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Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	I don't mind the one Indy came in, its got a tray. So does Pirates 3 and the New Narnia score. Where as the Lost World and Wall E, their CDs go in a sleeve which over time will damage the disc, those suck. I mean really, these days my CDs sit on a shelf and don't move. They get ripped at full quality to my computer and I wanna listen to one in my car, I just make a CD-R. Originals for the most part stay put and safe --Bri
posted 09-03-2008 06:23 PM PT (US)

PeterK FishChip	Box set will contain digipaks. No different than the individual releases...
posted 09-03-2008 06:54 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by PeterK: Box set will contain digipaks. No different than the individual releases... Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted 09-03-2008 08:17 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by PeterK: Box set will contain digipaks. No different than the individual releases... Ugh. But I guess it saves them money, and the RAIDERS price is very very reasonable. Still, I'd rather see a jewel case...but its not that big of a deal...at least it shouldn't be....
posted 09-03-2008 08:22 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	They'll all be the same, so at least it looks fine on a shelf Temple of Doom and expanded Last Crusade is what's important Also, the wasn't the import of Crystal Skull a jewel case, maybe snag the imports of you REALLY want jewel cases. --Brian [Message edited by Crono/Kyp on 09-03-2008]
posted 09-03-2008 08:25 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	Well, I'll certainly take digipack over nothing, but digipacks stink. Hoepfully they still can have extensive booklets? I am shocked that nobody else has broke this news, BTW. Kudos to Peter, hopefully he's been getting a helluva lot of pre-orders on the Raiders....unless people are waiting for the box...like us. quote: Also, the wasn't the import of Crystal Skull a jewel case, maybe snag the imports of you REALLY want jewel cases. I thought about it, but I decided against it and just wait for the box. [Message edited by tjguitar on 09-03-2008]
posted 09-03-2008 08:27 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	Well I guess with them being contained in a box style set it wouldn't be so bad. After all every time I get a CD I rip it to my hard drive as lossless and back in its case it goes and stays there unless I have to rip it again. [Message edited by BigT1981 on 09-03-2008]
posted 09-03-2008 08:51 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	See? Besides, do you really wanna pay for imports?
posted 09-03-2008 09:33 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	So, Temple Of Doom and The Last Crusade are expanded!?
posted 09-03-2008 10:25 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	And remastered --Brian
posted 09-03-2008 11:16 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Crono/Kyp: And remastered --Brian Guess I know where my next paycheck is going! NP: The Living Daylights John Barry ***/***
posted 09-03-2008 11:19 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Crono/Kyp: See? Besides, do you really wanna pay for imports? Hell no. I'm glad I haven't paid the butt load for previous three scores that they are going for on evilbay.
posted 09-04-2008 12:42 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	I paid 9.99 for my new Last Crusade like 5 years ago, and I paid 9.99 for my used Raiders expanded around the same time --Brian
posted 09-04-2008 01:52 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	Lucky you. Unfortunately I never got any of the original releases. I wasn't into the Indy music back then.
posted 09-04-2008 02:52 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by BigT1981: I wasn't into the Indy music back then. HHHHWWHHHAAAAATTTTT!!!??? :P My jaw just hit the floor. Anyway, the Indiana Jones films and scores are almost without exception the main reason I got into scores in the first place. I paid very little for all my Indy scores, including Temple Of Doom, which was painful to track down way back in grade 6.
posted 09-04-2008 06:42 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	Ive never owned Temple. I think I got Last Crusade for $10 used and raiders for $20 used-ish
posted 09-04-2008 06:50 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	We can all get together on this, everyone who's anyone will buy these scores --Brian
posted 09-04-2008 08:52 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Crono/Kyp: We can all get together on this, everyone who's anyone will buy these scores --Brian They'd be crazy not too. Who wants to get me a real job?
posted 09-04-2008 10:11 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by sean: HHHHWWHHHAAAAATTTTT!!!??? :P My jaw just hit the floor. Anyway, the Indiana Jones films and scores are almost without exception the main reason I got into scores in the first place. I paid very little for all my Indy scores, including Temple Of Doom, which was painful to track down way back in grade 6. I'm not much of a Williams fan. There's only a handful of scores from him I like. I like works from other composers but over all I've always been more fond of Goldsmith's works.
posted 09-04-2008 11:04 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by BigT1981: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by sean: [b] HHHHWWHHHAAAAATTTTT!!!??? :P My jaw just hit the floor. Anyway, the Indiana Jones films and scores are almost without exception the main reason I got into scores in the first place. I paid very little for all my Indy scores, including Temple Of Doom, which was painful to track down way back in grade 6. <HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE> I'm not much of a Williams fan. There's only a handful of scores from him I like. I like works from other composers but over all I've always been more fond of Goldsmith's works.[/B] but you have almost 4000 posts at jwfam, right?
posted 09-04-2008 11:25 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	And you love Star Wars
posted 09-05-2008 01:04 AM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	What do post counts have to do the fact with me barely liking Williams? Yes I do love the Star Wars music, that's a given.
posted 09-05-2008 10:28 AM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	I think his Indy scores are better --Bri
posted 09-05-2008 10:45 AM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	Not me.
posted 09-05-2008 12:08 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	quote: What do post counts have to do the fact with me barely liking Williams? I mean, why post so much on a JW fan site if your not a big fan?
posted 09-05-2008 01:04 PM PT (US)

BigT1981 Standard Userer	Because I can?
posted 09-05-2008 01:30 PM PT (US)

