the anti-hero entertainment is dragging perilously close to that line of becoming just as mainstream and omnipresent as the regular superhero crap. The way the MCU operates now is that you must digest all the content prior to viewing the new shows otherwise it's all meaningless. Easter eggs and all those hidden things are what this entire enterprise has been based on, nothing more than self-referencing and allusions to the rest of the universe to suggest something bigger than it really is.
  4. JW: Cassette sales are down honey, I don't think we can make it another winter if they don't improve. We might have to let the music box release slide this year and hope to god vinyl pulls us through...
  5. When Monica breaks through the barrier and later does that superhero force smash, I think I then was awoken to the fact that this is eventually returning to the rest of the MCU shenanigans and tired superhero dreck.
  6. Now that Agnes is out of the bag, I can say I loved seeing her reveal, especially in her Haunted HouseTM replete with spooky trees and a magic spellbook hidden in her basement.
  7. Just realised this ascending figure, first appearing in Fleeing Kijimi (0:10 - 0:14) makes another return later on: Then again under Ren's transformation to Ben in Parents (1:24 - 1:28) then again, more hurried at 1:34 - 1:41:
  8. Someone showed me the trailer yesterday, all hyped that this was finally coming... ...needless to say, I thought it looked like one giant pile of shit, like it was a convincing AAA video game trailer. Shots of Cyborg so close-up are disturbingly poor in their execution and make him look more fake than he did the first time. I mean look at this crap - it's pre Iron Man 2008, it's worse than that; it's something from before Transformers!
  9. I wouldn't say Tomorrowland or John Carter are bad films, just undercooked and in both films there are genuinely good ideas that for one reason or another didn't play out the way they could've. Jupiter Ascending is just gibberish. The Last Airbender has a phenomenal score to an atrocious film - it's insane the disparity between the two and it makes me weep to think that such a great score was wasted on that awful adaptation.
  10. Let's say Abrams temped the film with these tracks from Battlefront, I doubt Williams would've stuck to it to such a degree as to almost plagiarize Haab. The more likely answer seems to be both composers are writing in a similar style, besides are any of those examples original to how Williams' has written for the series before?
  11. There's a lot of charm in Order of the Phoenix and it's always unfavorably compared to the efforts of the last two composers, which is somewhat unfair. My appreciation for Hooper's scores has grown over the years. Doyle's score is sublime - it's big from start to finish which I think reflects the drama of the Tournament and the feel of that film so well. I'd love an expansion of that score! Desplat's scores sort of continue from where Hooper left. They both have their moments but feel somewhat diminished in size and impact for the final chapters of a film series. There's some tonal clashes here and there where they track in re-recorded Williams' themes that stick out instead of blend in comfortably.
  12. Prisoner of Azkaban. Brilliant score, but better listening experience on the OST.
  13. There most definitely is, as much as I like Manakin's edit, it won't be nearly as comprehensive and as clean as a proper MM release would be. Same goes for any official expanded release coming from MM... The only time I've been fine with a fan edit was the awesome SonicAdventure masters of the Harry Potter sessions leaks almost a decade ago.
  14. R E V E N G E o f t h e S I T H As of now, we've waited longer than Sirius Black was imprisoned in Azkaban...
  15. My earliest memories of starting to like film music: - The Wizard of Oz, specifically The Wicked Witch of the West's Theme - The Imperial March - Jurassic Park However, my entry into liking soundtracks started with The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time back in 1999/2000. Ironically, as much as that was influential in determining the tastes of music to come, I don't own or listen to that anymore. My first soundtrack CD was a gift - it was either The Phantom Menace or The Fellowship of the Ring.
  16. Available on 'streaming, vinyl and cassette' Uh... ...Cassette?
  17. The Last Jedi - I counted fifty thousand statements of the Force Theme, appearing in almost every track on the album.
  18. 2021 still no Star Wars, still no Indiana Jones... They said 2020 was the year from hell. At this rate I'm going to be living in some retirement home fifty years from now and my grandson will be talking about how Star Wars is getting yet another vinyl release and no complete scores...
  19. I haven't seen this film in a long time, mainly because it's four fricken hours long. I don't think it's a masterpiece but it definitely ain't the steaming pile of Kong shit I've seen woke critics and buzzfeed journalists claim it is. I loved it back when I saw it in theaters, I think we were all jazzed to see (what was at the time) an amazing CGI creation Kong was and I remember being so confident in PJ after LotR and was so compelled by the trailer.
  20. So Quicksilver is the same from X-Men films or is this the same actor playing the character from the MCU?
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