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George Lucas finally releases his narrow art film, a six hour tome about belly button lint, and to everyone's surprise it's a gigantic success. He's now in a position to buy back Lucasfilm, including the Star Wars and Indy rights, and hires you to assess whether it's a good idea. What's your verdict?

Looks like Gary Oldman!

Eastern Promises
The Aviator
Hugo
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
 
Need to re-listen (or listen for the first time) to several of those though: A Dangerous Method, A History of Violence, The Last Mimzy, Panic Room, The Cell and, of course, his lighthearted scores for Mrs. Doubtfire and Big.
 
Honestly, I always thought the idea of Howard Shore, the guy who did several dark, bleak, depressing, disturbing and violent movies for Cronenberg and about serial killers, plus the LOTR trilogy (which is also filled with darkness and disturbingness), scoring a lighthearted family comedy about Robin Williams crossdressing was always amusing to me. This is more of James Horner, John Debney or Bruce Broughton territory, lol. 

My personal top 10 non-middle earth scores of Howard Shore are these.

 
The Fly Eastern Promises Crash M Butterfly The Aviator  A History of Violence  The Silence of the Lambs  A Dangerous Method  Hugo The Last Mimzy  
Contenders for place 10 were also Dead Ringers and The Yards. But for now The Last Mimzy won.
 
And yours?

To be followed by a disenchantment thread...

Fuck it.... Jaws by Joel McNeely performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Enchantment Thread

These are definitely highlights, but these recordings are incomparable to the originals (both in performance and sound).
 
Newman and his crew are masters of recording and mixing. The way he integrates and mixes subtle synths and sound design layers on top of the orchestra on his OSTs is virtually impossible to recreate in any re-recording.
 
Check out Nemo Egg (Main Title) from the Finding Nemo OST and listen out for the subtle airy synths and chimes, and how perfectly the piano and strings are mixed. Literally perfect.

Here's a few off the top of my head:

Commissioning Drew Struzan to do this magnificent wrap around gatefold is pretty legendary. 
 

 

THE GREEN MILE is the younger "brother" of SHAWSHANK, very much in that warm Americana style he does so well. It's a brilliant score that also displays a rare forray (for Newman) into straight-up horror music in "The Terrible Death of Mr. Delacroix" or whatever the track name is. Easily top 10 Newman score.

These are definitely highlights, but these recordings are incomparable to the originals (both in performance and sound).
 
Newman and his crew are masters of recording and mixing. The way he integrates and mixes subtle synths and sound design layers on top of the orchestra on his OSTs is virtually impossible to recreate in any re-recording.
 
Check out Nemo Egg (Main Title) from the Finding Nemo OST and listen out for the subtle airy synths and chimes, and how perfectly the piano and strings are mixed. Literally perfect.

These are definitely highlights, but these recordings are incomparable to the originals (both in performance and sound).
 
Newman and his crew are masters of recording and mixing. The way he integrates and mixes subtle synths and sound design layers on top of the orchestra on his OSTs is virtually impossible to recreate in any re-recording.
 
Check out Nemo Egg (Main Title) from the Finding Nemo OST and listen out for the subtle airy synths and chimes, and how perfectly the piano and strings are mixed. Literally perfect.

What a confusing mess this score is...

TROS soundtrack album is missing music like this that flows and tells a story. I think including more of these musical moments and stuff like all the redeemed Ben renditions would dramatically improve the album.

BrotherSound:
 

Great discovery of the weekend!
While remembering the Blu-Ray menu gave us the clean version of the "Rey Training" cue which is unreleased, I wanted to see what the DVD menus had since those usually contain additional screens for the "Scene Selection" and "Language/Subtitles".
 
The amazing @crumbs found a complete DVD rip and we were able to find another previously unreleased cue, not featured on the Blu-Ray!!
 
It is the "Meditation" cue, featured in the "Scene Selection" menu:
 
tros-amp.mp3
 
 
Another DVD exclusive menu for the language setup comes with the section of "Reunion" that contains Rey & Yoda's Theme, which is on the OST, so no other unreleased music there.
 
This is all new information, right?

Clearly that rule didn't apply to Nanta the brave Ewok.
 

 

Here's the great looking Spotify cover for The Hunt for Red October.

One of my favorite film scores of all time

This score is a classic and is one of the cornerstones of Thomas Newman's work. It is a perfect companion to the film.
 

Sure:
 

Here's the great looking Spotify cover for The Hunt for Red October.

And so they should. Glad it’s not just us “nitpickers” on this forum. Seriously, could they not come up with a consistent visual scheme across all 3 expansions of such popular scores??

Here's the great looking Spotify cover for The Hunt for Red October.

Here's the great looking Spotify cover for The Hunt for Red October.