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It felt over the top and forced and did not match the action on screen at all. .
Not much of a surprise, since most of it was tracked and lopped over and over again in the film.
Tintin shows that John Williams still know how to do action and adventure music!
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With films lacking character development, or dramatic set ups, mixed with fast editing, quick cuts and joke filled dialog, I don't see these films having rich thematic scores.
This describes the SW aesthetic from 1977 on, particularly from the critical standpoint. Remember, Lucas never claimed these films were ever meant to be more than children's entertainment. He and Spielberg were both quoted in '83 as saying that ROTJ came closest to Lucas's vision for the saga.
None of this has ever hampered JW's ability to deliver in the past, IMHO.
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Easily, the greatest news since hearing that I was seeing the first movie for the first time. This news make me feel like 12 years old, all over again.
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Let me add, SW was never meant to be a "Kids" movie.
You mean YOU never meant them to be a "kids" movie? I was talking about Lucas's intentions . . .
New York Times – September 12, 1976
"It's fun, that's the word for this movie," said Lucas. "It's for young people. Graffiti was for 16-year-olds; this is for 14-year-olds. Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops."
Looking back, Lucas is sure that "Graffiti" succeeded becaused he aimed it at a particular audience, just as he is doing with "Star Wars." "Nobody except Disney makes movies for young people anymore," he said. "I want to open up the whole realm of space for them."
You won't catch me arguing that Lucas isn't a revisionist bullshitter; he's actually made that practice into a great source of revenue. How many more disc sets should we have to buy to get the version in which Greedo never gets off a single shot? But GL's use of the word "kids" and invocation of the Disney name as early as 1976 make it very clear at whom his space opera was aimed from the outset.
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I wonder if Williams is getting a little tired of it.
Okay, there were three films. We knew, after they numbered them, there might one day be three more -- that was somewhat expected as a possibility. Williams likely knew he might return one day to do those if made.
Now we have anotehr new film that may set up an unspecified number of sequel films. Williams is getting older, these space opera scores can be tiresome and very time consuming, and there's no specified end to the franchise now.
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I think what I'm looking forward to most might actually be the albums, not necessarily the film context of this new music. In the past, Williams has found great inspiration in painfully mundane scenes. One of my favorite OT melodies is "Luke and Leia," composed to accompany one of the most awkwardly-written exposition scenes in the series. --But what a ravishing concert arrangement we movie music nuts got out of it!
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