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Favourite James Horner score

Titanic

17% (9)

Aliens

19% (10)

A Beautiful Mind

0% (0)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

19% (10)

The Rocketeer

5% (3)

Commando

5% (3)

Glory

5% (3)

Cocoon

0% (0)

Willow

3% (2)

Other (please note)

5% (3)

48 Hours

0% (0)

Krull

1% (1)

Braveheart

15% (8)

Total Votes : 52

(last vote on : 19/11/2012 10:35:50 AM)
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Favourite James Horner score - 5/8/2006 6:32:23 PM

Tech_Noir

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 7/8/2006 8:29:10 PM

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I was watching that film with harrison ford, clear and present danger, which was scored by james horner. I thought that a lot of this music sounded very similar to Aliens, and then I realised that he had lifted entire sequences from it for this film!

Actually, I hope that when James Cameron brings out his next films (they look sweeeeeeeeeeeet) that he'll get horner to score them. Those two are good together.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 7/8/2006 9:45:45 PM

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Star Trek II is the clear winner.

Also Cameron asked Horner to score Aliens like Star Trek II.

He has a distinctive style like all of the great scorers, and to be honest with the exception of John Williams (as Morricone and Barry are in retirement) he is the only true great left.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 16/8/2006 12:11:34 PM

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I went for Braveheart, was going to go for Aliens.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 3/12/2009 1:25:23 PM

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I personally think his score for Deep Impact is one of the most original and most beautiful soundtracks he's ever done.

His others are fantastic, but have also been duplicated in other scores (Braveheart/Titanic) (Aliens/Star Trek II) - for me Deep Impact is his most emotional and heartfelt score, especially 'Goodbye and Goodspeed'

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 3/12/2009 6:44:07 PM

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Titanic, Willow, Aliens, Glory, Braveheart, Star Trek 2, Commando, 48 Hours, the man's got a lot of great scores.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 3/12/2009 7:01:32 PM

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Have to say im shocked and stunned that more people havnt voted for Krull.Its his masterpiece,Those of you who havnt heard it should get ahold of the two disc set immediately.Its fantastic.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 4/12/2009 11:47:08 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Tech_Noir

Titanic, Willow, Aliens, Glory, Braveheart, Star Trek 2, Commando, 48 Hours, the man's got a lot of great scores.

You mention those and yet Tech, you forget The New World, you've been kicked out of the Malick fan club.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 5/12/2009 8:20:44 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Deviation

quote:

ORIGINAL: Tech_Noir

Titanic, Willow, Aliens, Glory, Braveheart, Star Trek 2, Commando, 48 Hours, the man's got a lot of great scores.

You mention those and yet Tech, you forget The New World, you've been kicked out of the Malick fan club.

Shame on me!!!

I've been listening to that score for year. I'll also add that the pop song he included with Hayley Westenra, it was really good.

Also add THE ROCKETEER!

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 8/12/2009 11:20:21 PM

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The Rocketeer is a great soundtrack.Not one of his better known works but its easily amongst his best..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2Oad4x5OA

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 10/12/2009 7:56:08 PM

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I love his Titanic score, especially the suites that appear on his Back to Titanic album, although I have to admit to really loving his score to The Perfect Storm as well. Looking forward to his work on Avatar.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 31/12/2009 2:47:30 PM

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 9/4/2010 1:40:34 PM

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Ah, that was a tricky one. I love most of his scores, Krull used to be pretty high my list for quite some time.
But in the end (More music from) Braveheart gets my vote.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 29/4/2010 1:58:59 PM

Stryder

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Mask of Zorro is one of Horner's best and more original in recent years imo - though its not listed ;)

Legends of the Fall wasn't bad either.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 5/5/2010 11:06:06 PM

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Went for Braveheart. He's not one of my favourite composers, but occassionally he really nailed it.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 14/5/2010 8:04:37 PM

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Titanic for me,makes the movie.
Braveheart was classic in places but not as good overall.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/9/2010 7:04:47 PM

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Rocketeer every time!

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/9/2010 9:33:09 PM

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Epic yet underrated, just like the Film!

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 26/9/2010 10:05:22 AM

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Epic yet underrated, just like the Film!

Seconded!

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 16/10/2010 8:04:30 AM

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One of the climactic cues from Aliens was used at the end of Die Hard - the bit where the terrorist who we thought was killed comes back and tries to shoot everyone.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 23/10/2010 2:29:46 PM

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Again another tough one, ovious choice would have been willow there have been a few times the power of nostalgia in that piece has made me cry.

But I went for Braveheart for the gael and the score sequence of the execution, that's beautifully sad stuff man

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/10/2010 6:09:48 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8D6j5LPho&feature=related

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/12/2011 6:16:06 AM

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Can I just say this. James Horner is a whore. Having just watched Clear and Present Danger I heard at least two or three themes from his other films in this. And I'm not just talking about stuff that sounds similar to his other work, (like how John Williams them from AOTC sounds similar to Hook) I mean he is directly ripping himself off. At one point you can clearly hear the Aliens theme and later in the film one of the themes from The Wrath of Khan turns up (funny considering half the themes in Aliens are ripped from Khan). Seriously I know guy is well known for plagiarising himself but fucking hell! I mean who has listened to the Titanic score and not heard Braveheart in there.

I've written on this before I know but seriously I'm shocked no one has ever brought it up with the man himself, can't the guy come up with a new theme instead of just stealing from himself?

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/12/2011 11:15:12 AM

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Went for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/12/2011 3:23:11 PM

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I picked Star Trek II though I really love the score for Commando too, even if it's just the 48 Hours score expanded.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/12/2011 3:27:41 PM

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Its a tie between Star Trek 2 and Krull for me.Classic works both of them.

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 24/12/2011 5:11:54 PM

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Can I just say this. James Horner is a whore. Having just watched Clear and Present Danger I heard at least two or three themes from his other films in this. And I'm not just talking about stuff that sounds similar to his other work, (like how John Williams them from AOTC sounds similar to Hook) I mean he is directly ripping himself off. At one point you can clearly hear the Aliens theme and later in the film one of the themes from The Wrath of Khan turns up (funny considering half the themes in Aliens are ripped from Khan). Seriously I know guy is well known for plagiarising himself but fucking hell! I mean who has listened to the Titanic score and not heard Braveheart in there.

I've written on this before I know but seriously I'm shocked no one has ever brought it up with the man himself, can't the guy come up with a new theme instead of just stealing from himself?

Yeah I agree. Star Trek II is probably my favourite, but it's slightly jarring when you hear what he calls "Khan's Theme" in the video above in so many other movies in the last few decades, most recently Avatar I think.

I forgive him because of *batteries not included though

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 8/1/2012 12:12:00 PM

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Even though I love Aliens I have to say that Star Trek II was his best score. I realised I did post on this topic way back! LOL

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RE: Favourite James Horner score - 9/7/2012 1:45:41 PM

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I know it's divided some people, but I really enjoyed his score for The Amazing Spider-man. Though his theme was better than Elfman's and I've been listening to the final track (Promises) over and over again. Really beautiful (even if he does recycled some classic Horner motiffs throughout).

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