Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 How the **** did John Williams not get an Oscar for this score...? Flashdance? What in the... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Agreed. It's my personal favorite Indiana Jones score by a wide margin. As for that year's winner (A Passage to India), I'm sure it's a fine score but it didn't really make an impression upon my viewing of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 What score are we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 What score are we talking about?Uhh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 What score are we talking about?Close Encounters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Why did I think Flashdance was the winner? I am drunk, but still. Either way, Temple of Doom should have won...everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 TOD is the best IJ score. Raiders is alright though, but a bit overplayed with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 If any Williams score should be questioned for not winning it's respective year for best score, it's The Empire freaking Strikes Back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a masterpiece. Over the years I've just appreciated it more and more and more and more. The kind of score you just want to listen to in complete form every time, you don't skip any tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I still won't agree that it surpasses Raiders, but it is certainly a remarkable score. A wonderful variety of fun and interesting musical ideas tossed together into a mad, gleeful ballet. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Bah humbug, Flashdance in the title and no one has posted the youtube vid of JW conducting this! Sharkissimo and Jilal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 TOD is indeed his best Indiana Jones work. And it far outstrips Jarre's A Passage to India, which is a serviceable but routine score. I think the Academy (as always seems to be the case) was simply hesitant to grant such a high boon to the sequel of a film they'd awarded with Best Score honors a couple of years before. They looked at the ballot and thought, "We already lauded Indy for his Raiders March. The sequel must be pretty much the same music again. Oh, but I see Mr. Jarre is up again—and we haven't smiled on him since Dr. Zhivago. . . ."Let's face it: all too often, where the Academy is concerned, it's not about the music itself. There are other processes at work that frequently lead to disappointment on our end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I think the Academy (as always seems to be the case) was simply hesitant to grant such a high boon to the sequel of a film they'd awarded with Best Score honors a couple of years before. But Raiders didn't win Best Score, Chariots of Fire beat it. Let's face it: all too often, where the Academy is concerned, it's not about the music itself. There are other processes at work that frequently lead to disappointment on our end. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Oh, crap! That's right! Why was I thinking it was Raiders. . . ? Well, that's just another example that proves my point. COF had no business beating out a score like ROTLA, but there it is. And they still got it wrong on TOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Oh, crap! That's right! Why was I thinking it was Raiders. . . ?Actually that fact completely invalidated your whole argument that TOD was snubbed because of Raiders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Not only did it invalidate my argument entirely, it rendered me the board's resident non-expert on the Oscars until everyone forgets this little fumble. When I go down, I go down big. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 As good as "TOD" is, I prefer his other score from 1984. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Raiders losing the Oscar will forever be one the world's great injustices, like inequality and parachute pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacck 23 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Proving that Williams is a man with a great sense of humor as well as a truly genius craftsman!.. and who cares about Oscars anyway? Let it go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 As good as "TOD" is, I prefer his other score from 1984. Same here. THE RIVER rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 Bullshit.Care to elaborate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Sorry,. Sharky and Richard are ridiculous.You are right, the score is awesome. Jedi and ToD have the greatest action music ever written. Jedi score has more soul though, mostly because ToD the film is....Slalom from the first minute until the end. Love the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 I've listened to The River once in my life. That's enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 We go down to The River, and into The River we dive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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