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 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 1:51 PM   
 By:   Nils   (Member)

It seems that you need to calm a bit, because it appears that the original album configuration isn't even presented. It appears that disc 3 is "Additional Music."

Yeah, and the track titles on disc 3 (although I can't read them clearly) definitely do NOT match the track titles on the original album.

EDIT: Thank you, Jason! smile

Anyway, this is fantastic news! Finally I can stop coveting that impossible-to-get 2CD promo.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 1:54 PM   
 By:   Scott Bettencourt   (Member)

This is incredible news. I don't think I've heard a score in the new century that impressed me quite as much as A.I. (I also love the film, flawed as it is). After professional but forgettable scores like Stepmom and The Patriot, I'd started to worry that Williams' truly inspired years were over, but his A.I. is really remarkable.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 2:25 PM   
 By:   spielboy   (Member)

impressive

now THIS is a score that deserves expansion (ALWAYS? really?... ok ok)

will we hear the two versions of the entering-in-the-city track? I mean, with and without that kubrickian waltz quote?

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 2:27 PM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

Williams only recorded one version of that cue, sorry.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 2:35 PM   
 By:   Advise & Consent   (Member)


I think the score is brilliant – alternately cold, emotional, and exciting. Don't expect a sweeping Williams sci-fi score like "E.T." or "Star Wars." It's not that at all. But it is compelling from start to finish, and I'm a huge fan.


Yep. in an nutshell.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 2:55 PM   
 By:   governor   (Member)

is John Williams' son additional music included ?

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 3:35 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)


Lovely to see this getting the royal treatment - and actually being worthy of it.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 3:45 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

I=fan.

I've said since the day it came out to anyone who would listen that it was Spielberg's VERTIGO, dismissed on release, but destined to be perhaps his defining masterpiece in decades to come. smile


So, where is this reevaluation we keep hearing about?
If you think it is a masterpiece, fine, but the general consensus of fans and critics hasn't reallu changed. ANd, it most certainly never will.

Two fans does not constitute a "masterpiece'

DOes anyone seriously rate this film in the same class as E.T.?
C'mon.........
brm

ps this FILM has been discussed in many other threads. can we limit our discussion here to the LLL release and the music?
can we/huh?
smile


If you don't want the film discussed then stop making posts like this one. A simple Google search will show you plenty of reevaluation and love for this film - hardly the "two" fans you think it has. Roger Ebert reversed himself plenty a decade later and gave the film four stars. And there's more where that came from. Oops.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 3:58 PM   
 By:   jpteacher568   (Member)

I'm assuming this is the original two disc Oscar promo plus the original street released album?

The Oscar promo was a complete mess with repeated cues. I can't imagine that would be replicated here.


And it's not replicated. This release was rebuilt from the ground up with Mr Williams's full support. 1941, Hook, and Empire of the Sun paved the way for this great release and for future Williams/Spielberg projects yet to come.

smile

MV




Great update. Now, I hope that the next release is the first Spielberg/Williams FILM collaboration THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS.


JP

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 4:01 PM   
 By:   jpteacher568   (Member)

I=fan.

I've said since the day it came out to anyone who would listen that it was Spielberg's VERTIGO, dismissed on release, but destined to be perhaps his defining masterpiece in decades to come. smile


So, where is this reevaluation we keep hearing about?
If you think it is a masterpiece, fine, but the general consensus of fans and critics hasn't reallu changed. ANd, it most certainly never will.

Two fans does not constitute a "masterpiece'

DOes anyone seriously rate this film in the same class as E.T.?
C'mon.........
brm

ps this FILM has been discussed in many other threads. can we limit our discussion here to the LLL release and the music?
can we/huh?
smile


If you don't want the film discussed then stop making posts like this one. A simple Google search will show you plenty of reevaluation and love for this film - hardly the "two" fans you think it has. Roger Ebert reversed himself plenty a decade later and gave the film four stars. And there's more where that came from. Oops.



For me, A.I. was the vision of Stanley Kubrick mixed with Spielberg's humanism.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 4:05 PM   
 By:   Moviedrone   (Member)

Roger Ebert's re-evaluation was a work of genius, a brilliant read.

Can't wait for the LLL set.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 4:15 PM   
 By:   JohnnyRoastbeef   (Member)

The only way this could be made better (and believe me, I am NOT complaining about this wonderful looking release which I will absolutely devour when I get my hands on it) would be the inclusion of the Dreamworks logo music. It would be the perfect release to include it on, whether it was actually used in the movie or not (I can't recall, but I know some Dreamworks logo usage had just the animation, without the music).

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 4:16 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

Roger Ebert's re-evaluation was a work of genius, a brilliant read.

Can't wait for the LLL set.


Well, when people just think they know everything and don't even bother to look for the reevaluation and just pronounce that there hasn't been any, I think we all know what we're dealing with smile

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 4:19 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

My re-evaluation has put the film is a far, far worse place than it was before it. And the first review was by no means positive.

I remember there being some ncie tracks, but over all no great shakes.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 5:15 PM   
 By:   MattyT   (Member)

This is a good Williams score. I wasn't a huge fan of the film, but the score has some great moments and I'll be anxious to hear the unreleased material. A definite buy for me!

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 5:19 PM   
 By:   MKRUltra   (Member)

What terrific news! I was just thinking about how much I love this score the other day, and how sorely it needed a proper expanded release, considering how godawful the commercial album occasionally is (the songs are excruciating.)

The score is far better than the film; Spielberg tries, and does succeed in places, but his natural treacly aesthetic is totally at odds with the tough minded Kubrick poses he tries to strike. It's a fascinating failure, though, and Osment is terrific in the lead.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 6:59 PM   
 By:   TerraEpon   (Member)


It seems that you need to calm a bit, because it appears that the original album configuration isn't even presented. It appears that disc 3 is "Additional Music."


Yeah. It seems my worry was unfounded (note that they DO include the entire 55 minute album as a separate disc in POTA so it's not as if I was coming from left field).

NOW, I'm excited about this as anyone.

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 7:17 PM   
 By:   nerfTractor   (Member)

impressive

now THIS is a score that deserves expansion (ALWAYS? really?... ok ok)

will we hear the two versions of the entering-in-the-city track? I mean, with and without that kubrickian waltz quote?


Yeah that passage with the Strauss Rosenkavalier waltz in what I'm most intrigued to hear, if in fact it's included. Evidently that quote (as marvelously interpreted by JW) was one of Kubrick's specific musical requests for the score. On the Oscar promo it's kind of lost in a super-long piece that sounded edited together to me.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 7:25 PM   
 By:   Octoberman   (Member)

Sure must have been a LOT of those Oscar promos around.

 
 Posted:   May 26, 2015 - 7:37 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Roger Ebert's re-evaluation was a work of genius, a brilliant read.

Can't wait for the LLL set.


Well, when people just think they know everything .... I think we all know what we're dealing with smile


Yeah, someone who didn't stop liking stuff after 1990
smile

 
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