Originally posted by: Tiptup
Oh without a doubt. Beautiful, beautiful music. I honostly don't get goosebumps easily but there is yet another score that brings them to my skin. It's just so triumphantly final that you can almost see Luke holding up a raised lightsaber as it if were excalabur itself.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
What pissed me off about the PT scores was how many tracked pieces he used. There are so many moments in the PT where they just cut and pasted previous tunes from the earlier movies into there. Of course, that started in ROTJ as well, where they use the TIE fighter chase from Star Wars during the Death Star core chase. But that was only that one time. In the prequels, especially ROTS, so much music is just reused, and it just seems so lazy.
Precisely. There are parts in AotC and RotS where the music seems to abruptly start and end. It was like they just played music that was already arranged and then cut where the scene ended. Seemed very cheap to me. But, I will agree with you that the music itself, while overused, is very well written.
The music for the end credits of ROTS sounds like it was slapped together at the last minute- it's choppy and sounds horrible. The OT end credits music always flowed together so well- the transition between themes was always so smooth. In ROTS, it sounds like they just decided to sloppily throw a little of everything in there, including the "rebel ceremony" ending from ROTJ, and Princess Leia's theme (?!)
It was like JW was thinking, "let's get this over with so I can get out of here."
On the other hand, I think Williams decided to re-use some Star Wars themes in Jedi out of pure nostalgia (like the "tie fighter" part during the 2nd death star battle). I loved the way they tacked on the "rebel ceremony" bit at the end of the Jedi finale- it was very bittersweet, and a perfect ending to the trilogy.
Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Originally posted by: Mielr
...and "light of the force" which is probably the best rendition of the force theme in the OT.
What pissed me off about the PT scores was how many tracked pieces he used. There are so many moments in the PT where they just cut and pasted previous tunes from the earlier movies into there. Of course, that started in ROTJ as well, where they use the TIE fighter chase from Star Wars during the Death Star core chase. But that was only that one time. In the prequels, especially ROTS, so much music is just reused, and it just seems so lazy.
Precisely. There are parts in AotC and RotS where the music seems to abruptly start and end. It was like they just played music that was already arranged and then cut where the scene ended. Seemed very cheap to me. But, I will agree with you that the music itself, while overused, is very well written.
The music for the end credits of ROTS sounds like it was slapped together at the last minute- it's choppy and sounds horrible. The OT end credits music always flowed together so well- the transition between themes was always so smooth. In ROTS, it sounds like they just decided to sloppily throw a little of everything in there, including the "rebel ceremony" ending from ROTJ, and Princess Leia's theme (?!)
It was like JW was thinking, "let's get this over with so I can get out of here."
On the other hand, I think Williams decided to re-use some Star Wars themes in Jedi out of pure nostalgia (like the "tie fighter" part during the 2nd death star battle). I loved the way they tacked on the "rebel ceremony" bit at the end of the Jedi finale- it was very bittersweet, and a perfect ending to the trilogy.
Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Originally posted by: Mielr
...and "light of the force" which is probably the best rendition of the force theme in the OT.
Oh without a doubt. Beautiful, beautiful music. I honostly don't get goosebumps easily but there is yet another score that brings them to my skin. It's just so triumphantly final that you can almost see Luke holding up a raised lightsaber as it if were excalabur itself.
I get goosebumps too....stunningly gorgeous music.
I also REALLY love the full "Jabba The Hutt" theme played by the Utah Symphony Orchestra on the Star Wars Trilogy CD (on the Varese Sarabande label). It's well worth buying if you haven't heard it yet. I guess there was no full version recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, since it's never appeared on any of the soundtrack editions. It appeared on another Star Wars CD awhile back- the "Skywalker Symphony" conducted by John Williams. It wasn't very good, and I took it back to the store and asked for my money back. I wonder whatever happened to the "Skywalker Symphony"....?
I'd still like to know what happened to the bit of music from the sail barge when Artoo is serving drinks. I'd love to have a full version of that.