Why not uh......JOHN SCOTT? I also have confidence in Robert Folk.

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Originally posted by Hasta:
Dare I say it, WHO CARES! Ahahahah. I consider Williams to be past his prime, really...Patriot, nothing incredible though...[Message edited by Hasta on 12-23-2000]

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Hasta, buddy,

how can you say Williams is past his prime if you thought his last score to be good? The statement alone is rather presumptious, don't you think.

Besides, even if Williams were to turn out the worst scores of his carrer from this point on, they still would be artistically and emotionally vastly superior than what Zimmer will ever will be able to even imagine together with his music commitee.

NP: 13 days

(Please Johnny, don't die!)

I would vote for Broughton and then McNeely.

duh!

If he HAD to be replaced, though ... what about Basil Poledouris?

NP: QB VII (Jerry somebody)

Who cares, indeed.

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Originally posted by Hasta:
Private Ryan was a decent effort, but if you even tell me that was a better score than TRL technically, you are biased... SPR was nothing but a rehash of his previous efforts, pretty half-assed in my opinion. Hymm to the Fallen was incredible, I agree, but still is no match for Zimmer's "Journey to the Line"... My 2 cents.[Message edited by Hasta on 12-23-2000]

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Yes, Private Ryan was technically much better than Line, call me bias. While Line was very good,(and I am listening to Journey to the Line as we speak) the score however, was a repeat of every melody it created. What I mean it was composed more in the style of "Bolero", except that it never allows the orchestra to increase in orchestrations and volumne. This has to do of course with the movie itself. Bottom line, while Williams uses a more modernistic, un-melodic style (although there are lots of melodies if one only listens), which changes and evolves as the story unfolds and packs a more understated emotion, Zimmer seems to have come up with a score line and simply repeates it over and over in the different cues. He creates a little melody, or musical phrase in one cue, and repeats it for the whole track duratioun. Then he creates another one for the other part and repeats that one over and over. All this for a score he had over a year to compose? While Williams had...what...two months if even that? And Williams' is a rehash?

Now after having listened to Journey to the Line again...I am perplexed how you can state that it is more emotional than Hymn to the Fallen which brought tears to my eayes even before I saw the movie? Journey to the Line is an example what I am trying to say. Zimmer comes up with a motive and simply repeats it with most of the same orchestration.

My...ehm....what...5 cents?

Scott

NP: Thin Red Line (it is a good score though)

I am however, a fan of Zimmer. Musical complexeites asided, I personally find Zimmer's music more enjoyable to listen to, most of the time anyway.

IMHO, "Journey to the Line" was much more powerful than "Hymn to the Fallen", sometimes less is more.
I can listen to TRL repeatedly, but SPR I don't really like at all.