Smaug The Iron

Beautifully summed up. The entire cue is utter perfection. It feels like the most polished, most refined and best performed cue in the entire score. Probably of any score he's written in over a decade. Something just "clicks" with this piece, in a perfect combination of direction, visuals and music, yet it also stands alone as an incredible piece outside the film itself (like all great music does).

All of it's great, from the funereal, split-third brass choir underscoring Leia's quiet resignation; to the diaphanous, chromatic passage as Luke emerges from the shadows; to the tender medley of Ben & Luke & Leia & Hans' themes for the reunion; and finally that insistent, Adams-ian scale-up as Luke walks out to face the dragon.

It fits the movie perfectly and is a great listen full of familiar and new tunes.
Mysterious opening
Luke and Leia
Han Solo and the Princess (as Luke gives Leia the dice)
and then that ending I think we all love as Luke steps out onto the battlefield.

As both a combination of film and image and a standalone cue, it's a knock out (if Luke could kill, he probably will...).
 
 
I can't be the only one who sees it as a natural development of the Jedi Steps theme (which is in itself a sly evocation of Vader's theme). It's as if Williams is observing that in his final act of mastery, Luke has now fully integrated his own shadow with his self into a well-functioning whole, though a process of individuation. This process has been mediated by his soul-image or anima, in the form of Yoda (and to some extent Rey), the spiritual middle-man between his conscious and unconscious. His tainted family history (Vader) and youthful rebellion has been reconciled with his noble Jedi ideals. The dark now at one with the light.
 
That's my bit of cod Jung for the day.

It's better than bad! It's good!

As far as bringing back an older theme in this score...man, did Williams take the ball, chew it out, then pimp slap it out of the park. The reprise of Luke and Leia is so tender, yet also carries this certain tension that smacks me right in the heart.
 
The ostinato thing feels very strange for John Williams to do in a Star Wars movie, but I think it works.

I love it, especially the little hint of Darth Vader's theme that never quiiiiiite develops.

I think it's great!

It's great!

The Harry Potter Children's Suite is essentially Williams' take on a kind of "young person's guide to the orchestra".
 
It is as masterful as it is colorful, and is about as far removed from a "sketch" as you can get. On the contrary, it represents ways of developing the musical material even further, all the while exploring the orchestra in delightful detail. 

I debated whether I should start a new thread for this, figured it was alright in the end:
 
 

Just tried to listen to the Spotify version on my way home. Couldn't get through track 1. The distortion during the Ringwraith music is horrible

I'm with you to some extent.  My overall response to KOTCS was disappointment, but that's mainly to do with my love for the "trilogy" and how expectations that high are bound to fall.  I found a lot of stuff to still enjoy in it.  The entire first sequence (up to and INCLUDING the nuke/fridge moment, sorry all) was the kind of thing I wanted out of an Indy movie set in that time period, to be honest.  I enjoyed the Indy/Mutt and Marian stuff.  I still haven't given it a second watch, but on the Prequel Disappointment Scale, to me it was not the disaster that the SW prequels were, but probably more on par with the mediocrity of The Hobbit movies.

What I’m looking forward to most of all with Indy 5 (apart from the score) is the fun of an adventure where things happen in a way that’s plausible in the real world. When Iron Man gets slammed into the ground, Stark doesn’t black out or break any bones. Nothing in his suit ever really breaks. When office buildings come crashing down, the camera is always just following five or six random people (always featuring the Attractive White Female) scrambling to safety; every time the next installment comes out, the heroes’ tech is bigger and better looking, but what for? Nothing is ever at stake and nothing ever seems to change by the time you’re done watching it 165 minutes later. At least indy 4 showed you something new, or at least strung together a series of setpieces that added up to something unique. And, if spielberg gets it right, we’ll get to appreciate how despairingly rare that is a couple summers from now.

Nuke Town is the best part of the movie, it's legitimately good and... bizarre.

I’m with mstrox on this one. The flying fridge was clever and it was inventive. It was FUN to watch, not least because it was rooted somewhat in the realm of plausibility. And when the fridge finally came to a stop, it was banged-up and dirty. And when indy came tumbling out, he actually looked like he took a painful ride in a fridge, FFS. You could actually believe it happened.

I agree. The first half of that movie really isnt bad. 

