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What would you consider to be other 'Masterpieces'?


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We have the John Williams version of this question. Now, what about everybody else? (Note: These would be scores that match or exceed the choices you made for Williams masterpieces.)

Alien

Alien 3

Back To The Future

Batman

Conan the Barbarian

Crimson Tide

CutThroat Island

Dances With Wolves

Edward Scissorhands

Fly Away Home

Glory

The Iron Giant

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Mulan

The Mummy Returns

Road to Perdition

Signs

Stargate

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: Nemesis

Total Recall

Troy (Yared's)

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Hmm...

Batman

Braveheart

Conan the Barbarian

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Independence Day

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of hte King

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Tomorrow Never Dies

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

And a lot of stuff I haven't heard.

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In no particular Order.....

Independence Day

Zulu

Ben-Hur

Krull

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Dead Ringers (Shore)

Adventures of Robin Hood

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These are easier than the Williams thread.

Jerry Goldsmith:

The Blue Max

Patton

Planet of the Apes

Logan's Run

The Omen

Alien

Star Trek TMP

Night Crossing

The Final Conflict

Poltergeist

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Total Recall

Basic Instinct

Elliot Goldenthal:

Aliens

Sphere

Final Fantasy

Howard Shore:

Seven

The Lord of the Rings

Philip Glass:

Koyaanisqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

Erich Wolfgang Korngold:

Captain Blood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Sea Hawk

Leonard Rosenman:

The Lord of the Rings

Miklos Rozsa:

Ben-Hur

Bernard Herrmann:

Psycho

North by Northwest

(and probably plenty of others; I'm not as familiar with Herrmann's music as I should be)

Ennio Morricone::

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Plus lots of others that don't come to my mind right now.

Marian - 8O

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This list is short as well:

Gone With the Wind

The Wizard of Oz

Psycho

The Godfather

The Omen

I would list Braveheart but there are too many Irish instruments in this film about Scotland.

Jeff -- who believes the first four in the list belong in the top 10 of AFI's scores list

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Hey! The whistle is as much Scottish as it is Irish! (There are whistles in the score, aren't there?) Also, do you want to be the one who suggests recording a Highland Bagpipe inside with a full orchestra? I hope not. The Uilleann Pipes are simply the indoor, recording-friendly version of the bagpipes. Plus, they are so much more lyrical, in tune, and flat out beautiful.

~Conor

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Alien

Apollo 13

The Aviator

Back to the Future

Back to the Future III

Batman

Batman Begins (it fits well with the movie; "Molossus" is awesome driving music)

The Blue Max

Braveheart

The 'burbs

Conan the Barbarian

Dead Poets Society

Diamonds Are Forever

Flash Gordon by Queen

Flight of the Navigator

Ghostbusters

Goldfinger

The Incredibles

The Lion in Winter

Mulan

North by Northwest

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Patton

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Poltergeist

Rambo: First Blood Part II

The Right Stuff

Sneakers

Star Trek The Motion Picture-First Contact

Thunderball

To Kill a Mockingbird

Tomorrow Never Dies

Total Recall

Tron

Twilight Zone: The Movie

The Wind and the Lion

Witness

The Year of Living Dangerously

You Only Live Twice

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I don't know many scores. But a few exceptional scores that haven't been mentioned and that I think are masterpieces for their own reasons are...

Homeward Bound 1 and 2.

Addams Family Values.

Twister.

Rescuers Down Under.

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Mmmm

I really dont have that many non Williams' scores to talk about this... (and i have ones that a like, not that i consider to be masterpieces)

You Only Live Twice would be one of them i suppose.

Return of the King

Ben Hur

The adventures of Robin Hood

Medal of Honor

Secret Weapons over Normandy

Mulan (i think this is the best Disney score, so that must be a masterpiece...)

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Psycho, Herrmann

Edward Scissorhands , Elfman (Film music would be in such a better place today if more movies were scored like this...Elfman's commentary on the DVD is a gem - it's a shame the same honor is given to practically no other scores.)

The Land Before Time, Horner

Glory, Horner

The Man in the Moon, JNH

The Village, JNH

Signs, JNH

Ray Barnsbury

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Bernard Herrmann:

PSYCHO

James Horner:

THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE

Elliot Goldenthal:

TITUS

Jerry Goldsmith:

POLTERGEIST

Franz Waxman:

SUNSET BOULEVARD

Miklos Rosza:

BEN-HUR

Alfred Newman:

THE ROBE

Thomas Newman:

ROAD TO PERDITION

Elmer Bernstein:

THE GREAT ESCAPE

Maurice Jarre

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

John Barry:

OUT OF AFRICA

Bernard Herrmann:

Psycho

North by Northwest

(and probably plenty of others; I'm not as familiar with Herrmann's music as I should be)

Shame on you for saying such a thing. Bennie is inconsolable at the moment. :sigh::sigh:

Elliot Goldenthal:

Aliens

Sphere

Final Fantasy

Don't you mean ALIEN3, old chap?? Unless you know something that the rest of us don't!

Hitch :):devil::wave:;)

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of hte King

Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl

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Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl

Come again?

Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl aka The Poseidon Adventure (remake)

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Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl

Come again?

Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl aka The Poseidon Adventure (remake)

:pukeface:

I think i'll stick with the original then...

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Shame on you for saying such a thing.  Bennie is inconsolable at the moment.   :pukeface:  ;)

Well, at least *I* didn't throw him out of my movie.

Don't you mean ALIEN3, old chap??  Unless you know something that the rest of us don't!

Speaking of it, I do. Doesn't change the fact that you're right in this case though.

Marian - :P

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Carrie and Dressed to Kill, Pino Donaggio

Darkness Falls, Brian Tyler

I can agree with some listed here, but Planet of the Apes, perhaps film only, but its noise otherwise.

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I could have sworn my Aliens was by James Horner, yet Marian says it Elliot Goldenthal, I know JH steal, but mostly its his own work, MOSTLY,

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Marian's list is very close to mine, but I'd add:

King of Kings - Miklos Rozsa

Mishima - Philip Glass

Cleopatra - Alex North

Capricorn One - Jerry Goldsmith

Titus - Elliot Goldenthal

Where Eagles Dare - Ron Goodwin

I was going to put Horner's Sneakers on here, but the Beethoven (9th Symphony) and Glass (Islands from Glassworks) rip-offs really irritated me on my last listen. I can't think of any Horner scores that I would consider 'masterpieces'.

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Alex North

A Streetcar Named Desire

Death of a Salesman

Viva Zapata!

Spartacus

The Children's Hour

The Misfits

Cleopatra

Cheyenne Autumn

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Africa

The Shoes of the Fisherman

2001

Carny

Dragonslayer

Under the Volcano

:)

Bernard Herrmann

Citizen Kane

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Vertigo

North by Northwest

Psycho

Fahrenheit 451

Taxi Driver

Miklos Rozsa

Quo Vadis

Ben-Hur

King of Kings

Jerry Goldsmith

Planet of the Apes

Patton

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Alien

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Total Recall

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Wow.

The awesome power of JWFan.Net.

Someone starts a thread on film score masterpieces, and-- bang!

The AFI posts its own 250-score list in reply.

Awesome.

(Thanks to Hook for posting the link on Movie Music UK's board.

In this list, you will find...

11 Elmer Bernstein

11 Goldsmith

11 Alfred Newman

11 Rozsa

11 Steiner

11 Waxman

11 Williams

9 Herrmann

7 Barry

7 Korngold

7 Tiomkin

6 Mancini

6 North

5 Horner

4 Jarre

4 Kaper

4 Morricone

4 Victor Young

3 Copland

3 Gold

3 Howard

3 Randy Newman

3 Raksin

3 Rosenman

3 Schifrin

3 Stothart

2 Malcolm Arnold

2 Bacharach

2 Bennett

2 Chaplin

2 Conti

2 Doyle

2 Elfman

2 Fielding

2 Friedhofer

2 Grusin

2 Hamlisch

2 Quincy Jones

2 Legrand

2 Moross

2 Portman

2 Rosenthal

2 Shaiman

2 Shore

2 Thomas Newman

2 Rota

2 Salter

2 Vangelis

2 Webb

2 Zimmer

1 Addison

1 David Arnold

1 Auric

1 Barron & Barron

1 Leonard Bernstein

1 Blanchard

1 Bliss

1 Broughton

1 Burwell

1 Churchill & Plumb

1 Coppola

1 Corigliano

1 Delerue

1 Duning

1 Ellington

1 Fenton & Shankar

1 Glass

1 Goldenthal

1 Green

1 Hayes

1 Hollander

1 Isham

1 Kamen

1 Kaas

1 Lai

1 Mandel

1 Melle

1 Mockridge

1 Moroder

1 Morris

1 David Newman

1 Poledouris

1 André Prévin

1 Charles Prévin

1 Shire

1 Silvestri

1 Thomson

1 Warbeck

1 Yared

The usual suspects and a few surprises (score-wise, I mean). A quite remarkable (and wise, I suppose-- how much of a coincidence can it truly be?) tie of the major major major composers, with 11 scores for each, with the surprising exception of Bernard Herrmann, 2 behind.

Only 1 by Broughton (they might have included Young Sherlock Holmes), but at least they haven't ommitted him.

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Darkness Falls, Brian Tyler

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Speaking of this guy,I rented this film ,Final Cut In think...and I thought the music was pretty good.

K.M.

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I could have sworn my Aliens was by James Horner, yet Marian says it Elliot Goldenthal, I know JH steal, but mostly its his own work, MOSTLY,

Well,I just listened to Battle Beyond the Stars and I swear I heard The Klingon Battle in there

k.M.

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I could have sworn my Aliens was by James Horner, yet Marian says it Elliot Goldenthal, I know JH steal, but mostly its his own work, MOSTLY,

Well,I just listened to Battle Beyond the Stars and I swear I heard The Klingon Battle in there

k.M.

Yes, you did.

Neil

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That came out months ago.

Ray Barnsbury

It did?

Did it?

:oops:

I've been bamboozled by this link on the other board!

Darn. I was sooo happy to post this-- and make this list. obs00007.gif

The world is unfair to me!

Boohoohoohoohooooooo!

obs00030.giflivier

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