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I do not like electronic music scores so all of those guys are not for me.
Lalo Schifrin - The only score of his I can think of at the moment that I like is THE FOUR MUSKETEERS and only part of it. This guys just does not do it for me.
Bill Conti - I don't like anything by this guy. I really do wish somebody would blow my brains out if I ever hear any part of ROCKY again.
Dave Grusin - He doesn't do it for me either.
Hans Zimmer - The absolute bottom of the barrel. I don't like anything by him.
Maurice Jarre - I like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, parts of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, THE TRAIN, the waltz from IS PARIS BURNING? and the barn building cue from WITNESS even though it is electronic. That is about it.
Dimitri Tiomkin - I like a few of his scores but most of his is just bombastic noise.
Georges Delerue - I used to like this guy a great deal until I heard more and more of his work then it all turned into syrupy sweet strings and wailing oboes.
Ennio Morricone - I can honestly say I do not like ANY of this guy's music. I just do not understand the love he gets.
Michel Legrand - I like THE THREE MUSKETERS and that is about it.
I know very little of the composers who are working today (actually since around 1990) so I do not have an opinion about them.
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Jan 11, 2017 - 4:40 PM
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jlj93byu
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My sentiments on this are echos of some already shared.
First, Howard Shore. Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite scores of all-time, so epic in every sense of the word. It's a score that is both technically masterful and audibly elegant and sweeping. So many leitmotifs that not only work well individually, but harmonize and work so well together. The way they also reflect their cultures, locations, characters, etc., is amazing. Yet, I don't find any other Shore albums as enjoyable, or even half as enjoyable as I do the average film score. I've tried, but none of his other works have stuck with me or significantly moved me.
Do you like the Hobbit scores?
Yes, actually, but not as much as LOTR. They have grown on me, and I do love them quite a bit now, but they took some time to warm up to. Upon review of my comments, I should probably add the addendum that anything of Howard Shore's outside of his Middle Earth scores have failed to move me nearly as much as any of his 6 works for those films. LOTR is the best, but Hobbit is, for me, Shore's second best work. Those are the only Shore works that I own and enjoy...I think I have a couple of his other scores gathering dust somewhere.
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