Josh500 1493 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think? Link to post Share on other sites
Sandor 354 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think?The Adventures Of Tintin for me.Or any other new John Williams score for that matter. Link to post Share on other sites
Neimoidian 13 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Not really, at least as far as general hype is concerned. I am not excited about his upcoming scores as much as I used to be couple of years ago, too many recent ones have left me shiverless (I do like most of them, though). Nevertheless, I will probably get excited anyway, when it eventually comes to listening to Tintin for the first time. And I still believe we may get something great from Williams one day or another - not Empire/ET-like great, though, but rather Schindler/Geisha-like one. Link to post Share on other sites
Jay 19029 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I still get excited about every new John Williams score. He's my favorite composer Link to post Share on other sites
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think?I avoided this site before then, as well as shortly after, at least avoided all Indy threads. I have seen the ridiculous cycle of watching people hype something up too high only to be disappointed by their own expectations too many times.With both the score and the film, I knew next to NOTHING going in. Just like in 1981 when I saw Raiders. And I had a great night at the movies, and I got a great score.Comparing films and scores from a time when there were few expectations to films and scores where expectations are artificially inflated is a recipe for disappointment every time, no matter the quality of the work. Link to post Share on other sites
Quintus 5253 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 No, I doubt it. The wait for the Indy IV score was the pinnacle of my JW fandom. Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Penna 1353 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I doubt it. The fact that he isn't my favourite composer isn't why though. He's slowing down, and quite a few of his more recent scores just haven't excited me.But then Tin Tin is going to be his first animated film right? We haven't seen that side of him yet, although I hope it won't be too mickey-mousey. Link to post Share on other sites
Ollie 736 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 No. I wasn't that hyped for KOTCS to begin with.Now if you tell me Black Sunday will get an expanded release, I'll be hyped as hell. Link to post Share on other sites
Neimoidian 13 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Comparing films and scores from a time when there were few expectations to films and scores where expectations are artificially inflated is a recipe for disappointment every time, no matter the quality of the work.Yes, but these expectations are formed naturally by contact with a previous output of an artist. It's quite difficult not to expect something, when you aren't indifferent about that thing.As for the quality of the work, it's not something that exist totally out of context. Take paintings for example - an original Picasso's work is worth great deal of money and receives praise, while it's copy - possibly identical in look and done with appropriate care (and, perhaps, even more effort so to make it look like the original); in other words: a work of the same quality - is preety much worthless. Link to post Share on other sites
indy4 152 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I'll be incredibly incredibly excited for any new JW release, but it won't quite be KotCS-excited. So no. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Am I the only one who does not give a rats ass about a score's historical importance or cultural impact? I mean, to me, Indy 4 was just another upcoming JW score, despite the fact that Raiders is one of my all time favorites. I never expected it to be another Raiders, but it does happen to be the closest thing to another Raiders that exists in modern output. It is not even worse, just a little bit different. The film just does not have the same impact, for a few reasons, some of them cultural, some of them dramatic and technical. But ask a 6 year old and the difference reduces.When I hear stuff like the warehouse fight (the new material), it seems like no time has passed whatsoever - home run - end of story. Of course it has all the alien sounding stuff at the end which is different in tone, but naturally to be expected. I do not understand how anybody could have expected anything else from this score. It is the same John Williams writing for a different film. Let's face it as well - although Williams' musical voice has changed a little, it is basically the same. It is as if people want everything to stay exactly the same without the slightest difference. Link to post Share on other sites
Koray Savas 1821 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 No. I wasn't that hyped for KOTCS to begin with. Link to post Share on other sites
Taikomochi 645 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I look forward to Interstellar just as much as I did KotCS. Link to post Share on other sites
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Yes we will. And why? Because we're all JW's b*tches. Link to post Share on other sites
BLUMENKOHL 1047 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 *Cough* TPM.*Cough* AOTC...Those were the pinnacles. Link to post Share on other sites
Datameister 1117 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I didn't have sky-high expectations before KOTCS. I figured it'd be a fun but not terribly classic-like score, and as far as my ears can tell, I was right. I just waited it out and when I heard the score for the first time, it was during my first viewing of the film. Afterward, I didn't hesitate to buy it, and I don't regret that. Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Breathmask 458 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I hope not.Reading the boards was a pain in the ass. Link to post Share on other sites
Muad'Dib 1313 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Of course yes! I'm really excited about "Tintin", "Lincoln", "Interestellar" and the two "HP and the Deathly Hallows" films, if he scores them, and I'm preety sure he will, despite what some pesimists say... Always look on the bright side of life, right? Link to post Share on other sites
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I figured it'd be a fun but not terribly classic-like score, and as far as my ears can tell, I was right.If film music history tells us anything, it is that today's "meh" may turn out to be tomorrow's classic. Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Breathmask 458 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 The two "HP and the Deathly Hallows" films, if he scores them, and I'm preety sure he will.Aren't you a joker. Link to post Share on other sites
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10237 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I hope not.Reading the boards was a pain in the ass.Wuss!You chose this job, remember! Link to post Share on other sites
MrScratch 211 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 The only score I was ever truly excited for was TPM, of course this was before we all knew how the prequels would turn out. And, I was still a college kid with nothing else going on in my life at the time. Link to post Share on other sites
