Underrated Williams

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

Hans Zimmer is underrated by sea urchins.

eee-NOUGH with the Hans Zimmer, o.k!? Wash your mouth out! Now...to business. A lot of the scores mentioned on this thread, are, I think, unheard, rather than underated. It is no shame to admit that one has not heard a particular piece of J.W. music. I am still to hear "Air And Simple Gifts", being that the bloke from the B.B.C. talked all over it, in January, and I am not quite ready to fork out $800 for the Yo Yo Ma box-set (f.f.i., see my post on the box-set thread). Of the scores that I do own, I will say that "The Missouri Breaks" is a wonderful little score, which belies the fact that only 6 people played on it. If J.W. had scored "Cinderella Liberty" (another absolute gem!) in 1995, it would sound a lot like "Sabrina". "The Towering Inferno" is one of my all-time top-ten J.W. scores. Nuff said. "C.E.3.K." IS my all-time no. 1 J.W. score. "Home Alone 2" is a superior score to an inferior sequel, but who at J.W. Fan would not like to hear a complete score to either "Angels With Filthy Souls", or "Angels With Even Filthier Souls"? "Monsignor" is a bad film, but it does contain "Gloria". It is my long-held dream to have this piece played at my wedding. "...Ryan" is made all the more remarkable by the fact that the battle scenes are NOT scored. "Dracula" shows you what you can do with what is, essentially, a one-theme score. "The Fury" showed that there was life after "C.E.3.K.". "The River" is a lovely little score that fully deserved its Oscar nomination. Again this kind of thread comes down to personal taste. Whatever one might think of the scores-hits, or misses-they are all worthy of investigation.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476]

ROTJ

The first 10 minutes of ESB

COS

AOTC

[Charlie Brigden 5]

The first 10 minutes of ESB

I didn't realise people ever said anything about that.

[John Crichton 4]

"Dracula" shows you what you can do with what is, essentially, a one-theme score.

Dracula has more than one theme. There's at least two other little motifs I've caught on the OST, and I think there's more in the unreleased cues.

[Neimoidian 13]

The first 10 minutes of ESB

I didn't notice any underrated minute of ESB. There are only some less discussed, but this doesn't mean the same.

[Nick Parker 3,017]

"Dracula" shows you what you can do with what is, essentially, a one-theme score.

Dracula has more than one theme. There's at least two other little motifs I've caught on the OST, and I think there's more in the unreleased cues.

My personal favorite is the one at 3:47-3:57 in "Main Titles & Storm Sequence". Assuming that it is separate from the motif at 1:47-1:53.

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

"Dracula" shows you what you can do with what is, essentially, a one-theme score.

Dracula has more than one theme. There's at least two other little motifs I've caught on the OST, and I think there's more in the unreleased cues.

"Dracula" shows you what you can do with what is, essentially, a one-theme score.

Dracula has more than one theme. There's at least two other little motifs I've caught on the OST, and I think there's more in the unreleased cues.

My personal favorite is the one at 3:47-3:57 in "Main Titles & Storm Sequence". Assuming that it is separate from the motif at 1:47-1:53.

I understand what you are saying, guys, but I still maintain that "Dracula" is a one-theme score: the love theme, or "Love Scene". Personally, and although I like them, I don't count motifs. Not even J.W. could make a full theme out of, for example, the four-note (or is that four-chord?) Death Star motif in Ep.IV. That being said, I do like "Dracula" a lot.