Sir Hilary Bray

A Fish Called Wanda
 
laughs throughout mainly in the shape of Kevin Kline's Otto (imagine he won an Oscar for that role) but full credit Mr Palin and maybe the less said about Fierce Creatures the better.

Raiders is one of my favorites from him, I always loved how oily and 'lived in' it looked, like a monochrome noir given colour; for me it became the signature Lucasfilm aesthetic which I'd want all other adventure movies to look like (which they never did). Raiders always felt visually authentic compared to its sequels, it somehow looked like a much older film than it was, like a David Lean classic. Deft sleight of hand indeed. RIP. 

Star Trek: Nemesis complete score
 
I love it!
 
Star Trek: Generations complete score

Bridge of Spies and
Force Awakens, once more.
 
Rey's theme has greatly grown on me, to the point that almost overwhelmed by its use in the end credits -triumphant and sweeping. Not to mention the Star Wars theme right at the death.

 
Don't know though, I reckon after a few LeBlanc could knock out a producer. Or any quips about Lost in Space.
 
So long as there's no trips planned to South America, new Top Gear might do okay.

Well considering how many of them are gay (it's a real and bizarre phenomenon), that doesn't worry me.

At 30 minutes The Cowboys is hardly a chore to listen through, quite the opposite.

Only now have I attempted to whistle Rey's theme (my whistling admittedly is hit and miss). Anyone in London today as with anyone elsewhere for weeks would have been treated to variations between Yoda's Theme from "Clash of Lightsabers", "Princess Leia's Theme" and the SW theme as used in Death Star attack/Sailbarge assault.
 
 

Only now have I attempted to whistle Rey's theme (my whistling admittedly is hit and miss). Anyone in London today as with anyone elsewhere for weeks would have been treated to variations between Yoda's Theme from "Clash of Lightsabers", "Princess Leia's Theme" and the SW theme as used in Death Star attack/Sailbarge assault.
 
 

Only now have I attempted to whistle Rey's theme (my whistling admittedly is hit and miss). Anyone in London today as with anyone elsewhere for weeks would have been treated to variations between Yoda's Theme from "Clash of Lightsabers", "Princess Leia's Theme" and the SW theme as used in Death Star attack/Sailbarge assault.
 
 

And every hit, a smash, Blunty

Padme's revealing costumes.

 
Must confess when that moment happened, the sight of the X-wings skimming the water I thought of Harrison Ford's exclamation in Air Force One when the US jets arrive: "The good guys are here!"
 
Glorious moment musically (in Force Awakens).

I'd very much like to ...
 
1) ... start actually working for school. From an educational viewpoint, I have all the means to achieve an awesome future in a variety of fields, so I really need to grasp those means and wield them accordingly.
 
2) ... eliminate psychological baggage from the past, or learn how to deal with it until it ebbs away, and overcome my depression and anxiety issues. Also, I'd like to become more comfortable with social contact (e.g. less endless overthinking), and develop a more positive, healthy attitude toward myself.
 
3) ... develop my compositional abilities; meaning: I'd like to listen to a wide range of music, study lots of scores, read and study books on music theory, etc.
 
4) ... begin a relationship with someone particularly special to me.

I love the ending of "Han and Leia".

 
Nope, it was Hosnia Prime
 
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hosnian_Prime

Personally, I liked Jaws better when I hadn't watched the sequels. Jaws 2 isn't too bad, certainly the best of the bunch and benefits from the Williams score but the film is lacking. The best scene is Brody's rant at the meeting, about not going through the hell of another shark again. I liked the idea of the sequel being about the Indianapolis.
 
 

Just watched that trailer. Truly awful. How can they make a Star Trek movie without any Star Trek in it?
Shatner can finally be at peace. We won't have Final Frontier to kick around as the worst Trek movie much longer.

It hasn't, as far as I know.

Whatever the case, it's brilliant and exciting music and McNeely's best composition. In those days I wanted him to do TPM if Williams would've been unable to.

Well, as someone who joined recently (or relatively so compared to this thread) and a BSG78 fan, the thread's resurfacing is welcoming. Had no idea Williams checked out the recording sessions of the BSG series score.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service- John Barry.

