Stay For The Credits

"Rey's Theme" and "Jedi Steps" are both great. I also like the music during the movie's most memorable scene. I'm sure more of it will stand out to me in time. Overall, the score isn't as good as Empire's (what is?), but I think it's better than RotJ or RotS. Your point is well taken. The end credits music is always the best part of a John Williams score to listen to, when it's just music for music's sake.

 

Wow, I've never heard of that before. I'm pretty sure that's a violation. Guidelines regarding film credits are fairly strict.

 

Both of them scores are amazing, I've been humming ray's theme since Thursday in my head

 

If it looked like where I went - I can understand it. I'm always disgusted when I'm leaving cinema because of one thing - people act like pigs. There's popcorn literally EVERYWHERE on the floor. Like if they do not care that someone will have to clean after them.

 

You should be. You paid good money to see a complete movie.
It's the theater's responsibility to be adequately staffed for cleanup, or to schedule screenings so that there's sufficient time between screenings.
@DarthBinks is right: it IS a violation! The theatre is contractually obligated to show the complete film including credits.
File a complaint with Disney distribution (including exact theatre location and showtimes).

 

If I'm correct this is the credit music (partially), the whole soundtrack is on Youtube btw

 

I don't think it's a question of being "memorable," rather that it's forgettable in comparison to The OT and The PT .

 

True, but, to be fair:
Eat popcorn from a cheap bag with a friend in a dark house in a tight confining chair while being distracted by a star wars movie.. 2 hours prior to being evicted from your house.
That's the average moviegoer's perspective.

Regarding the soundtrack.. I love it. "Rey's Theme" is WONDERFUL. "March of the Resistance" is great, a theme song for the good guys. We never really got a dedicated march song for the rebels. "The Falcon"... OMG this is my new haul ass song while I'm out driving. I've been doing a lot of toggling between track 6&7 over the past two nights at work.

 

I've listened to the entire soundtrack but only two caught my attention - "Rey's theme" and "The Jedi steps and finale" - they're awesome and I'm listening to them over and over again

 

I was concerned that this was being put up on Youtube --
-- until I saw that it was posted by DisneyMusicVEVO

(...well... alright then....)

 

My friend a i were the only ones to sit through the credits, had i nice chat with one of the theater staff about the goings on of the theater.

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Not worth the trouble.

 

Whether or not to take a minute to write and send an email isn't our call:
...it's @Rebo's.
I was just putting the suggestion on the table.

 

I watch an entire trilogy when I get home from work once a day .

 

A Trilogy a day keeps the Sith Lords away?

 

A prequel a day takes me to hospice care .

 

When the credits ended I began thinking. While listening I definitely heard the main theme, Luke's, Leia's, and the imperial march, and smaller quotes of other things. I couldn't think of any new leitmotifs (themes for a particular character). Then I thought, "Well, did I instantly know Luke's or Yoda's theme after watching the original trilogy for the first time?" No. I didn't. I only knew the main one before I had seen the films because it came up in popular culture all the time. After watching these movies more, the themes get ingrained into you. Especially when you play them. I can sing you every little part and nuance of the main theme on command (Rebel theme really but anyways).

Then I thought, "What did we get from each movie that a general Star Wars viewer and member of first world society would know?"
IV- Main/Rebel theme, Luke's theme, Leia's theme, Cantina Band
V- Imperial March (Appeared on V's soundtrack first)
VI- Nothing unique from here I can think of. Some might recognize the Forest Battle.
I- Duel of the Fates. Maybe Anakin's theme but not even I would recognzie that without thinking about it.
II- Across the Stars.... maybe?
III- Again nothing memorable and unique. In fact, I've asked friends what they remember and people say Duel of the Fates because they mistake that as the music that Obi-Wan and Anakin fought over.

Correct me if you think I left something out that a normal person would recognize. When people say things like "There wasn't anything new I could hum when I walked out of there," there are a lot of valid reasons for that: Back when IV (or, A New Hope, or back then just Star Wars) came out for the summer of 1977, tons of people watched it multiple times due to the heatwave in much of the US (theaters had air conditioning) and it being something comparatively original and exciting to anything before. That generation had that music drilled into them, carried on through V and VI. I don't have a time machine but I'm pretty certain if you asked someone to hum Luke's theme after watching IV for the first time, it would be an unlikely fulfilled request. When Phantom Menace came around, it was simply different. Disappointment in the film by many definitely detracted from the promotion of the music (Except for Duel of the Fates, that awesome song). That attitude continued through II and III more or less. Now, with VII, it's been over 3 decades of having John WIlliams' brilliance drilled into today's adults and into their kids. I wouldn't blame Williams for not making a new theme in a saga as immediately memorable in two days as songs that have had over 10,000 days to become memorable. The comparison, in any capacity, is unfair in my opinion.

With The Force Awakens, we face an unprecedented situation. These iconic themes have to be melded with new ones as the 9 film saga continues (I II and III being prequels to the original Trilogy didn't have this issue any where as much). Anything new is understandably met with criticism. I love the Force Awakens soundtrack, but not as much as some of the other films or other John Williams scores in general. He had such a difficult task with this, and I think the next film will really determine whether this last trilogy can bring anything new and truly memorable. Personally, I really like Rey's theme and can already envision those arrangers making versions and medleys for bands and orchestras across the world. It's certainly not memorable yet, but it, along with the other new pieces, will have their chance. As objective as I'm trying to be, I'm inherently biased towards the original Trilogy. It's music was better than the Prequels to me. Most would agree with me, but if the prequels had been shot and released before 4-6, would we be in a different world? Probably. I look forward to how John Williams captures our ears with 8 and 9. There's definite potential and I'm so glad he's going to finish what he started almost 40 years ago. I look forward to others' views.