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Vladimir Standard Userer	I always watch Disney Movies such as National Treasure and Pirates of the Carribean. Before the movie starts Disney runs through a highlight reel of past movies. There is a really cool theme playing during this. I believe its Robin Hood by Kamen?? Anyone Know? I have listened to a track titled "Overture" from Robin Hood and it does sound the same.
posted 01-19-2010 10:01 PM PT (US)

Frank V Standard Userer	Yes, it's Kamen's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I've always thought the music was inappropriate for Disney.
posted 01-19-2010 10:18 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Have you guys noticed how much parts of Silvestri's Forest Gump score sounds like part of the Kamen score for Robin Hood? J.
posted 01-20-2010 08:25 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Kamen's Open Range reminds me of some other score too. I kind of like that one. I would like to see a release of the score by him for Event Horizon. Not all that much of his on the CD, unless there's not all that much original score. The first half of that movie is very good and then it goes downhill fast. I like Neill in the film though. J.
posted 01-25-2010 02:39 PM PT (US)

Scorro Standard Userer	I once had "Robin Hood", but wasn't a big fan of the score (or the movie). "The Three Musketeers" is a Kamen score from that time period, quite lively, and much better than R Hood... IMHO, though I haven't listened to it in ages.
posted 01-25-2010 06:37 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Scorro: I once had "Robin Hood", but wasn't a big fan of the score (or the movie). "The Three Musketeers" is a Kamen score from that time period, quite lively, and much better than R Hood... IMHO, though I haven't listened to it in ages. The Three Musketeers were, I think, my introduction to Michael Kamen, and still one of my favorite of his. It could use an expanded release of some sort.
posted 01-25-2010 11:29 PM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	Tell me more about Musketeers please. My mom took me to it as a kid, but I don't remember a thing about the score, other than that what I thought at the time was that Kamen was trying to do what he did with RH again--which my mom took me to before Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country that year. Is that true, at all? Bryan Adams is along for the ride again (I equate this with Hans Zimmer's Lisa Gerrard phase), but is that the only connection?
posted 01-26-2010 01:11 AM PT (US)

HadrianD Standard Userer	Some people have agreed that The Three Musketeers is a well orchestrated version of RH. I'm not a big fan of Robin Hood (except for the main theme and love theme) so I thought that the action in RH were a bit lacking. I think it's a much better, well rounded score than Robin Hood. TTM is more in the "old-fashioned" swashbuckling music type, inspired by the Baroque period of the setting, but written in a recognizable Michael Kamen style. Very thematic, with a nice fanfare and fills with many melodic details and passages, tops with a couple of really dynamic action cues built around various motifs. All were very well orchestrated ,and arrange for, what seems like, a big orchestra. The movie is still fun to watch as well. There's still a really good unreleased section of music for the ending battle in the French court that would complete this score for me. But what's available now is really excellent too. If you like Michael Kamen and his melodic side, as well as his action styling, you will like, if not love, this score. [Message edited by HadrianD on 01-26-2010]
posted 01-26-2010 09:08 AM PT (US)

Lancelot Standard Userer	"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" will always be one of my favorite scores--took me ages to find the CD--and that was when it originally came out in '91(!) The score was also the first Compact Disc that I ever bought, after making the change-over from cassettes. (I received a CD player for my 16th birthday, which was also the time "Robin Hood" was in theaters.) My sister, working for a non-profit group at the time, had an opportunity to meet Michael Kamen, and I wanted her to take my copy of "Robin Hood" to be signed. She forgot, and took her own copy of "Shining Through", instead. I thought that she would have another opportunity in the future, but Kamen passed away the next year. Perhaps looking at it from a technical standpoint, maybe "Robin Hood" isn't a particularly stand-out score, but looking at it from a personal one, it will long remain one of my favorites in its' entirety.
posted 01-26-2010 06:10 PM PT (US)

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