John Crichton 4 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I hope not.Reading the boards was a pain in the ass.Wuss!You chose this job, remember!Yeah, then he let Ricard do all the hard work! Link to post Share on other sites
Hlao-roo 388 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Now if you tell me Black Sunday will get an expanded release, I'll be hyped as hell.Hell yes. Link to post Share on other sites
JoeinAR 1409 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 No, I suspect that KOTCS will be the last JW score. Link to post Share on other sites
Josh500 1493 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 No, I doubt it. The wait for the Indy IV score was the pinnacle of my JW fandom.Yes, I think so, too.For me, it was KotCS and PoA. Link to post Share on other sites
Red 72 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I'm excited by any new JW score, but I don't think the pandemonium that KOTCS caused will ever be replicated again. Link to post Share on other sites
Josh500 1493 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 I'm excited by any new JW score, but I don't think the pandemonium that KOTCS caused will ever be replicated again.Right. If anything, Tin Tin ought to do it, but then... it won't be as big as Indy 4. Link to post Share on other sites
JoeinAR 1409 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 why would Tintin do it, its obscure. Link to post Share on other sites
Josh500 1493 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Tin Tin would cause a pandemonium, that is. Sure. It's a FIRST Spielberg animation, AND a Spielberg/Jackson collaboration, to boot. Link to post Share on other sites
Melange 446 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Hmm, I wasn't excited about his Kingdom of the Crystal Skull score, because I wasn't excited about the film either and felt it was a huge mistake to make it anyway. Hence, I don't own his KOTCS score. I can't remember the last time I bought a JW CD either, infact. I've head his scores in newer films like Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha , but none of his post mid 1990s scores have 'done it' for me enough to buy them. Film scores I have bought in recent years have all been been by other composers for recent or past films. Overall I don't think we'll see the same kind of scores from JW again that we had in the 70s/80s/90s, simply because movies are so different now. Actually I'm not sure why I pop into Jwfan anymore. I think it's simply because it has some people I known for 7 years ago, and some silly Other Topics posts that keep me amused. Link to post Share on other sites
John Crichton 4 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 No score will ever match my anticipation for RotS. Though Indy 4 did get a bit close. So is Giacchino's Star Trek, actually.Just the fact that Williams is only writing one new score every three years is going to increase the anticpation. Link to post Share on other sites
Datameister 1117 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Tin Tin would cause a pandemonium, that is. Sure. It's a FIRST Spielberg animationWhat about "We're Back: A Dinosaur's Tale"? Link to post Share on other sites
Ollie 736 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 The Land Before Time came first. Link to post Share on other sites
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 And "An American Tail" before that. Link to post Share on other sites
Naïve Old Fart 4904 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 No. I wasn't that hyped for KOTCS to begin with.Now if you tell me Black Sunday will get an expanded release, I'll be hyped as hell.Expanded "Black Sunday"? I'd buy that for a dollar! Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Penna 1353 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Spielberg only produced all that other animated stuff - doesn't count in my book.This is his first directing animation - here it's his creativity counting. Link to post Share on other sites
HPFAN_2 0 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think?The Adventures Of Tintin for me.Or any other new John Williams score for that matter.Every time Williams puts pen to paper I get excited. Period. Link to post Share on other sites
Josh500 1493 Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think?The Adventures Of Tintin for me.Or any other new John Williams score for that matter.Every time Williams puts pen to paper I get excited. Period.Some of you guys can't either read or else misunderstood me.The question is NOT "Will we ever get excited about a JW composition?" but "Will we ever get so excited about a JW score as before the release of KotCS?" Link to post Share on other sites
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 And my answer is, "I hope you don't." Link to post Share on other sites
Maglorfin 195 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 ...like we did before KotCS's release?Waiting for every scrap of info, waiting for the day the audioclips are released, looking every day (hell, every few hours) whether the album is available in your local store...Will we ever get SO excited about another JW score? I somehow don't think so, even if JW decided to do Harry Potter again. What do you think?I think we will. Well, at least I will. I know it's been very bad in case of KotCS, but I feel the same for every new soundtrack by JW, simply because it's by him and because I know that nobody else could wrote something quite like it. Link to post Share on other sites
Darth Wojo 2421 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Spielberg only produced all that other animated stuff - doesn't count in my book.This is his first directing animation - here it's his creativity counting.What difference does that make? I doubt Spielberg picked up a pen for the 1980s cartoons that people listed, and I doubt he'll pick up a pen for this cartoon either. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Spielberg only produced all that other animated stuff - doesn't count in my book.This is his first directing animation - here it's his creativity counting.What difference does that make? I doubt Spielberg picked up a pen for the 1980s cartoons that people listed, and I doubt he'll pick up a pen for this cartoon either.Actually, when Spielberg directs, he actually DIRECTS all the movements in the frame - camera movement, actor movement, etc. He sketches storyboards and micromanages animatics in the room with the animatics animator. He will also direct the voices and come up woth on the spot changes.In other cases, he lets the director do all that. Link to post Share on other sites
Darth Wojo 2421 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Hooray, here comes Indy IV: the cartoon. Link to post Share on other sites
Quintus 5253 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I'm surprised a cartoon series hasn't already been made tbh. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Hooray, here comes Indy IV: the cartoon.He's been storyboarding and micromanaging the framing and movement since he started, so no reason to link the process to Indy 4. Link to post Share on other sites
Ollie 736 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I'm surprised a cartoon series hasn't already been made tbh.Why not? Rambo had his own cartoon. Link to post Share on other sites
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