Your thoughts?

The Enterprise drydock fly around in ST:TMP. Rhapsodic.

Luke and Vader's Epic duel from ROTJ. Sublime.

The appearance of the Buffalo In Dances with Wolves. A complete and perfect musical representaion of these beasts.

Off the top of my head: seminal music moments: Luke Skywalker's theme sounding on lonely horn as he looks out at the twin suns setting, A NEW HOPE; the phenomenal Moog synthesizer "Conversation" from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (as well, earlier in the picture, the thousands of Indians chanting the five-note "communication" theme before Lacombe asks them from where the music came from); the discovery of the natives, KING KONG (Steiner); "Scene D'Amour," Herrmann, VERTIGO; the Forbidden Zone/Scarecrow music, PLANET OF THE APES; the beautifully strange "ballet" that concludes the original GODZILLA; Morricone's "Ecstasy of Gold" from GOOD, BAD & THE UGLY ... never mind where to start, where do I stop??

- The scene when Toto's forced to see the demolition of his beloved "Cinema Paradiso"... (Morricone)

- Luke kicks Vader's ass on ROTJ (Williams)

- The "Non, Nobis Domine" sequence of "Henry V", starting with Pad Doyle singing... Chewwww!!

- The entire climax of "ET" (Williams)

- "The Enterprise" from ST-TMP (Goldsmith)

etc....

• The short major statement in "Take Her Back Again" from Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
  
• "High Wire Stunts" from Jurassic Park, as well as the sequence when Dr. Sattler runs to the gate
  
• When Theoden faces the vast Orc army right before the Riders of Rohan appear in The Lord of the Rings. I know that I consciously heard the music long before I got into film scores
  

"Best Years of Our Lives".......
Hugo Friedhofer's amazing music as Dana Andrews sits in the WW II bomber he used to fly...the scene where the camera tracks in on the bomber gives me goosebumps.

"The Vikings"
Mario Nascimbene's glorious theme that accompanies Kirk Douglas' funeral at the end.

"Jaws"
The opening underwater shot as Williams theme blasts out menacingly

"Star Wars"
The 20th Century fox fanfare followed by the
inevitable opening blast of the Star Wars theme.....I have to admit there was a lump in my throat at this moment during TPM as it it just sent me back 23 years to that first experience of watching "Star Wars" in the theatre.

"James Bond"
Just hearing the bond theme over the opening gun-barrel shot gets me going. I was amazed to see how little this has changed since Dr. No....a real historic moment of music!!..also all of Barry's Bond music is Seminal!!

"Intersection"
James-Newton-Howards music that accompanies Richard Gere's crash. I dont have the score but Howard's music in this scene never fails to touch me.

"Planet of the Apes"
Goldsmith's music to "The Hunt" is one of the most haunting and stirring pieces of music in movie history...as well as the rest of the score!

"Aliens"
Horner's thundering music in "Countdown and Bishop's rescue"

Anyway, thats all I can think of for now!!! Cheers
Gae

The scene in Hunt for Red October when the Dallas erupts from the sea after being chased by the rogue torpedo...NEVER fails to give me chills just listening to the music!

Runners up:

ET last 15 minutes (especially bicycle scenes)

Braveheart - when he shouts Freedom

Jurassic Park: Brachiosaurus + Watering Hole in the sun

THE ABYSS, when Bud first sees the vastness of the underwater city.

THE MATRIX, when Neo wakes up.

--Ted

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Originally posted by Camillu:
My nod would have to go to the choral music in the ROTJ duel, as mentioned above.

Jurassic Park: Brachiosaurus + Watering Hole in the sun

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The ROTJ piece is unrivaled, I didn't mention it because HAL was faster. The Jurassic Park cue is wonderful (I had tears in my eyes when I first watched the movie, later I realized that it was because of the music).

More:

• "The Face of Pan" from Hook!!
  
• Trinity's escape on the roofs from Matrix (isolated scores ROCK!)
  

something odd I'd like to add: Angelo Badalamenti's (or was is tomandandy?) music in the first scene in Arlington Road, with the little boy. I thought that was an extremely powerful scene, really made moreso by the pounding music.

Desert Chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark, too.

Lion King - when Simba is climbing up the rock platform in the rain at the end. Zimmer at his best. (after the baboon says "it is time")

For those who have not seen it, at the start of the movie the overture plays while there is a blank screen. Once that's done, up comes the computer-generated credits (not too bad for 1979 ) with the great "Main Title" (or whatever it's officially called). There's just something about that credit sequence that really sets up the movie well (for me, anyway... Of course, it's no Jurassic Park.)

