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Terrible...yes...but great.

I like that track, but I can't help feeling it's a little too similar to Kilar's "Exodus" which Spielberg used to temp-track the film (and was used in the preview).

That I could understand. I presume in the suite we get a proper rendition of the Throne Room music before the end credit suite. That would make sense as the fragment at the end would be a reference to something we've already heard. It makes absolutely no sense at all to have such a tiny fragment in a score that doesn't even include the Throne Room music! Would Beethoven have stuck in two measures of his 5th symphony in the end of the 7th?

Am I the only one who thinks that "return of the Jedi ending" everyone's talking about is crap! I hate that we get two bars from the Throne Room theme thrown in completely at random. It would be one thing if the throne room music were played earlier in the score, but as it is it just seems extremely cut-and-pasted into the score at random. If it was some strange attempt to tie Jedi together with the original movie, then surely the main theme does that already! It's the most annoying moment in the Jedi score for me, except perhaps for the cringe-worthy "triumph" theme we get in the sail-barge fight and Death Star explosion. What bugs me about the throne room fragment is that it replaces two measures that were fantastic.

Ah ok thanks. Not the first time I've misunderstood something. Actually I found the Tsunami CDs for Fitzwilly and How to Steal a Million the same day at Tower Records in Trafalgar Square, London. This was about 7 years ago. I think I paid twelve pounds each for them, so quite a nice little result there! However, I have since embarassed myself on several occasions by paying silly amounts for other rare Williams scores!

Wie Klaut Man Eine Million? (hehe) I'm guessing this muic was more popular in Deutschland.

Is`it the same CD as the previous one? (Was`it Tsunami???) James - Who loves the opening music

Band of Brothers? Who did the music for that?

Well I just saw The Terminal and I loved it, so there.

My money is on him dying of a heart attack as soon as he sees the poll.

Tell that to Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Berg, Mahler (etc etc etc)

Yes. And?

Must be some magical new diet to make your "r"s vanish! (Boom tsch!)

It's all very silly, but I love Not With My Wife You Don't! Also, many of the songs on Penelope are fun (in an Austin Powersy kind of way!) though Natalie Wood's voice is rather poor on the one she sings. IMO the best ever Williams song is Moonlight from Sabrina. The jazz combo with Sting is a fantastic performance. It was robbed at the 1997 oscars IMO! Mind you, the version they played during the ceremony sounded like crap.

I'm glad you're checking out the Poseidon Adventure score, it's got some terrific music on it. The main theme is wonderfully evocative of rolling waves, particularly the cello ostinato. Do you already have this score? If not you may have difficulties obtaining it as I think the FSM CD is now sold out. If you can find a copy BUY IT! The CD is filled up with all the available music from Conrack and The Paper Chase. A good buy!

So when exactly are we getting word from Lucas about changes to the trilogy on DVD? Didn't someone say a press release was coming out in a few days?

Ok, so I worked them out finally. I couldn't relax until I did! GRRRRRR.

I don't know what 3 of these are! Can't be bothered to look through a list and work it out so I'll just type a reply instead. SL?? MR?? AT??

Here they are. 1) Yes Giorgio 2) Attack of the Clones 3) The Patriot 4) Saving Private Ryan 5) Stepmom 6) Tom Sawyer 7) John Goldfarb Please Come Home 8) Amistad 9) Goodbye Mr Chips 10) The Accidental Tourist (shame as I paid 40 bucks for it! I like the main theme, I just wish we didn't get it 12 times!)

Whereas I feel that in Gambon we're finally getting the Dumbledore I always imagined while reading the books.

Lucky you! My local Best Buy didn't get it in so I had to go to Borders. The CD came to $20.27 with tax. Not exactly the cheapest Williams CD I've ever bought (though not nearly the most expensive either!). Frankly I don't care about the anti pirating logo. It may be rather prominent, but I agree with the sentiment. I paid good money for it, I don't see why others should get it for free! Hehe. Seriously, I can't see what everyone is so worked up about here. Get over it guys, there's a sticker on your CD! Ooooooooooh!!!! Frankly what I noticed more than anything else on this release is the inclusion of the names of the orchestra members. Now it's great to see that coming back again. These guys deserve recognition. I haven't seen that on a soundtrack release since the original double albums of the Star Wars scores! I have since met people who played on the original Star Wars soundtrack, and there's their name in print on the record to prove it! I hope they keep that up. It's nice to know who the soloist is!

Well of course everyone's entitled to their opinion, and I respect yours. I just wanted to point out that for me the inclusion of little extras like the umbrella in the Quidditch match lifted the film. It was completely unnecessary, and therefore added a sense of the surreal to that scene. It's the kind of thing director's like Gilliam and Jeunet do to create a sense of the unusual. I really disagree with you on Michael Gambon's portrayal of Dumbledore though. For me I finally feel that we are getting a portrayal of Dumbledore as he is in the books, a whimsical sprightly old man with a love for practical jokes, not the kindly old duffer we got with Richard Harris (whose portrayal I liked, but which I feel pales next to Gambon's).

At what point did Lucas decide that SW, ESB, and ROTJ could be summed up by the colours red, blue, and green respectively? He used a similar colour scheme for the last trilogy release. When I think of Star Wars I think of light brown (Tattoine) and silver (Death Star). For ESB I think of white (Hoth), dark brown (Dagobah), and red (carbon freeze/Bespin), and for Jedi I think predominantly of Blue (Emperor's throne room), but then what do I know. I know that the Endor moon is green in ROTJ, but as a cover I think green lacks the sinister quality necessary for this final chapter.

I'm sorry I already have two of these. One to play, and one to keep in it's plastic wrap as a collectable. Yes, I'm a geek! If you can't get rid of it at least you won't be the only person with two! I bought the first one in England when it first came out. Back then they cost 31 pounds each! Yes, that's about fifty bucks!!!! The Jedi one was even more expensive! Then a couple of years back someone was selling SW AND ESB as a package deal on Ebay. I was the only bidder and I got them both for a total of 5 dollars!!!

Well here's my 2 cents, much of which echoes what has already been written above. I don't mind GL using modern technology to "fix" certain effects shots that didn't quite come off. I love what he did with the Hoth battle in ESB special edition, removing the matt mines etc. I also like the redone battle scenes in the battle of Yavin. I really don't see the point of the rest of the stuff he did. The "sweeping camera" shots in SW and ESB just don't work (the entry into Mos Eisley, and the fancy Bespin shot leading into Han and Leia's scene, you know the one!) These shots are so different from the camera work in the rest of the film that they stand out as being cartoonish and distracting. It wasn't really until Jedi that Lucas started doing these kinds of shots. I admit I had a lot of fun in 1997 when the Special Editions first came out. I really enjoyed seeing the movies on the big screen again, and the new shots were fun novelties. By the time I got the video tapes I realised they just stood out too damn much. One of the posts above mentioned that the movies had become "hybrid mutations" or something like that. I agree. Most of the special edition shots stand out like a sore thumb. I know Lucas doesn't want there to be too much of a jump in style when watching episode 3 and 4 back to back, but it's going to be there whether he wants it or not. 30 years tends to do that. What episode 4 lacks in visual complexity it will score over episode 3 in other ways. (Many other ways I'm sure if episode 3 is anything like 1 and 2!)