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ah, what the hell.....
FAHRENHEIT 451
GIU, LA TESTA
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
THE WIND AND THE LION
BRM
Not bad, Bruce - I'm giving that list 4/5
It coulda been a winner if it wasn't for that pesky Goldsmith.
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ah, what the hell.....
FAHRENHEIT 451
GIU, LA TESTA
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
THE WIND AND THE LION
BRM
Not bad, Bruce - I'm giving that list 4/5
It coulda been a winner if it wasn't for that pesky Goldsmith.
why you little.......................!!!!!!
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Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Lair
Dances with Wolves
Braveheart
Honorable Mentions:
Last of the Mohicans
How to Train Your Dragon
Conan the Barbarian
Fellowship of the Ring
Hook
Space Battleship Yamato
Gladiator
Willow
Wyatt Earp
The Ten Commandments
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Dec 31, 2016 - 5:38 AM
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I would have no interest in assessing film scores any other way except personally, I couldn't begin to draw up a list of scores that 'tick all the boxes', but I do understand the impulse, I look at films that way, without even meaning to, style and subject matter don't matter to me in a film, as much as how well the thing comes together, and whether or not it achieves what it wants to achieve, which is probably as objective a perspective as I could manage. I do get frustrated though, when people try to give a film's complexity more weight than it deserves, complexity is a flavor, one you can get right or wrong, just like simplicity, and a film having complexity does not, in my opinion, automatically elevate it above one that does not.
I feel the same about scores, and I feel that scores without heavy orchestration often get unfairly overlooked or dismissed because they don't challenge the wide cross section of hardcore fans that look for it. For some reason though, maybe because that cross section is championed by, you could say, deep-thinkers, that point of view is not seen as a personal preference, it's seen as a requirement, and that doesn't make sense to me. The purpose of a score, like a film, is to evoke emotion, and the complexity involved is incidental.
However, the scene is what it is, and looking at my personal top five scores, there is one that seems to cover all the bases that score nuts look for - Conan the Barbarian - and I guess I feel it belongs on any all time list, whereas the rest of my picks - Alien 3, The Gambler, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Morricone's The Thing, perhaps evoke emotions that are less popular, and less touching, than heroics, hope, glory etc.
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And this is what made up my final list...
C)
E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL - Williams ( original 1982 re-recording )
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE - Barry ( 2003 expanded )
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY - Morricone*
KING KONG - Barry ( FSM expanded )
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - Barry ( 2003 expanded release )*
OUR MAN FLINT / IN LIKE FLINT - Goldsmith ( Originally released 1960's re-recorded albums )
For anyone interested here's a link to that thread with a few familiar names from here at FSM participating... http://www.maintitles.net/forum/discussion/3320/1/your-all-time-favourite-film-score-albums/
I made it easy for the Timmer.
All the above scores are on "Mr. Marshall's Top 40 Countdown" (see: FSM profile)
*are on my Top 5
bruce
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) is that 5 of my top fifty are from 1982. 
