GerateWohl

You once said, you have plenty of space. 

You once said, you have plenty of space. 

I recently and finally bought it, I'll repeat that I love this re-recording very much, much more than the original 2LP OST presentation of the score.

They're documentaries.

Why not? If you consider all those people around us calling themselves artists claiming that all their creative output is some kind of art, how could you think, that any of the music written by John Williams is not art? What's art music then, contemporary art music, and why is Williams' music not art? 

HM. Maybe the term "masterpiece" is particularly overrated. I would say, John Williams is a master of his craft and hardly any other living and active fulfills such high standards with each of his recent scores. Therefore, I would subscribe that each of his works from the past 30 years is a masterpiece, which just means for me a work fulfilling highest standards of film music composition. 

Yes, it is like Anne Sophie Mutter said, there is brillant classical music and bad classical music, same applies to movie scores.

I think virtually all his scores are masterpieces, so... 

JW has 11 scores on the AFI 250 best scores list.
 
Star Wars
Superman
E.T.
Jaws
CE3K
The Cowboys 
Raiders of the lost ark
Schindler's List
Witches of Eastwick
Harry Potter 1
A.I.
 
On their "25" best scores list, JW is the most represented composer, with these three:
 
Star Wars (#1)
Jaws (#6)
E.T. (#14)
 
As a proud X, my personal one is E.T. of course, followed by Star Wars.
 
Now, the two latest masterpieces...
 
The Force Awakens and The Phantom Menace.

Isn't that more because he's still alive? I thought these cultured elite people always needed 150+ years to realise something is great.

Williams' deep love of Claude Thornhill is well known, as he mentioned him as the source of inspiration also for Heartwood and one of the movements of the Conversations piano suite. I think it's almost moving to see JW keeping his passion for what he loved as a youngster so much alive even in this late phase of his artistic life. He's definitely an artist very much in tune with the deepest parts of his soul.

And it is such a tender recording. 

Nice and to my mind very typical Herrmann score from 1967 with a beautiful song and a cute moog synthesizer teasing the orchestra from time to time. Like a lot of later Herrmann scores it contains a lot of harmonic traces of Marnie and Vertigo.

This score is a wonderful gift to us Herrmann afficandos. The score is like a lost score and now discovered. 

Nice and to my mind very typical Herrmann score from 1967 with a beautiful song and a cute moog synthesizer teasing the orchestra from time to time. Like a lot of later Herrmann scores it contains a lot of harmonic traces of Marnie and Vertigo.

The score vote is quite clear. Would not have expected that.
As if we were here in some kind of John Williams fan forum. 

The score vote is quite clear. Would not have expected that.
As if we were here in some kind of John Williams fan forum. 

The score vote is quite clear. Would not have expected that.
As if we were here in some kind of John Williams fan forum. 

The score vote is quite clear. Would not have expected that.
As if we were here in some kind of John Williams fan forum. 

Inspired by a recent post by @GerateWohl.

Same here. I really liked Prisoners (except for the ending), but have not been impressed with Arrival or his Blade Runner sequel. Of course, I will definitely watch it (at home) but I expect a 'not bad but not good either' movie. I really hope I'm wrong. 

It's really wonderful. It's not my favourite Myasaki movie but probably my second favourite score of them, after Mononoke.

Every single one of Joe Hisaishi's scores to Hayao Miyazaki's films are just terrific.  Howl's Moving Castle is no exception
 
 

From the ones listed I've got a crush in Howl's Moving Castle. Wonderful music and a larger than life main theme.
 

It's no secret, that generalizing is the shortcut to develop some kind of taste and opinions instead of laboriously gathering knowledge and experience.