And it's here! I've waited 84 6 years for this moment!
Technically, I now have my first own Bluray disc ever. I once won a PS4 game on a raffle and immediately sold it to a friend, so that doesn't count.

1. Main Title
2. Main Title
3. Main Title
4. Main Title
5. Main Title
6. Main Title
7. Main Title
8. Main Title
9. Main Title
10. Main Title
11. Main Title
12. Main Title
13. Main Title
14. Main Title
15. Main Title
16. Main Title
17. Main Title
18. Main Title
19. Main Title
20. Prelude and Main Title
21. Main Title
22. End Cast 
23. End Title/End Credits 
24. End Title
25. End Title
26. End Cast
27. End Credits
28. Finale
29. Finale/End Title
30. Finale
31. End Title
32. End Title and End Cast
33. Finale
34. Finale
35. End Title
36. Finale
37. End Cast
38. End Title
39. End Title
40. End Title
 
I'll finish this later.

Off the top of your head, quick! I want the Top 100, but if this is too much work for you, just give me the Top 20 or 30 or 50 or however many you are willing. Go!
 
1. Abandoned in the Woods
2. Aunt Marge's Waltz 
3. Duel of the Fates
4. Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith 
5. Journey to the Island 
6. The Lost World 
7. The Jungle Chase 
8. Everybody Runs!
9. Fawkes the Phoenix 
10. Harry's Wondrous World
11. The Patriot 
12. Hymn to the Fallen 
13. Omaha Beach 
14. Catch me if You Can
15. Star Wars and the Attack of Jakku Village 
16. Across the Stars
17. Sarah's Rescue 
18. Theme from Jurassic Park 
19. The Tale of Viktor Navorski 
20. Remembering Emilie, and Finale
21. The Adventures of Tintin 
22. The Witches of Eastwick 
23. Home Alone Main Title 
24. Setting the Trap 
25. The Patriot 
26. Seven Years in Tibet
28. The Conspirators 
29. Summon the Heroes 
30. Theme from JFK 
31. On the Conveyor Belt 
32. Welcome to Jurassic Park 
33. Raiders of the Lost Ark 
34. High-Wire Stunts
35. Theme from Sabrina
36. Anderton's Great Escape 
37. Jango's Escape 
38. Dobby the House Elf
39. The Chamber of Secrets 
40. Snowy's Theme
41. Presumed Innocent
42. End Credits (Far and Away)
43. Hedwig's Theme
44. The 1960's - The Turbulent Years
45. The Spiders 
46. Mischief Managed!
47. Rey's Theme 
48. Monica's Theme 
49. Over the Moon 
50. Adventures on Earth
 
Soon updated.
 

We'll all die shortly in the nuclear fallout anyway.

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By my rough calculations (and I could most certainly be wrong or have missed one), the Force theme first shows up in...

The Phantom Menace at 6:50 when Qui-Gon Jinn shoves his lightsaber back into the, um, blast door.
The Attack of the Clones at 30:49 when Anakin and Padme arrive on Naboo.
Revenge of the Sith at 2:10 right after the opening crawl when the Jedi starfighters come into view.
Rogue One at 17:03 when Bail Organa first appears.
A New Hope at 4:53 into the movie when Leia programs R2.
The Empire Strikes Back at 9:29 when Luke reaches out for his lightsaber in the Wampa cave.
Return of the Jedi at 26:15 right before the Rancor picks up Luke. 
The Force Awakens at 42:27 when Han tells Rey and Finn that he knew Luke.
The Last Jedi at 11:42 when we get Leia's reaction after the Dreadnought is confirmed to be destroyed.
 
The films in order of shortest amount of time to the longest amount of time for the Force theme to show:
ROTS, ANH, TPM, ESB, TLJ, RO, ROTJ, AOTC, TFA. 
 
So you are indeed correct! It takes the longest amount of time to show up in TFA, with almost 3/4ths of an hour passing before it graces the film, and obviously the shortest amount of time to show in ROTS, with it showing up just over 2 minutes into the film. 

I'm going to join everyone else in saying Harry Potter. I actually think if he did all of them, then the series could be just as great musically as Star Wars.
But even without him, the other composers should have stuck with more of the themes he had established . For example, I watched Half-Blood Prince recently and I was thinking as Fawkes was flying around at the end it would have been a perfect opportunity to do some kind of melancholic throwback to 'Fawkes the Pheonix'.