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 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 5:19 PM   
 By:   Accidental Genius   (Member)

These would make a great non-bootleg two-fer. Unfortunately I didn't even know this existed on Varèse vinyl back in the day and there seem to be no copies on ebay ever. Perhaps Varèse will consider a Club release, though I suspect Lucas maintains the rights tight-fistedly.

Any thoughts on these scores? I can only comment on them as used in the actual films and they're pretty decent.

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 5:44 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

Nothing spectacularly amazing here, but still a couple of fun orchestral fantasy/sci-fi scores. I'd buy a two-fer in a heartbeat.

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 7:58 PM   
 By:   Accidental Genius   (Member)

Yeah, it'd be a nice two-fer.

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:03 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:21 PM   
 By:   ryankeaveney   (Member)

If you watched these as a kid, whatever you do, do not rewatch them. Absolutely terrible!

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:27 PM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

If you watched these as a kid, whatever you do, do not rewatch them. Absolutely terrible!

I disagree. I cannot think of better fare than getting REALLY drunk to than these movies.

Also: the opening of the second movie is *amazing* since they kill everyone off except the little girl from the last movie in the first 5 minutes

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:37 PM   
 By:   Steve Johnson   (Member)

They were lousy kiddy movies then, and since I have no desire to revisit something I laughed at 25 years ago, I would not now. The Ewoks KILLED the ROTJ.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:49 PM   
 By:   Michael24   (Member)

I've been meaning to pick up that DVD for awhile now. I had Caravan of Courage on VHS and watched it all the time as a kid, but I don't remember Battle For Endor. I'm sure I saw it when it first aired, but I never had it on video for repeated viewings like the first film, which I always enjoyed.

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2010 - 8:59 PM   
 By:   Accidental Genius   (Member)

Goldsmith, the DVD's now deleted and sells on ebay but usually not for cheap. I just rec'd a copy and am unsure whether or not it's a boot. I don't think it is, but there are a few anomalies with it (see my thread on it here, http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=64900&forumID=7&archive=0). I popped the disc into my player and it seems to look, sound and play fine, though I haven't watched it all the way through. Just a caveat in case you decide to go the ebay route. These will probably get reissued down the road, but who knows for sure with Lucas. Cheers!

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2010 - 3:47 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

The films are fine kiddie fantasy stuff, and Bernstein's score is OK fantasy material molded in Williams' tradition. I'd probably pick up a legit doubleheader, if only because it is STAR WARS-related, but it's not exactly groundbreaking, awesome material.

 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2010 - 4:54 AM   
 By:   Grimsdyke   (Member)

They were lousy kiddy movies then, and since I have no desire to revisit something I laughed at 25 years ago, I would not now. The Ewoks KILLED the ROTJ.

And George Lucas.

 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2010 - 6:54 PM   
 By:   Eric Feasterville   (Member)

And George Lucas.

And how.

 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2010 - 7:03 PM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

They were lousy kiddy movies then, and since I have no desire to revisit something I laughed at 25 years ago, I would not now. The Ewoks KILLED the ROTJ.

And George Lucas.


The world has changed between then and now. I sincerely doubt a film like Star Wars would be popular in this cynical, brow-beaten age of stupids.

(Sometimes I feel like Harrison Bergeron on this damn board.)

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 1, 2010 - 6:09 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Has anybody noticed how much Bernstein's main theme for these is a virtual paraphrase of the original theme from STAR TREK!!
D'ya think he (Peter Bernstein) got the gig and got the wrong Sci-Fi franchise mixed-up?
The similarity is quite amazing.
Still, some good music in there.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 19, 2015 - 12:08 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

Y'all are whacked.

This music is WONDERFUL.

Lush, beautiful, heartfelt, diverse, warm, inviting, memorable, gorgeous. And VASTLY superior to Williams' annoying, silly Ewok theme, for sure.

Someone PLEASE release these - And not the vastly incomplete Varese product, whose programming sucks and misses tons and tons of highlights (both end titles for the films, off the top of my head).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdf6nHC2zH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSoc2qlGt8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzoil-gQaBQ

 
 Posted:   Jun 19, 2015 - 12:41 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

Has anybody noticed how much Bernstein's main theme for these is a virtual paraphrase of the original theme from STAR TREK!!
D'ya think he (Peter Bernstein) got the gig and got the wrong Sci-Fi franchise mixed-up?


It is very strange. Clearly, Bernstein could not have realized, or he wouldn't have invited the obvious comparison. Hard to imagine that nobody along the way noticed, though.

 
 Posted:   Jun 19, 2015 - 12:50 PM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

They were lousy kiddy movies then, and since I have no desire to revisit something I laughed at 25 years ago, I would not now. The Ewoks KILLED the ROTJ.

Many good scores accompanied films we weren't fond of. I would hope you at least think the music is good. I too would LOVE to see these released. The amount of solid memorable themes on this LP is incredible.

I love Teek's theme, so cute.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 19, 2015 - 1:08 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

They were lousy kiddy movies then, and since I have no desire to revisit something I laughed at 25 years ago, I would not now. The Ewoks KILLED the ROTJ.

Many good scores accompanied films we weren't fond of. I would hope you at least think the music is good. I too would LOVE to see these released. The amount of solid memorable themes on this LP is incredible.

I love Teek's theme, so cute.


Agreed, NOT about the LP though. It's barely even full of "highlights", so many important set pieces are missing. The programming almost feels arbitrary.

A job for Intrada I hope, not Varese.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2015 - 2:33 PM   
 By:   indyray   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jun 20, 2015 - 5:40 PM   
 By:   indyray   (Member)

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