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Cenzo

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Hi,
I thought this would be a fun little thing to do around Christmas and it's been a while since a positive post like this. But what are your favourite scores. Let's do this organized like and put them in categories, kind of like our personal all-time score nominations. Like so...My favourites are:
Comedy Score: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Alan Silvestri)
Christmas score: Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman)
Halloween score: the Addam's Family (Marc Shaiman)
Action/Adventure score: Back to the Future part II (Alan Silvestri)
Animation score: Duck Tales (David Newman)
Drama score: Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)
Import score: Kiki's Delivery Service (Joe Hisaishi)
Fantasy score: Gremlins 2 (Jerry Goldsmith)
Horror score: Sleepy Hollow (Danny Elfman)
Do it however you want, but this is how I wanna do it. ^_^
So what are your favourites?Cenzo
NP: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman *****/*****
posted 12-23-2000 04:08 PM PT (US) 
TimT

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I still can't say I have a favorite, becuase theres always something new that comes around that I like just as much.
posted 12-23-2000 04:10 PM PT (US) 
Hasta
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Comedy Score - Armageddon (Trevor Rabin) =)... the movie was more funny than anything else.Christmas Score - Home Alone (John Williams
Halloween Score - Nightmare Before Xmas (Danny Elfman)
Action/Adventure Score - Tough, Independence
Day is definately up there.Animated Score - Prince of Egypt (Hans Zimmer)
Dramatic Score - Glory (James Horner)
Import Score - Willow (James Horner)... Hey, it's import now!
Fantasy Score - Tie between Neverending Story and Labyrinth.
Horror Score - Gremlins (Jerry Goldsmith)... The music is fun as hell, but the film used to scare the living sh*t out of me as a kid.
Score of 2000 - Bagger Vance (Rachel Portman)
posted 12-23-2000 11:09 PM PT (US) 
Lou Goldberg

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Representing the old fogeys....These were kind of off the top of my head and I'm sure I'm excluding many scores that I could just as soon root for. Those who know my tastes from previous posts will find me promoting the same old scores.
Comedy score: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin), Casino Royale (Burt Bacharach), either How to Murder Your Wife or Lord Love A Duck (both by Neal Hefti)
Christmas score: A Christmas Carol 1954 TV version (Bernard Herrmann) also the Navitity cues from Ben-Hur and King of Kings (Miklos Rozsa)
Halloween score: ???? Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, Halloween ???? I really need to think more about this one.
Action-Adventure score: there are so many to choose from: Robin Hood & The Sea Hawk (Erich Korngold), The 3 Musketeers (Michel Legrand), Raiders, etc.
Animation score: also tough, do you go for Stalling scores or Anime like Sakamoto's The Wings of Honneamise, Disney stuff old and new, or something like Rosenman's Lord of the Rings?
Drama score: Now Voyager (Max Steiner), though I suppose there should be an Al Newman score or two in here as well....
Import score (does this mean an import Cd or a foreign score? I'm going with the latter):
French--Pierrot Le Fou (Antoine Duhamel), Two English Girls (Georges Delerue)
Japan--Tokyo Olympiad (Toshiro Mayuzumi), Village of 8 Gravestones (Yasushi Akutagawa), still deciding what the best Ifukube score is
Italy--A Fistful of Dynamite (Ennio Morricone)
Russia--Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
England--what with Barry, Gunning, Walton, RVW, Bax, Ireland, Parker, Lambert, Gray, Addinsell, Arnold, Easdale and others it's just impossible to pick just one without wanting to revise it the next day...
German--Das Boot (Klaus Doldinger)
Fantasy score: Thief of Bagdad (Rozsa), 3 Worlds of Gulliver (Herrmann)
Horror score: Psycho (BH), The Fury (Williams), Bride of Frankie (Waxman), James Bernard Hammer scores
Documentary score: Air Power (Norman Dello Joio), Louisiana Story (Virgil Thomson)
Western score: The Big Country (Jerome Moross)
Biopic score: Lust for Life (Rozsa)
Spy film: You Only Live Twice & OHMSS (Barry), In Like Flint (Jerry Goldsmith)
War film: Destination Tokyo (Waxman)
Sci-Fi film: too many to choose from, Williams' Star Wars & CE3K, Day The Earth Stood Still (BH), When Worlds Collide (Leith Stevens), so many others from schlock B features to big epics like Dune
Detective mystery film: The Big Sleep (Steiner), Vertigo (BH again)
Epic film: Spartacus (Alex North), Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre)
I'm sure there are more catagories I haven't included: religious films, disaster films, silent film scores even.
[Message edited by Lou Goldberg on 12-24-2000]
posted 12-24-2000 03:13 AM PT (US) 
Will

