James Horner and the 9 Million endings.

[Quintus 5,391]

Notice how J Horner loves to take fifteen years to end a score's End Credits? Get that last note on the strings and play it quiet and slow, repeat and fade it out for X amount of seconds. Feels like forever. I could've listened to Star Wars: Main Theme twenty times in the time it takes James Horner to filter out the musicians breathing during the end of Titanic. Thank God for JW and his beloved, no nonsense final clashes of percussion/everything. <---the proper definition noted I hope.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

I'm sorry....what?

[Quintus 5,391]

Sense in literal terms was never a part of my ranting's design.

[Hitch 55]

Stick to ranting.

[Jeshopk 8]

Come to think of it, I don't think I can remember one ending of a Horner credits sequence. I have probably heard a few, but since I mainly listen to his music in theatres, I'm out the door.

[Morlock 9]

Actually, I sometimes feels Williams drags out his endings sometimes (speaking of concert arrangements). Although just by a few beats, nothing huge.

[Quintus 5,391]

Stick to ranting.

Um, I never left it...

[scissorhands 16]

I like those relaxing moments after all the action in the film. I especially love the end credits from The Pelican Brief, very repetitive and slow, as you point out, but I think it sums up pretty well the possitive feeling of the movie.

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Haha, I've actually noticed this too...kind of a Horner trademark. One example I know offhand is The Land Before Time, where the final note in the credits lasts for almost a minute.

[David Coscina 3]

Horner's ability to write long cues is a sign of a competent composer- one who is familiar with dealing with long forms and structures. Sort of an aberration compared to today's composers who couldn't develop a theme past 2 minutes. Williams is the only other composer who deals with these long forms in a unified cohesive manner. Horner does have chops even if he's relegated to re-using material.

p.s. I'm sort of pro-Horner of late thanks to The Spiderwyk Chronicles. There is a theme in that score BTW.

[Quintus 5,391]

That's great and all, but does it mean that the re-use of the same note for what seems like 50mins is okay? Because I disagree; when its over and over again and for ages.

[indy4 152]

What about Weird Al's final note in "Ebay?"

[BurgaFlippinMan 7]

whatever it is, i still like how Horner seems to be the only guy out there composing credit suites now

[Quintus 5,391]

That's a sensational remark and you know it.

[Red 73]

Haha, I've actually noticed this too...kind of a Horner trademark. One example I know offhand is The Land Before Time, where the final note in the credits lasts for almost a minute.

The end credits in Glory do a similar thing with snare drums. Not that that's a bad thing.

[David Coscina 3]

That's great and all, but does it mean that the re-use of the same note for what seems like 50mins is okay? Because I disagree; when its over and over again and for ages.

Then you just don't get it. Have a super day.

[Hitch 55]

Haha, I've actually noticed this too...kind of a Horner trademark. One example I know offhand is The Land Before Time, where the final note in the credits lasts for almost a minute.

Isn't that during for the Amblin logo? Then you'd forgive him for that

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Interesting, I've never watched the entire end credits of the film so I don't know. I'll let it slide, if that's the case.