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Yet Another Superb Film Score from Williams Composer John Williams does an elegant job revisiting his classic "Indiana Jones" themes from the original trilogy, along with some well-written new music for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". It was a most wonderful surprise hearing "Marion's Theme" from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" again. But I was quite impressed with the surreal "Call of the Crystal" with its almost otherworldly three note motif and "Irina's Theme", which is yet another superb example of "sinister" film music along the... more info
Not quite up to scratch Like the film it accompanies, John Williams' score is an undeniably good piece of work, but isn't quite in the same league as the first 3. There's nothing that really stands out as memorable and it just kind of passes you by. It's much more minimalistic than the old scores as well and reuses several themes from the past films, which just feels abit lazy. When the action does kick in it's quite exciting, but overall it's just mereley 'okay'.
Indy is back with a vengance I was waiting for this soundtrack to arrive as I am a big Indiana Jones fan. I found it was as good as the others but as I bought this before seeing the film it was hard to visulise where the themes fitted in to the film. John Williams always seems to do Justice to all the films he has scored my most enjoyable was the The Empire Strikes Back. I would say that in time this could be as good as his others. I also liked the way that John has kept a reference to the other three films.
Sounds just like Indy - only a new one for a new era Film music is a tricky thing these days. As just about every score composed seems to get an album release, so I think a lot of film music collectors forget that scores are written exclusively to support a film's narrative and emotional structure, and not to be released on CD - that's just a bonus. With this in mind it's unfair to complain about cues that you can't whistle to as you leave the cinema - if you're interested in catchy tunes, go buy pop or classical. Otherwise, remember what the cue was composed... more info
