Posted 27 February 2004 - 06:44 AM
This doesn't have anything to do with the topic, but what Chef said just made me think. The one thing that really annoys me about the prequels is that John Williams' scores have been overlooked because of the quality (or lack thereof) of the movies. He has written 2 fabulous scores. Think of how they should have turned out. An innocent but tragic theme for young Anakin, used for a little pussy shit. A grand fight theme that's used for characters we don't give a crap about in a battle that uses ballet and no emotion. A great scoring of the podrace, but it didn't matter, cause it was the podrace, and no one gave a crap anyway. A tragic and solemn funeral theme for a Jedi, who we didn't really care about (though at least he showed more emotion than the other robots), and who was an unnecessary character anyway. You get the idea, and the same goes for Episode II. He writes this beautiful love theme, thinking, of course, that some grandness should be added since it's Star Wars and that the characters will be worthy of it. Well, they weren't. They were little teenage crybabies who didn't know what the hell they were doing. That isn't worthy of the theme he wrote. He would have been better off recycling the Ewok theme. It's not like it could have made the love scenes any more embarassing, and it would have shown the characters' natures perfectly.