Dark Knight Score 2 Disc SE - Info, Track Listing

[Brikar99]

You guys are all missing the point.

Do you know how many times a studio has released an expanded score for a film in recent decades?

I can count the times I'm aware of on ONE HAND.

When you buy a commercial score release, with usually 10-20 tracks, you're getting about half - maybe 60-65% if you're lucky - of the actual score.

This isn't something to balk at over $$$. Or even double-dipping.

This is really rare. Take advantage of it and appreciate it and enjoy it. Because it doesn't happen but maybe once a decade or so, from what I can recall.

Studio's are convinced that people don't care about scores. Only by gobbling these rare expanded editions up will we prove them wrong and hope to someday change the system.

"Rare" or not, I don't feel like paying $45 for an album I already own half of. At least the LOTR releases were like five thousand hours long and came with a DVD to boot. Or the recent Indiana Jones set. I can get that for $50 and it's five discs! Don't get me wrong, I wish more scores were expanded like this and I'm glad it's available and I will try to get it - but only at a reasonable price for the product.

 

[Siwilliams]

Recently got the complete Indiana Jones soundtracks, excellent

 

[Harvey]

Star Wars Episode One The Phantom Menace had a complete release

A release that was characterized by very poor editing, and as a result, did not sell that well.

If it's any consolation, I'm looking at my itunes right now and see expanded releases for "Aliens," "The Fury," "Blade Runner," and "Gettysburg," and I recently pruned my itunes from having all of my music to less than 20% of it!

Are you serious? It is exactly as it sounds in the movie, plus music that was not used in the movie

The fact that it sounds exactly like it does in the movie is indeed the problem. Williams' music was chopped up (especially at the end of the film) during late re-editing. Instead of reconstituting it in the music's original form, the expanded album retains the chopped up versions present in the movie. In addition, at least one track (Flag Parade and Pod Race) actually ends up longer on the original album than the expanded one.

There's a whole website out there with information on how to compile a more complete and less edited version of the score somewhere.

 

[Siwilliams]

I thought the music sounded chopped up, but I thought that was the intention

 

[ATimson]

I thought the music sounded chopped up, but I thought that was the intention

Certainly not on the part of the composer. Hopefully not on Ken Wannberg's part.

 

[JacksonArcher]

I'd pay $100 for this. I'm stoked. This is rare, at least to me. I mean if I could tell you how many extended, "complete" movie scores I dream about every night, we'd make very awkward bedfellows.

 

[Hicks]

You guys are all missing the point.

Do you know how many times a studio has released an expanded score for a film in recent decades?

I can count the times I'm aware of on ONE HAND.

When you buy a commercial score release, with usually 10-20 tracks, you're getting about half - maybe 60-65% if you're lucky - of the actual score.

This isn't something to balk at over $$$. Or even double-dipping.

This is really rare. Take advantage of it and appreciate it and enjoy it. Because it doesn't happen but maybe once a decade or so, from what I can recall.

Studio's are convinced that people don't care about scores. Only by gobbling these rare expanded editions up will we prove them wrong and hope to someday change the system.

"Rare" or not, I don't feel like paying $45 for an album I already own half of. At least the LOTR releases were like five thousand hours long and came with a DVD to boot. Or the recent Indiana Jones set. I can get that for $50 and it's five discs! Don't get me wrong, I wish more scores were expanded like this and I'm glad it's available and I will try to get it - but only at a reasonable price for the product.

EXACTLY.

I'd love to buy Disc 2 by itself at a reasonable price, but I won't pay $45 for something I half own already and purchased for $10.

I guess all I can hope for is that it is available to download on Amazon like the first set was, so I can snag the new stuff individually. But I doubt it will be sold in that way.