Favorite Epic Score from the '90s

[David Coscina 3]

I included more options in this version (mostly because I hit the submit button instead of the add options button before I could finish for that last post-sorry)

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Braveheart, easily.

[Ollie 859]

I'll still vote for Dances with Wolves.

[John McClane 1]

I voted Braveheart here, but since I like Far and Away too, I voted for it in the other version of the poll!

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Far and Away, duh.

Ray Barnsbury

[Hlao-roo 388]

I haven't listened to a few of those scores you listed, but I would go with either Dances with Wolves or The Thin Red Line (which is arguably not an "epic"). My write-in would be Legends of the Fall, one of the few Horner scores I truly adore.

I'm not sure I would consider Nixon to be an "epic" (more of a low-key political drama, isn't it?) but it deserves mention among Williams's great trilogy of scores for Oliver Stone pictures.

[stewdog1 50]

This one is easy. Braveheart.

We are all JW fanboys, but let's get serious here.

[JoeinAR 1,759]

I would have voted Titanic, because it was the most epic film of the 90's in my mind.

Joe, noticing that there are actually only a film epics among the choices the rest are not epics at all.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Braveheart is epic.

Parts of Far & Away could be called epic with some stretch of the imagination.

Titus is NOT an epic score.

[JoeinAR 1,759]

I agree with you, Mulan isn't an epic film, or score, but it is very good.

Nixon and Magnolia are not epics either.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Magnolia LOL

How about Dave Grusin's score for The Firm?

[Elmo Lewis 6]

Mulan. It is an epic.

[Morlock 9]

Well, Dances with Wolves wins for most epic, but I like Bravheart more. Thouh both are ideal examples of film and score matching, something not even the great Far and Away could aspire to (Not with the piece of crap that is that film, anyhow). I think none of the others are truely epic except for The English Patient, which is not a score that would win anything.

And why would you call Magnolia epic? I personaly love the movie, and I really what Brion did with a game show musicaly, but epic?

[David Coscina 3]

It's an urban epic.

[Morlock 9]

But the fact that it's urban has little to do with it's characters, unlike a western for example.

[David Coscina 3]

Yeah, I could have included The Good the Bad and The Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the West....oh wait, wrong decade.

[Morlock 9]

....Or Dances with Wolves

[Romão 1,931]

The Phantom Menace, by far.

[Romão 1,931]

And braveheart reminds me a little to much of Holst's Jupiter.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

TPM is far from epic.

[Rogue_Leader 2]

Most of those choices are pretty weak.

[TheMaulMan 0]

Also wondering why The Phantom Menace isn't a choice. Does it get any more epic than Duel of the Fates?

[Romão 1,931]

And after TPM, my vote would go to Seven years in Tibet.

[Morn 7]

Far and Away, considered Braveheart but got bored of that simple score from too much listening.

[SeekUYoda 0]

I'd pick TPM, but since it isn't there I went for Far and Away.

[Rogue_Leader 2]

You know speaking of epic scores my opinion of the Gladiator score was depreciated over time. I used to think this score was really something special. I still think its good, but nowhere near the level I used to.

[Romão 1,931]

You and me Rogue. I don't like it a 3rd of what I used to.

[Romão 1,931]

And having started to listen to Wagner made even less apreciative of that score.

[Danielle 0]

From those listed my vote goes to Braveheart, although I'd personally choose Legends of the Fall.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,765]

Mulan was the only memorable one in that list. Otherwise, I would have picked The Phantom Menace if it was made a choice.

EDIT - I do enjoy parts of Gladiator, but that ethnic wailing has become such an unbearable cliche lately. Zimmer's only truly great score was Crimson Tide (kudos to him for writing it all by himself).

[CYPHER 1]

This is a very strange poll - I don't really understand the selection criteria at all. Nonetheless I was pleased to vote for The Thin Red Line, my favourite score amongst those listed, regardless of 'epic' qualities.

CYPHER - who finally bought Mulan on CD the other day. 'Tis good.

[Morlock 9]

Mulan was the only memorable one in that list.  Otherwise, I would have picked The Phantom Menace if it was made a choice.

EDIT - I do enjoy parts of Gladiator, but that ethnic wailing has become such an unbearable cliche lately.  Zimmer's only truly great score was Crimson Tide (kudos to him for writing it all by himself).

I disagree on both counts.