Not Mr. Big

Remembrances holds much more emotional weight for me but Theme From is still a much better headliner.

I kind of question its status as a "Spielberg masterpiece", partly due to its place in pop culture. Its grizzly depictions of warfare just became the new norm for war movies and it ended up just serving as another recruiting tool for the army, despite its anti-war aspirations. And I think some of this is due to the way the film itself valorizes dying for your country. Something like Born on the Fourth of July isn't as upfront and gruesome but no one is going to walk away from that thinking "I want to join the army" (he literally gets his d*ck shot off). Also, it's kind of thin thematically (narrative themes not musical) and a bit muddled too.

It's a little on the nose and subtracts a bit dramatically as a result. The completion of the musical phrase is what really makes the film version for me (where the album version just kind of tapers out after a short statement of the theme)

One of the best film music moments ever, tracked or not tracked

I'd rather see him do Spielberg's UFO tbh

Can't wait!!

Orange/brown. A quintessential fall movie

The first was pretty lame but this actually looks fun.

Stepmom doesn't need an expansion. OST is already perfect

Completely disagree with the notion that understated drama scores are inherently lesser projects with a "one size fits all" approach that any composer could fill. Williams' fingerprints are all over stepmom and it contains some of his finest melodic work

Rushing to write music for Ready Player Two

It's between the War Horse trailer and the Lincoln trailer. Both were peak "JW score anticipation" events

Thank god Dan Schneider wasn't involved in the production

I thought Alan Menken did that one...