Guest Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 A few scenes in the film contain music tracked straight out of Home Alone. What's unbelievable is that the music is used as score, not as background source music.The original score is by George S. Clinton. He must have gotten permission to use JW's music, but it feels very wrong hearing HA score in a non-HA film.I feel the Home Alone music should not have been used at all. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattris 416 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Ricard, I forgot to log in. I re-posted this topic, so you can delete this one to avoid confusion.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,624 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Williams music has been known to get tracked in a few movies and TV shows.I just think it's a compliment to Williams .K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 "If you can't reach the level of such a great score, don't copy it, but (directly) use it" :roll: hmmm.....if the film had been good, it would have been a compliment. I haven't seen Santa Clause 2, but the first one was horrible.I find it very mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,624 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 what's so mean about it?K.M.watching "King of Queens"K.K.M.Changing the channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 what's so mean about it?It's stingy. I don't think it's used as a homage. They must have liked the Home Alone score, and as they haven't got that level they wanted, they must have decided to use HA.But it's a mere assumption of mine.scissorhands - having watched "Munekata Kyodai" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 What's wrong with using good music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Well using it and NOT giving credit is definately a problem. The film's credits should mention John Williams. Something like "Original music composed by ____ , with additional music by John Williams" something to that effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Not really, they just have to give it the same sort of credit that pop songs are given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 I have to beg to differ in this case. Pop songs are very identifiable in most cases and can be easily distinguished from the film's score. Score music re-used can give people the idea that the film's composer created these tracks and is misleading. Some mention should be made in the credits for something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Pop songs are mentioned in end credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Pop songs are mentioned in end credits.Yeah I know that. I was just sayin pop songs should be mtnioned in the end credits while any music used from another film score should be mentioned in the opening credits with the original music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Perhaps, with wording like featuring blah blah blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Something along those lines yes. BTW I really think they should use JW music in more movies. So many films out there right now with scores that are not inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Yah. But that is probably not fair to the other composers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 I imagine Disney had to pay for the rights to use music from Home Alone since Fox and Sony hold the rights to the music if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manakin Skywalker 4,889 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Sorry for the 19 year late reply (someone else linked to this thread), but what's the story behind this? Did The Santa Clause 2 really use music from Home Alone, or was OP simply mistaken? Because I can't seem to find anything about this on Google aside from this thread, nor is there anything mentioned on IMDB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMefford 1,509 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 I'd love to know this as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,792 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 What happened to rogue leader and scissorhands? mattris is an old member? I thought he was a youngster will all the SW sequels apologism… Brando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis 244 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Don't think there is music from Home Alone 2 in this movie. TSMefford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando 1,848 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 12 hours ago, Luke Skywalker said: What happened to rogue leader and scissorhands? mattris is an old member? I thought he was a youngster will all the SW sequels apologism… I thought the same until I saw his join date… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 7,369 Posted November 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2021 The film scores released back when this thread was created (HP2, LOTR: TTT, Die Another Day, Treasure Planet, Star Trek: Nemesis) were infinitely superior to the crappy scores we have these days; TSMefford, Jurassic Shark and Once 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,008 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 On 02/11/2021 at 3:56 PM, Nemesis said: Don't think there is music from Home Alone 2 in this movie. You could have said that 19 years ago. Brando and Nemesis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,637 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I’ll likely be watching The Santa Clause 2 for the first time this year, so I’ll keep my ears open for music from Home Alone, or more likely, a temp-mimicking soundalike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Much like with Home Alone, it's best to pretend the Santa Clause sequels never happened. igger6 and Faleel 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackR 95 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 There isn't any music from Home Alone in the film that I'm aware of. The first two Santa Claus films are nostalgic for me (especially the music). I even picked up the promo score release of the second film for quite a bit not too long ago. Anyways, I am not aware of any spots where it uses Home Alone music at all. I'll keep my ears open when it's playing in the background of our constant Christmas movie Plex playlists. thx99 and Manakin Skywalker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I love the Convertino score. thx99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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