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Let's see. But to avoid misunderstandings, my goal is not to scare my boy, I just wanted to show him a movie classic that has been immitated by many new movies, that he knows and likes. In that sense I am happy if he is not scared.

At last I watched Alien with my son and he was not impressed at all. The creature wasn't frightening at all. A friend of his played with an alien skin in fortnite, which made the creature design rather look funny to him. It's this usual effect like watching Lego Darth Vader in the Yoda Chronicles which makes him look rather ridiculous in the actual movies.

"In the Land of Saints and Sinners" by Diego Baldenweg.

Nice try.

I liked Goldenthal's Alien3 and Batman Forever, but never the whole thing, just some major parts of it. That is my issue with Goldenthal. I never managed to like a whole score, just the lyrical orchestral parts. When it came to his techno and ambient parts, which are there in almost each of his scores, then I am out. Often his music feels a little random and too dissonant to me. I never managed to get into his music overall as a pure musical listen.

The more I think about it, the more I get aware, that some, even great Spielberg movies, are suffering from quite a weak ending. Jaws has a perfect ending. Catch Me If You Can has a perfect ending. The Fabelmans as well. Anyway, after starting so well with Jaws and falling back then he got better and better at finishing his films in recent years. Apart from that the endings are often either some kind of Deus Ex Machina, when everything seems lost the cavalry or a miracle saves the day, or it is terribly cheesy or both. Minority Report, great movie. But then Anderton's wife walks into the prison with a gun and frees her husband and nobody is after him. Didn't really make sense. Temple of Doom, the day is saved literally by the British cavalry. E.T. And don't let me get started about Always and Hook. What sometimes saves the movie then is that Spielberg adds some smart or funny little epilogue like in Raiders of the Lost Ark or Hook.

I think, meanwhile there are more Horner expansions than Horner scores.

Christ! No!

In the meantime Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. suffer a little bit in my view from their lazy des ex machina ending. Didn't bother me when they came out.

I still have The Last Temptation of Christ on my watch list. Never seen it.

I am not sure, if I forgot anything. But this is my ranking: Catch Me if you Can Schindler's List Jaws E.T. Raiders of the Lost Ark Empire of the Sun Jurassic Park The Color Purple Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tintin The Last Crusade Minority Report A.I. Bridge of Spies Munich The Fabelmans Saving Private Ryan Duell Something Evil Temple of Doom The BFG Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The Lost World War of the Worlds 1941 The Terminal West Side Story Ready Player One Amistad Always Hook I haven't watched Sugarland Express, War Horse, Lincoln and The Post.

That MUST be a joke. Probably they will send you the proper cardboard sleve with backup discs. Otherwise... I don't know what to say. Last Crusade was the first Indy score that I bought on CD. The previous two I had on LP. But I gave the Crusade CD away, when I got the Concord box. And I almost gave away the DCC album of Raiders until I realised, that the Concord version didn't have the film version of the Desert Chase. Was the fist and only time, that I asked a present back. Was a little embarrassing. But my brother understood it. And it wasn't a birthday or something, but just a "Do you want it? I don't need it anymore. Oh wait, sorry. I still need it." And he kept the Crusade album.

Blanchett's performance is always good, unless it is somewhat supposed to be romantic. The closest she got to a tangible romantic performance was in Heaven. Great film by the way.

WE know, that these are already made.

Julius Caesar - Miklós Rózsa In the meantime one of my absolute favourites. Lyrical, epic, dramatic and one of Rózsa's most memorable themes with great variations. Love it.