> This is part of a series.
> - Here’s the last post on Widows, Mortal Engines -
> https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=119665
> - If you want the full set of links covering the Too Big To Fail era or
> earlier, click on my profile.

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> How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) - *****
> John Powell; add’l music & arrangements by Batu Sener, Anthony
> Willis & Paul Mounsey; orchestrated
> by John Ashton Thomas; Tommy Laurence, Geoff Lawson, Andrew Kinney, Randy
> Kerber, Jon Kull &
> Rick Giovinazzo; orchestra conducted by Gavin Greenaway; choir conducted
> by Eric Whitacre;
> bagpipes by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers; add’l drum programming Satnam
> Ramgotra; ‘Together
> From Afar’ written and performed by Jónsi; dedicated to Melinda Lerner
> & Oliver Powell

It seems like I'm on the same page as you with this series. 2 is my favorite score of the trilogy, and 3 is 3rd, but still 5 stars with some fantastic highlights. I'd also say the third film is the weakest of the trilogy, but still good.

Probably the two biggest factors with the third film for me are a villain that's a bit too similar in motivation to the second film, and I wish they had done more to show some growth in Hiccup's companions. I get that they're the comic relief, but I look back at Harry Potter as an example of how that series was able to not only mature the main trio, but the other students as well. Small complaints, in what is otherwise a good film and in my top 5 animated film series.

The quote about HTTYD being this generations Star Wars trilogy of scores seemed a bit odd to me. It's not that far from Lord of the Rings or the Star Wars prequels, which I think several score fans would hold in similar regard.

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> Game of Thrones Season 8 (2019) - ****
> Ramin Djawadi; orchestrated by Stephen Coleman & Andrew Kinney;
> technical score advisors
> William Marriott & Garret Reynolds; thank you to Hans Zimmer &
> Brandon Campbell

Fantastic score and possibly some of Ramin's best work. To me, the highlights from the last few season of this series is better than anything from Rings of Power, one of the reasons I struggled to understand some of the praise for that score.

> Ramin was understandably emotional as the final season was airing. “I
> definitely feel sad. I won’t be writing or expanding on those themes
> anymore. [But] I feel very lucky that I've been part of this. It's been
> unbelievable.”

Well, that quote didn't age well since he returned to score House of the Dragon lol.

> Abominable (2019) - ***
> Rupert Gregson-Williams; add’l music & arrangements by Evan Jolly,
> Sven Faulconer & Forest Christenson;
> orchestrated by Alastair King & Gregson-Williams; orchestra conducted
> by King; choir conducted by Ben Parry

Almost forgot that I saw this film. 3 stars seems about right.

> Catch-22 (2019) - ***½

Somehow this film and score completely escaped my attention at the time of release.