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Why am I asking this? Because for me this wasn't love at first sight.
Since the age of 11 I was visiting record stores and scrolling through the soundtrack department.
I was the greatest Star Wars fan on earth and a big science fiction fan, too.
So I recognized the compoer name on records like Alien or Star Trek TMP, which probably was the first movie with a Goldsmith score, that I had ever seen.
Later I saw Logran's Run (on TV) and Gremlins. But his scores more or less did their job.
Different from John Williams, who's scores made me immediately want to listen to them outside the movie.
Tbh, the first time I actually recognized the Goldsmith Star Trek theme was at the title credits of the Star Trek Next Generation TV Show, so little of an impression it made on me, when I watched the movie.
 
I neither watched Alien nor The Omen or Poltergeist. I was too young at the time.
The score that made me want to dig deeper into his work was "Legend".
I bought the record more or less by the cover.
I had iked The Last Unicorn, this was again a fantasy story with unicorns and a red bull, I like Ridley Scott's previous movie "Bladerunner", so I was hooked and really fell in love with the score. Luckily I didn't watch the movie at that time.
 
For a long time Legend was the only Goldsmith score I owned. Finally a broader interest in Goldsmith was woken up by my first discussions with two other movie score conaisseurs, which I met in my 20s. Studs Lonigan, the two Poltergeists, The Omen, Mom and Dad Save the World, Total Recall, Planet of the Apes and a big deal was later L.A. Confidential. And the Alien expansion.
 
Still I would say, that I admire much of his music, but I don't necessarily love it.
Overall I would call his movie music brillantly operational.
 
Or to say it differently:
 
Is he one of my favourite composers? No.
s he one of my favourite movie composer? Yes.
 

Speaking of Barry...
 
High Road to China
 

 
One of my favorite scores from him. The main theme just soars! 
 
Across the Sea of Time
 

 
Wow! That was great! 45 minutes of traditionally melancholic Barry. I never heard of this movie (I think it's a documentary about the United States and specifically New York?), but the score is wonderful.

The BFG: Expanded Edition
 

With 7 Oscars for Oppenheimer, Nolan has finally achieved godhood.
 

 
Next year his apostle Denis Villeneuve will join him in the Olympus.

Another fan of MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART! Good to hear. I actually recently played it and posted about it in the "What are you listening to (older scores)?" thread.

BLADE RUNNER- Vangelis
E.T.- Williams
BACK TO THE FUTURE- Silvestri
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST- Morricone
NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM- Keane
THE THIN RED LINE- Zimmer
DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL- Herrmann
49th PARALLEL- RV Williams
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART-Yared
BODY HEAT - Barry
 

Hmmm did Emily Blunt do anything special in Oppenheimer?  I've seen the movie but I don't remember anything about her acting in it.  I remember Florence Pugh more
 
RDJ was indeed great in that movie!

It's one of the few great things to come out of RCP.

Weird. HTTYD 3 is my favorite of the trilogy, as well as my favorite score of 2019. I absolutely love the second one as well. The first one is great but as I said before I "struggle" with it a bit more than the other two... lol.
 
The whole trilogy has magnificent themes and wonderful action music.

I don’t agree with you there. It’s both an amazing film and score. Agree with everything else. 
 
 

I always felt people could check out YouTube videos on their own if they were interested in something. The embeds here tend to clog up loading time for a page anyway (there are too many YouTube videos around here in general! I prefer it when people use WORDS). But that's me. People will do what they prefer, I suppose.

It was a bold move, that EON just couldn't sustain.
Look where Craig's Bond started from... and look where he ended up...

Wait, the first round eliminated Lionheart? Really? Oh crap

Premieres in June!
 
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-premiere-june-1235930058/

They could just make the story closer to the original book, which is veeery different. 

So it's a bloated mess?
 
Sigh.....

No short cues!😍😍😍😍😍😊😊😊😊😊😊

Zack Snyder's Oppenheimer.

LIONHEART is top 10 Goldsmith for me. I've owned the OST for 30+ years, but never had any issues with sound, performance or selection/sequencing of cues. It's fine just the way it is.

Not I. I haven't listened to the whole 8+ hour work, just the FROM SLEEP album version. But I know people who have and, yes, fallen asleep.

The music he wrote for CBS Bradbury stories is wonderful! My choice

I finally watched The Queen's Gambit.
 
Great miniseries and great music! 
 

Haven’t heard it.  I enjoyed Sommersby and thought Black Beauty was decent.  Two examples of non-genre Elfman from roughly the same era.