Arpy

I prefer the tracking there.  The brass chorale Hogwarts Forever is a bit too "odd" (a bit like the unused statement from Hagrid Breaks the Door)

I'm glad to see the response has been largely unanimous across the board, and I must say I feel disappointed for Whittaker. 
 
Bring on Michael Sheen!

Only a few weeks left to vote! (Deadline: 15 August 2:59 pm PDT)
 
See the longlist below and vote on your favourite film score. Also feel free to check out our Spotify playlist here.
A Quiet Place Part II - Marco Beltrami Ammonite - Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann An American Pickle - Michael Giacchino & Nami Melumad Antebellum - Nate Wonder & Roman Giannarthur Army of the Dead - Thomas Holkenborg Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - Christopher Lennertz, Dara Taylor Below Zero - Zacarias M. de la Riva Breaking News in Yuba County - Jeff Beal Camellia Sisters - Christopher Wong, Ian Rees & Garrett Crosby Chaos Walking - Marco Beltrami & Brandon Roberts Clouds - Brian Tyler Come Away - John Debney Coming 2 America - Jermaine Stegall Cruella - Nicholas Britell David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Steven Price Den største forbrytelsen/Betrayed - Johan Söderqvist El Verano Que Vivimos - Federico Jusid Emily and the Magical Journey - Joe Kraemer Enola Holmes - Daniel Pemberton Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - Atli Örvarsson Explota Explota - Roque Baños Fanny Lye Deliver'd - Thomas Clay Fearless - Anne-Kathrin Dern Finding 'Ohana - Joseph Trapanese Flora & Ulysses - Jake Monaco Godmothered - Rachel Portman Godzilla vs. Kong - Tom Holkenborg Hillbilly Elegy - Hans Zimmer & David Fleming His House - Roque Baños Honeydew - John Mehrmann I Liviatani (Cattive Attitudini) - Susan Di Bona & Salvatore Sangiovanni Il grande passo - Pino Donaggio Jakob's Wife - Tara Busch Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13 - Ralf Wengenmayr Jinge Jangle: A Christmas Journey - John Debney Judas and the Black Messiah - Mark Isham & Craig Harris Jungleland - Lorne Balfe Justice Society: World War II - Kevin Riepl L'aventure des Marguerite - Jerome Rebotier Love and Monsters - Marco Beltrami & Brandon Roberts Manipulated - Scott Glasgow Mank - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Minari - Emile Mosseri Mortal Kombat - Benjamin Wallfisch Mulan - Harry Gregson-Williams My Octopus Teacher - Kevin Smuts News of the World - James Newton Howard Nobody - David Buckley One Night in Miami - Terence Blanchard Origenes Secretos - Federico Jusid Over the Moon - Steven Price Paper Lives - Ömer Özgür Pieces of a Woman - Howard Shore Promising Young Woman - Anthony Willis Raya and the Last Dragon - James Newton Howard Rebecca - Clint Mansell Rising Phoenix - Daniel Pemberton Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I - The Final - Naoki Sato SAS: Red Notice - Benji Merrison Silver Skates - Guy Farley Soul - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste Sound of Metal - Abraham Marder & Nicolas Becker Spirit Untamed - Amie Doherty Standy by Me Doraemon 2 - Naoki Sato Tenet - Ludwig Göransson The Claus Family - Anne-Kathrin Dern The Courier - Abel Korzeniowski The Dig - Stefan Gregory The Empty Man - Christopher Young & Lustmord The Glorias - Elliot Goldenthal The Last Vermeer - Johan Söderqvist The Last Warrior: Root of Evil - George Kallis The Life Ahead - Gabriel Yared The Little Things - Thomas Newman The Mauritanian - Tom Hodge The Midnight Sky - Alexandre Desplat The Mitchells vs. The Machines - Mark Mothersbaugh The One and Only Ivan - Craig Armstrong The Reason I Jump - Nainita Desai The Reckoning - Christopher Drake The Secret Garden - Dario Marianelli The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Daniel Pemberton The United States vs. Billie Holiday - Kris Bowers The United Way - George Fenton The Water Man - Peter Baert The Witches - Alan Silvestri The Woman in the Window - Danny Elfman Things Heard & Seen - Peter Raeburn Those Who Wish Me Dead - Brian Tyler Thunder Force - Fil Eisler To Olivia - Debbie Wiseman Tom & Jerry - Christopher Lennertz Twist - Neil Athale Two by Two: Overboard! - Eimear Noone & Craig Stuart Garfinkle Unbelievable!!!!! - Gerald Fried Wild Mountain Thyme - Amelia Warner Wolfwalkers - Bruno Coulais Wonder Woman 1984 - Hans Zimmer Wrath of Man - Christopher Benstead Zack Snyder's Justice League - Thomas Holkenborg