Amongst the three movies I somehow crammed in yesterday, I got to watch after a long time planning Apollo 13
by a quirk of fate the first Horner-scored movie I've been able to see since his death. And it's well documented about how good the score was and is.
Having put this in the middle of my From the Earth to the Moon workthrough, I ended up looking at this as "From the Earth to the Moon: The Movie". It's easy to see of course the link between the two in terms of creative drive -Hanks and Howard. It's hard to see how, if the film hadn't happened say, how Apollo 13 could have been depicted in an episode of even an hour without it being done the way it ended up (because of the movie), that is 'behind the scenes' at Houston. There is a direct link between the movie and FTETM episode, that being Clint Howard and his character.
The movie's well acted and largely sticks to the facts even if little bits are changed such as Apollo 13's first words after re-entry. A nice touch in the film is using Jim Lovell's actual voice [clip] for when they ditch the Aquarius: "Farewell, Aquarius and we thank you."
With respect to Nick Searcy I wish Chris Ellis had played Deke Slayton in the series as well as the movie. He looked quite like Slayton did back in the 60s and just feels like him more than Searcy did. Ed Harris embodies Kranz and is remarkable.
Watching the film I wondered just how much antagonism Swigert's sudden addition to the crew made. Swigert also seemed like a decent guy who sadly died young.
And in closing, that re-entry moment. I've seen the film a few times now and yet when you hear Tom Hanks' voice and see the chutes blossom, hear the music burst into life and the control room erupt, it still was misty-eye time.
And to think the film now is twenty years old.
"The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy."
Jim Lovell.

It's been exactly three weeks since we lost one of the great composers of the latter half of the 20th century in a tragic accident. Since then, many of us have pretty well saturated our listening time with his works, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's come to an even deeper appreciation of his magnificent talents in that time. He was an extraordinary artist, and a portion of cinema over the next few decades will not be as effective as it might've been had he remained with us.
 
To celebrate and honor his admirable body of work, some of the members of JWFan have submitted their choices for the top 10 best scores of his career. These are the results. They were tabulated by the same means we've used for such lists in the past, i.e. each member's first choice was given 10 points, their second choice 9, and so on. There were no ties (fortunately!), so there was no need to come up with tiebreaking rules.
 
So here it is: the Official JWFan James Horner Top 10 List of Scores:
 
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Braveheart
3. Apollo 13
4. The Land Before Time
5. Willow
6. Legends of the Fall
7. The Rocketeer
8. Cocoon
9. Krull
10. Titanic
 
The runners up:
 
11. Brainstorm
12. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
13. An American Tail
14. Aliens
15. The Perfect Storm
16. The Mask of Zorro
17. Sneakers
18. The New World
19. Avatar
20. Field of Dreams
 
And for those thinking in top 25 terms, the list was rounded off by Glory, The Name of the Rose, The Spitfire Grill, A Beautiful Mind, and Balto.
It's a good list. I kept mentioning a "surprise" contender throughout—surprising to me, at least. That would be The Land Before Time, which started strong and never fell below fourth place. (It spent quite a bit of time in second place, and even a short while at #1.) For fans of the score, this will only seem reasonable, but that's one that never hit me in that spot. It's good to see his animated work garnered some positive attention.
 
There were some other interesting things about the list. We only ran this for two weeks, compared to the five months allowed for the John Williams Top 10 voting a few years ago. In that contest, 87 people took part, compared to 33 in this one—less than half. But where 67 JW scores received votes, in this one, concerning a composer with a smaller body of work and with much less time to vote, there were 63 films represented—only four fewer. That suggests that a broader range of Mr. Horner's work appealed to people (though that may not be all that surprising given that he never had the equivalent of JW's 60s light-jazz rom-com period). It's also interesting to note that, out of a career spanning 36 years, the top 10 scores span a period of only 15 (1982 to 1997).
 
Of those 63 Horner scores, 16 received first-place votes. (TWOK had the most by far with 6 first-place votes.) No score had a vote in all 10 places. (Legends of the Fall came closest, with a vote in every spot except #9.) As for the most votes given, each of the top three were ties: Apollo 13 and Braveheart (19 votes each), followed by TWOK and The Rocketeer (18) and then Willow and Legends of the Fall (17). All of the top 10 scores received 11 votes or more; none of the rest reached 10 votes, save for The Mask of Zorro (which also picked up 11).
 
One other interesting tidbit: if you retabulate the list based on the average placement of all the votes each received—measuring, in a way, how much people liked the scores they voted for—TWOK still wins, but you get a very different list from there on out:
 
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (8.00)
2. Brainstorm (7.71)
3. The Land Before Time (7.21)
4. Braveheart (7.21)
5. Avatar (7.00)
6. Krull (6.64)
7. Cocoon (6.50)
8. Titanic (6.50)
9. Sneakers (6.50)
10. Aliens (6.43)
 
In other words, these didn't get as many overall points as others, but the people who voted for them seemed to feel more strongly about them. And, any way you cut it, everyone seems to agree that Mr. Horner's first big-studio outing remains his best work.
 
I'm going to add the specific numbers for all the scores that received votes, just so everyone can see how things fell out, but I wanted to post this first to get things rolling. Much thanks to everyone who took part. (Maybe we'll do this one again in ten years, too. . . !)

OK, guys, I've found 5 more
6/ "Star Trek II",
7/ "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
8/ "Aliens",
9/ "Red Heat" (no, I'm not joking!),
10/ "The Dresser".
"The Rocketeer", and "Sneakers" get honoury mentions.