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5 freaking minutes!

where's that 10?

Hoping Spidey's got some 30 year old Sneakers for his 20th birthday. Probably not, but we all have our hopes.

one OST, one boot with this weird static distortion in several cues.

Mine was not cracked. I wrote this on the corresponding FSM thread: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=149583&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=593#bottom There are so many subtle (and not so subtle) differences that the old promo is truly its own thing and this new release stands firmly on its own. A ton of 'blink and you'll miss it' type differences one might not pick up on unless they know the score inside and out....which being a Horner score is kind of my thing. I'm really surprised by how unique this is. I like the off-kilter back cover as well. I found the Taylor Momsen interview referenced in the liner notes (no source, but Google was easy enough.) It was nice to hear she mentioned Horner by name and not just 'the composer'.

Sneakers might be a possibility for a 30th anniversary expanded release. 10 years ago LLL said they tried to expand it but was turned down with no explanation given. In those 10 years LLL has done a ton of Universal (and Sony) titles so that makes me think there's a chance.

It's 4 minutes shorter than Titanic.

The contents look like it’s the same as the promotional CD

That's because in the film (like on the album - the promo uses a slightly different take) the score is taken over for a moment by the "Whoville Band" so the singing / fart sounds are matching the on-screen performance.

Actually 7 score cues on the OST. The first is called "The Shape of Things to Come" (it's the main title).

The OST was abysmal. Set aside the dialogue intrusion and the mess of songs, the (few) score cues there were, weren't the best sounding because they likely had to try and boost them to match the songs. It was just all-around bad. The promo was a revelation in comparison. To have even that just be made legit would be great. Christmas comes early!

Secret Star Wars film: Secret Star Wars film by Damon Lindelof:

Okay this is nuts: The 4K audio for Independence Day has the SCORE REMOVED from the Welcome Wagon / Oval Office additional scene so the audio cut is not so jarring anymore. WOW. I had NO idea until I decided to revisit that just now.

Independence Day is exactly the same in terms of its bad editing of the score for the added scenes. Unlike Stargate, the theatrical of iD4 is the (far) better version, though some scenes in the extended are interesting enough. The problem is the audio mix for them is essentially mono and likely temp. The two worst examples of the music not flowing with the film are: 1. The short added scene during the "Welcome Wagon" sequence where David and his father Julius are in the Oval Office. Julius is mesmerized by simply being there, which prompts David to joke that "imagine a poor immigrant like me. It's a dream!" The scene not only breaks the tension too much, but literally breaks the sequence (and music) in two - it's dropped in there with no style or effort whatsoever. 2. in the height of the end battle sequence, after the brief moment of levity with Julius gathering people to pray and Nimziki saying he's not Jewish ("nobody's perfect" Julius remarks. Unlike the added Oval Office scene this light tension breaker works well here - and it's theatrical) another scene is just dropped in without any effort put into it: This whole unnecessary subplot of the Casse children / daughter bonding with another kid (the curly-haired kid from "My So Called Life") was added to this extended cut, and culminates in a lame payoff of an earlier joke of the daughter not wanting to die a virgin. Very low in the audio mix you can hear the faintest bit of "Master Alarm" from Horner's APOLLO 13 in there, clearly temp score (as Arnold mentioned in the LLL album liner notes). I adore Independence Day. All these years later it's still one of my dearest favorite movies (and favorite score) but man...the extended cut isn't worth a watch more than once. As for that abrupt cut in the Stargate music, I think I know which scene you mean: The 'Slave Rebellion' sequence was extended with a sandstorm and the music cuts were just piss-poor. Just awful.

They did - for swimming. Depending on the location / FORMAT of the film, you get either that scene in the Google Drive link, or you get a scene of the new kid characters (and I believe Kate Winslet's character...EDIT not it's not - the one I thought was her is in this Google clip while Winslet is the pregnant one. The similar faces threw me off) swimming where it shows off the underwater effects. It's a very light, peaceful scene with a taste of Simon Franglen's score that sounds firmly in line with the "Pandora" Disneyworld album. I saw it in IMAX 3D (no HFR) and that swimming scene is what I got.

Brilliantly sadistic as Kai Winn on DS9.

4K77, 4K83 and upcoming 4K80 for the win.

Edwards did some solo work on both Apocalypto and Avatar (a dark, guttural chanting) and of course the larger choral ensemble has such a huge list of credits that wikipedia page is full of.

Here's one. It's a Variety article, courtesy the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20100722020443/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011440.html?categoryid=16&cs=1 Cameron himself talked about grounding the music in a familiarity on the Avatar Blu-ray extras.

I will look for the source interviews he did.

^^ Very true statements. James Horner also said at the time of release, that he needed to pull the music back from being avant garde and too 'alien' to what the final result was, because audiences will tolerate unconventional visuals, but not unconventional music for a big film like that, so it had to be grounded in something more palatable.

Independence Day was directed by a German who co-wrote it with a Filipino-American. German cinematographer, German VFX supervisor, English composer.