I should buy that Howard The Duck/Black Hole disc someday. Too bad that the first digitally-recorded soundtrack has never had a legitimate CD release.

NP: The River Wild

Carol Ann's Theme (innocent)
Night Visitors (sinister)
The Light (wondrous)
Rebirth (gloriously twisted)

I might add that the "sound" that immediately came to mind upon the Sheriff's description shows up in "Twisted Abduction" but is certainly brought to full fruition in "Rebirth". You could describe it as what the orchestra and chorus would sound like if you took them and their instruments in your hand like putty and bent 'em around and twisted 'em & bent 'em back. The choral effect alone is highly reminiscent of that employed by R. Kraushaar (credited) to underscore the sandpit abductions in Invaders From Mars (1953). It was a truly horrific sound later expanded for the film's climax.

And Mr. Rocco, perhaps the simple piano, harp & vibraphone (?) interpolations of the Carol Ann theme find a direct precursor in the theme of "innocence" for young Henry Temple in G's score to Twilight Zone's "The Big Tall Wish" some 20+ years earlier?

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Disney did get it right a couple of years later though with its ambitious and revolutionary TRON (oh-so-cool score by Wendy Carlos). Films like The Matrix owe something to this 80s minor classic. Done when computer graphics were instill relatively young this movie deserves a remake.

LGL was underscored in toto by Mr. Herrmann but your query is most understandable since Polotergeist (the story) had its roots in LGL. "Nightmare" was tracked with stock music and if memory serves, you are quite correct that G's child theme from Big Tall Wish was within the stock. BTW, I think the "Theme from St Elmo's Fire" contains a synthesized-equivalent to the Temple/Marky/Carol Ann "sound."

"...just as 'Nervous Man in a $4 Room' is a clear paraphrase of the earlier 'The Five Of Us Here Are Dying' -- or was it 'FOUR Of Us Here?' I think that one starred Don Gordon."

Oh yes, your man from Papillon was one of the faces (including Ross Martin's) among "The Four Of Us Are Dying." I don't think I'd classify Nervous Man as a "paraphrase" along the same lines as the other thread, but perhaps more of a "companion piece," what with the jazz elements & all. Interesting that you should bring up his score for Nervous Man; the rhythm and sound of the maracas in the opening of his suite for LA Confidential sounded identical to that employed many moons earlier to underscore the nervous agitation of the Jackie Rhoades character in Nervous Man.

I would hope that the similarities dicussed in this thread don't give anyone ideas that Mr. G was playing the Horner game of the self-ripoff variety. I have to admit, however, that Mr. Herrmann had a severe attack of Horneritis when he composed Mysterious Island. It is highly derivative--including what my ear tells me are carbon-copied notes--of his music composed in 1959 for Twilight Zone's pilot episode, "Where Is Everybody?." And the scene in Psycho when Lila enters Norman's room contains a very similar, if not same cue from TZ's "Walking Distance."

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
Mr. Little: Now that I think of it, THE BLACK HOLE truly WAS seminal in at least one respect: it was the first-ever digitally recorded film soundtrack. Back at the very dawn of FSM, they started a letter-writing campaign to Disney, imploring them to release a CD, partly as an historical document (it was thought that citing the first-ever-digital aspect might flatter Disney into putting the score back out.)

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I wrote an email to Disney once (about a year ago, I think) and asked them if a release was planned... the response: "no, a release is not planned at this time." Maybe I should sit down and write a real letter, but I'm sure it probably wouldn't do any good.

I'm a bit surprised that somebody else hasn't picked this soundtrack up... (example: Intrada picked up the Disney film Night Crossing.) But, I have a feeling that the Duck/Black Hole MASK bootleg has probably removed all chance of this being officially released.

are you sure it's a boot? It is a REAL pressed CD (if that really means anything).

and the packaging is way too good (not that I'm griping):

there's a 1999 copyright (maybe doesn't mean anything?)
and an address and email for the company that released it.
and the covers are really pretty well done.

could there be some sort of international licensing agreement at play here?

I just bought the Hole/Duck disc. I have to agree that the packaging and sound is very good.

The thing that says "bootleg" to me is the fact that the CD has those "bonus" cues and the suite of Black Hole music on track 11. I think this suite contains arrangements of the music that were not used in the film.