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I only saw it once, when I was a teen, or maybe in my early 20s, I dunno. I thought the movie was worthy of its "greatest movies of all time" status until the French farm scene, which halted the pacing and put me to sleep until Brando appeared. I was young and inexperienced though, so maybe watching now as an adult I'll like it better.

The Three Musketeers (1993) After listening to Kamen's score A LOT over the past few weeks, I surely had to check the movie, which thankfully is on Disney+ (that service is more well-known around here for its hundreds of Star Wars shows, but it also offers plenty of older movies and shows from Disney and Fox). Hey, it's not that bad! It's an old fashioned movie, both in its storytelling and with its filmmaking. We have a lot of extras, shooting on actual (and beautiful!) locations and, the best part, impressive stunts. It's all done on camera by talented stuntmen, rather than CGI, and that makes it so refreshing these days. Kamen's impressive orchestral score is also old fashioned. Even though I think he overscored the movie a bit - you don't need to write music for every scene, pal. Still, it's a relic from an old Hollywood when you could have swashbuckling orchestral music like this. In the ranking of 90s swashbuckling adventures (who all inspired great music), it's not as good as The Mask of Zorro (one of the most entertaining popcorn movies ever and a classic from my early teens), but it's maybe tied to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves... Even though I'd have to visit that one (only saw once when I was 16, years ago).

So now the only Mummy score from the 1999-2008 series left to expand is Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, right? I know Scorpion King had many straight to home video sequels, but I'm counting only the theatrically released movies. IIRC Dragon Emperor was recorded in London with the LSO, so no post-2005 AFM fees.

The Redux cut of Apocalypse Now is that one where they stop by a French farm and have a looooong discussion about ideology or something, right? Completely halting the movie's pacing? Nah thanks. In that regard the shorter cut is better.

Me too. It's an amazing score that definetly needs an expansion.

Starfight will be the "official" Episode X rather than Rey: The Movie.

Awesome! Thanks @Stéphane Humez!

About 6 years since he shot the first one.

One can argue he never reached these levels ever again in his career... Still, a great release. I'll give it another chance, when I first heard it the guitars were a bit off putting to me.

Ross only helped adapt Philosopher's Stone material and Chamber of Secrets suites of the new themes into movie cues. Besides, JW scored a lot of scenes (flying car, escaping the spiders and, yes, the Chasing the Snitch section of the Quidditch match, and I'll die on that hill!). Anyway, according to here, JW's compositions that were recorded with the LSO are: Bassoon Concerto “The Five Sacred Trees” [arr.H.Mancini] The Disaster Movie Suite Dracula - film music Essay for strings E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - film music Flute Concerto The Fury - film music Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - film music Hook - film music : The Flight to Neverland Jaws - film music : shark theme Jurassic Park - film music : theme Monsignor - film music Raiders of the Lost Ark - film music Saving Private Ryan - film music : Hymn to the Fallen Schindler’s List - film music The Sorcerer’s Stone - film music : Hedwig’s theme Star Wars - film music : excerpts: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace Episode 2: Attack of the Clones Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith Episode 4: A New Hope Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back Episode 6: Return of the Jedi Star Wars - Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite Superman, The Movie - film music Trumpet Concerto Violin Concerto Some scores in there were actually recorded in the US first (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T., Hook, Jaws, Jurassic Park), so their presence here is probably for an album of John Williams themes or something rather than the actual score.

Something in the chord progressions of the brass and percussion accompaniment of You Are my Homeward reminded me of Agent Cody Banks: They're not the same but there's something so Powellian in how the music is developed that one reminds me of the other. Of course it might be just JP's typical heroic chords.

The Musketeer by David Arnold Listening to Kamen's Three Musketeers expansion made me want to check this other Musketeer score. If Kamen is a blend of traditional Hollywood and baroque pastiche, then this is just full-on swashbuckling fun. A great action score from the Arnold/Dodd duo that shouldn't be overlooked. It's like their equivalent to Debney's Cutthroat Island.

Presence Directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp, it tells a haunted house story... from the point of view of the ghost. Literally: the camera acts as the ghost and watches as a family slowly crumbles. That is the best part of the movie actually. The ghost as a silent entity watching the many problems (psychological, financial, marital, raising teen kids who are always with a cellphone in hands, etc) that middle-class families are subjected to in this day and age. Made me think of an updated version of those 90s/2000s suburbia dramas (American Beauty, The Ice Storm, Little Children, In the Bedroom). It gets less interesting when it starts to tend towards a more traditional horror movie (with the exception that you follow the ghost rather than its supposed victims) and even less when a villain appears late into the story... Still, a pretty good movie with great performances and a fresh take on two genres (middle-class drama and haunted house).

Been listening to this a lot over the past few weeks. I think Robin Hood has higher highs, but this is also great, and yeah Kamen's sheer enthusiasm can be heard with the full orchestra. The score drags a bit in the middle, just like with almost any Kamen... But most of the time it's really great music with nice themes.

Just 2 episodes left to finish Fallout. It's a decent show, but I'm kinda getting tired of all the mystery boxes. Seems that with each new episode there's more and more enigmas that surely won't be resolved until season 2...