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I watched that movie a few weeks ago. It is... special, and not in a good way. The score seemed rather unremarkable to me.

Those dark catacombs are exactly my thing. The Vatican is also my favorite level... I'm lookiing forward to the DLC :-)

Awesome. I totally missed that additional music from Walking with Beasts has become available, and I will buy the album right away when I get home tonight. I was always a little disappointed about the original CD's content. Can't wait!

Hm, never cared for Godzilla much. Maybe because the tone of the whole movie feels off to me.

I'm sure you will. For me, it's still the favorite one of those scores, and contains some of my all-time favorite cues. I listen to "the other side" all the time; a pinnacle of what's possible emotionally with music imo. I also ordered the expanded edition recently (mostly for some of the early cues). Just realized the cue that was the main reason for me purchasing the expanded version wasn't even on the Varese CD (send in the probe)... Good that I waited until now

Ah, I see; thanks. I'd really like to have a properly expanded soundtrack of Dial of Destiny, so many great cues and apparently alternates being absent on the OST. This is becoming my new "grail"...

This was bugging me for awhile, so I used an opportunity to watch the movie again and also checked the Ost. As far as I can tell, there is norhing in the isolated score for "To the Airport" that is even close to the section of the end credits I mentioned. There is other mysterious music at the beginning of the "To the airport" scene, but that's quite different from the end credits piece. Both are nice, none are on the OST (which is a shame), and the end credits section seems to appear in the movie only in that place. Now, your google doc mentions a patch for "To the Airport" on the GEMA page... is this perhaps part of the explanation?

It will probably take a while for my copy to arrive. Shouldn't have ordered it alongside Dark Crystal, which was currently out of stock. In general, this hobby has become epically expensive.... I had the choice between paying 56 (!) € for the set or 40 (!) $ for shipping.

I had really hoped for Wallfisch or JNH to score the movie. Desplat? After what he wrote for Harry Potter... kinda meh. Guess it could be worse.

Ha, I actually thought about putting it that way, but my negative nature won 😆

Hm, I really wanted to buy this, but the European store I usually utilize charges 56 € (!) for this set of three half-empty CDs (and 46 for the new Bond double CD sets 😱). Plus really expensive shipping costs. I guess I'll wait for a sale.

I might get this, as I never bought the previous albums. But 3 CDs for 136 minutes of music?

Oh really? Need to look into that again. Sorry, I didn't see your time stamps. I didn't play the game in a long time, but thought the music was okayish back then. Did it even have a proper MacGuffin theme?

The section is roughly from 2:30:14 (it was props, not foley) till 2:30:55; the specific mysterious part (strings and harp, not piano) I meant is from 2:30:18 till 2:30:32. Short but nice.

Yeah, I know what you mean. The circle theme reminded me of Call of the Crystal, which I never much liked. Williams' weakest MacGuffin theme by far. The Circle theme at least has a better buildup in a few cases, and I like the versions supported by choir. Voss' music is indeed quite good (after living in Germany for over 40 years I still haven't met anyone having "Emmerich" as his first name here, by the way ;-)). As I wrote elsewhere, scoring a game certainly has consequences impacting our listening experience, so one has to give the composer some slack, I think. I do hope we get some additional music once the DLC comes out. There is some excellent somber/solemn unreleased music for the catacombs that deserves proper treatment, and I'd really like to have that version of "Secret Stones" from the Gizeh climax. Too bad the runtime here was comparatively short. Well, more excuse to play the game again :-)