Favorite Star Wars Score
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2008 - 20:55
What's your favorite score to a Star Wars movie?
My favorite is The Empire Strikes Back for numerous reasons. Yes, "Han Solo and the Princess" and "The Imperial March" are a bit overused (and fantastic), but "The Asteroid Field", "Yoda and the Force", the battle of Hoth and the entire Cloud City sequence are great. "Han Solo and the Princess" is a much better love theme than the one from Attack Of The Clones; that's not a bad piece of music, it just sounds very "Lawrence Of Arabia".
I do think the tempo of the "End Credits" is too fast; I wonder if that was John Williams' choice or if it was sped up to fit the speed of the credits.
POSTED BY LAMANSKI
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I liked :The Battle Of Heroes" on the Star Wars Episode III Score, its really good and John Williams did an excellent job I must say, and it fitted so well. Another one is "The Duel Of Fates" on the Star Wars Episode I Score. I love it when the vocals come in, really good, well done John Williams!
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Sad to say - I love the score for The Empire Strikes Back as it is a moving perfect score that fits an almost near perfect film...
The original Star Wars score has always and will always be my favourite score... It's daring, it's bold, it introduces themes that influenced a generation and Sony/BMG keep getting my money as I always manage to wear down the SW 2CD score once a year....
Indeed - without the perfections of JW's touch - the Star Wars movies would be panto-like science/fantasy films.
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The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite as well. It is so well balanced. The themes are so full of emotion that without the soundtrack, I think the movie wouldn't be half as good.
Mitchell R. Scott