Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 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 Wind1940s • 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 Men1950s • 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-Hur1960s • 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 Cowboy1970s • 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. Kramer1980s • Ordinary People • Chariots of Fire • Gandhi • Terms of Endearment • Amadeus • Out of Africa • Platoon • The Last Emperor • Rain Man • Driving Miss Daisy1990s • Dances with Wolves • The Silence of the Lambs • Unforgiven • Schindler's List • Forrest Gump • Braveheart • The English Patient • Titanic • Shakespeare in Love • American Beauty2000s • 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 List2. Ben-Hur3. The Godfather4. Gone With The Wind5. Gladiator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King2. The Sound of Music3. Forrest Gump4. Don't care....EDIT: Again,didn't see the SCORES part. Here's my list:1. Return of the King2. Forrest Gump3. Titanic 4. Sound of MusicI've never seen nor heard anything from Schindler's List (other than the main theme), but I'm sure that would be next on my list if I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 West Side StoryThe ApartmentCasablancaSchindler's ListMy Fair LadyI have a feeling I'd include The Godfather if I had seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I believe your choosing movies, where the thread is supposed to be for scores. Personally, I'd be far more interested if it it were movies. And that in this day and age, someone has not seen The Godfather....mind boggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 But it's the Best Picture award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I think it's the 5 best scores to a best picture winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Everybody goes through "posting yips" phase at some point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Oh, you and your yips..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 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.I made the same mistake, Elmo Lewis. It is scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Oh, you and your yips....."You don't get better for the yips", Morlock...I made the same mistake, Elmo Lewis.... see now how scared I am? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I've never seen nor heard anything from Schindler's List (other than the main theme), but I'm sure that would be next on my list if I did.Get out of here right now, and do not come back.This list includes films that had original scores only.1. Schindler's List2. Braveheart3. Chariots of Fire4. American Beauty5. The Godfather, Part 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I would say:1) Schindler's List2) Braveheart3) Return of the King4) The Godfather Part II5) Out of Africa Grand Prix: AmadeusOf course, I haven't heard many of these scores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 1 - Schindler's List2 - Lawrence of Arabia3 - The Last Emperor4 - Ben Hur5 - Dances with Wolves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 28, 2007 Author Share Posted September 28, 2007 Okay, here are the final Top 5, voting is closed:1. Schindler's List2. Braveheart3. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King4. Ben-Hur5. The Godfather Part IIAgain, very little posts. I feel ROTK doesn't belong in there at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I think ROTK belongs as number 1.I'm suprised not many people put Forrest Gump. Was I the only one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 28, 2007 Author Share Posted September 28, 2007 Yes you were. Mind you this is for scores for films that have won best picture, and IMO, The Lord Of The Rings scores are severely overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Then you have just enlisted yourself in the services of King Mark and others, and your sworn enemies are now Gkgyver, myself, and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 28, 2007 Author Share Posted September 28, 2007 Let the battle begin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 schindlers list is overrated, too many JW fans with JW clouding their eyes and ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI 0 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 The best scores from that list, in Top Five1 - Dances with Wolves 2 - Patton3 - Schindler's List 4 - Titanic5 - Gladiator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 schindlers list is overrated, too many JW fans with JW clouding their eyes and ears.There is nothing overrated in the music. Sometimes I believe you would like to hear Superman-like fanfare in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 schindlers list is overrated, too many JW fans with JW clouding their eyes and ears.You really, really need to subject "Rememberances" to that Dark Test of yours. It's one of Williams' most heart-wrenching pieces. It's impossible, under any context, to listen to it and remain unaffected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 You really, really need to subject "Rememberances" to that Dark Test of yours. It's one of Williams' most heart-wrenching pieces. It's impossible, under any context, to listen to it and remain unaffected.It's neo-romantic mush in a jewish idiom. Williams would've better followed a more intimate concept (á la the jewish song before 'Nacht Aktion') instead of the string heavy syrup he poured i. e. over the 'I could have done more' sequence - unfortunately, the Academy Award proved his instincts (or Spielbergs) right. It's a rather mundane drama® score, the kind of which Delerue already came up with for the WWII-concentration camp drama 'Escape from Sobibor'. Sadly, nobody ever mentions that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 It might not be groundbreaking, but mundane it is not. I think the main theme suffers from over-exposure and over-stringy-ness. But 'Rememberances' remains a phenomenally powerful melody. And you can't intellectualize away something like 'Immolation', or the genuine horror expressed (relatively subtely, I might add) in ' Auschwitz - Birkenau'. 'Making The List' is a great cue. May not be for all tastes, but the score certainly has several remarkably affecting and effective cues. And you're certainly not gonna convince anyone by singling out 'I Could Have Done More', which is the most controvercial scene in the film, one that even many people who love the film think is far too schmaltzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Morlock, don't you see the orchestra is just rubbing strings, and blowing through metal, and hitting wood as if they were simians?And you get moved by that? You pussy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Of the scores I know on that list,1)Patton2)Schindler's List3)Ben Hur4)Dances With Wolves5)Lawrence of Arabia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 May not be for all tastes, but the score certainly has several remarkably affecting and effective cues.If you read all the hosannas here, you could believe it's a genuine masterpiece, which it is not.I'll grant you that pieces like 'Jewish Town' or the Auschwitz-cue are (rare) standouts, but the basic ingredient is minor strings with gusto, which i find just too much with such a subject. It's just too cliché. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 schindlers list is overrated, too many JW fans with JW clouding their eyes and ears.You really, really need to subject "Rememberances" to that Dark Test of yours. It's one of Williams' most heart-wrenching pieces. It's impossible, under any context, to listen to it and remain unaffected.I thoroughly agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 29, 2007 Author Share Posted September 29, 2007 Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) is my favorite piece of music ever composed...ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 schindlers list is overrated, too many JW fans with JW clouding their eyes and ears.You really, really need to subject "Rememberances" to that Dark Test of yours. It's one of Williams' most heart-wrenching pieces. It's impossible, under any context, to listen to it and remain unaffected.I prefer the car test these Days Elmo, and I really do like Schindler's List, but its not one of the top 5 scores of all the Academy Award winning films.I really wish people would listen to the Sting, its amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 How does the car test go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I really wish people would listen to the Sting, its amazing. I do, and enjoy it very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 If there is something overrated on this planet , it's Sting.I think his appearance and "music" Stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Excuse me, back to the topic at hand. Want to discuss Sting? Then create a separate thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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