NickTintin

Not sure I could come up with five but I have never cared for Presumed Innocent. I even watched the film again recently, and it has, as does Williams score for me...such a lifetime TV movie vibe.

I find it hard to agree with that until I see the films themselves. With just the scores, I think they are perfect. By the way, does anyone else get a "Its Working!" vibe in relation to War Horse? I of course refer to the bit of music from said dialogue in The Phantom Menace.

You wait though...with all the praise Williams has been getting, as well as Shore, someone will come out of the woodwork with some truly awful score that will win the oscar instead of one of these fine two gentlemen. It will happen.

The Wal-Mart here in Cedar City and the Wal-Mart store my dad worked in Salt Lake City had virtually no soundtrack section that I could see.  Borders has long since closed but I quit going to them because they're prices were a bit ridiculous for CDs.  These days I mostly do my shopping online, either from Amazon or mostly from Movie Music.  There's only a couple of times I've bought CDs directly from the labels IE: LLL, Varèse, Intrada, FSM.

When Borders was open, like some of you I had noticed over the years how their soundtrack section got smaller and smaller each year.  Back in the early 90's there were literally two whole sections devoted for score soundtracks.  I had to sometimes walk to the other side to see if they had what I was looking for.  After time that really went down to just one single side, then a small section.  It was quite sad to be honest to see it get smaller and smaller.

Nice to see another fellow JW Utah fan on here!  I know what you mean, the Media Plays in the day always had 2 sections and for some reason, the people at the store I frequented, always had a pretty good knowledge of the section too. It was strange.

You mean it does not seem to have a specific dramatic purpose outside the final emotional accent on the story, not scoring any specific idea in the film?

It seemed that way, especially how it's used in track 15. The scene that it plays over. I'll have to take closer notice next time of how that smaller moment plays out in track 14. To see where exactly it's spotted. This is just my initial observation.

Sort of how "Regaining a Son" works in Seven Years in Tibet.

And since you bring that up...how beautiful is that anyway, and more importantly the Williams/Ma version, Elegy for Cello and Orchestra from 2001? That and War Horse's main theme are definetly in my top 20.