John Takis and Tim Burden discuss Jaws and Jaws 2 on the latest Movie Magic.

[mahler3 478]

Hello!

Which score do you prefer? It's a discussion that probably won't ever go away. Jaws is the focus, but there's also a veritable feast of other film music from James Horner, Michael Giacchino, Dimitri Tiomkin, John Powell and Gabriel Yared.

My latest show might be enjoyed by some of you, so I hope you do. Thanks as always to John Takis for his contribution:

http://www.timburden.com/movie-magic.aspx

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Jaws 2 is musically in some kind of similar universe to the original. Many cues feel like they could be dropped material from the original score. Then you get this bombastic and satirical-sounding music for the shark attacks that really separates it from the original. It comes off like kind of a parody there.

[Ricard 2,245]

Thread moved from 'Reviews' to 'General Discussion'.

[Josh500 1,615]

IMO, the scores are (almost) equally good, but in markedly different ways.

The orginal movie is way better than the sequel, and the trouble of comparing these scores starts right there.