[What is the last Television series you watched?]

Slow Horses - Season 1

 

Bloody fantastic!!!!

Tense, expertly written, funny and just brilliant throughout.

 

Can't wait to see the other 3 seasons.

[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

 

 

[What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (2024 Scores) and general 2024 scoring news and chitchat]

There are some cues that remind of the Thomas Newman of old. Big sweeping orchestral work.

Then there are cues that are typical of his later career and sound like a mix between Elemental, 1917 & Tolkien.

Then you have the low dark growling cues which for me on album just really don't work. Especially the long 7 mimute cue.

 

Overall I enjoyed it. I will make my own playlist of the overlong album to enjoy it best. It's still not fantastic, but it's the closest we've come to the Newman scores I love in quite a few years.

 

[So Ridley Scott is directing a Gladiator sequel...]

Tracklist for the score.

Releases Nov. 15th.

 

1. Gladiator II Overture (3:01)
2. Lucius, Arishat and the Roman Invasion (8:34)
3. I’ll Wait for You (5:51)
4. Ostia (4:11)
5. Angry Baboons (2:00)
6. Strength and Honor (3:21)
7. Acacius Returns (1:26)
8. City of Rome (1:55)
9. Defiance (0:55)
10. I See Him in You (2:59)
11. Acacius in the Colosseum (6:43)
12. Let the Gods Decide (4:08)
13. Macrinus’ Plan (3:34)
14. I Need You to Do This (3:52)
15. Smooth Is The Descent (4:22)
16. Now That I Have Found You (2:43)
17. Echoes in Eternity (2:15)
18. War, Real War (3:30)
19. The Dream Is Lost (2:45)
20. Now We Are Free – Lisa Gerrard, Gavin Greenaway & The Lyndhurst Orchestra (4:18)

 

Single releases tomorrow

 

https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/gladiator-ii-harry-gregson-williams/v7z0kbdcq2c1a

[What Is The Last Film You Watched? (2024 Films) -- and general 2024 film chitchat]

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[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

The fading out of the voices is like that because it's like that in the episode and the decision was made to leave it like that on the album as well.

[Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes]

I'm only basing on it's appearance in the finale because that's where it's biggest and fullest statement is.

[Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes]

The unkown theme plays beautofully in the final episode. It plays over a montage of the different storylines very well.

 

Based on the scenes it accompanies, I think it's a sort of loss theme of sorts.

Let's hope Bear mentions it in his blogs at some point. And I'm hoping it'll have more of a present in the future.

[The Rings of Power: The Chronological Score and Unused Music Thread]

Episode 8 album is complete chronological. No cuts between tracks.

 

Some pauses inbetween cues at points, but not a lot.

 

And after seeing the episode, I actually think Shadow And Flame plays very well as one track.

But if there would be a cut it would've been best just before the Galadriel statement at 9:54

[Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes]

Yeah, you're correct. I thought something wasn't right.

[Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

3. The White Flame (6:10)

• 2:44 Númenor

This is not Númenor, but The Faitful theme.

 

 

And at 0:07 and 0:27 in Sauron And Celebrimbor there are the Rings of Power chords.

 

1 hour ago, Jay said:

5. No Passage for Low Men (5:15)

• 1:23 Estrid

 

• 2:40 Estrid

 

1:23 is also the Faithful theme. But sounds like it sort of segues into Estrid's theme.

 

2:40 is Estrid's theme 

[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

Do remember that a large part of the S1 album is themes. If you take those cues out it comes pretty close to the S2 album runtime.

[General movie chitchat]

Quite something for a big name magazine to just close down like this. 

 

 

 

[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

Well we hear it in episode 4 very quietly right?

When The Stranger think Bombadil is with someone. Or am I mistaken?

[Steven Spielberg is Making a John Williams Documentary]

"Music is enough for a lifetime. But a lifetime is not enough for music"

 

Beautiful!!!

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

 

[Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

5. The Orc Camp (5:07)

• 1:49 what theme is this?

That the Adar/Orcs theme. Plays when Adar is mourning I believe, so it's in a slightly different register.

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

 

[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

Based on the footage in a trailer for the season finale, I think that they'll be plenty of new music in the episode that's not on the season album.

 

More stuff in Rhûn & Númenor especially.

[Upcoming Films]

First trailer for Maria from Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Spencer) with Angelina Jolie playing Maria Callas.

 

 

 

[R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith]

I just read that that she passed exactly one year after Michael Gambon. That's weirdly bizarre in a way.

[R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith]

What I think is so great about the career she's had is that every generation thinks of a different character when they talk about her. Just phenomenal!!!

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

Very very sad news. One of my favorite actresses of all time.

No words

[Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS (2024)]

There are parts of this score where it feels like Coppola asked Golijov to make his music sounds as much like Max Steiner as possible. I don't like everything, but there are some nice parts.

[Upcoming Films]

Ballerina starring Ana de Armas.

 

Takes places in the same world as John Wick.

 

Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Angelica Huston & Keanu Reeves all reprise their roles. Takes place in between John Wick 3 & 4.