yes i bought the prequel scores.
For 2 Reasons
I love the lso
I love the work of John Williams.
More than that admittedly not as epic and spectacular as the original trilogy scores there were some good pieces of music here and there.
I liked duel of the fates, across the stars, and battle of the heroes.
That he was able to create such music with what little he was given has always been amazing to me.
To give three pretty much Souless cgi popcorn flicks any emotion at all deserves kudos.
Even though severally flawed the prequels did have some good moments.
Just that the magic was not there that was in the originals.
Fans would not be so split on whether to love them or hate them if George would only give respect to the original films and older fans.
I was exstatic early on when it was announced Indy IV would be shot old school on location and used the same glass matte paintings and models of the originals as well as a score by the lso.
We all know what we got. A phoned in score, no LSO. NO sale! i refused to buy the cd.
But really the material he did for the harry potter films was so much better than the later star wars stuff even though the potter stuff sounded too much like hook.
So now he is listed as doing superman the man of steel aka superman VI, the next 2 potter films supposedly and Jurassic Park IV as well as Lincoln and that spielberg movie about the vietnam draft dodgers.
That is a lot of stuff considering he stopped scoring films in 2005 and retired. Came out of so called retirement in 2008 to do a score that was light and full of reused material and full of fluff Indiana Jones IV.
I wish Mr Williams well, it will be a sad day indeed when he passes on and joins his friend Jerry Goldsmith.
If only the prequel story was as well done as that of shatterpoint, the two darth bane novels or Knights of the Old Republic.
I would have given clone wars a chance if Lucas kept out of writing the stories as he originally had planned.
The writer Haden Blackman who formerly wrote for dark horse is a hell of a writer, story plotter.
His republic comics were better than George's movies and more adult in content.
Similar to how much better genddy's clone wars was.
Lucas has zero excuse whatsoever for bad plotting and poor writing some of the best sci fi and fantasy writers and artists have at one time or another been Lucasfilm employees.
Matthew Stover could have written one hell of a prequel trilogy.
Even the less than perfect Troy Denning could have done better.
I don't hate everything about the clone wars movie or tv series. I actually Like the Character of Ahsoka, star wars does need its strong female characters. She obviously brings out another side of Anakin we never see in the films 1-3 his role as a master and the one being the adult.
They get to explore Count Dooku's character more.
We also get to see dooku's apprentice Asajj Ventress.
The voice acting will most likely be top notch, we will see some awesome Jedi acrobatics and lightsaber duels and clone troopers battling seperatists.
Supposedly Padme is not a useless character we get to see her in action not just barefoot and pregnant dieing then of a broken heart.
Though she does get captured and plays the damsel in distress like leia in star wars 77.
I hate that it breaks with continuity Ahsoka was not in Revenge of the Sith and Anakin Never attained the rank of master.
Otherwise she would have been killed with the younglings by anakin or been his secret sith apprentice in force unleashed and neither are the case.
Jabba's son thing is also epic fail as far as i'm concerned a baby hutt kidnapped whatever.
They go to see Jabba on Tatooine it would have been interesting to see Nal Hutta and not ruin the jabbas palace reveal in rotj.
I find it laughable how much of the oot now will have to be retconned to not only fit the prequels but also clone wars and force unleashed. They are g canon since lucas worked on them.
But time to time he chooses what to keep canon and remove the holiday special and the ewok movies were once g canon and now are not.
Other good things about it they are using ralph mcquarries design sketches for Jabbas palace, and other things. One of the few usefull articles i ever found on tfn which i usually ovoid like the black plague.