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Seraphim Falls Harry followed one of his biggest successes with one of the most unknown movies on his curriculum, so much so that it didn't even get an official OST release. Thankfully the recording sessions leaked. This movie apparently is a western. HGW's music is fully orchestral but also... not very interesting? The whole score has tracks that sound the same thing over and over again. One of its themes is a nice homage (I'll presume it was an intentional homage) to Jerry Goldsmith's Patton with the echoplex trumpet. The other sounded like one of Zimmer's Batman themes from Batman v Superman 10 years after this score was released. And some parts is like he was on his way to quote his Narnia theme before going in a different direction. Almost every cue is exactly the same: serious, important sounding orchestral music that sounds like a JNH score for a 90s thriller. And actually I think the whole thing was temped with the more serious and stately parts of The Fugitive, Wyatt Earp or The Postman. With so little difference between each cue it's hard to differentiate them. At least the ending is somewhat nice and offers a respite. Look for this if you want to hear someone imitating JNH's 90s The Fugitive sound.

"Star Trek is better than everything!" Albert Einstein

Oops, forgot to post my reviews from my Harry Gregson-Williams project! Here we go... Shrek 2 While the score to the first Shrek is very memorable to me due to how many times I saw that movie as a kid, the music in the sequels only grabbed my attention when A- it is quoting themes or cues from the 1st or B- they're pop songs. So I listened to the recording sessions for the two and while it is fun and I managed to identify a new theme (or at least I think it's new) this is clearly the case of a score playing second fiddle to the pop songs and pop culture references. So yeah, listening to this hasn't changed the fact that for the foreseeable future the only Shrek music I'll remember is stuff from the first one and the songs. Team America: World Police Another score for an animated comedy, though one for a more mature target audience. Since the movie is a parody of the Jerry Bruckheimer action stuff I thought this would sound like The Rock/Armageddon/Enemy of the State/etc. But actually this is a primarily orchestral score with "traditional" action music and drama and even some swashbuckling. It's all done in the name of parody sure, but it's good music nonetheless. Kingdom of Heaven Listened for the second times in a few weeks and liked it even more. This is surely Gregson-Williams' masterpiece. In terms of scope and scale I don't think he has ever done anything like that (until Gladiator II, perhaps?). It made me want to see the movie again just to identify all the numerous amazing themes Harry wrote. However the superior 3-hour Director's Cut is not streaming anywhere. Thanks for nothing Disney Domino An intermission between two HGW epics with another techno thriller crap. Perhaps it was even HGW who invented, or at least popularized, these disturbing electronic techno rave-like scores for suspense films. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe HGW's most famous score for sure (even though the movie itself is crap). Amazing themes but just so-so underscore. When it's good it's REALLY good, especially after the kids meet Aslan, but during most of the recording sessions the score is somewhat boring, non-descript and aimless. Thankfully the ending is great and has some of the best music Harry wrote in his 3 decade career. But hey Harry, here's an advice: John Williams' Star Wars and Howard Shore's LOTR won Oscars and awards and etc. because their scores were good from start to finish. A score that during 50% of the runtime is trying its best not to call attention for itself isn't going to win you anything Anyway, as I was already familiar with Narnia and Kingdom of Heaven, they weren't the main goals of this marathon. Rather I'm going through it precisely because I'd like to meet the HGW that exists BESIDES Narnia and KoH. So let's go to 2006 and beyond...

Honestly, these days I'm totally uninterested by the Potterverse. I'm thankful for the childhood memories but these days I find hard to care about that franchise. Maybe it was the Fantastic Beasts movies being awful or maybe it was seeing people my age with a creepy obsession for a franchise from their childhoods... Or maybe it was just me who spent countless hours re-reading the books in that year. Everyone has something from their childhoods that they can't stand once they grow up. My best friend was obsessed with Naruto and DragonBall Z when he was a kid, nowadays he is completely apalled not just by these two but by any anime in general, shounen or not.

At age 14 the only thing I cared about was Harry Potter. I was fucking obsessed with Harry Potter, especially because that was the year when Deathly Hallows was released. And also the Order of the Phoenix movie, which was based on my favorite book of the saga. I was utterly disappointed with how bland and mediocre that movie was (saw it twice in theaters and then bought the DVD though). Besides, I also liked playing GTA San Andreas, FIFA and Warcraft, watching Lost and Heroes and reading about cars. I'm pretty sure he spent his teen years listening to classical music

It's still the best multiverse film, better than Spiderman Cameo Fest and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Crappiness.

I'm no lawyer no expert on the laws of my country but I'm quite sure you can't come over here and have sex with a 14 year old girl (or boy). At least this isn't the impression I have from what whenever horrible cases like that are on the news. In other words, I'm still within the age range to be a Lorne Balfe fan! But just for one more year though

The best is still Space Jam

So in Empire when they had their first kiss she's 21 and he's *does math* 34. Not wrong nor criminal... As long as you don't watch Obi-Wan Kenobi right after finishing Solo A Star Wars Story Being 14 today isn't the same as a century ago, especially for girls. 14 year old girls were already being selected to find a husband at that age. Thankfully that has changed today.

Isn't the majority of Solo (after the prologue) set like 5 years before the Battle of Yavin? Wouldn't Leia (and Luke) supposed to be 14 then if that was the case? Since their involvement begins in Empire, which is I think 2 years after Yavin, then Leia would be 21 and Han would be in his early 30s (hopefully). It wouldn't be a crime* nor wrong... But still vaguely creepy. *That is, considering the Galaxy Far Far Away had laws against the sexual abuse of minors (from any species).

IIRC my great-grandmother had their first child when she was 14. First of many children, actually. Subsequent generations of women in the family that were born later had their kids at a progressively later age: 20s, then early 30s and now there's some that gave birth at their late 30s.

Wait, really?

Y'know what, I'm just gonna go with my headcanon that Indy was like 23 and she was like 17 (which is still bad but hey, the hero have to be "edgy") and pretend I haven't read this. But if the ideal for George is for a 12-year-old girl to be with a man ten years her senior, then keep you daughters far from that guy!

Disney Star Wars (2012-2015) Nice to know that the first season of SW Rebels (which aired in 2014) survived

Their members moved onto film scores now.