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  1. Several posts/polls have shown that the majority of the members here believe that the best scores by John Williams are both Superman and The Empire Strikes Back.

    Ok. So what is the best scores from the other major composers?

    James Horner, Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, Danny Elfman, David Arnold and the late, great Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein.

    James Horner - Titanic

    Alan Silvestri - Back To The Future

    David Arnold - Independence Day

    Hans Zimmer - Crimson Tide

    Basil Poledouris - Conan The Barbarian

    Danny Elfman - Batman

    Feel free to add others that I have missed.

  2. Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy Back To The Future Trilogy

    Also of course Indiana Jones Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade and if I haven't mentioned it before Back To The Future Trilogy.

  3. Yeah, but I've read in Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography by John Baxter that Spielberg was more involved with the scoring process on Poltergeist than Tobe Hooper was.

    Tobe Hooper was not involved with the post-production on Poltergeist. That was entirely Spielberg. Some have even speculated that Hooper was only on the set to officially call "action" and "cut".

    Neil

    As far as I am led to believe it is the director of the film who chooses the composer to score his film

    Dean, who is waiting for someone to say it is not Hooper's film

  4. Or Jerry Goldsmith on Poltergeist, but that's debatable.

    This one doesn't count though as this was only produced by Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Cahinsaw Massacre). Spielberg was unable to direct Poltergeist due to his commitments with E.T. but whenever he directs a film personally it's JW for the score.

    As far as the possible conflict with WOTW and ROTS is this not similar to Star Wars and Close Encounters of The Third Kind? Both of which came out within a short space of time in 1977! I think Spielberg has enough say in Hollywood to convince the studio suits to hold back on a films release (at least for a few weeks) until his composer is available.

  5. But the con to that idea:  Having to SEE the movie :music:

    How true this statement rings. I saw the movie once and that was probably too many times. I don't understand what all the hype was about and as far as I'm concerned thought it was rather mediocre.....but that is my opinion.

    It would be good to see if Yared's score would have made a difference though. Maybe they should release the film again but with the option of having Yared's score as an alternative. They did it with the recent Battle of Britain DVD and Sir William Walton's rejected score so the precedence has been set.

  6. You have all set me straight now. My thanks to you all. :)

    It is the same as what I have as well, save for a few seconds on the times of each track. I just had to be sure. That's all.

    BTW it's fantastic music too, far too good to have been rejected for what ever petty reason why it was.

  7. Does any one have a track list for Yared's Troy.

    I have seen a scan of the rear cover and compared the CD (that I have at least) the times are all out of sequence. Either the times are out of sequence with the tracks on the scan or the tracks on the CD I have on the CD are out of sequence.

    :? I'm so confused :?

  8. It was Star Wars for me.

    I wasn't into any sort of music waaaaaay back then in 1980 and Star Wars was the very first score I set out to find. But it wasn't until after I had bought The Empire Strikes Back and then Raiders Of The Lost Ark that I was hooked.

  9. Do you have the book? And if yes, could you post the forword here... i always like to read what Williams has to say.

    Close guys but sorry. No banana. It is Foreword. I know it's petty but I hate bad spellers. And my problem is that I work with the worst of them

    Not everyones native language is English.

    Neil

    Point taken. Thanks for reminding me, Neil.

  10. Elf made 3 mill on hulk.  I imagine john brings home 1.5 -2 salary per film

    Hang on a sec. Elfman making 3 mill on the Hulk and JW only a mere 1.5 - 2 mill per film? Elfman is not THAT great and JW is not THAT bad.

    The book "On the Track" (which also had a forward by Williams incidentally) had his salary at $1,000,000 per score. But that was 15 years ago.
    Do you have the book? And if yes, could you post the forword here... i always like to read what Williams has to say.

    Close guys but sorry. No banana. It is Foreword. I know it's petty but I hate bad spellers. And my problem is that I work with the worst of them

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