Anyone know what Goldsmith scored RIGHT AFTER Star Trek?

Anyway...

The Omen is a classic film. I think I remember that the score won awards.... I think. Donner's camera shots are interesting to me. For instance, there's a close-up of the priests face when Peck finally agrees to meet with him. It just seemed odd that we were so close in on his face at that point in time.
I just saw this film the other night and I honestly can't remember most of the score....except for the annoying Ave Satani.

Damien: Omen II...
What a seemingly rush-job. A badly thought out film. Horrible script that makes the well-establshed actors wade through it like bog. There was an excellant opportunity here to explore Damien's feelings about what he is.......but we never get more than him saying "Why me???" at a sunset.
The doctor that gets killed in the elevator scene is WAY over the top. And the first half of the film is littered with this damn crow....and then suddenly its gone. The crow took the place of the first film's dog I guess but at least the dog was used throughout.
I liked this score better than the first film. It used more creepy sounds than music and got the idea across. (Is this score out there?)

Omen III: The Final Conflict...
I love this film. You really dont have to have seen the first two to enjoy it, as I will attest. Sam Neill is fantastic as the AntiChrist.
Goldsmith's score really helps it along though. It is tons more "glorious" in its approach. The track "Second Coming" is my favorite. Ill never get tired of this score.

Oh and for the completist Omen fans out there...

Omen IV: The Awakening...
I saw the first five-minutes of this and turned it off.

believe it or not, I still have to see either movie to its fullest. But I do have all three scores plus an additional one from the Omen that was ripped from the dvd (curtesy from a very good friend).

Talking about the scores, the first two are fairly similar. Orchestrations seem to be a little different and the second one boasts more of the scary musical parts than the first one which really intersects a lot of slow-love theme-based scenes.

The third score is vastly different, clearly composed in a more avagante style and while in certain parts still connecting itself to the series, clearly goes into another direction. Not so much atonal stuff here, comoposed more in the Russian and romantic style.

Which one is my fave? Good question. I love the annoying Ava Santi btw. The first score won an Oscar (Goldsmith only one-what a travesty), and it has some powerful moments that however are repeated in the second one, for which Jerry wrote additional cues just for the soundtrack, which itself isn't much over 30 minutes. The quality here is better, and some of the orchestrations seem a bit more powerful. I think if you want to get a good representation, get the first one. If you don't like the mushy stuff, get the second one (if you can, getting rare out there). Whether you get the first or second one...or both...you have to get the third one regardless, because it is so vastly different. My fave? Dang it. Hard to decide. I would say , of the two I would have to pick the first one because it does have the mushy stuff. The third one is a different league all together, related but not so much...more of a third distant cousing kinda thing.

Anywyas, I'm out.

Oh yes, the interview took place after THE FINAL CONFLICT had been finished, and he said he definitely favored it over the previous two. I think of them as all of a piece myself, although the tone of THE FINAL CONFLICT is necessarily considerably different from the first pair.

I got the OMEN DVD box set from Half.com; the first three include commentaries of wildly varying interest. First one includes a separate interview with Goldsmith looking over some of his favorite moments; and GREAT running commentary by Richard Donner and Stuart Baird, who fall all over themselves both praising and teasing Goldsmith ("nice Stravinsky there, Jerry," Baird says, or variations thereof, more than once -- but also observes that he hired Goldsmith for his own two films as director, EXECUTIVE DECISION and U.S. MARSHALS.) They also mention that the budget was so tight on the first OMEN that they couldn't even AFFORD Goldsmith, but studio chief Alan Ladd (who would also greenlight STAR WARS and ALIEN at Fox) agreed to kick in the necessary bucks ... a mere $25,000 at the time!

DAMIEN OMEN II's commentary, by the verbally challenged producer Harvey Bernhard, is informative in kind of a backwards way. One reason for the neurotic feel of OMEN II is that its original director and writer, Mike Hodges, was fired -- and Bernhard indicates that Hodges shot a great deal more of the picture than I'd previously realized (basically all the stuff Bernhard doesn't like, crowded mainly into the first half hour.) Hodges is a very fine filmmaker when he's on his game, and since I believe he suffered a nervous breakdown during or immediately after the OMEN II experience, perhaps just too many things were going on in his life at one time. He rebounded immediately by making FLASH GORDON however (whatever you think of it, I believe it's competent), and years later returned, he said, to concerns he wanted to explore in OMEN II with an original script he directed, the award-winning BLACK RAINBOW, which I personally think is a sadly neglected masterpiece.

THE FINAL CONFLICT DVD has terse, none-too-interesting commentary by director Graham Baker, who does go out of his way to mention how much he liked working with Goldsmith, and he singled out "The Hunt" in particular.

No commentary on OMEN IV, but I was kind of hoping for the MST3K guys to chime in, it's THAT awful

Damien: Omen 2 is bouncier as a score. I remember some good jolly sledge music for a scene in the snow which wasn't on the LP/CD. An enjoyable film too, but no more than that.

The Final Conflict was a terrible movie, in my humble opinion. The score, however, as you folks have pointed out, was wondrous, and a complete departure from the other two.

Films The Omen-most interesting to me, mainly because it was first I guess. All of the people around the country were commenting on the prophecy and beast(666) stuff but all the scriptures in the film are mostly wrong. Looking back, the film was so-so although we thought it was pretty good at the time.

Damien Omen II-poor, senseless film in my view. As you pointed out seemed rushed and had gross violence to the extreme, more so than first to me. Dumb.

Final Conflict-Neill was good in it, but film is awful. Extremely blasphemous and gross violence once again. Nowhere near as good as the first film to me. Of the three I would rate Omen B+, Final Conflict D------ and Damien Omen F+. These last two I would not watch again. Omen, I might.