Oomoog the Ecstatic

If Goldsmith was a horse, does that make John Williams a donkey? 

The score release of Enthiran was truly a dream come true for me. I had nearly given up hope after all the false promises made in regards to his Indian score releases here. The label had mentioned working on the score album back in 2010. I'm just glad it happened at last.
 
There are so many hidden gems in his repertoire that it's difficult to even start mentioning them. I wish someday a film music label tries looking into releasing them.
 
Mangal Pandey: The Rising (DVD rip)- 
 
 
An orchestral suite of his (mostly unreleased) scores played recently during the audio launch of theEnthiran sequel "2.0" -
 
 
One of my favourite non-film works, the Lord of the Rings musical - 
 
 
"The Flying Lotus" symphonic suite -
 
 

2:30-2:48 for me, especially the Emin7 chord at 2:40ish. Ohhhh, that's the juice.
Sounds like some epic ancient Asian military drama!
 
 
Speaking of Asian drama:
 
 
A bridge you would take to see your mother.
 
 

I can't really get into a lot of the TLJ parts people post, maybe because the score seems overall flat and blended like too many ideas at once.
 
Here are some more moments I love from Williams:
 
The whole minute of 2:30 - 3:30 is filled to the brim with brilliant moments, even subtle bass movements
 
1:41 - 2:12 This theme is one of his greats, for sure. Almost as good as the stuff in my last post
 
The piano accompaniment at 0:54 is just breathtaking, right at 1:10 :'(
 
 

Sorry I have to post more!
 
Man, I f*in love Harry Potter music. The theme The Psycho Pianist pointed out above with Williams' classic IV7, gives Harry's perspective a thoughtful, almost absorbed sentimentality. Williams melody-writing is genius.
 
The almost Bachian refiguring of intricate stringline and bass counterpoint to the filmstyle of the 20th century:
 
The brilliant melodies he teases us throughout the movie with, then boldly and finally develops once-and-for-all, again AGAIN at 2:48:
 
And I remember listening to this part over and over in a teary kind of happiness. The crescendo and then bittersweet flute accompaniment of this wondrous melody resembling nature:
 

The piano embellishments at 1:00 and 1:06
 
Same vein. The piano counter-melodies
 

This one's for the forum. It will either save us or destroy us. @Kasey Kockroach you too.
 
 

The older I get, the sillier I find these comparisons. I'm perfectly happy enjoying The Lord of the Rings for what it is, and Star Wars for what it is. While they have many similarities (the influence of the story of The Lord of the Rings on Star Wars runs very deep indeed) they also have many distinctions.
 
Star Wars has the space setting, it has familial ties across both sides of the conflict (an element that admittedly gets soapy if played too often, see Sequel Trilogy, The) and it introduces us to a world under one centralized rule: a good one, in the prequel trilogy; an evil one, in the first trilogy.
 
Personally, I like The Lord of the Rings series much more. It has a greater sense of heft to it. There's not a single moment in Star Wars that touched my heart in a way that's anywhere near that of Sam picking Frodo up. Its just more profound that way. Even moments like the opening of the Hidden Door I find immensly moving to this day. Star Wars very rarely aims to move its audience, and its generally aiming at a younger demographic, anyway.
 
I also find the fact that all six movies were made by the same producer/writer/director and the same core creative team, and that each trilogy was essentially produced as one big movie in three parts, to be more conducive to a sense of an overall arc than the Star Wars approach. The way the films change styles (in terms of direction) between entries like Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back or between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi is quite jarring, and you also get rather egregious continuity issues like Leia being Luke's sister all of a sudden, which is bollocks.

I shouldn't be making memes.
 
Here's one for the Star Wars fans,
 

 

We need a snack machine in the lobby. I'm getting tired of the forum's cooking.

I shouldn't be making memes.
 
Here's one for the Star Wars fans,
 

 

I shouldn't be making memes.
 
Here's one for the Star Wars fans,
 

 

We need a snack machine in the lobby. I'm getting tired of the forum's cooking.

We need a snack machine in the lobby. I'm getting tired of the forum's cooking.

I answer only to Hornet.

When I was child, I thought the candy that's pill-shaped might be healthy 4 me.

There's a blackout that also affects mobile phone infrastructure.

It's the prequel to Chris Rock's Saw Cinematic Universe! 

The important thing is to make sure there is enough diversity in the film.

I know! Hollywood's "soft heart" endings  That little shit should've been tortured and killed by Lenny and Marv. Finally someone seeing it my way.

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I know! Hollywood's "soft heart" endings  That little shit should've been tortured and killed by Lenny and Marv. Finally someone seeing it my way.

I always use a lithp when I'm doing the voice over for my cats too. They all look like they'd have lithpy little voices if they could talk.

I hope MacAuly Culkin returns as a grizzled mentor figure who shows the protagonist the ropes of trap making and wacky hijinks.