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Best '90s Williams Score: Round THREE

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    • Presumed Innocent
      10
    • Home Alone
      1
    • Hook
      1
    • JFK
      0
    • Far and Away
      2
    • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
      1
    • Jurassic Park
      1
    • Schindler's List
      7
    • Nixon
      3
    • Sleepers
      5
    • Rosewood
      3
    • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
      0
    • Seven Years in Tibet
      0
    • Amistad
      3
    • Saving Private Ryan
      1
    • Stepmom
      16
    • Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
      5

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TheRuleOfThirds

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Amistad just doesn't get me. A third of it sounds like Horner, another third sounds like James Newton Howard, and the remaining third actually sounds like Williams, but I can hear much more of this style in his next (and better) score, Saving Private Ryan.

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John McClane

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In round one Stanley & Iris was voted off, round two Sabrina, so place your votes for the next to go!

So this poll should be called "Best '90s Williams Score: Round Three". :P

Mirko - who bastardly did it again. :sigh:

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John McClane

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Edited to correct title. :sigh:

Oh don't worry, this is something that doesn't happen that often. :P

who voted for schindler's list? i hope it was by accident.

Indeed, an accident (he probably voted it 'cause he likes it, and voted for his favorite one), or someone who doesn't have enough courage to come out of the light and admit it. :P

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tpigeon

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Though it is a bit syrupy at points, I think Stepmom is an overall good score. I like the two main themes, in particular Always and Always, which features a great guitar rendition on the Jackie and Isabel track. The main theme is also very enjoyable, and I like that it takes its time with its somewhat long melody. I just feel that the thematic work was unlike Williams because he usually communicates his thematic ideas in fewer notes, and I often like when risks their memorability by making them longer. I also enjoy the Soccer Game and Horse and Bugy cues, which are both light and playful.

My vote goes to Rosewood, which is the only score on this list that I have never been able to get into. This poll well become quite difficult for me once Rosewood is gone.

Ted

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John McClane

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I don't like Amistad either. I don't know, I even bought the CD, but after a couple of listenings, nothing hits me. 8O How many listening does this score need to be appreciated?

Could be the "worst" (or weakest) Spielberg-Williams collaboration?

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TheRuleOfThirds

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Rosewood, which is the only score on this list that I have never been able to get into.

Same here. It's good and listenable, but I just don't like it. Maybe I'm subconsciously racist since I'm voting off Amistad this round and Rosewood next.

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pixie_twinkle

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Saving Private Ryan.

If it's a choice between Stepmom and Presumed Innocent I hope Stepmom goes first though.

James (wondering if I'm the only one here who doesn't listen to SPR).

So suddenly everyone has realized how good TPM is? 8O

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Justin

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i haven't listened to Presumed Innocent more than five times.

Marian - who probably listened to it not even that much.

You should be ashamed of yourself, Marian. I thought better of you.

Justin - Who knows Pressumed Innocent is one of JW's true gems.

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Marian Schedenig

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You should be ashamed of yourself, Marian. I thought better of you.

Justin - Who knows Pressumed Innocent is one of JW's true gems.

Sleepers (for The Football Game and other good stuff) and Nixon (for Turbulent Years, Meeting With Mao and other good stuff) qualify for gemminess. Presumed is just kinda...blah.

Marian - who admits he doesn't even remember it. 8O

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Bowie

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I might join in on the voting if we get to an 80s poll. I don't see the point of them though if people are voting off ones they've never heard. And Sabrina.

And Schindler's List?!

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i haven't listened to Presumed Innocent more than five times.

Marian - who probably listened to it not even that much.

You should be ashamed of yourself, Marian. I thought better of you.

Justin - Who knows Pressumed Innocent is one of JW's true gems.

I haven't listened to the album more than 5 times either. But I do know that it is pretty friggin' powerful in the film. And the main theme is one of JW's best, one of my most listened to JW tracks.

