Yavar Moradi

Me: I want An American Tail or Fievel Goes West complete, please. 
 
Everyone: Ha, don't be daft! There's not much missing on those albums!
 
-this gets released-
 
Everyone: OH GOD YES WE COULDN'T LISTEN TO THE OST ANYMORE KNOWING THOSE TWO MINUTES WERE MISSING

https://lalalandrecords.com/magic-limited-edition/
 
Yes...I (eventually) bought it.
 
Yavar

https://lalalandrecords.com/magic-limited-edition/
 
Yes...I (eventually) bought it.
 
Yavar

So 9 Spielberg films down... 19 more to go.
 
And no, I don't consider Hook done. Not yet.
 
Karol

Is it me, or does that giant cloud contain a sad smiley face? 😁
 
Anyway, they might have come up with an original one, like with Jurassic Park, A.I., E.T. etc.
 
I expect that up be released within a year or two! That, and JFK and Born on the Fourth of July! 

I myself have had a feeling that an expanded release of the Maestro’s score to Amistad would happen within the year or so. Very valid point. There is a lot of unreleased music for that.

It's a very effective pro-war propaganda movie. In fact, it's so effective, some people don't even understand or realize it's propaganda. 
 
Opening shot: American flag 
Closing shot: American  flag
The Message: American soldiers are brave heroes, who fight for freedom and democracy, and they are the good guys. They go through hell, and war is hell, but war is necessary, and we want you to think it's necessary. Their country will forever be grateful to them for fighting it. In fact, if it weren't for them, we'd all be speaking German! (And don't you ever forget that when we illegally attack Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, you name it.!)
 
If you really don't get that this movie is pro-war propaganda, you must be a brainwashed American! 

Well I said pro-American, not pro-war.   I don't think the film's pro-war.
 
However, I don't think it's exactly anti-war either.  Despite the gruesome depiction of violence, the film follows in the tradition of many WW II films as portraying war as a heroic endeavour.  That's not a criticism, many of the best war movies do.  But SPR is by and large a war film in the tradition of classic American war films (again, not a criticism).

The movie itself, while expertly shot by Spielberg as always, is totally bs, of course. Just your regular, simplistic American pro-war propaganda bs movie, has little to do with historical facts.
 
But as a piece of fiction, it's rather entertaining. And well scored, of course.

Ah, okay.
 
But considering they've just done a late 90s Spielberg-Williams collaboration distributed by DreamWorks, Amistad is certainly gonna follow!

So 4,000 copies of this.
 
Wonder whether this will sell out in our lifetime. 😂 

I love Williams, i really do. But SPR is such a dull score. Impossible to get through.

Me too!
 
The OST sounds kind of muddy too, like they dubbed the final mix off some bad 90s analog system.  A fresh digital scan of the original elements mastered properly would sound pretty great I imagine

Well this was unexpected news. Saving Private Ryan was in my mind one of the last Spielberg/Williams scores in need of an expanded release.

I used to use this score as a sleeping pill.  But I'll buy it.

I personally LOVE Williams Americana most of the time (oh MAN was The Cowboys DE a godsend)...this just happens to be one of my least-liked Williams scores despite that. When LLL announces JFK complete I'll be there.
 
Yavar

I have no comment on the expansion, for obvious reasons, but I just wanted to say that this was such a landmark score. A turning-point in Elfman's career. With this, he nurtured complex counterpoints and dense soundscapes to a higher degree than he'd ever done before; and it became a benchmark for scores to come. I listed this as the first major 'style change' when I did the Elfman buyer's guide for FSM years ago.
 
I've had the Silvestri for years (and ERASER, which did indeed include much of the material), and it's never done much for me. But a commercial release would be great. It's always fascinating when a rejected score is released.

I look very much to finally be able to listen to this complete score, in order, without repeated music

I'm hoping to see Minority Report and War of the Worlds somewhere down the line. Or even Catch Me If You Can.
 
Karol

Or maybe disc 2 would be Silvestri's rejected score!

The OST album, I assume.  The entire OST album was a remix, not the film mixes (apart from one track).

Have faith brother!

If LLL continues like that, we'll very soon get our Always expansion that we made so many jokes about.
 
Neither of those two John Williams titles justifies the "year for the books"-comment. Nor does a Superman reissue.

Saving Private Ryan? Boring! The least needed John Williams expansion.

YES!!!!!
 
Powell is the best option by far.