Koray Savas

I nearly own every released John Williams score. Earthquake is one of the few that has been able to escape me. Every time I look around for it it's always around $70-$90. I even accidentally bought it on cassette on eBay. Considering I have the music and only a few tracks are good, I'm waiting for a reasonable price so I can add it to my collection.

That's a bold statement.

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It puzzles me how this topic has 50+ posts. No offense to anyone but this is down right stupid. Seriously, Steven Spielberg and Hot Women? Those are two things that should never be put together to form a discussion.

I just don't feel right labeling it as a comic book score. It's not technically a comic book, but I just wanted it to be able to be chosen within this category. It's more along the lines with A History Of Violence.

Hey GoodMusician, is your site up? I've been checking it every now and then and it's always down.

Yeah I was wondering how this very public site wasn't shutdown. I'll keep quiet about it.

I have, it's really really good, one of T.Newman's best. I just don't think it's the best for the Top 5 Comic Book Movie Scores.

They can protect them after I download everything. I never knew these kinda sites existed, at least not to this magnitude. It's gonna take me awhile to download everything I've found.

Actually you can, that's the only way I know to get music bought from iTunes. Burn the score to a CD-R and then re-import it into iTunes, my brother does it all the time to give me scores he buys from iTunes.

I agree, especially since the opening to Spider-Man 3 is by Elfman anyway.

Seems we're still getting more votes. May extend the time to 2 weeks instead. EDIT: I'm going to tally up all the votes for all my Top 5 posts. Get your votes in if you haven't yet! Will get them all done tomorrow night.

It's been a week for Howard Shore. Here are the final results: 1. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King 2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring 3. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers 4. The Departed 5. Panic Room

It may be sooner than you think

For those of you who don't know I am starting a series where we, as a group, will determine the top 5 scores of a particular category. So far I've done many individual composers, from which I will continue. But for now, here is a change of scenery. Here is the list of nominees: 1920s • Wings† • Sunrise† • The Broadway Melody† 1930s • All Quiet on the Western Front† • Cimarron† • Grand Hotel† • Cavalcade† • It Happened One Night • Mutiny on the Bounty • The Great Ziegfeld • The Life of Emile Zola • You Can't Take It with You • Gone with the Wind 1940s • Rebecca • How Green Was My Valley • Mrs. Miniver • Casablanca • Going My Way • The Lost Weekend • The Best Years of Our Lives • Gentleman's Agreement • Hamlet • All the King's Men 1950s • All About Eve • An American in Paris • The Greatest Show on Earth • From Here to Eternity • On the Waterfront • Marty • Around the World in Eighty Days • The Bridge on the River Kwai • Gigi • Ben-Hur 1960s • The Apartment • West Side Story • Lawrence of Arabia • Tom Jones • My Fair Lady • The Sound of Music • A Man for All Seasons • In the Heat of the Night • Oliver! • Midnight Cowboy 1970s • Patton • The French Connection • The Godfather • The Sting • The Godfather Part II • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Rocky • Annie Hall • The Deer Hunter • Kramer vs. Kramer 1980s • Ordinary People • Chariots of Fire • Gandhi • Terms of Endearment • Amadeus • Out of Africa • Platoon • The Last Emperor • Rain Man • Driving Miss Daisy 1990s • Dances with Wolves • The Silence of the Lambs • Unforgiven • Schindler's List • Forrest Gump • Braveheart • The English Patient • Titanic • Shakespeare in Love • American Beauty 2000s • Gladiator • A Beautiful Mind • Chicago • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King • Million Dollar Baby • Crash †From 1927–1933, the Academy Awards did not follow a calendar year. My Top 5: 1. Schindler's List 2. Ben-Hur 3. The Godfather 4. Gone With The Wind 5. Gladiator

Nominees: A History Of Violence Batman Batman Returns Batman Forever Batman and Robin Batman Begins Blade Blade II Blade: Trinity Catwoman Constantine Daredevil Dick Tracy Elektra Fantastic Four Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer Hellboy Hulk Men in Black Men in Black II Punisher Road To Perdition Sin City Spawn Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 3 Supergirl Superman: The Movie Superman Returns V for Vendetta X-Men X-Men 2: X-Men United X-Men: The Last Stand My list: 1) Superman: The Movie 2) Batman Begins 3) Men In Black 4) Batman 5) X-Men: The Last Stand

Can you mention these unmentionables?

I just found out that the score was released on iTunes, however I can't find it on Amazon, which leads me to believe it's an iTunes exclusive. Anyways, I saw the sneak peek of the film a couple weeks back, and I loved the score, which is a rarity with Marco Beltrami. It was similar to his score to Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, which IMO is one of his best scores behind I, Robot.

Hey...hey...shut up.

The score is very nice, it's along the lines of his comedic-drama scores, such as As Good As It Gets and Spanglish.

The whole HD/Blu-Ray war won't be over for some time. Recently Microsoft paid Paramount $150 million to be HD-DVD exclusive, causing an uproar in the film business. Spielberg was outraged and thats why Close Encounters is Blu-ray/standard edition only. Hopefully more Spielberg will reach Blu-ray, but Universal hasn't been Blu-ray as of yet. Several planned DreamWorks and Paramount Blu-ray releases have been cancelled due to this incident. Michael Bay was pissed because Transformers is now only HD-DVD, so I think his future movies will only be Blu-ray. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is don't get your hopes up.

Zimmer is the future, JW is the past You are absolutely correct. For those of you who hate Zimmer and his friends, you better get used to it because once John Williams passes, that's all there is going to be for the next decade. I don't think that would be so bad...but what about Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, and Alan Silvestri? IMO, Elfman is getting worse by the score... As for Silvestri, he's basically a hit and miss. The only scores of his I enjoy are the ones he does with Robert Zemeckis... As for Michael Giacchino, he is by far one of my favorite composers of all time. However, he is still new to scores in film, rather than in video games or TV... Don't forget that most of the new composers tend to be more rock-like... So basically, the next 10 years is going to be 90% Zimmer-esque.

I actually enjoy scores better without seeing the movie. Even though this is a rare occurrence, I do have some scores for which I have not seen the film. Requiem For A Dream, for example, I would probably not enjoy as much if I saw the film. The reason behind this is that, for me, the music is more adaptable. I listen to Requiem while I write, it's very inspiring and it's almost like I'm writing a novel that fits the music, rather than being stuck with the image of the film along with the music.

Zimmer is the future, JW is the past You are absolutely correct. For those of you who hate Zimmer and his friends, you better get used to it because once John Williams passes, that's all there is going to be for the next decade.

This is in no particular order: Where Dreams Are Born (A.I.) Dry Your Tears, Afrika (Amistad) End Credits (E.T.) Exsultate Justi (Empire Of The Sun) End Credits (Munich) Theme From Schindler's List (Schindler's List) Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) (Schindler's List) Duel Of The Fates (The Phantom Menace) CheValiers De Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code) Now We Are Free (Gladiator) The Once And Future King (The Lion King) Once Upon A Time In The West (Once Upon A Time In The West) The Ecstasy Of Gold (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) On Earth As It Is In Heaven (The Mission) Prologue (Lady In The Water) End Titles (Snow Falling On Cedars) Noah Visits (The Village) Wow...I just realized how much beautiful music there is.