Music by John Williams

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⭐ 7/10

If you watch this movie you will have a great time with it. His music is amazing, and this basically goes through his life becoming a composer and then basically hits every movie he worked on.  Its an incredible career, probably to never be matched unless Hans has 10 more all-timers in him.

Something that drove me crazy is the talking heads in this.  There are a bunch of random people with no connection to him other than that his music inspired them, and that is so lame.  Chris Martin of Coldplay gets a ton of time because on their tour they enter to a song from E.T. Clearly they wanted some star power for the trailers to get people to watch.  Seth McFarlane speaks really well about Williams, but its unclear why he was chosen to do so at all.  There is a nephew or something that is very eloquent and I really liked that, family members who grew up in the presence of a genius.  Give me more of that!

The best moments are when he is behind the piano explaining where ideas came from.  But I was frustrated by this because we all know Jaws is only 2 notes!  Give us some more detail, or talk about other scores that we don't understand as well. I would watch 2 hours of that.

This movie is also produced by Spielberg, and he's really flexing.  I left this movie actually thinking about how he is probably the actual genius here.  Don't get me wrong, Williams' music is iconic in a way that will never be topped, but that music doesn't go mainstream without all the masterpieces Spielberg pumped out with him. Probably not the takeaway you should have after watching, which is why I think this movie is not amazing. But if you like hearing all this awesome music for an hour and a half you won't be disappointed!

As a final note, JJ Abrams gets lots of time and it shows Williams making the music for the Star Wars sequel trilogy and it made me angry again how bad that one finished.  Rey's theme is so beautiful and they spoiled it!

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