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Wouldn't expect Dutoit to be part of that Tanglewood event anymore.

It will be included with the 50th anniversary E.T. expanded score set.

The last Jedi.  
 

Still a better love story than Twilight.

For whatever reason, I noticed Gold's music way more during the RTD years.

There is enough menace with Ren and Snoke, and honestly, there was never anything menacing about Hux.  It also gives an immediate reinforcement to Poe's attitude toward authority figures.

There is so much going on in the movie emotionally with Rey and Luke, and Rey and Ben, and the resistance, that adding more information about Rey's parents would have been too much.  Now with only one more film in the trilogy, it's one less thing to have to worry about.  Personally, with so much emphasis on lineage, like with Vader and Luke, and Luke and Leia, and Ben and Han, why continue to mess with people in the same way over and over again.

Hey, the Force theme sounds cool backwards too.
 
 

There is enough menace with Ren and Snoke, and honestly, there was never anything menacing about Hux.  It also gives an immediate reinforcement to Poe's attitude toward authority figures.

Yeah, we've been conditioned to constantly want new themes which gives each score an identity.  And while we do get a nice little theme with Rose, this score is more an exercise in precision writing allowing him to flesh out everything from TFA and balance it with the older themes in a more heightened way than in TFA as well.  Nothing wrong with that, still a hell of a score.

Well, it seemed appropriate for the film he scored.

Yeah, we've been conditioned to constantly want new themes which gives each score an identity.  And while we do get a nice little theme with Rose, this score is more an exercise in precision writing allowing him to flesh out everything from TFA and balance it with the older themes in a more heightened way than in TFA as well.  Nothing wrong with that, still a hell of a score.

Yeah, we've been conditioned to constantly want new themes which gives each score an identity.  And while we do get a nice little theme with Rose, this score is more an exercise in precision writing allowing him to flesh out everything from TFA and balance it with the older themes in a more heightened way than in TFA as well.  Nothing wrong with that, still a hell of a score.

Yeah, we've been conditioned to constantly want new themes which gives each score an identity.  And while we do get a nice little theme with Rose, this score is more an exercise in precision writing allowing him to flesh out everything from TFA and balance it with the older themes in a more heightened way than in TFA as well.  Nothing wrong with that, still a hell of a score.

This guy I normally watch for his video game commentaries, but he does the odd movie rant on occasion too:
 
 
Think of it a low rent British version of Plinkett

I actually didn't care for Maz's cameo.  Felt like, well, a cameo, and not a natural extension of the material.  Too attention-grabbing and awkward.
 
As for locations, I did like the salt planet.
 

Well, I got back from seeing the film.  I did the same thing I did last year, which was to avoid everything.  No trailers, no TV spots, no internet ads, articles, reviews, photos, etc.  I saw the poster and that was about it.  I didn't go into any of the forum threads to join or give a passing glance at discussion.  I felt it gave me an extra thrill in my viewing experience when I did that with FTA, and the same thing this time around.
 
I enjoyed the movie a lot.  There were problems, some spotty character and set-piece issues, but when the credits rolled, it felt good. 
 
Some of the less interesting things:  The movie was long.  It wasn't structured in a 3 art format, it felt more like 6.  Every time I thought it was going to end on a cliffhanger, it just kept going.  I appreciated the format more when it was over, but there was a time I couldn't believe it kept adding another scene.  The del Toro's character is either useless, or at the very least, inserted poorly.  I feel you could literally remove his character entirely, tweak a couple of things, and you have essentially the same thing, except tighter.  The subplot involving Fin and Rose didn't really work in general.  Some of the humor was a bit too cute.  In the OT, at least Star Wars and Empire, the humor was an extension of the human elements, the character's personalities drove most of it.  There was a tad overflow of cute little furry animal jokes in somewhat serious situations that I could have done without.
 
The good thankfully outweighs the negative.  The movie looks amazing, it's acted nicely, and it's scored beautifully.  There are some visual moments that are breathtaking.  I love that Snoke was killed.  It gives Kylo Ren a nice trajectory with his ascension to power.  There was some really wonderfully poetic moments with Luke, some neat new landscapes, and interesting action pieces.
 

I was actually looking forward to a long partnership between Edwards and Desplat.  Bummer.

Copy arrived today, it sounds beautiful.

Can't wait!

More Jedi Steps.  I truly hope he intended that as a leitmotif, and not just a scene theme.

Too much. They're robbing Star Wars of its magic.
 
And for what? For a little bit of money? There's more to life than a little money. Doesn't Disney know that? And here we are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it.

Agreed.  The end credits for POA still piss me off since it started out fantastically, and then segued into a bunch of theme edits stitched together.  To be blunt, it had the potential of being one of Williams greatest end credit suites.  Shame.

Staring Chuck Norris and Tom Selleck