Best '90s Williams Score: Round One

[robthehand 3]

You know the rules, vote off your least favourite.

[nightscape94 965]

Sleepers.

Tim

[John McClane 1]

Looking at the covers I would vote for Stepmom.

[batmanand 0]

Stepmom. Has no redeeming features.

[stewdog1 50]

I had to choose Stepmom.

[Ollie 859]

Sabrina.

[MSM 85]

Those polls are biased. You assume that everyone who votes has heard all the listed scores, which is wrong actually. If no-one ever heard Nixon, no-one can vote for that one, and you'll see that Nixon will be the best score of the '90s!

Anyway, Nixon out for me.

[John McClane 1]

Indeed. The less famous ones will be eliminated for first, and then the real poll will start when we have to choose which score to eliminate between Jurassic Park, Lost World, Hook, Phantom Menace...

Damn, what a great decade. And to think that there are people who dare to say that Williams wasn't good anymore after 1982!

[Ollie 859]

Well if you're a true John Williams fan you've heard all of those scores.

[robthehand 3]

And to think that there are people who dare to say that Williams wasn't good anymore after 1982!

You might be able to say he was as good after 1982 though...

[ashinyobject 0]

i think this poll should be split like 90-94 and then 95-99. five year periods so we wont have to look at that many scores at once. but im retarded anyway.

[MSM 85]

i think this poll should be split like 90-94 and then 95-99. five year periods so we wont have to look at that many scores at once. but im retarded anyway.

I agree. Those are distinct stylistic periods in Williams career. Categorizing by decennium is a bit arbitrary IMO. The first two scores I also would not list.

[AzOutcast 122]

Nixon

[Romão 1,931]

I voted for Nixon, although it still contains many great passages.

Romão, who thinks Stepmom is sadly underrated.

[King Mark 2,924]

Nixon has great tracks.

this poll won't be difficult.It's the most boring period in Williams career

K.M.Who voted for Rosewood

[Incanus 5,519]

Sabrina is the weakest of them all.

[Salacius 7]

I think I am going to stop voting on these posts,

I love them all for different reasons (even Stepmom and Sabrina), the only one thought it was OK was Rosewood in the whole 10 years and that's it

[diskobolus 3]

I loathe Amistad and Rosewood, I'll be happy to see them gone.

[Romão 1,931]

I also don't understand why TPM is getting so many votes this early in the game.

[King Mark 2,924]

Probably a few Prequel Haters making somekind of point.TPM is easily the best score of all these

K.M.

[Sergeant 1,093]

This first round is very easy.Sleepers

...and I think some people are taking these polls too seriously...

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

Rob's asking for favourites anyway, not the crowning achievement in film scoring of the decade.

That's how I see it anyways.

[John McClane 1]

Probably a few Prequel Haters making somekind of point.TPM is easily the best score of all these

That's indeed pathetic.

Some people is voting it juding the movie. We're talking about scores here, you know... :roll:

I'm not saying TPM is my favorite, but it's at least in the Top-10 (if not the Top-5).

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Probably a few Prequel Haters making somekind of point.TPM is easily the best score of all these

K.M.

It's not easily better then Hook, Jurassic Park, Far And Away and The Lost World.

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

But would you say it's worse than Sabrina or Sleepers?

[Sergeant 1,093]

Is TPM really that much worse than Stanley and Iris?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

No, that's why I didn't vote for TPM.

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

I haven't heard Stanley and Iris and Stepmom, so I'll treat them as "ok". Of the remaining scores, Sabrina does absolutely nothing for me.

Marian - who hopes Sleepers survives a few rounds, because it has some great stuff.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

You won't be too happy with me then.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

When voting for TPM, please have in mind the unedited version.

Butchering diminishes the score in the movie, not the score itself....

[JoeinAR 1,759]

TPM is a five star score, but I still voted for it,

I'm tired of the prequels, very tired.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

In reality no one has been able to hear what williams truly intended for TPM.

But based on the Elvis Jones version, it will be a while before I vote it off.

[Jeshopk 8]

This can't be. Nobody really thinks TPM is the worst of those. They must have voted on their favorite.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

In reality no one has been able to hear what williams truly intended for TPM.

But based on the Elvis Jones version.

thats what i meant

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

The votes don't lie.

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

And people said ROTS keeping in the last poll was that we have too many newbies.

Too many 'purists' we have IMO...

VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE FOR THIS POLL!

[JoeinAR 1,759]

I want Schindler's List and SPR to go early too

[Luke Skywalker 1,284]

Wow.

I can agree with SPR, but SL?

I hope it last a little.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Joe just don't like them fiddle'.

[nightscape94 965]

Who voted for Amistad? I don't think it's the best, but it's a far, far cry from being the worst.

Tim

[scissorhands 16]

I'll vote for Hook till the end of the days.

[Romão 1,931]

You don't like Hook, Peio?

[Ollie 859]

Nixon has great tracks.

this poll won't be difficult.It's the most boring period in Williams career

K.M.Who voted for Rosewood

You can't be serious?

[deimos 0]

I can't believe TPM is going. There are cues in that score more worthy than some entire scores in that poll.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Perhaps, but should we not be considering the overall score?

[deimos 0]

Perhaps, but should we not be considering the overall score?

What I was trying to say is that just some minutes of TPM are able to satisfy me far beyond what, for instance, Sabrina, can give me with all its best moments along the score. Let alone if I consider TPM menace in full length and I forget about the edits.

[scissorhands 16]

You don't like Hook, Peio?

I like it (though it suffers from overscoring). I just prefer all the other scores.

[John McClane 1]

And to think that there are people who dare to say that Williams wasn't good anymore after 1982!

You might be able to say he was as good after 1982 though...

Well, after 1982 I had 2 Indiana Jones scores, 2 Jurassic Park scores, 2 Home Alone scores, Hook, WotW, TPM, RotS, The Terminal, Geisha, Schindler's List...almost everyone I just mentioned is better than RotJ, so while it may be true that Williams Golden Years are from 1975 to 1982, it's also true that there are a lot of great exception out that period.

[Vaderbait1 1]

Wow, I really find it hard to believe EPisode I is worse than half of that list.

It's not easily better then Hook, Jurassic Park, Far And Away and The Lost World.

Obviosuly nothing is set in stone, but I've never heard anyone make an argument that Episode I wasn't in the top 5. So I'm kind of surprised, considering it has some of the most memorable music of the series. I too think that it's a few people trying to make a point, simply because it's so unlikely that this would happen so soon.

Personally, the only score I think that is on par with Episode I or better is Hook. Jurassic Park and Lost World are good, but not as good, especially Lost World. Far and Away is the same thing.

[Richard Penna 2,083]

Well I haven't heard Stanley & Iris, Nixon or Sabrina, so I'll start with the one that sounds the least promising - Sabrina it is .