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Imagine these guys on a grand Disney adventure!
 

 

By the way, I wonder when they're going to make David Lynch a Disney Legend
 

Crikey! That just looks.....wrong.

He used a Disney theme in CEOTTK.

It is 

Doesn’t this Sky Pirates (1986) Blu Ray set look awesome?  Well, it is.  I own it.  Unfortunately  the movie itself is a real stinker.  
 
The Bad:
The script is really boring, cluttered and confusing. The pacing is blah.  It really could’ve used more tongue in cheek humor like the superior Indy rip-off, King Solomon’s Mines. 
 
The Good:  
The aerial stunt work is quite effective.  Many of the airplane scenes look better than anything we’d see 3 years later in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  In fact, I’m not certain if any models were used at all. 
 
Composer Brian May delivers the goods with a cracking fun jaunty score. 
 
It’s a shame this Ozploitation Indy Rip-Off didn’t lean more into the fun, because it doesn’t look cheap, the costume designer did well, and the marketing department gave it their best. 
 
The deluxe Blu Ray comes with a really cool booklet on “Indiana Clones”, a guide to Raiders rip-offs. 

I’ve not seen either of those.  Project Wolf Hunting looks like a decent modern violence fest. 

The Last trash B movie I saw was probably the korean flick "Project Wolf Hunting". Uncut of course.
A lot of exagerated super violence. Tons of blood.
And one of the movies with the most twists I have ever seen.
Still didn't motivate me to check out any sequel. 
 
BTW Anybody here seen "The Greasy Strangler"?

The happy news I cryptically alluded to last week is now something I can make official: I just signed a book contract with OUP for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴!   It's a book it feels like I've been writing in my head for a long, long time -- since middle school, kinda? And unless Williams somehow returns to write another entry in the series, I'm treating it a chance to provide a properly 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 investigation into these scores, all nine of them.   Even Rise of Skywalker?? 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Rise of Skywalker!   My hope is this book does some justice to the complexity, challenge, and sheer magic of this music.   Now, back to the grindstone!   https://www.facebook.com/Falstaft/posts/pfbid0L6wUjeDDxj6AmhwHh1f9obrVMJfYbPx4GJM8YaEWiZtqxwp37A88monPFVDxBQ26l  
Congratulations, @Falstaft!

I had kind of a John Williams dream last night...
 
In my dream, I saw a friend of mine riding a segway that somehow looked like a TIE Fighter. So I came to him and said something like "you remind me of a movie!", to which he replied "which movie?". Then, I started singing the main melody from "Here They Come" from A New Hope.
 
However, my friend didn't get it and just looked at me like "WTF?". Sigh... Not even in dreams people around me recognize Star Wars cues 

You guys need better dreams.

I recommend all mentioned in my post at the top of this thread. 
And like @JNHFan2000 mentioned, Angel, Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons & Un Homme Et Son Chien are beautiful, too.

Oh, I didn't bother scrolling to the top.

I recommend all mentioned in my post at the top of this thread. 
And like @JNHFan2000 mentioned, Angel, Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons & Un Homme Et Son Chien are beautiful, too.

https://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/news/film-fest-gent-welcomes-philippe-rombi-as-guest-of-honour-at-the-24th-world-soundtrack-awards

As Bonneys vocals were recorded at Royce Hall (and boy do I love the sound of that recording..) The availability of the hall could be the reason why it was recorded late. 

Williams_Fan_Theme.mp3
Someone made this mock up years ago. I apologise if I wasn't allowed to post it or something. It's actually a pretty cool theme.
That's great! You might live long enough to hear the Expanded Star Wars Prequel scores.

Wuthering Heights - Ryuichi Sakamoto
 
A really beautiful score with a fine striking longlined love theme that seems to be repeated about a hundred times. But when the album is over you just want to start again from the beginning. 
 

Aliens. This a music from a man who is at the brink of murdering his director.
 
Karol

First ever listen to El Cid (Tadlow), never seen the movie or heard anything besides highlights from it. I don't know how Rózsa did it but his 2.5 hour scores just don't feel their length, they flow well, take needed breaks from loud action and fanfares, tell a story.
Of course inevitably comparisons with Ben-Hur started popping up with the references/"ripoffs" in there, and of course that one comes out on top with its massive and diverse but easily identifiable and emotionally clear theme library and perfect structure with every cue doing something with those themes for the narrative, but there's not many scores it could lose against. Cid's a bit more "film score-ey" - "hey let's put a minute of music here too" "sure I'll do some fanfare and reprise a theme" "whoops dropped it, it was just some throwaway anyway".
I really love the hero themes and the love theme and their development, but on this first time couldn't latch onto others even by reading along with the booklet - but this was the first time, I'm sure they'll come. There are definitely highlights outside those main themes that stand out like Entry of the Nobles and especially the material for the twins!

I managed to get my hands on this one and, gosh, it shows again, why I prefer the young Goldsmith over the old.
Great score, great album. 

 
Made it immediately into my top five ever Western scores.
 

Episode 9 x The Harbinger
 
Loved this!! Asajj Ventress has always been one of my favourite characters, so I loved seeing her here.
Her fight scene with the Bad Batch, was extremely well done. Great choreograhpy and animation. I'm impressed by the animation each episode, it's just so inctedibly good. If you compare this to the Clone Wars film, it's remarkable!
 
There was also some really great music in here. The statement of the bad batch theme during the fight was great and there were some really beautiful moments with Ventress & Omega.
 
Next week 2 episodes! Let's see how quick the story is gonna move

I managed to get my hands on this one and, gosh, it shows again, why I prefer the young Goldsmith over the old.
Great score, great album. 

 
Made it immediately into my top five ever Western scores.
 

I think that's gonna be the new Laika film due for next year.

Somehow similar impression on my end. Listening I thought, this is really a good Ghostbusters score with solid references to the original.
I just was never a super fan of the original score. And Marianelli is somehow too good at adapting to other styles and works (like in Bumblebee) that it is hard to find the Marianelli in there, that I like so much.
 
So, it is a good sequel score to an original score, that I hardly listen to (even though it is good and I like it... somehow). 
 
I am looking forward to Marianelli's next original work, that is not adapting to someone elses film music work.

Having heard the entire album now, I can say this is definitely very solid. Not outstanding, as others have pointed out, but I really enjoyed myself during those 61 minutes. The final track is indeed the best of the lot. 
 
Karol