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  1. #1 (of the new ones posted by Hitch): Name of the Rose (have to watch that again)?
  2. I watched "House of Sand and Fog" yesterday. Great performances, but definitely nothing for someone suffering a depression
  3. Well, compared to other releases like the Alien Quadrilogy, Terminator 2, and even the 2DVD-sets for the Star Wars prequels the extras of the Indy DVD box are really rather poor. That never really bothered me, though. I was not tempted to buy the new sets earlier this year.
  4. I think most people still like the KotCS score, but just not as much as the other ones. I like the new score better than many other things that were released lately, but it is actually best when it copies the older ones note-by-note, and whereas the new material is effective within the film, I'm not tempted to listen to it (especially the alien music) as often as to the classics. I just prefer the more mythological themes and, imho, greater variety of the old ones. There is some nice new action music and I like Irina's theme, but it's just not the same as ToD or LC for me. As for Last Crusade, I never considered it "light and merry", quite to the contrary. Yes, there are some goofy cues like "No Ticket" (I was never really a fan of that), but there are many rather serious, solemn, contemplative, sad, and urgent moments (that outweigh the funny stuff) as well.
  5. My 2CD-version of Debney's CutThroat Island arrived today. 150 minutes of pure joy! I love that score
  6. Wait, so you live in Germany? No, but I frequently visit home, e.g. for Christmas. I usually have a couple of things waiting for me every time :-)
  7. That tracklist looks good indeed. I'm glad that we mostly get CDs with as much music as possible from LaLaLand and similar labels. I hate CDs that only feature 35 minutes or so even though there is much more that could be released. One example is the music for SeaQuest DSV; I really enjoy the music by Debney (great main title!), but 30 minutes out of probably many hours of music is really pathetic. Well, I'm really looking forward to Batman AS....
  8. Don't forget that even in ToD Indy is already 36 years old or so; that's about the time when your lenses become more rigid and you cannot focus on nearby objects that well any more. The glasses are surely for reading (although Indy also probably thinks he looks more intelligent wearing them )
  9. Couldn't disagree more - I thought Kloser's score was superb. For me, Arnold's got himself typecast as doing big, brassy and completely over the top action scores Well, I didn't say I hated Kloser's score (even bought it), but I did like Arnold's certainly "over-the-top", but richly thematic music quite well (compared to many things we hear nowadays), and I certainly liked these scores better than the extreme pseudo-ethno thing that Kloser created for the film (thought it was not very original). I do agree that it was the best part of the movie, but with mammoths pulling up stones to the top of the pyramid etc. etc. that's not a big deal (I'm a paleontologist, as you might have guessed) . That's just my opinion...
  10. Watched Beowulf today, and then Last Crusade (for the gazillionth time); wanted to hear the music in context again, but the movie still keeps entertaining me apart from the music as well...
  11. "Glory" by Horner. But I also keep going back to the Indy score highlights - guess that will continue for quite a while :-)
  12. Hmmm, I would generally agree that not so many new scores really impress me these days, and there is (almost) no composer that I trust blindly (but, to be honest, even John Williams didn't always compose in a manner that I enjoyed unconditionally). That said, there are still very nice releases once in a while, and the composers with the most potential are, in my opinion (apart from the "Old Masters" that still do some work from time to time): James Newton Howard (there are usually at least a few cues per soundtrack that I enjoy, often tremendously) John Debney (can please somebody give him an assignment the likes of "Cutthroat Island" again?) Danny Elfman (at least whenever he goes back to his roots, like in Hellboy 2) David Arnold (I miss the old Independence Day and Stargate times; guess 10.000 BC [what a *cough* questionable *cough* movie] would have sounded much more pleasant if handled by Arnold) Others whose work I sometimes enjoy are Harry Gregson-Williams, Christopher Young, Brian Tyler, Edward Shearmur, and James Horner (what a shame that he ran out of ideas about 20 years ago). All in all, I do see a negative trend, but together with all the great re-releases and expansions, still enough to keep me occupied.