My favorite sci-fi scores that have that "huge outer space adventure" type feel
David Arnold's Stargate Alexandre Desplat's Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets Michael Giacchino's John Carter Michael Giacchino's Jupiter Ascending Jerry Goldsmith's Alien Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion Picture James Horner's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan James Horner's Aliens Basil Poledouris' Starship Troopers Craig Safan's The Last Starfighter Lalo Schifrin's Earth Star Voyager Eric Serra's The Fifth Element John Williams' Star Wars (all of em)  
My favorite sci-fi scores that have that "sci-fi stuff happening on an alternate/future earth or other planet" type feel
David Arnold's Independence Day Don Davis' The Matrix (all of em) Michael Giacchino's Super 8 Michael Giacchino's Tomorrowland Jerry Goldsmith's Planet of the Apes Jerry Goldsmith's Twilight Zone: The Movie Jerry Goldsmith's Total Recall James Newton Howard's Waterworld James Newton Howard's Signs Alal Silvestri's Back To The Future (all of em) Alan Silvestri's Predator Alan Silvestri's The Abyss Alan Silvestri's Contact John Williams' Close Encounters of the Third Kind John Williams' Jurassic Park John Williams' The Lost World John Williams' A.I. Artificial Intelligence

I can verify that they do.

Having just finished my first full viewing of TNG, there's a great deal more to it than the Borg episodes - and some of those are quite silly (Lore reprogramming some Borg who were separated from the Collective).
 
Anyway, here's some things I took note of after watching TNG:
- While Wesley Crusher is a fan favourite to hate on, I thought his character grew in places but the ending of his arc was completely botched. Instead of simply having him drop out of Starfleet to start his own life as a 24th Century Elon Musk, they inflated his ego bu making him a 'chosen one' to travel on different planes of existence with The Traveler. GTFO.
 
- In Sub Rosa, the episode where Beverly fucks an alien ghost, they ignore the Prime Directive and instead of electing to help it find a new planet to survive, they shoot it with a phaser??!! What the fuck?! Upon further investigation I found this episode was ranked among many 'Worst Episode' lists. 
 
- I love Picard, Data, and Worf's character development throughout all of the 7 seasons - seeing Picard slowly open up made some mundane episodes great. It's also a shame some of that development was crammed into the last 2/3 seasons.
 
- Working together to solve problems=TNG. I love how each member of the main crew is given a problem and through a chain of problem-solving, testing hypotheses and being put in demanding situations they are able to save the day. Discovery by comparison sadly lacks this major component of what I believe makes Star Trek what it is.
 
- Ensign Ro was the sexiest character in both her roles on the show and I think it's a shame she didn't want to return for DS9. Her last episode was a surprisingly good send-off and cemented some of my feelings about Starfleet and the Federation as assholes, especially in s6 and 7. With her addition to the crew they were able to establish the Bajorans and Cardassians, fleshing out the world bit by bit beyond simple border disputes.
 
- Riker is an On Again/Off Again asshole. Sometimes he can be understanding, empathetic, emotional. Other times he's got a stick up his ass that makes no sense in certain situations. Whilst I liked the idea of his clone in one episode, I couldn't decide who was worse.
 
- What's up with Troi's accent? No other relation of hers has the same weird accent...
 
- There's a great mystery episode in one of the later seasons where humans, Klingons, Cardassians (and Romulans I think) work together to solve an ancient mystery locked away in human DNA. The mystery was great up until the ending where instead of teasing a greater and still yet unanswered mystery, they just explain it away like they ran out of time. 
Which brings me to one of my greatest problems with the show: Deus Ex Machina and too little, too late. Interesting stories that go nowhere, or are wrapped up with no further questions. Urgh! 
 
