#temp promo because i'm lazy

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[mcbitchtits]

well, my albums finally came. in addition to what i was saying earlier about lucasfilm and/or disney not putting effort into the dial of destiny promo, the graphic design is just Here's All The Promo Photos We Have. Put 'Em In An Album Layout.

and then there's the liner notes.

james mangold i am going to strangold you. despite the fact that we are on tumblr, this is not a compliment.

"what does a good indiana jones movie/john williams score need? i know, less of the main theme." gooooo fuck yourself.

like, I want to rant about this. i want to point out how i'm tired of grittier installments. i want to point out that i'm tired of characters having to be depressed and losing their identity. i'm tired of series sacrificing their identity for some sort of ironic or post-ironic or otherwise unearnest detachment. i'm tired of not enjoying things. i'm tired of lazy writing in the service of "realism" or whathaveyou. i'm tired of temp tracking and bad editing and shitty marketing.

but, yknow. you LIKE these movies, mangold. allegedly. why do i have to spend my time writing dissertations about structure and character development and tropes and musical motifs for writers and directors to understand that shit doesn't have to be exhausting?! and by god. if you're going to really dig in because you like the meat of it, then dig the hell in. don't piss on me and tell me it's raining (looking at you, shitty athena symbolism and pointless beetle scene and and and).

i'm tired. at the point you're refusing to put the hero theme in a pulp series, maybe ask yourself what the fuck you're bothering to do at all.

anyway here's the rest of mangold's liner notes if anyone wanted them

i also, personally, can't imagine telling john goddamn williams we need less of anything, but what the fuck do i know.

and "swashbuckling heroes are out of fashion"? i mean, i get it. as a conceit it's an interesting angle, if it had been dug into more. but also, like, were they out of fashion?! we're still well in the era of cowboy shows here, and the fantastical space scifi as well, so, like. maybe we always need an adventure hero. maybe we need the raiders march to not be a fucking afterthought on the goddamn menu when it's meant to be the main course.

I can’t remember if I already sent an ask about this sometime in the last month but thinking about the fact that I’m almost certainly going to have to wait until it hits digital release to actually get to see Dial of Destiny a second time further reminded not only of how badly Disney has handled the physical release of the soundtrack (I saw a copy of the CD listed for five hundred fucking dollars) but also I still want to know how a 2 hour and 34 minute movie has a 1 hour and 9 minute soundtrack. I definitely heard cues from ToD in the movie that aren’t on it but not enough to make up for the extra hour of missing music

I think somewhere in all the comments back and forth you had mentioned they did rewrites at one point? Which could be anything, but, idk. I'm not sure if it's an editing choice or a music choice or what to make soundtrack albums that are re-edited rather than just matching the film cues 1:1, but it drives me nuts. On the other hand, the score really felt underdeveloped/poorly edited to me (and this is maybe a product of a few screenings with bad sound balance), so I'm guessing they pared it down to the better parts. Which is uhhhhhhhh not a compliment. (I am still thinking about how badly the first Raiders March cue we hear is just out of left field with no build whatsoever. WHAT'S A CRESCENDO. WE JUST DON'T KNOW.)

I don't think they had even released the physical album yet? I preordered it ages ago because I sold my soul to Lucasfilm and that is the way it goes. I do not even have a record player. I want to say it was shipping in September, maybe not. Disney Music does not seem to give much of a damn about putting out actual albums, just collector vinyls. Most of that company is so steeped in not having original ideas it's frankly astounding anything happens at all. $500 is insane. (But also, here I am, yelling at Disney Music for never releasing non-streaming non-collector albums of The Mandalorian, so what do I know. I'm just a chump with average spending money.)

Then again, it took, what, 24 years for the Temple of Doom score to get a release outside of Japan at all initially????? So maybe this is an improvement. (Although I am not personally willing to give them that credit; I think Lucasfilm has really been dropping the ball on everything since Disney bought them.) For years all I had was the Prague Symphony Orchestra album that's like a "best of", and I hadn't ever hunted down the Raiders or Last Crusade albums, so I'm not sure if those were as rare or not.

Wait, horrible thought, do you think they temp-tracked DoD with previous scores? I don't think I heard any KotCS really but that's a fairly obvious exception given... all of it.

BUT THE REST... :/

(Does John Williams temp-track? I feel like no. But he's so close to continual retirement, I mean...?)