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If you want scary, visit the DoD disenchantment thread. 

I haven't gotten to read all of this topic, but something for me, the answer is complicated.
 
I'm not sure WHY I like this so much, but to me it just is a beautiful snippet of music.  In Hymn to the fallen, this small snippet flutters away, but it is beautiful.
 

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/john-williams-oscars-star-wars-steven-spielberg-collaborations-1235929403/

There’s an outside chance he’s wearing a shirt with an obscene slogan on it and that’s why they won’t show him.

Wow, the audience's reponse to John Williams' name was tepid. 

My recollection (from reports here) is along those lines; that he thought it was a silly movie. However, as you say it may not be directly the movie itself, but also what he went through - the suggestions that his schedule only really allowed him to score part of the movie and Sommers ended up forcing him to write the whole score anyway. That's generally going put him in a bad mood, particularly if he thought the movie was stupid.
 
I usually come to this score first as an example of movies where a composer wrote a properly good score for a movie they thought of negatively some degree.

It's common knowledge that Goldsmith was a chromogen not unlike Bernard Herrmann.  Marco Beltrami said that Goldsmith had a chip on his shoulder that he never found his Spielberg or Lucas which I thought was a dig at JW.  This sort of stuff isn't really that big a deal because it's so common.  We tend to compare ourselves to our peers rather than to ourselves and at the top levels like these two were, it can be fiercely competitive but doesn't mean that much.  It's sort of just an emotional response but if given a moment to think more clearly on it, I think Goldsmith would refine his criticism to more of a backhanded compliment.  When JG died, his daughter published online about 50 pages of a bio she was writing about her dad.  I think the book was either never completed or the project fell through, but I read it and she quoted JG commenting on many of his contemporaries.  Again, it wasn't personal, just chromogeny comments when comparing himself to others feeling he didn't get an award someone else did for something he felt was inferior, type of thing.  So what.  Saying it doesn't make it true and isn't insightful to what he even really means.

I personally always enjoy when an orchestra is pushed to its limits. Overwhelming action is definitely my favorite, as long as it's actual crafted chaos with every part of the orchestra being represented, and not just say... loud, overworked strings, brass, and percussion with ugly, loud synths. 
 
*cough*

We do not speak of her.

He wa the guitarist for The Bangles

I just came back from the multiverse posting in the John Nagle message board where he scored Lord of the Rings and Star Trek

JNFAN.com

It ended up selling for $49,290.
 

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John is preparing an extended version of I Could Have Done More.

It's impressive how full it sounds for a string quartet.

Now that's a pairing you don't see often.

It's not this?
 

 
 

The complete recording sessions of the Main Title were a hidden bonus track on the 2-Disc '97 Special Edition set.
 
@phbart managed to piece together the correct take portions used to make the Film Version; later, I combined the best leftover bits that weren't used in the Film Version (including the original run-up, recorded on Takes 16 through 18) into two tracks for fanedits and playlists:
 

Whoever wrote that description have no idea what they're talking about...
 
 

OMG! 
 
It's real!!! 
 
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348366007074046-star-wars-john-williams-original-handwritten-music-manuscript-for-the-opening-star-wars-main-title-theme

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japanese-conductor-seiji-ozawa-dies-aged-88-nhk-2024-02-09/