Stargate Standard Userer	Can you?
posted 09-05-2008 02:27 PM PT (US)

gkgyver Standard Userer	So, apparently Last Crusade and Temple Of Doom will be expanded as well. Well, YEES!
posted 09-08-2008 06:36 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by gkgyver: So, apparently Last Crusade and Temple Of Doom will be expanded as well. Well, YEES! Yeah, but is it too symmetrical for you?
posted 09-09-2008 01:02 AM PT (US)

nuts_score Standard Userer	I should answer the question posed by this thread, since I haven't yet: Not The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And if you think either the film or the score is good or -- Heaven forbid -- great, than I'm sorry but you've simply lost your marbles.
posted 09-09-2008 01:08 AM PT (US)

gkgyver Standard Userer	quote: Yeah, but is it too symmetrical for you? I guess that deserves a big YAWN!
posted 09-10-2008 03:23 PM PT (US)

NeoVoyager Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by BigT1981: What do post counts have to do the fact with me barely liking Williams? No offense, Trent, but............ this from the person who bashes G.K. for posting in Zimmer threads? As to the topic at hand, I'm probably the single film music fan in the world that has no interest in this. Being a heavy Williams fan, I bought the "Last Crusade" score years ago (not exactly sure why I picked that particular one), and to this day don't really like it. I've seen the first film a couple times and didn't hear anything there either that I'd be particularly interested in owning. I'm pretty much exclusively a dramatic Williams fan (Schindler, A.I., Munich, etc.). Another 100 bucks or so I can not spend on CDs.
posted 09-10-2008 06:29 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by NeoVoyager: I've seen the first film a couple times and didn't hear anything there either that I'd be particularly interested in owning. I'm pretty much exclusively a dramatic Williams fan (Schindler, A.I., Munich, etc.). Sean: Andrew, is that a gram!? Andrew: New card. What do you think? Sean: Nice. Andrew: That's bone, and the lettering is something called Cillian Brail. Jeron: That's nothing, guys. Sean: Wow. Where'd you get The Dark Knight score from? Jeron: Just lucky, I guess.
posted 09-10-2008 10:09 PM PT (US)

NeoVoyager Standard Userer	Oooooook. My first thought was: Sean is suffering a mental breakdown from my admittance of previously said heresies, and has fallen to incoherent babblings. Then, something rang a bell, and the bell said "American Psycho". Sure enough, I Google some of those lines and I was right (I think I saw that boardroom scene or whatever a long time ago somewhere, though I haven't seen the movie itself). But still, I'm completely lost on what you could possibly be trying to say, Sean.
posted 09-10-2008 10:33 PM PT (US)

Crono/Kyp Standard Userer	Sean, you dumb ass, I was also in that conversation, you left me out of the most important part! --Brian
posted 09-10-2008 11:04 PM PT (US)

scoreguy16 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by NeoVoyager: As to the topic at hand, I'm probably the single film music fan in the world that has no interest in this. Being a heavy Williams fan, I bought the "Last Crusade" score years ago (not exactly sure why I picked that particular one), and to this day don't really like it. I've seen the first film a couple times and didn't hear anything there either that I'd be particularly interested in owning. I'm pretty much exclusively a dramatic Williams fan (Schindler, A.I., Munich, etc.). *Another 100 bucks or so I can not* spend on CDs.** Honestly, the only Indy score I remember (aside from the themes) is the 3rd film. Probably because I thought that movie was the most fun. But I'll be picking this box set up anyway as I don't own that one and I think everyone should probably own these. I mean, they're classics. But! I am with you on John Williams' dramatic stuff. Episode III really had some pretty good dramatic stuff. I loved his dramatic/sadder music for Hook, and Schindler's List is aweso---... wait... I am not sure that's something anyone should say actually... Oh well... I also loved his score to Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha (they were robbed at the Oscars... ROBBED!!!).
posted 09-11-2008 11:31 AM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	Uhhh... Well, I'm at the polar opposite end here. I don't find Munich all that interesting other than the guitar rendition of the main theme and the end credits, other than that, though, it just sits on my shelf; same for Memoirs Of A Geisha, the main theme is nice, too, but other than the training music and the end credits, once more, there isn't anything else to go back to with that score. The only Oscar that Williams was "robbed" of, since I think these awards (all awards maybe) are an absolute joke, was for The Empire Strikes Back (my favourite score by him). From my perspective, Michael, you like what I think are his boring and meandering efforts (I do own them all)--I'm sure they're well composed blah blah blah, but they've only ever really garnered a few listens at best and then they collect dust--while I mostly prefer his adventurous sound (he's a lot stronger, dramatically, in these movies than he is in a straight forward "serious" movie, IMO). Michael, I don't think you really "qualify" as a "heavy Williams fan" if you actually don't really own his music, and in this case his better music. NP: The Living Daylights John Barry ***/*** [Message edited by sean on 09-12-2008]
posted 09-12-2008 12:51 PM PT (US)

NeoVoyager Standard Userer	quote: Michael, I don't think you really "qualify" as a "heavy Williams fan" if you actually don't really own his music, and in this case his better music. Well, I'm somewhat ashamed to say I own slightly more Williams than I do Shostakovich (and that's saying something), so I do "really own his music," but I generally stay away from the action/adventure/whimsical Williams. As I've said before... it's not my thing. As for this style being "better," it may be true that his music generally works better in the adventure films I guess, but let's not get into the extraordinarily subjective "better" discussion now.
posted 09-12-2008 05:55 PM PT (US)

gkgyver Standard Userer	I don't really think TESB deserved an additional Academy Award. Empire is like "Star Wars plus", and Star Wars already got the award. Of course Empire is the slightly better score, but the Academy couldn't possibly foresee that.
posted 09-12-2008 07:29 PM PT (US)

Al Standard Userer	I like Indiana Jones better than Star Wars and Star Wars better than Superman. And just for the record, I like monkeys better than parrots, cheeseburgers better than pizza, and brunettes better than blondes.
posted 09-12-2008 08:39 PM PT (US)

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