Menken?

Secret of NIMH (Goldsmith of course)

Pet Semetary? (Goldenthal)

are all horror scores really that bad? take for ex The Omen.

Thoughts on Urban Legend music?

ok that's all for new! lol

I ain't no different...

Secret of NIMH

Secret of Nimh is a wonderful score...in regards to The Grinch...I am one of the avid Horner supporters on this board (along with a good number of others) and I would say this is a fair to good work for him...we need to lose the dialogue though (You'll find many a thread here relating to that very subject.)

Anyway, welcome. I look forward to future discussions.

Christopher Young's Urban Legend is an excellent score. He goes back to his horror roots on this one. Too bad there isn't enough score on that song laden Milan CD. But Intrada released a 50 minute promo of the complete score bout 3 years ago for a limited time and i was lucky to get one and it's worth seeking out.

Horner's The Grinch is a nice score that reminds me a bit of Bicentennial Man at times but Horner tries to go back to his old orchestrial style with this one and it's really good. The song/score album is a joke. There's dialog featured on Horner's music which is sad because the score should've been featured more. There's a promo/boot of it going around featuring the entire score which runs 72 minutes. That's the one to have.

I wasn't too thrilled with Goldenthal's Pet Semetary, but it had some good moments in it. But the music fits the film perfectly and it's a decent horror score.

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P.O.
The Fan-expanded score (Hans Zimmer) *****

yes, I have seen reports on here about it. I am a Horner supporter too! I love his music.

Christopher Young's Urban Legend is an excellent score. He goes back to his horror roots on this one. Too bad there isn't enough score on that song laden Milan CD

glad you agree! I love the movie and the score!

Horner tries to go back to his old orchestrial style with this one and it's really good. The song/score album is a joke.

really? lol. I would never have expected such a thing from Horner lol just kidding. being sarcastic here. Horner tends to go back to his previous films in a lot of things. Did you notice the similarity of Braveheart in Titanic? The Perfect Storm was very good, but I think it resembles Titanic. I sent the clip of "Enemy at The Gates" that I found on here to my friend Crista who is a die-hard Williams fan, and she said it sounded like Schindler's List! I agree with that completely! I also sense a little Apollo 13 in there too.

Take about 40 min(less if I remember right) of mediorce Horner score, add in annoying dialogue from the movie, tack on some songs that really have no relevance to the movie...(oh wait, that's right they were 'Inspired by the movie') and all that equals the Interscope release of the soundtrack.

I would try and track down the promo, it's 71 minutes of dialogue free Horner score although it really doesn't make it much better, lifts and borrows can be heard thoughout and there was also some rather...intersting instrument selection (I personally thought it sounded like someone farting in a couple of the tracks) probally only a good buy if you're a Horner nut.

Personally I would have liked to see what Danny Elfman could have done for a movie like this, he IS the King of Christmas after all

As for the Grinch... I am also a Horner supporter, but I cannot recommend this one. First of all, the song album stinks. Second of all, the complete version has more, but isn't really better. There are two themes in the score: The Grinch theme (where are you, christmas?) and the theme for the Grinch himself. Thing is, while the first one is a nice theme, more or less, Horner almost never uses it, and the song sucks. :b
The second theme is just annoying, and worse, it's used ALL THE TIME! Add to that poorly done generic Horner music and some VERY irritating tracks (The Cheermeister Games... ugh) and The Grinch comes out as a very poor score.
Some people seem to like it; some don't. I clearly fall into the latter catagory.

NP: Works: II, Hisaishi *****

Alan Menken is overrated, his songs may be good but his scores sound to lame for my liking. The only score he probably should have won an oscar for was Hunch Back.

As for Horner I'm part of a group who either believe he peaked too early in his career and has nothing left to offer or he has just gotten lazy and resorts to throwing a bunch of notes on a page and calling it a score. If you want good Horner get scores like Brainstorm, Str Trek II, Glory, Krull and Cocoon.

The Omen is great and I would recommend the rest of the trilogy as well, scored by Jerry of course. If you want some more horror by Goldsmith try the Mephisto Waltz and Alien.

Welcome to the board.

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Originally posted by Mark Olivarez:
Ooops forgot to mention Poltergeist as another hooror score by Jerry.

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Shame on you!

(And I have the hoorible feeling that you spelled hooror hooribly wrong )

Frankly, for 30 buck, I felt genuinely raughted. They don't even spell Wallace's name correctly on the packaging...

"The traditional Scottish bagpipe songs have been added as a bonus(oooh, I feel soooo lucky) to keep the spirit of William WALKER and his warrior poets alive and to further enhance your listening pleasure"

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
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Shame on you!

(And I have the hoorible feeling that you spelled hooror hooribly wrong )

NP: Hook (John Williams)[/B]

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