Sleepers (for The Football Game and other good stuff) and Nixon (for Turbulent Years, Meeting With Mao and other good stuff) qualify for gemminess. Presumed is just kinda...blah.

I think a lot of JW's work qualifies for gemminess. Presumed Innocent does, for the main theme and it's effect in the film- the main titles of the film is one of the most involving I've seen, and it's just a still shot of a jury box with JW's theme.

But I do agree with you on Sleepers and Nixon. Sleepers has 'The Football Game', 'Last Night at Wilkenson' and 'Hell's Kitchen'. I personaly love Nixon, especialy after having seen the film. 'The Turbulant Years' provides what is possibly the best scoring of a trailer ever, as well as being a fantastic prelude/overture to the score. 'The Meeting With Mao' is a great foreboding piece, 'Growing Up in Whittier' I think is quite a beautiful piece. But the highlight for me, in the film and on the album, is 'The Miami Convention, 1968'. It is spine chilling in the film. A victorious Nixon, making a positive speech, scored so portentously, so threateningly, peppered by glimmers of hope and optimism, giving way to one of the only appearances of The Turbulant Years theme in the film. A magnificent example of what film scoring is all about, to me. It just gets to the core the scene.

I might join in on the voting if we get to an 80s poll. I don't see the point of them though if people are voting off ones they've never heard. And Sabrina.

Thank GOD people kicked Sabrina off. I listened to it again, and I think it is plainly JW's worst album ever. I'm a bit dissapointed about Stanley and Iris. It wouldn't have gotten very far, but it does have some sublime passages (especialy the main theme).

My vote goes to Rosewood, which is the only score on this list that I have never been able to get into.

Initialy, I was only able to get into the chorus tracks. I love those three tracks. But recently I've been getting into the rest of it more and more. I find it to be a quietly beautiful score- nothing too showy, it is beautiful in the way most of JW's Americana is. It sounds very sincere to me. And I just love whenever JW does something different, I mean.....'The Hound of Summer'? who would have expected something like that? Just fantastic quitar work throughout the album, in different forms. It's also great to hear JW getting back to his 70's harmonica writing. And that distant string hoedown playing under the creepy strings in 'Trouble in Town'.

Listening to it now, for this thread....I actually think it's one of JW's stronger albums.

This poll well become quite difficult for me once Rosewood is gone.

For me, it becomes hard afer Home Alone 2 will be gone. Doesn't look like it's gonna happen any time soon, though. (It has some wonderful material, like the alternate 'Holiday Flight', 'Arrival in New York', 'The Conceirge', 'Angels With Filthey Souls II', and of course, 'Christmas Star', but overall, is too much of a rehash.)

So my vote is for HA2.

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Romão

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I don't like Amistad either. I don't know, I even bought the CD, but after a couple of listenings, nothing hits me. ROTFLMAO How many listening does this score need to be appreciated?

Could be the "worst" (or weakest) Spielberg-Williams collaboration?

What's there not to like in Amistad?

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Greg1138

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I love Amistad - I think it should be up there in the top 5, probably top 3, in this poll - but it would be a very boring world if we all had the same tastes.....!

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tpigeon

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Justin - Who knows Pressumed Innocent is one of JW's true gems.

Agreed. Presumed Innocent is a brilliant score. The main theme has always stirred my imagination. Williams doesn't usually score movies like this, but he pulls off every little thematic detail from the movie in the equally beautiful and haunting main theme.

Ted, who won't be voting for Presumed Innocent anytime soon and probably won't ever have to.

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Greg1138

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Far and Away - bores the crap outta me......
ROTFLMAO;) 8O :( :cry:

Well - everyone has different tastes - I would certainly not slate anyone else's taste in music or JW stuff here (not that I think for a minute that your smilies are slating me.....), but for me Far and Away is just something of nothing.....it has it's very occasional moments, but not as many as the other scores on the list, and as a cohesive whole I just find it tedious in the extreme.....certainly my least-played JW CD.......

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