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I agree most certainly as well.

They are still good, but could be better, and I don't care about them not containing any themes, but they are still disappointing. Go away uplifting Hook/TPM/AOTC action music!

Yeah, the Werewolf Scene starts at 36 minutes...

My thoughts exactly.

I had my hopes up, but alas. I don't think it's like Indiana Jones. It's more the typical Williams uplifting action style (like in Hook, TPM, etc.). I'm waiting for the darker parts, which I like better. So far, very entertaining listen, tracks 1, 3, 5 are great!

Er, why not? It has quite nice quality.

Thanks for the link!

You DD! Lotman

You prick! Neil LOL LOL

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Thanks for the tip! I can confirm that the Free Record Shop in Belgium also sells this for this little money. The DVD contains some nasty scratches though, I hope it'll play perfectly. Those idiots at Free Record Shop and those other music and DVD shops still don't know how to handle discs with care, let alone that they would know what DVD18 format is - let's get those nasty and dirty finger prints on both sides! Anyway, is there something interesting about this particular additional soundtrack? (I have the Rhino version of course.) Does it offer something, well, additional?

Personally, I'm quite glad I forgot all about "The Mummy".

After very careful consideration which lasted about 0.012 seconds; no.

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Great post. Although I don't quite like this more 'uplifting' 90s sound in some of his cues, I think he's doing rather well - he's not leaning back playing it safe, as in my opinion Goldsmith does sometimes (wíth high quality output still, of course); he surprises me in a nice and agreeable manner. The most pleasant surprise was probably A.I., and the least, er, well, perhaps the Harry Potter scores are the most conventional ones (in Williams's oeuvre, that is). The Fury is one of his best, but although there is perhaps no real consistent great score on the heels of Star Wars and the like, he is getting better and better, I think. I hope.

I am willing to bet that E3 will be the worst prequel BY FAR

I have the Yoda cover. I wanted the poster art, but at the time it was the only shop that had the soundtrack already, and I couldn't wait...

I'm pretty sure the poll means the latter, but if someone thought it meant the former they would've voted for CMIYC over CoS if they thought both were great, even if they liked CoS better. Ray Barnsbury Actually, the poll means the former, that is why I included the option "none of the above". In other words, 'great' lies within the restrictive scope of 'most recent'. His 'most recent' scores are the ones mentioned above, and those are juxtaposed with the set of all the other scores he composed, before those 'most recent' scores. I hope this makes things clear. Cheers!

Well it makes sense but I would have thought that they could put the EE music at the end of the theatrical music for each film, or in between the cues (not mixed), so that it is not completely chronological, but more or less chronological.

Same here, my dad recorded the end credits music from the video onto a cassette (!) for us to listen to since we loved it so much. At the time I was nine and vaguely knew Williams' name, but had never really thought twice about the concept of film music. Ray Barnsbury We must be pretty much the same age Ray - I was converted somewhat earlier though. A classical compilation CD of my father contains the Raiders March, which hooked me up immediately, and referred to the Boston Pops CD, which I then obtained. I didn't even know who Indiana Jones was back then

I disagree, if you have seen a movie you like (very much), you will automatically like the score, unless it's a very bad score of course. My point being, if the score is 'good', you will perceive it as somewhat 'better', in my opinion of course. (Yes, of course, this is not always true, but it's just something I have found is true for myself - e.g. the scores X-Files the Movie and Mission: Impossible)

Who?

That's like buying a CD by some obscure composer for $128... Let's do a little fact checking first. At the time, in the US the only way to get TPM on home video was on VHS. I haven't bought a pre-recorded video in years. Why would I waste my time on crap-vision VHS? The LD was being imported into this country from Japan, however. It has Japanese sub-titles, but they never really intrude on the big picture. Even the crawl is in English. Plus it's the original cut of the movie, which the eventual DVD was not, and the sound is superior to the DVD. Also in the LD days, it wasn't unusual to spend $100+ for a movie. The THX Defintive Collection of the 3 films was released in 1993 and was 9 discs and sold for $250. I could go on and on about all the LD's I have that sold for $100 or more, but I don't like to brag. Just know that in that era it was par for the course. Neil I see your point of course, hence the ...

I don't get it. I understand that his last scores are scores that can raise disputes, and sometimes justly so (hence the thread Williams's last great score), but Jurassic Park? That one is high on my list.

A ghost writer is someone who writes small to somewhat larger parts of something but doesn't get credited. For instance, it seems hard to believe Spielberg wrote the novelisation of Close Encounters all by himself. (Does anybody have more info on that by the way?)