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My list:Comedy Score:
Action/Adventure: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Empire Strikes Back, The Phantom Menace
Action: The Rock
Christmas score: Home Alone
Halloween score: Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare before Christmas
Animation: Transformers The Movie
Fantasy: Final Fantasy VIII (VG scores accepted?)
Drama: American Beauty, Days of Thunder
Epic movie: Dances with Wolves
A lot more of sub catergories....
NP Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collection
posted 12-24-2000 10:02 AM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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I can't do it by category. Too many to choose from. Lets just say I have 100s of favorites including tons by:Goldsmith, Rozsa, Newman and 25 others. Best, John.
posted 12-24-2000 02:24 PM PT (US) 
Lancelot

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My Favorite. (by me.)My favorite fantasy score: Star Wars.
My favorite non-Star Wars fantasy score: Army of Darkness.
My favorite mystery score: Pelican Brief.
My favorite mystery starring Harrison Ford score: Witness.
My favorite mystery starring Harrison Ford but non-religious based score: Presumed Innocent.
My favorite contemporary-set action/adventure film score: The Rock.
My favorite action/adventure film not produced by Jerry Bruckheimer score: Broken Arrow.
My favorite non-contemporary action/adventure set score: Man in the Iron Mask.
My favorite drama-comedy score: Sense and Sensibility.
My favorite comedy-drama score: also Sense and Sensibility.
My favorite non-romantic comedy score: Beavis and Butthead do America.
My favorite romantic comedy score: While You Were Sleeping.
My favorite romantic comedy sountrack not featuring score: When Harry Met Sally.
My favorite Christmas movie soundtrack: Muppets Christmas Carol.
My favorite Muppet soundtrack: Muppet Treasure Island.
My favorite fantasy Muppet Soundtrack: Labyrinth
My favorite non-Star Wars score: Hamlet.My favorite...oh this is getting ridiculous....
posted 12-24-2000 04:53 PM PT (US) 
Mark Olivarez

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My choices:Comedy score: I'ts a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1941
Action score: Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong (1933)
Sci-Fi Score: The Empire Strikes Back, King Kong vs Godzilla, Total Recall
Drama Score: Schindlers List, Night Crossing
Horror Score: Alien, Jaws, Psycho, Poltergeist, The Fly (Howard Shore)
Spy Score: Goldfinger
Romance Score: Ghost & Mrs.Muir
Fantasy Score: Jason & the Argonauts
Western Score: The Magnificent Seven, Silverado
Animated Score: Mulan, Secret of Nimh
Monster Score: Godzilla (1954), Rodan, Godzilla vs Mecha Godzilla (1993)
Chistmas Score: Home Alone
Halloween Score: The Omen, Mephisto Waltz
Epic Score: Dances With Wolves
Sentimental Score(makes you cry): E.T., Saving Private Ryan
Good ole Fashion Fun Scores: King Solomon's Mines, Leviathan, Waterworld, 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Presidential Scores: JFK
Sports Scores: Rudy
Patriotic Scores: Air Force One, The Patriot
Of course most of these are based on films I grew up with so I know cases could be made for other films.
posted 12-25-2000 09:47 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
