What score REALLY had to grow on you?

[Snowster 4]

War of the Worlds. It was the first JW scrore , which I really didn't 'buy' after the first listening. I was more like 'whaaat?'. Of course I was sick and had high fever at the time of my first listen. I now see it as a masterpiece musically, but still don't except it to please the masses as a listening experience.

-Snowster

[nightscape94 965]

Honestly, Minority Report took a looooooong time to get into. Sean's theme throughout the score is great, and "New Beginning" is fantastic at the end, but the score was difficult for me. And that's saying a lot, because I'm heavily into complex time signatures and rhythms and orchestrations (and yet my poor Prog Rock thread goes unloved ). I had to put head phones on and literally go to bed with it several times. I fell asleep listening to it intimately. I wanted to take every note in. It paid off because I love the score now.

Tim

[HPFAN_2 0]

Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds Both score on the first listen were mediocre, the second listen revealed a whole new level of complexitiy.

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

Marian - who actually got ill a few days after he bought it.

Because you hated it so much? You could not stomach it?

It really was too abstract for me back then. Didn't help that I got Alien at the same time, though I started liking that by the time I began to feel better again.

Marian - who had also bought Fierce Creatures which helped getting well quickly.

Hamlet (Patrick Doyle)

[JoeinAR 1,759]

the Lost World, it took some growing on me,

and to answer Hitch's question.

NO, Psycho isn't more hummable than Star Wars, its more shreekable.

[King Mark 2,924]

Revenge of the Sith.

k.m.

[scissorhands 16]

Minority Report and Sleepers.

[SturgisPodmore 0]

Revenge of the Sith

Then one day a man named George showed up at his door. . . .

~Sturgis