Your favorite John Williams score of the 70's? CONCLUDED

[Ricard 2,242]

Once you see the movie it's pretty obvious that the unreleased stuff is brilliant. Same case as with The Ultimate War from Hook.

[Jay 37,287]

40 minute OSTs just can't cut it for long scores.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It depends on the quality of the score.

[Jay 37,287]

Can you think one one score longer than 90 minutes that can be boiled down to a completely satisfying 40 minutes?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Die Another Day (i think its slightly longer then 90 min)

Plenty of the more mediocre Goldsmith scores (Executive Decision etc etc)

[Quintus 5,399]

I reckon Jaws 1 & 2 would still be pretty satisfying with a really economical edit.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Can you think one one score longer than 90 minutes that can be boiled down to a completely satisfying 40 minutes?

Cutthroat Island

[Ricard 2,242]

I reckon Jaws 1 & 2 would still be pretty satisfying with a really economical edit.

Actually I wouldn't mind if Jaws & Jaws 2 were 90 minutes each.

Can you think one one score longer than 90 minutes that can be boiled down to a completely satisfying 40 minutes?

Cutthroat Island

Really? Which 40 minutes would you choose?

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

According to Joey's legislation, if anyone chose a score that he deems incorrect, they will be severely punished!

Is scorn punishment? I haven't called for torture or beheadings.

1941 is a score in need of a lot of ass kissing on this board. It's so fantastic.

Posters here should be saying to 1941....I didn't know. I DIDN'T KNOW!

In an act of defiance, I change my vote to Images! A superior score to the correct choices in every way.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,497]

According to Joey's legislation, if anyone chose a score that he deems incorrect, they will be severely punished!

Is scorn punishment? I haven't called for torture or beheadings.

1941 is a score in need of a lot of ass kissing on this board. It's so fantastic.

Posters here should be saying to 1941....I didn't know. I DIDN'T KNOW!

Yea, I didn't get into that score until way later than I should have.

I was well into it in 1979.

[Ricard 2,242]

Same here.

[publicist 4,643]

Plenty of the more mediocre Goldsmith scores (Executive Decision etc etc)

Goldsmith boiled it down to 29 minutes and look how that went.

[Jay 37,287]

I was born in 1979

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Child!

[Quintus 5,399]

Yeah, must try and remember to mind me language around Jason sometimes. And so should you an all, BloodBoal, you sweary bastard!

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Same here.

Ditto, it's got that blockbuster sound down. And Swing Swing Swing.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,497]

Has anyone noticed that the film version of "Swing Swing Swing" is slightly different?

[Jay 37,287]

Of course we have. Luckily both are on the LLL set.

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

If I could vote for just the first act of Superman: The Movie, that'd probably win. But the score (like the movie) takes quite a turn once the action reaches Metropolis and it never quite recovers.

So with Superman out of the running, it's a pretty close call between Jaws, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Jaws wins with its simplicity, its bravura and its sheer sense of fun all the way through. Great score and a true classic.

[Jay 37,287]

If I could vote for just the first act of Superman: The Movie, that'd probably win. But the score (like the movie) takes quite a turn once the action reaches Metropolis and it never quite recovers.

COMPLETELY agreed!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

That is the most repeated, persist and frankly ridiculous argument in JWFan history.

Superman is a perfect score. One of JW's most diverse, stylistically and thematically. It's nonsense like the opinions above that make Superman The Movie as one of the most underrated JW scores ever! (together with Jaws)

[mstrox 6,647]

I am with the people that vastly prefer the first portion of Superman: The Movie. On the Rhino and FSM versions, I could listen to the first disc and be completely happy (except for missing the Love Theme concert version)

[Jay 37,287]

^^Yup.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

What did JW do wrong for the second half of the film?

[Ricard 2,242]

I agree with Steef. The first half may be more "captivating" than the second half, but they are both brilliant!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It fits the tone of the second half PERFECTLY!

[Jay 37,287]

Well that's the thing, I think the second half of the movie isn't as good as the first either.

[Quintus 5,399]

As a listen in album form I certainly prefer the first half more, but as, you know, score, it's brilliant from start to finish.

[mstrox 6,647]

What did JW do wrong for the second half of the film?

For me, there's a lot of repetition - so much repetition - of the Superman theme in variations that aren't particularly interesting to me. And the Villains March which I don't particularly care for as a theme. I agree with the people above that it fits the movie fine, and also that the second half of the movie is a bit "less than."

[JoeinAR 1,949]

The score is perfection.

[Ricard 2,242]

It is perfection, March of the Villains included. And there's no repetition whatsoever.

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

If I could vote for just the first act of Superman: The Movie, that'd probably win. But the score (like the movie) takes quite a turn once the action reaches Metropolis and it never quite recovers.

COMPLETELY agreed!

Ack. I also remember actually liking that part of the film.

That is the most repeated, persist and frankly ridiculous argument in JWFan history.

Superman is a perfect score. One of JW's most diverse, stylistically and thematically. It's nonsense like the opinions above that make Superman The Movie as one of the most underrated JW scores ever! (together with Jaws)

It's probably the least of all of JW's big blockbuster scores.

[Hlao-roo 389]

It's probably the least of all of JW's big blockbuster scores.

No, that title would belong to a Harry Potter or an Indiana Jones score from the 2000s.

[Quintus 5,399]

I agree.

[Ricard 2,242]

It's probably the least of all of JW's big blockbuster scores.

Ridiculous.

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

It's probably the least of all of JW's big blockbuster scores.

No, that title would belong to a Harry Potter or an Indiana Jones score from the 2000s.

Never Potter, and I don't even rank KOTCS as a blockbuster score.

[Andy 4,083]

How can you only like the first half of the Superman score? He isn't Superman until the second half! The first half is short on action cues, which the second half gets very, very right.

Without the second half, it's not Superman. It's great scifi/fantasy and Americana, but it's not "Super" until Part 2.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Superman: The Movie is perfection from beginning to end. If you don't agree, you should be banished to the phantom zone in that mirror thing, where they only play Hans Zimmer. The fuck has happened to JWFan? No one quotes Star Trek and apparently everyone hates Superman: The Movie. Might as well just shut this place down.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Considering that The Love theme is perhaps the single greatest piece of John Williams perfection I have loved this score for 36 years. It's as familiar as an old friend.

[Wojo 2,453]

Superman is fantastic. It's like three mini-movie scores in one and they're all perfect.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Superman: The Movie is perfection from beginning to end. If you don't agree, you should be banished to the phantom zone in that mirror thing, where they only play Hans Zimmer.

Count me in for that.

[Dixon Hill 4,232]

And me, who's gonna be the third?

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

The fuck has happened to JWFan? No one quotes Star Trek and apparently everyone hates Superman: The Movie. Might as well just shut this place down.

I'll tell you what. It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try WATCHING films instead of QUOTING them!

[Wojo 2,453]

Nobody quotes Star Trek? No, nobody quotes the TV show. People are content to just quote the first six movies ad nauseum. I'd rather read a thread of Steef sighing.

Better yet. A sub-forum.

[Hlao-roo 389]

I like how on Spotify, Superman is listed as the composer of Superman: The Movie.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

John Williams IS Superman!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I might start quoting Stargate instead. 17 seasons of untapped potential.

[Hlao-roo 389]

I might start quoting Stargate instead. 17 seasons of untapped potential.

What about The Waltons?

[Dixon Hill 4,232]

How about Seinfeld? You know, the most quotable show in history.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Or maybe Mister Ed.