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It's a good movie for sure. and they are marketing some cool stuff to go along with it.

My suggestion is that for anyone buying a Groot shirt is to make sure it fits before buying. This is just an innocent observation from people I saw (100% male) wearing Guardians stuff in the past week.

I am big, too. Just make surfeit fits, yaw.
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What's the latest score, Oh Oracle of the Box Office?
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I don't know, but it's not as good as it would have been if John Williams had done it.
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Is he doing new Star Wars? Or is it Giancchioihochochoooco ?
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He's supposed to be. He's getting old, though. I'm sure Giacchino is on deck.
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ET. Star Wars. Jaws. Superman. Indy. Harry Potter.

Everything he does is integral, so integral, to that movie experience.
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One thing the Star Tours ride nails is the music.

You didn't ask, but I told anyway.
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Is it a new score?

I still think The Asteroid Chase from Empire is the best movie score in history.
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It might be my favorite track from the Star Wars movies. I also love a lot of the usual suspects--"Yoda's Theme," "Luke and Leia," "Imperial March," "Binary Sunset," "Leia's Theme," "The Throne Room and End Title," "The City in the Clouds"--but "The Asteroid Field" is really something. For it to be able to stand out among the other tracks I just listed says something. Well, it says something for me. I think the thing that puts it over is that surprise moment when it goes from being chirpy, wind instrument-heavy escape music to horn-blasting sweepingness. It feels like fun and danger and outer space.

When I listen to "Yoda's Theme" and try to apply it in my head to the prequel version of Yoda, I can't even force it to feel like it somehow sort of fits.

I'm not sure what my favorite piece of Williams music is. It might be "The Asteroid Field." It might be "The Planet Krypton." It might be "Flying Theme."

Damn you, John Williams!
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Whisper it quietly..... but I think John Ottman did a bang up job for Superman Returns. I like Giachinno's Star Trek work too.

So Williams is doing new Star Wars???
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He is.
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Yay!

His old is he now (asks the man too Ipsy to Google....)
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He was born in 1932. I know this because I remember he was born the year before my grandfather's birth year. I'd retrieve the date for you if your Ipsy hadn't hit me right between the eyes and sucked all the search out of me.
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I hope he's up for the journey. His scores for the Prequels were a high point in a desert of atrociousness.
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Hear, hear!

And my favorite piece of Williams' music is the Raiders march, but it's so hard to choose. Close Encounters was integral to the plot, Star Wars was stellar throughout (I often listen to the complete soundtrack of the OT), the Schindler's List theme is achingly beautiful....
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Some people have done good work following him and adapting, like Desplat for Potter and Ottman for Superman. He's still the best.

His most underrated gem - the score for Jaws 2. Seriously. It's amaze-balls!!
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Dalty wrote:Everything he does is integral, so integral, to that movie experience.
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That just makes me wonder what happened to Chewie's hair between Yavin and Hoth.

That also helps confirm that Lucas had no fucking idea Leia and Luke were siblings when he made that.
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I don't think this is something that really needs any confirming. Alan Dean Foster put Splinter of the Mind's Eye together from Lucas's notes, after all, and Lucas approved Foster's finished book.

Even if Lucas was cool with the idea of having a brother be totally hot for the person he didn't realize was his sister, it's made pretty clear in Splinter of the Mind's Eye that Leia has no Force sensitivity.
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I read that many, many years ago.
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I read it when it first came out. Because I am that old.

Can you tell I have a birthday next week? :?
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I read it for the first time in the early nineties. I reread it about a month ago. It's not so good.
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Didn't Alan Dean Foster also write a pretty legendary tie in with Alien 3 that makes a whole lot more sense by pulling out loads of things that the studio cut?
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Maybe. I know he ghostwrote the Star Wars adaptation. That's part of why he got the Splinter of the Mind's Eye gig.
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I finally saw this today. All kinds of awesome.

It's comforting to know the universe is populated by beings who look and talk more or less like us.
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