Mr. Who

I think there’s too much focus on that she’s a woman. She’s just a composer.

It’s not like there’s some high bar to clear.  There have been plenty of mediocre-to-shitty superhero scores.  I hope this score is good, but if it’s not it’s not really evidence of anything larger.

Mrs. Pilgrim was going to listen to it at work today - just got this in a text from her.
 

This is good news. I hope LLL will release the Barry bond scores in the future!

All this Junkie XL talk... did anyone read anywhere that he is scoring it? I know that he’s working on the Cameron producers Battle angel movie.

The suite everyone's been waiting for!
 
 

Not to cause trouble, but I'm going to say it anyway. I really, really don't understand why people are loving this new track so much. As a JW concert arrangement, it's just bad. Reading between the lines of other topics, I distinctly get the impression that most people are determined to love it because it's written by JW, not because it's anything special. That's sad. Someone claimed it was the best he had written since Hedwig's Theme. There's a limit.

Oh god fucking help us.

I think people are just paranoid Giacchino will one day take over the world and enslave us all.

That’s the official story. He might have been fired.

Successful Composer Tip #1: Turn down immensely popular and successful franchise films offered to you if a composer was previously rejected...

So...who wants to start a JPfan forum with me?

They both wrote some amazing music for that movie.

I'm reading up on this topic and just want to say this:
1. I keep hearing about JW being unhappy with Rogue One. So was I, but I didn't go and interfere. Why is it so relevant to anyone what JW thinks about Rogue One? He didn't score it! It's not his assignment. He could hae done it, though, but chose not to.
2. Why would anyone want to 'collaborate' with Powell? Powell is extremely capable and talented, why can't they just let him do his thing? Can we please either have Williams scoring these movies, or someone else?

A composer having himself 'several new themes' written by another - and that's the official version - and getting 'help' spotting the picture may sound like a brilliant idea to people for whom Star Wars and Williams is everything, for me it sounds like i'm getting diluted Powell writing around not only Williams' old stuff but his new stuff, too! 

I'm sorry, but can we get away from interviewers saying stuff like 'greatest thematic material ever written for film' and similar over exaggerations when all you're trying to say is that JW is pretty cool, and following him isn't the easiest scoring gig.
 
It's so cringeworthy watching either the composer himself sitting there having a Jack Horner-Spielberg moment, or another composer being reminded that their task was doomed the moment they accepted it because they're following JW.

I disagree. I think the 2049 score is very good. The atmosphere it creates is incredible.

DC should probably just consider giving up at this point....

Well, not using Cap's theme makes perfect sense in the context of this film actually (and Civil War). But I can't discuss it further without spoilers.
 
Karol

I have seen the movie and I like the score! It's just a shame that Silvestri didn't use the character themes from the other movies. Iron Man's scenes would have been great with Djawadi's or Tyler's theme, Cap's theme from first avenger or Winter soldier would have been great in the Wakanda scenes, Thor's theme from thor 1 or 2 and the Guardians theme would have been cool as well. Otherwise the score is very good!
 
Btw, does anyone know the difference between the extended tracks and the regular versions of those extended tracks?

I have seen the movie and I like the score! It's just a shame that Silvestri didn't use the character themes from the other movies. Iron Man's scenes would have been great with Djawadi's or Tyler's theme, Cap's theme from first avenger or Winter soldier would have been great in the Wakanda scenes, Thor's theme from thor 1 or 2 and the Guardians theme would have been cool as well. Otherwise the score is very good!
 
Btw, does anyone know the difference between the extended tracks and the regular versions of those extended tracks?

Dead Sparrow
 
Music by James Newton Howard

Dunkirk
Interstellar
Titanic
 
 

No I meant the guy who runs the Soundtrack Memes Twitter page holds a grudge.