  13. Apart from the Indy box I recently got: Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition (1997, didn't bother to buy it earlier because of the few new pieces - but now it was really inexpensive) Walking with Beasts (Ben Bartlett) Great Film Fantasies (conducted by Erich Kunzel) Christus Apollo (Jerry Goldsmith) Glory (James Horner) Species (Christopher Young) The Matrix - Ultimate Edition (Don Davis) Born on the 4th of July Most of these fortunately from Amazon market place or the like for a very reasonable price (either used or overstock) Still waiting for: The Golden Compass (Alexandre Desplat) and Merlin (Rob Lane)
  14. Sure, do it all the time (Amazon.de). It's nice to have the choice between the European offer and that of the States. Amazon.de is very reliable (and shipping and handling is free of charge within Germany and to most of the neighboring countries if you order for more than 20 Euro - and it usually arrives the next day, not after a week or so as it frequently happens to me in the US; but that won't help you much, I guess ;-))
  15. Thanks for the interesting history of the website. I have known it for a couple of years now, and it helped me to get to know about JW concerts in my area, but I only discovered the message board when I desperately wanted to find out more about the Indy CD box. As for my own history with soundtracks and John Williams, I didn't pay much attention to film music until I watched Jurassic Park at a theater. Although the music of some films and TV series had caught my attention before (e.g. for Star Trek and Land before Time), I was, up to that point, quite unaware of how sophisticated film music can be, involving huge orchestras and choirs and being as complex as the best classical pieces. I thought it would be a shame to ignore the music by itself, to only listen to it while watching the movie, and I asked at a local music store whether they had JP on audio cassette. They had to order it, but after a week or so I got it, and, boy, was I blown away! I tried to convince my older sister of the quality of that music, but she couldn't understand me at all. After I realized that most people considered my newly developed taste weird I started to usually not mention it any more and to mostly use headphones to listen to it (how stupid, actually), but that didn't stop me from buying soundtracks (and I really rarely purchased a CD of any other genre). When I was about to graduate from high school I discovered that some people in my year found certain Hans Zimmer and even John Williams CDs cool (especially after we had discussed film music in class), just as others became interested in classical music, and since then I didn't hide my hobby any more. And thanks to the internet I now know many other people who share my passion; how nice From the beginning I always liked John Williams best among the film music composers; after Jurassic Park I discovered the music of Star Wars, Indiana Jones (Last Crusade was soon my favorite), and then most of his less "easy-listening" soundtracks (some like Munich and Presumed Innocent I never really managed to enjoy, though). But I also gave numerous other composers a chance, James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner most consistenly offering very satisfying results.
  16. Oh, I really forgot about Bram Stoker's Dracula; the love theme is gorgeous!
  17. Thanks; in my opinion midnight would just as well be justified to be called pm (noon is the "m", after all), and I prefer to say 12 noon or 12 midnight. I am used to call 12 am 0 o'clock :-)
  18. Okay, I really want to have "Batman" (I'm spending way too much money on CDs these days...) Btw, what exactly does 12 pm PST mean (still find that confusing), is it 3 pm EST?
  19. Last Crusade is still No. 1, but ToD overtook Raiders (and I really like Raiders!). KotCS is a nice score, but in comparison to the others it really doesn't have much to offer (at least in its present state).
  20. "Walking with Dinosaurs" by Ben Bartlett (highly recommendable!)
  21. My favorites are: Ilia's theme, Lady Claire and Marek (Brian Tyler, Timeline) Han & Leia, Luke & Leia (yeah, I know it's not a love theme sensu strictu, but it's stylistically similar), Leia's theme (ditto), Across the Stars, Marion's theme the love theme in Cutthroat Island (John Debney) Beautiful (King Kong, James Newton Howard)
  22. Well, I like "Miracle of the Ark", but it really can't compete with "The Map Room" :-)
  23. I never opened the KOTCS CD included in the set; the digipak will just be a decorative part of the box set for now. I already had the music on my computer and ipod, and the digipak looks exactly like the old one, so I don't know what else to do with it (I don't like to give things away that I bought, but I might give the old CD to somebody who wants it one day and then use the box version).
  24. My favorite theme is, without doubt, buckbeaks flight, and I particularly like the second occurrence, when Sirius escapes from the tower (it has a great intro there - unreleased, of course ;-)). The second favorite theme is what started as the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone motive and seemed to end up as Voldemort's theme in CoS (the best version can be heard when the safe at Gringotts is opened in the first movie).
  25. Found this in a review of the set at Musicfromthemovies.com: "The albums presented here stick close to Williams’ original intentions, retaining his original album edits and thus vividly tell a story through music and with bags of colour and wit. What the additional cues do is simply augment that story a little further and while these score presentations are by no means complete I think it’s enough to keep fans satisfied; what remains on the cutting room floor is surely only filler anyway." Anyone else here who slightly disagrees ?
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