 
 
There's more stuff I've jotted down somewhere, I just can't be bothered to find it.
 
Picard feels like today's ethics and values transplanted into the world of Trek and the two don't mesh and instead comes across as an obvious appeal to modern audiences. Despite TNG being written in the late eighties/early nineties I never got the impression the characters or messages were of that particular time and I think that's what Roddenberry wanted.
 
I don't have an issue with swearing, but it was incredibly off-putting and out of place.

Did anybody on JWFan buy this new physical edition of the OST album, and if so, have you received it yet, and if so, do you have any commentary on the packaging?

And publish the CRs too because just reading about music we can't listen to will be infuriating. Or not being able to read about music he didn't write about that gets released later.

It's real damn fun but I wouldn't quite say that.

Doug Fake confirms its.. THE CALL OF THE WILD

6/27/2021

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/sc.13/category.60330/.f

Be here this Tuesday and consider ordering Intrada’s new CD of John Powell’s absolutely splendid score for 20th Century Studios’ The Call Of The Wild, starring Harrison Ford. Powell melds outdoor splendor with rousing excitement in this evocative telling of Jack London’s famed canine classic. On a totally random note, my movie viewing these last few days included Last Train From Gun Hill, a 1959 feature now available as part of the Paramount Presents line of Blu-ray titles. John Sturges directs, Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn star, albeit Earl Holliman and Carolyn Jones offer equally superb performances in their secondary roles. Viewers get Sturges helming a western that’s lean and mean. Takes no prisoners, literally. Sturges focuses on the core story of justice and revenge and never strays. Socko! Dimitri Tiomkin provides the propulsive score, fashioned in his busy and frenzied signature style, replete with a vast array of solo colors set within his dynamic orchestra. Watch this one for the players, the western action, the solid story (by Les Crutchfield), that terrific Tiomkin score - or for a great example of John Sturges, just following up on his legendary Gunfight At The O.K. Corral with Douglas this time playing alongside Burt Lancaster, boasting another landmark Tiomkin score. And of course, the following year after Gun Hill, Sturges gave the world his incomparable The Magnificent Seven, with an equally incomparable score by Elmer Bernstein. John Powell’s flavorful The Call Of The Wild fits in comfortably with those prior classics! Check out the contents, artwork and sound samples this Monday eve and add this one to your film music library!

Murray Gold's Doctor Who comes to mind, over ten years of thematic writing. Not all of it was handled brilliantly, especially in post, but there is a nice catalog of themes and motifs to explore.
 
 

Confirmed by Roger:
 
 
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8744

Murray Gold's Doctor Who comes to mind, over ten years of thematic writing. Not all of it was handled brilliantly, especially in post, but there is a nice catalog of themes and motifs to explore.
 
 

Murray Gold's Doctor Who comes to mind, over ten years of thematic writing. Not all of it was handled brilliantly, especially in post, but there is a nice catalog of themes and motifs to explore.
 
 

How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

Just wanted to bump this thread up because I've been listening to various tracks from this lately and I just love it so much.

This is easily one of my favorite catalog expansions to come out in recent years.  Minor quibbles with how the opening music is presented aside, this is such a wonderful presentation of a great score in stunning sound quality.  Powell just hit a high water mark here with this score and few scores anyone's made since can match it's combination of memorable themes, joyous exuberance, and emotional weight.

Great work from everyone involved here

Shipping update from Amazon says September. Fuck.

I love that Powell’s 3 HTTYD scores came out at the very beginning, very middle, and [nearly] very end of the decade. Nice consistent presence

HP4 HP4 HP4! GIVE US HP4 HP4 HP4 HP4! Well it's worth a try.

LotR has many great themes and motifs, sorry they didn't resonate with you. 

Some rando on the internet has the audacity to trash Shore's greatest scores? No apology will be issued. My words are final.

LotR has many great themes and motifs, sorry they didn't resonate with you. 

I don't care what this film looks like, only if Williams will be around to score it. 

LotR has many great themes and motifs, sorry they didn't resonate with you. 

LotR has many great themes and motifs, sorry they didn't resonate with you.