RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I personally pictured him crawling away from the wreck and making it to the nearest road.The will to live is one of the strongest, if not THE strongest, aspects of humankind that I pay my respects to on a regular basis, and especially when these things happen.Wishful thinking never saved anybody's life, though, did it? -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Anyone else actually feel physically drained by this? I'm just sitting here sunken into the couch.I woke up to this, but its like i'm still half asleep. It hasn't sunk in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I'm still stunned.His best output was in the 1980s and early 1990s, no doubt. There is great doubt. His best work has been in the 21st century.Very sad right now. The only thing that can make me smile now is that somehow I know that when he was fighting the controls of the plane, he was humming the danger motif.perhaps but he was still copying Harrison Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 How I wish he could surprise us all and show us that he's still alive somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 From the Hollywood Reporterhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I say we start a database of every snide comment about James Horner on this forum so when everyone suddenly goes "his music was really powerful/part of my childhood/affected me deeply" we have a database of the fair weather fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 So it's official, then. Good-bye, Horner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Anyone else actually feel physically drained by this?Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 God damn. I always am afraid to see someone like Williams go, but at least he would have lived a full life. I don't know how to deal with this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I say we start a database of every snide comment about James Horner on this forum so when everyone suddenly goes "his music was really powerful/part of my childhood/affected me deeply" we have a database of the fair weather fans!Yes, the pretenders must be rooted out and shamed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Anyone else actually feel physically drained by this? Yes.Nope. I'm just sitting in the dark listening to his most beautiful and evocative pieces in a puddle of tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Wow. Completely speechless. This track seems to carry an additional poignancy to it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thats a great trackNot a song though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I say we start a database of every snide comment about James Horner on this forum so when everyone suddenly goes "his music was really powerful/part of my childhood/affected me deeply" we have a database of the fair weather fans!I've certainly been snide. Most recently I was unimpressed by Pas de Deux. This is a good reminder that there's little value in speaking or thinking ill of people and their acts when it isn't justly deserved. Before I became an internet person, I remembered that well. I hope to shed some of the cynicism I've built up, at least partially in light of this. A. A. Ron and Sharkissimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 He died because of your cynicism! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,357 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thats a great trackNot a song thoughThanks. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 If you'll excuse me, I need to... update my profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I was just getting ready to get to bed, and now I'm listening to Balto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 All done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Only a year older than my father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2015 I say we start a database of every snide comment about James Horner on this forum so when everyone suddenly goes "his music was really powerful/part of my childhood/affected me deeply" we have a database of the fair weather fans! I've certainly been snide. Most recently I was unimpressed by Pas de Deux. This is a good reminder that there's little value in speaking or thinking ill of people and their acts when it isn't justly deserved. Before I became an internet person, I remembered that well. I hope to shed some of the cynicism I've built up, at least partially in light of this.Our favorite composers are like our best friends throughout our lives. Not physically, but through their music. Sometimes some of them they say and do dumb things and you say honest and accurate mean things about them. It doesn't mean they weren't your best friend and a part of your life! Sharkissimo, Marian Schedenig and A. A. Ron 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I say we start a database of every snide comment about James Horner on this forum so when everyone suddenly goes "his music was really powerful/part of my childhood/affected me deeply" we have a database of the fair weather fans! I've certainly been snide. Most recently I was unimpressed by Pas de Deux. This is a good reminder that there's little value in speaking or thinking ill of people and their acts when it isn't justly deserved. Before I became an internet person, I remembered that well. I hope to shed some of the cynicism I've built up, at least partially in light of this.Our favorite composers are like our best friends throughout our lives. Not physically, but through their music. Sometimes some of them they say and do dumb things and you say honest and accurate mean things about them. It doesn't mean they weren't your best friend and a part of your life!Good way of putting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I don't know if I've ever made a snide remark about Horner.Unless you count my use of his danger motif as a seemingly unsolvable math theorem in my Hitchhiker's Guide Survival Game Fanfic as snide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Now playing in tribute: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Horner isn't close to being my favorite composer, but that doesn't make his death any less tragic. As derivative as he was, he always wrote music worth listening to.His two An American Tale scores were important stepping stones in my childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 TWOK, Willow, Aliens. Such a big part of my teens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I tried to listen to something but I can't yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Nor can i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I really don't feel like listening to anything right now. Film music just became that much less appealing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpvee 805 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I've always adored his love theme from "Troy", quite underrated in my opinion. Even if it was seemingly inspired by an earlier piece of his from "Glory", it's still gorgeous (10:17 in the video): I still can't believe this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 DO NOT LISTEN TO HYMN TO THE SEA.Jesus, once those bagpipes kick in I can't hold it together. And I don't even like bagpipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Horrible horrible news! I am shocked and saddened beyond words. One of the great voices of film music is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Horner, you pretentious arrogant fuck with your Madonna accent, self-quoting, iconicity from ripping off Enya and contempt for Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion Picture score. As it turns out, we all loved you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 He was partly raised in England and studied there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Horner, I hardly knew ye.But your music lives on, and I can still know ye through your music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 This is so like Horner though.First Jerry Goldsmith died, now this! Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 DO NOT LISTEN TO HYMN TO THE SEA.Jesus, once those bagpipes kick in I can't hold it together. And I don't even like bagpipes.Ugh. I made the mistake of listening to some tracks from Titanic. It's too soon for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpvee 805 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 DO NOT LISTEN TO HYMN TO THE SEA.Jesus, once those bagpipes kick in I can't hold it together. And I don't even like bagpipes.Gah, didn't think of Hymn. Gonna have to happen at some point. I remember a few years ago, in the wait leading up to the "Titanic" re-release, I actually didn't listen to anything from the soundtrack for the whole year before, so that it'd be downright chilling hearing those themes for the first time in so long with movie theater sound. And boy did it work, when Sissel's vocals first started. Insanely powerful effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Wow, this sucks. Very unexpected. I'm not too familiar with his whole catalog but several of his scores have resonated with me over the years. I consider Braveheart to be one of my top favorites for sure. The guy was too young, had too much left to give. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 People keep calling me or texting me about this. The next few weeks will be so weird. Everyone around here is going to be talking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,633 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Back in the 90s, I was catching a summer Williams conducted concert with the Cleveland Sym Orchestra. The show was mostly all Williams, but for the first encore, he did the main theme from An American Tale and spoke quite fondly of it. That piece seems like a nice tribute at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 People keep calling me or texting me about this. The next few weeks will be so weird. Everyone around here is going to be talking about it.Are you in LA? God bless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Now playing in tribute: Listening to this right now. Hard to hold back the tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,687 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Haven't posted here in a while, and didn't know where else to come to express my shock, sadness and disbelief.Damn. A true talent and life well lived. You will be very missed, James Horner. Along with Williams, you scored the soundtrack to my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Wow... This is shocking news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2015 Any chance its a case of mistaken identity and it was Prokoviev or Khachaturian instead of Horner? Dixon Hill, Marian Schedenig, mstrox and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Any chance its a case of mistaken identity and it was Prokoviev or Khachaturian instead of Horner?Bless you laddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Its happened before, lets be honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 I'm still having trouble comprehending this. This is the most a celebrity's death has hit since Roger Ebert's. Taikomochi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 This guy composed The Rocketeer. He's in heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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