JOHN WILLIAMS

As I said, I agree there should have been new music. All I said was that DotF worked for me.
On the other hand, I had a lot of problems with most of the new action stuff Williams wrote, especially for Episodes 2 and 3. So I´m quite happy with the actual choice.

Oh don't get me wrong, I enjoyed hearing Duel Of The Fates in EP3 as it's used well in the scene. But when it first started playing when I was watching the movie, in all honesty I did think "oh...ok...this again...".

Hardly...

I am currently going nuts over Williams' Hook. It's a good score, not my favorite, but the main theme is excellent! I think I like it the most when played in Remembering Childhood, from 8:47 to the end. Really beautiful string and brass stuff, and very adventurous!

Yes, I tend to make a lot of understatements, at least by you and Erik's standards.



Yep. It's awesome!

I guess...

Here here! Hook is film music in its purest form, it works brilliant in the film and is a joy to listen to outside of it. I cannot begin to express my admiration for both the movie and score. Yes that's right, I like this movie because the score is perfectly glued to it. The movie just digs up all kinds of emotions in me since 1991 until this day.

Hook Nuff said.

You see I never understood how come people hate this movie. I've loved it ever since I was a kid, it's a personal Spielberg favorite, but I admit the music helps a lot in feeling for the characters. And who can not like Dustin Hoffman for his awesome portrayal of El Capitan? Cranks me up big time. Robin Williams is great too.

And for the record: I never ever ever wanna grow old, YUCK !!!

Well I was sixteen when first seeing it in the theatre, supposedly out of the fairytale phase, but I was definitely a kid, and I've been one for a long long time. In fact, I still have those childlike moments to this date, where I like to cherish the past and think how everything was better than now. I'm just a big nostalgic.

I was already way too old to fall into Hook's target demographic, but I do appreciate a lot of aspects. The film is absolutely lovely right up to the Goonies...Er... I mean Lost Boys, with Dustin Hoffman pretty much carrying the rest of the film. A three-star effort I would say, though had Spielberg been able to retain the tone and feel of the beginning (like the kidnapping scene and Granny Wendy) it would so have been 5 stars!

The score is one of my favourite Williams' scores, with Hooknapped being the penultimate pirate music (there's wind, roaring seas, and the sound of sails and the jolly roger being hoisted all in that brief piece of magical menace), more diverse and thematic than 99% of any soundtrack material written since (Ya, I'm lumping 20 years together. Happily.) with a scope and sense of abandon that I can only describe as exuberant.
I bloody love this score, and would without a second thought that wasn't entirely vernacular or linguistic in intent subscribe to the epiteth awesome to be employed against it.

Its good, but not that good!

Oh just go and listen to some seven years in tibet, now that IS a cracking (and under played) score

Seven Years in Tibet is a very underrated score, and a solid 4 stars effort, because the theme is classic Williams gorgeousness. But I admit it doesn't get nearly as many whirls as Hook.

Ok I respect your opinion when not liking the film but doesn't the music make the movie better at all? Me and my brother are the same in that respect: we tend to like movies more if there's a good soundtrack playing underneath it. We cannot and will not separate the music from the movie, because the music (if it's good) is the beating heart, so brilliant music will always affect me in the film, regardless of irregularities or weirdness in the film, which Hook has none of IMO. And Pan being an adult was the whole idea behind it, I thought it made for a much more interesting take than just retreading the old story. Now if you have a problem with Robin Williams playing that part, okay, but I thougth he played it exceptionally well. I've always liked him in dramatic roles.