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  1. It's been a while since I've read the books so I was hesitant in posting anything that might not be right. Frankly if you go by the books, Merry and Pippin would not have been alive even at the start of The Fellowship simply because of the 60 year gap between Gandalf leaving and returning, which the movie just glosses over because it adds nothing to the story, other than Gandalf's lackadaisical nature.
  2. Not exactly, because this forum requires a signed in profile only to post, not to view. Everything we post here is open for the world to read without discrimination.
  3. That's the kind of message the female score fans here don't deserve to read.
  4. If they want the actors to return, that's fine. The characters shouldn't return because Merry and Pippin ought to be the same age as or younger than Frodo, and I don't think Frodo was alive during the events of "The Hobbit."
  5. LaLaLand itself takes Paypal. SAE also takes PayPal and I didn't have a problem with my order. I thought it took way too long to get here, but it's just as well because I haven't listened to my Batman yet anyways, so not really a problem. If you are typing out track names for each of your MP3s by hand, you are doing it wrong. All you need is MP3Tag, which is free, and a source file, like the track listing, which is available at LaLaLand's website. It can import a tracklisting from a test, csv, or spreadsheet.
  6. All you need from V is A Busy Man and the end credits with the Klingon theme. The Mountain is ok, too. I think they play The Moon's a Window to Heaven at Gitmo. I don't remember ever owning a starship avatar. What do I need with a starship avatar?
  7. Or Bruce Springsteen's acoustic stuff without the E Street Band.
  8. Whatever, old man. Enjoy your Motion Picture score. Love it, embrace it, worship it. I can take it or leave it.
  9. Joey, you will never be happy because all you're doing is complaining how the great themes of ST: TMP were "abused" by subsequent Goldsmith Trek scores. The theme for the refit Enterprise so grandiosely introduced in The Motion Picture was recycled for the -A in Star Trek V, you got a problem with that? It was re-orchestrated for the -D in The Next Generation, granted by Goldsmith himself, but then he used it in First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis, but that was a brand new Enterprise, the -E. Should that ship have gotten its own theme, too, because it wasn't even a Kirk ship? The Klingon theme was used in The Motion Picture as the Klingons are attacked by V'Ger. The Klingons were not villains in that film, they were victims, featured for five minutes and then killed off. Their political associations at the time were irrelevant next to the power of V'Ger. The theme's appearance in Star Trek V makes more sense as the Klingons were antagonists in that film. But Goldsmith used it for Worf because he's a Klingon, not a bad guy, and blood is thicker than water. Do you have a problem with the four note motif that's used a couple times in Star Trek V, but then lathered on heavily in First Contact? Like a motif for Kirk is recycled for Picard, which is then used for Picard's speech in Nemesis, does that keep you up at night, too?
  10. While I wish no hardship on big companies like that or the thousands of families they'll affect, it would be nice to find a decent television at a reduced price to replace the 25+ year old CRT in my bedroom, as the CC in my town liquidates. Brick and mortar stores like CC and Best Buy just can't compete with the online dealers, that sell quality merchandise for much reduced cost, and without charging (most consumers) sales tax. And most types of things you could buy at CC can be found at Walmart, too.
  11. Half of Worf's lines in Nemesis were in the trailer and did not make the final cut. Although "Captain, I recommend extreme caution" coming from the man who stood side to side with his captain as the entire Klingon Empire threatened them both is pure cheese. So it was good to cut it. The usage of Klingon theme in First Contact in three key places is awesome. Period.
  12. I've missed the point of nothing. The music is all awesome. But saying one score is 5 stars and another is 4.5 stars and polling to compare a great score to a crappy score is just: and that's the point that's being missed here. If all the scores are five star scores, then none of the scores are five star scores.
  13. No one in this thread, so far... I seen that one. Alanis Morisette, right?
  14. So John Williams has written 25 five-star scores? I think everyone here is missing Joey's point and diluting the list of 5-star scores with a bunch of 4's, 3's, 2's, and all the decimals in between. If the man has written that many masterpieces, that many five-star scores, then those titles lose their meaning and become nothing special.
  15. So the Riddler sucks WRT Joker. That's as much a fault of comic book writing as it is the terrible part they gave to Jim Carrey ten years ago or so, which perverts our perception of this character. I am confident that if Nolan had The Riddler strap bombs to his victims with riddles that Batman had to solve in a time limit, that would be pretty damn interesting. Die Hard 3 had such riddles and they were pretty frikkin' cool. Batman only has a handful of "iconic" villains that the general public would want to see money to see, unless you got a great actor to shed light on the more obscure ones. Ledger's death should not sentence every remaining quality Batman villain -- Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman, Ventriloquist -- to the dump heap simply because they can't stack up to a psychotic man in sloppy clown makeup. Because it sounds like you want a villain but also want him to be as good as Ledger's Joker, unless you just want the character of Joker brought back. Ledger's death should not make that an impossibility for the sake of the story; it's not the studio's fault he OD'd. But Dengar is not a quality villain within the Star Wars universe. He is a minor character, and really does nothing for Darth Vader. He stands there with six other bounty hunters as Darth Vader tells them to find the Falcon. Bad guy, yes, but no more a "villain" than the third stormtrooper from the left in any scene with more than three stormtroopers. Boba Fett speaks, tracks down Han Solo, and takes Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt. We know that from the movie. While Boba Fett doesn't even have a name in that movie, he's a villain, not Dengar. By this point Dengar has done nothing but take up space and inspire kids to buy action figures and comic books to learn more about his life. And then Lucas has suckered you into buying something else.
  16. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Jaws Raiders of the Lost Ark Superman
  17. Wikipedia says that a lot of Dvorak pieces have more than one opus number, a result of his publishers getting greedy. Is the Opus 11 you're looking for able to be cross-referenced as Burghauser 39? That MIDI archives has Czech Suite, Op.39, which has a movement called Romanza.
  18. Do you have sheet music for the whole orchestra, or just your part? Making a MIDI note by note is possible, but very time consuming. I used to do make them all the time.
  19. And I like this score better than either Insurrection or Nemesis. Maybe because I enjoyed this movie a lot more.
  20. This makes absolutely no sense. The Riddler is as much an iconic villain in Batman lore as the Joker, alongside the Penguin and Catwoman. You're just saying that because at this point, nobody thinks anyone could portray a villain with as much delicious malevolence as Heath Ledger. True or not, he's dead, so if you want more movies, we have to find a new villain. If you want to mourn Ledger forever and ever, don't make anymore Batman movies. Dengar is not a villain in The Empire Strikes Back. His presence in the group of bounty hunters recruited by Vader indicates he's a bad guy, but he adds nothing more to the story beyond that. True, in the Expanded Star Wars, every single character ever seen onscreen or imagined elsewhere has their own life story, motivations, and countless encounters with the main chracters...just to sell comic books, action figures, and make fanboys warm in their pants with excitement. But he adds nothing to the film.
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