Originally posted by: HotRod
I always thought that Empire especially felt it was like one big long score. It just seemed to flow perfectly!

With the emphasis on big and long.

Don't get me wrong, I think Empire has a terrific score ... but there's almost too much of it. Constant music is a sign of poor film scoring. There was some judicious editing done for the movie, because the unedited score released on CD runs nearly the entire running time of the film! The transitional points from unscored section to music are quite important ... and constant music doesn't allow for that. There seems to have been a fair bit of directorial score editing on The Empire Strikes Back.

It seems Lucas was a better score manipulator with the O.T. than he became with the prequels. Maybe copy-paste wasn't a technical feasiblity back then ... or maybe his talent in this area tanked over time just like his other talents.

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