Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon posted:Well (and Strilo I KNOW you'll disagree on this one ), here's another example. John Williams is one of the greatest film composers ever. His music from the OT is considered some of the best (or at least most famous) film music ever. Aside from a few themes, his music from the PT is not. Ignoring for a moment the well-known cutting and editing issues in AotC and RotS, I'd say that John Williams's scores to the PT suffer from a lack of inspiring action on the screen. It's hard to write an action cue on the same level as "The Asteroid Chase" when you don't have an action scene on the same level as the asteroid chase to set it to. Let me put it another way: My favorite film scores are, for me, a special way of capturing and replaying parts of a particular film, without actually watching the film. They are more than just music; they're the distilled essences of the movies they come from. So I'd call great music written for a terrible movie great music, but not a great score.
