Kevin

Spielberg is a fan of Zimmer`s music. What do you say to that?

Into Thin Air - Lee Holdridge An enjoyable orchestral score, full of melodrama and sadness, but with good themes.

Interesting stuff, it's always fun to listen to Doyle talk.

Impossible = law of averages.

I have that on CD if someone is interested.

A good question, but for some reason, it's different with Williams. I can't really articulate why. I know it's true, that Williams has his own signature Williams-isms too, but for me, his music always sounds... normal. Like, it's the Standard against which all others are measured. He may have some textures that repeat, but they don't stick out like a sore thumb the way Horner does. There's never been a Williams repeat to the extreme of, say, the Genesis Project/Cocoon duplication. Like I said, I can't really explain it well. Williams' sound sounds just right, natural, and almost effortless. I just never picture him sitting at the piano, pulling out his last few hairs for lack of a new texture or musical idea. It's natural for him, and any similarity between scores would be because the subject matter is similar. Just imagine how similar Star Wars would sound like Raiders if Horner had composed both of them. So when you listen to The Fury or Jaws 2, you surely hear virtually similar writing in The Empire Strikes Back? Or Home Alone/Star Wars in Harry Potter? In terms of self-referencing or developing sound out of previous scores, Williams does almost as much as Horner. It's just that people are willing to accept it more. I surely can. Williams has his derivative tendencies (especially if he pulls out the old Prokoviev hat) and there is a certain 'same-iness' to his more somber efforts of late, but with Horner, whom i like a lot, it's just a different league. He beats the dead horse till it's either amusing (danger motif) or plain annoying (the synthesized choirs or certain americana figures, which turn up in alomst everything, say PERFECT STORM, WINDTALKERS or FOUR FEATHERS). I am glad for every new Horner we get and now he works so infrequently that the plagiarism issues are hardly bothering me, but he's still an old copycat. See above.

In dire need of a hearing aid? Horner just has stopped 'homaging' the classics, now he refrains mostly to sodomizing his own stuff. But that he does with a vengeance. But you are able to look through that when he's a favourite composer of yours. Seriously, when you listen to various JW scores, you don't hear when parts of them came from?

Lover's Prayer - Joel McNeely A lovely subdued romantic work. It's definitely one of the best scores that McNeely ever wrote (far better than his temp track action scores or his lightweight kiddie scores).

I still wonder what he wants on his hot-dog...

What about paperweight?

I think he got more original as his career went on. If you listen to his stuff in the 1980s, he really dug himself into a hole with the amount of self referencing/plagiarism that he did. Compared to the 1990s/2000s, the amount of lifting is in the minority. My favourite film composer James Horner is. Even if I'm not totally blown away by 'The Train'.

Backdraft - Hans Zimmer Wonderful score, intimate chracter moments mixed with ballsy themes and orchestration (thanks Shirley).

The worst thing he could give us is a mix of GI Joe and The A-Team.

He can be very self referencing if you look for it. The difference between Williams and Horner is that, Williams picks his nose in the bathroom out of sight, Horner picks his nose right in front of you.

It said "Romans go home".

Medal of Honour - European Assault: Christopher Lennertz It starts promising enough but then sort of wanders through the short album. It's not bad material at all, it's just not Giacchino good.

Defiance was JNH's attempt at Schindler's List

What's your point?

Yay! Someone agrees with me! And me! The thing that really kills The Last Airbender is the lack of overarching main theme to tie everything together.

Which is based on every fantasy/prophecy story to date.

Like the 29th Godzilla movie is terribly original? Or Eragon...

What about the Heidi release by Label X?

After all that firestorm on FSM, FFshrine is still up and running.

You know, Deckard WAS human...