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[ManaByte]

Titanic sucks shit. Don't even mention it. All he did was redo and modernize the Braveheart score.

He never approached Braveheart ever again. After that score, all he did was reuse cues from Willow in all his action movie scores (Zorro, Enemy at the Gates, etc.)

The soundtrack is the one thing about the movie that will get me to watch it every single time. And crank it loud.

 

[TJ Bennett]

Krull is James Horner's masterpiece. Nice try though.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Field of Dreams for the win

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Chairman Yang]

Agreed. Whenever I listen to the Braveheart soundtrack it stirs me to kill the English.

 

[Ceekus]

I'm partial to his Star Trek II score, personally. He recycles the themes in this soundtrack in practically everything he's done ever since.

 

[Hitokage]

It's my understanding that Horner didn't really burn out and rehash most stuff until after 1992 or so.

 

[jett]

James Horner is a complete and absolute hack these days...but his Braveheart score is indeed great.

 

[ManaByte]

It's my understanding that Horner didn't really burn out and rehash most stuff until after 1992 or so.

He started to rehash with Zorro and Enemy at the Gates which just reused Willow cues over and over and over again.

 

[Ceekus]

There are striking similarities in the climaxes of both Aliens and ST II. Both pre-90s movies.

 

[BigBoss]

Speaking of Braveheart, its on Bravo right now.

 

[ManaByte]

Speaking of Braveheart, its on Bravo right now.

Thus the inspiration for this post.

It's on twice in a row, naturally edited for TV though.

"Anwer the bleeping question" is a funny edit.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Im listening to the soundtrack right now as I saw in TV Guide earlier that Braveheart was on tonight

 

[Hitokage]

There are striking similarities in the climaxes of both Aliens and ST II. Both pre-90s movies.

Ok, but was it the rule for him back then, I wonder? I know that Horner directly lifted bits of his Sneakers score (1992) and reused them in Apollo 13 (1995), but whether or not Sneakers was lifted from previous scores I don't know.

He started to rehash with Zorro and Enemy at the Gates which just reused Willow cues over and over and over again.

Look, you're only bringing that up because the Willow reference is among the many things you superficially pick up for nerd cred, and you're still wrong.

 

[Solo]

Horner has always sucked.

 

[Ichirou]

Horner has always sucked.

Shut up. Star Trek II, Aliens, Braveheart - GREAT SCORES. :<

Now, you wanna talk overrated - Danny frickin' Elfman. Pretty much everything he's done after Batman Returns has sucked balls. He should get Oingo Boingo back together and make a new album, they broke up after making their best album ever.

 

[Prospero]

Star Trek II/III are Horner's best scores, and the only ones that sounds "original" to me. Even though I haven't liked much of his recent stuff, those are some of the best pieces of music that've ever been written for a film.

That said, he doesn't just steal from himself, but he's pretty shameless about stealing from classical music as well (more so than most other film composers, even). Krull is mostly lifted from Wagner's Ring cycle, and Aliens is mostly a pastiche of music from Star Trek II, Khatchaturian, and Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien.

 

[ManaByte]

That said, he doesn't just steal from himself, but he's pretty shameless about stealing from classical music as well (more so than most other film composers, even). Krull is mostly lifted from Wagner's Ring cycle, and Aliens is mostly a pastiche of music from Star Trek II, Khatchaturian, and Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien.

You think that may be because it's this thing called a "sequel"?

 

[Prospero]

You think that may be because it's this thing called a "sequel"?

Does that justify lifting note for note from a piece of music that appeared in 2001: A Space Odyssey? No. Aliens wasn't a sequel to 2001, last I heard.

Horner's "tortured genius" schtick in his interview for the Alien Quadrilogy box set is a laugh a minute, by the way.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Titanic sucks shit.

the music in the boat movie was better

 

[Gaia Theory]

Titanic sucks shit. Don't even mention it. All he did was redo and modernize the Braveheart score.

He never approached Braveheart ever again. After that score, all he did was reuse cues from Willow in all his action movie scores (Zorro, Enemy at the Gates, etc.)

The soundtrack is the one thing about the movie that will get me to watch it every single time. And crank it loud.

He's not dead yet.

 

[hiryu]

His New World soundtrack is excellent and fairly recent. He does reuse a braveheart toon but most of the stuff is pretty original.

 

[Space Runaway]

Krull is James Horner's masterpiece. Nice try though.

I woulda thought you'd say it was Commando. :lol

 

[Kevtones]

Love Braveheart, best indulgent epic ever (that is saying something).

 

[TJ Bennett]

I woulda thought you'd say it was Commando. :lol

His Commando score is remarkably cheesy, but I still own it. Varese Sarabande released it a few years ago on cd but if you want it you'll have to pay through the nose on ebay (at least $50) as it was limited to only 3000 copies.

The other great Horner scores are Stark Trek II and Aliens.