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I always think that Bolt is like Ian Flemming's To Kill a Mockingbird.

There were 6 movies scored by Powell that were released in 2008:
 

 
Bolt was the only one that released later in the year. All the other came out until July.
 
John Powell in 2007 and 2008:
 
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Bolt and Hancock are my favorites from him from that year. I never cared about the Kung Fu Panda scores, to be honest. They have decent moments, but they never reach the heights of his HTTYD trilogy, or even Bolt for that matter.

OK, I've forgotten how awesome this movie is. I had totally forgotten about Rhino! This movie was pretty much on a loop in my house when the kids were little.
 
I think this score has been largely forgotten and totally overshadowed by How to Train Your Dragon.

We missed you.

This is all really nice. Thank you to all of you for the nice words. I don't take any of this for granted so it's heartwarming to see the appreciation.
 
One of the reasons why I started the project and engaged in making these oral history-type of interviews as part of the podcast show was indeed to provide a kind of documentary-like approach to the subject for the fans who are interested to know more and who are curious to have a larger and perhaps even better understanding of the artform. Even though my life is getting busier than ever, I hope to continue as long as I can.
 
And since I am here, I can confirm there won't be an episode about a new archival release before the end of the year because there won't be a new archival release to talk about for the time being (sorry). BUT... I can say that there will be a new Legacy Conversation episode coming at the end of next week which I hope you'll enjoy. And if stars align, there might be also a little surprise in time for Christmas.
 
Thank you again!

That was exactly what I thought as a young boy! Its first appearance in the film didn’t help either: I associated it with the Star Destroyer, not the Blockade Runner. Took me a while to work out exactly what this Rebel Fanfare was when I saw the first references to it in print.
 
 
Now doesn’t that just make a whole heap of sense?

Absolutely ridonkulous.

OK, I've forgotten how awesome this movie is. I had totally forgotten about Rhino! This movie was pretty much on a loop in my house when the kids were little.
 
I think this score has been largely forgotten and totally overshadowed by How to Train Your Dragon.

According to Paul HIrsch, the shot of Vader escaping was added veeery late in the game, and therefore, the Rebel Fanfare was meant to acompany the heroes back to Yavin, not Vader.

Chronological beats alphabetical, I'll give it that.

Been going through many of Powell's animated scores to get more familiarized with them, and Bolt was one of the big surprises in how much I enjoyed it! Definitely recommend the sessions if you're able to get them, as the album leaves out some great cues. So many great themes in this one! And I think the theme you pointed out in those two videos is Mittens' theme! It also appears in other tracks like House on Wheels, or the lovely piano variation near the end of Las Vegas!

I really like when it totally slows down for long periods of "not much happening", but it's still kind of electric in its own way throughout that.  There's a bunch of different ideas at work in the score, and they all just kinda work together, like magic.

Jay, I'm sorry for your loss. Having lost a couple of pets not nearly so peacefully I'm glad you can at least take solace from that.
 
I was listening to Sneakers myself the other day. It's almost the Citizen Kane of a certain era of Horner. If you haven't heard Sneakers you heard something he made like it. But Sneakers was the best.
 
Horner top 5 to be sure.

You know, they say that if you have to explain a joke that it isn't funny anymore. I think there are lots of examples (like this one!) where it just gets funnier! (And yes, I got it.)

I think the "if you have to explain the joke it's not funny" thing only applies when nobody got the joke because it was too esoteric or required too many mental steps to get to the punchline.

I hear that Mike Matessino is playing a Viking in this movie to get a jump on remastering the soundtrack. (<-- Bizarre attempt at rumor.)

Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
 
For the record, I never left JWfan, I just took a 14 day vacation.
 
 
I don't owe any money to anyone (except the usual - banks, loan sharks; credit cards; ex-wife; ex-girlfriend; ex-business partner; taxman, etc.).

The behind the scenes footage looks better than the trailer in this respect.

She was a very special cat and very happy in our home and showed how much she loved Marcy and I all the time.  it was devestating to wake up and find her dead, especially since she had been fine the night before.  I suppose there's solace in knowing she died in her sleep, in the first spot in the house that the sun comes in in the morning, rather than suffering at the end of her life like some pets do.

James Horner - Sneakers (LLL)
 
I do not know what it was that led to to choose this to play on Friday afternoon, after I returned to work a couple hours after burying my beloved cat of almost 15 years in the morning.  But play it I did, and found the mood about right for what I wanted (which is probably why I was subconsciously drawn to it).  Boy, this score is a gem, a highlight of Horner's career, and I am kind of happy that I didn't really know it back in the day and only came to really know it thanks to the wonderful LLL expansion, which is terrific.  I think the entire main program plays just beautifully, no notes.  And that Sneakers Theme bonus track with Marsalis going nuts on the saxophone is one of the coolest bonus track we've gotten in a while.  I have no idea why Horner did not put this version on the soundtrack album - who cares that it wasn't in the film?  I would have opened the album with this and put the film version as the final track as a Reprise.

Non ironically Bolt was the first for me, i always loved to hear the percussion before Bolt barks.

MY kids won't! (I'll show it to them tonight and report back.)
 
Why do the PEOPLE look like CG? Why does this live action remake not look like LIVE ACTION?

Compared to the book or the original movie?
 
Same answer: He has to be big enough to ride and to be able to kill you.
 
I'm not sure if he's that much bigger than his animated counterpart. But if he is it's so that he matches scale with Hiccup.