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Thanks. It's been literally decades since I watched A.I. for the last time, and in my remembrances the music played over the end titles.

It's been years since I've heard that, but Clint Mansell's Black Swan is a pretty good adaptation of Tchaikovsky.

I don't care about For Always either, though it's not as annoying to me as Celine's song. Williams should've written an end title suite that would be better than this song. The same goes for Horner.

Yeah, the Celine Dion song is pretty bad, not a fan either, although that song made Horner go rich. I guess my favorite part of the score is this theme that unfortunately went unused on the movie. Going back to Williams and Amistad, I can't compare it with Titanic because I haven't listened to Amistad in years. But I'd love to see the opinions of other JWFanners on the subject matter.

Interesting. I have a complicated relationship with Titanic's score. I'm a fan of the action music for the sinking scenes, and I like the synth choir during the Southampton and the departure of the ship scenes, but I don't care that much about the rest of the score.

All right, the true question that people should've been asking is: do you think Amistad deserved the Oscar for Best Original Score over Titanic? Do you consider Amistad a better score than Titanic?

I like imagining how was the supposed encounter between Shore and Williams at Air Lyndhurst's kitchen: "Hey John. What are you recording here?" "Hey Howard. Oh, just a kids movie about wizards. It's based in a book for children. What about you? "We've been recording the first Lord of the Rings movie here. It's gonna be very epic." "So you got the Lord of the Rings gig. I heard that Jerry and James Horner were being considered." "Yeah, Peter Jackson liked my stuff, so he hired me. Anyway, let's make a little bet? I bet you $10 that my movie will be bigger than yours at the box office" "And I bet you $5 that my movie will get more Oscars than yours". "Great! Oh, gotta return for the recording. Nice talking to you!" "Bye bye, pal".

Powell is not risk group like Williams, he can afford go for a walk with his dog (as long as he wears a mask, of course).

lol Actually, the first Croods had a decent box office back in 2013, US$ 587 millions worldwide. But yeah, after that the movie faded from people's minds and a sequel is a risky proposition.

Apparently, studios don't want to release any of their prime blockbusters now because theaters in NY and LA are still closed, and these are the areas with the biggest moviegoing population. Without NTTD and Black Widow, there isn't gonna be a new blockbuster until Thanksgiving with Pixar's Soul and DreamWorks' The Croods 2.

Lol, I watched this minisseries as well and thought the same! Michael McKean from Better Call Saul would actually be a great Hans as well.

Dune will most certainly be delayed to 2021, as for WW84 I don't know, this movie already had about 10 dates before. They have to release it someday.

This is terrible news. Not because I wanted to watch the movie, but because of the exhibitors. They opened late August expecting a string of blockbusters that'd bring people back to the theaters (Mulan, Tenet, NTTD, WW84, Pixar's Soul and eventually Dune). However, the poor box office of Tenet at the US and The New Mutants made the studios realize that now it's not the time to bring people back, so they delayed almost everything to the next year. That left poor theaters opened, spending money on electricity, staff, rent, etc., but with next to no new movies, therefore no public. It's a dire situation for theaters. Let's hope they survive, because at least 2021 looks promising in box office terms.

It's from this album: http://filmmusicreporter.com/2020/10/01/bond-25-tribute-album-announced/ It contains re-recordings of themes from various Bond movies.

I watched the movie a few months ago, and this really bothered me this time. The film makes an effort to show Ray as a "common man", not an action hero, but at the end he takes down a Tripod all by himself. I didn't liked his son's arc as well. In one scene, he escapes his father to join the military, but on the very next scene with him he is seen alive and well at his family's house. It was too forced and too optimistic for the movie to have Robbie surviving that easily, but perhaps Spielberg lacked the guts to kill the character,

Is this the first DreamWorks Animation (not regular DreamWorks) score to be expanded? So, can we hope for future expansions of Antz, Chicken Run, El Dorado, etc?

I guess it was recorded in London, much like the HTTYD sequels.

Hence why Amistad should be a priority for the labels. There's a lot of music missing!

That deceased forum that worshipped the Japanese RPG game series had a thread only for reel/part numbers. Thanks to that I became an obsessed with these slate numbers, lol. But I do agree it's weird of Powell putting these numbers on a commercial release.

About Zemeckis mocap movies, I have a soft spot for Bewoulf, because that's the first film I watched all by myself in theaters at age 14. And a few months later I rewatched it and I Am Legend with a crush I had back then.

That's a bit of a bummer, Brainstorm is a score that needs to be expanded ASAP. Well, hope springs eternal, I guess...

Dear Lord! Powell is on fire with these expansions! 🔥🔥🔥 Three John Powell expanded scores in less than three months. Considering that and The Call of the Wild, this is really the year for Powell fans.

Yeah, it's a great score. But these similarities with The Matrix and Toy Story are very distracting.

Yeah, I don't trust Zemeckis and his mo-cap effects. The Polar Express is creepy until this day thanks to the bizarre mocap.

Do you think Davis co-wrote parts of Balto for Horner as well? Parts of "Grizzly Bear" sound like The Matrix, and there's also a motif later in the score that reminded me of Newman's Buzz Lightyear theme for Toy Story 1 (which Davis co-orchestrate). I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, considering how many (great) scores Horner wrote in 1995.