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Favorite Film Composer?
Danny Elfman 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Lisa Gerrard 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Jerry Goldsmith 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Bernard Herrmann 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
James Horner 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
James Newton Howard 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Thomas Newman 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Howard Shore 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Alan Silvestri 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
John Williams 41%  41%  [ 11 ]
Hans Zimmer 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Someone Else 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Don't have a favorite... 22%  22%  [ 6 ]
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So, for those of you into film music (which I'm guessing will be only a few), do you have a favorite composer? Mine is Danny Elfman, simply because he has a really unique sound and orchestrates his music in unconventional ways that really work, giving the music a character of its own. Thomas Newman would be a close second, though.

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I don't know...... I always liked John Williams..... but I could pick Alan Silvestri just because he did the BTTF soundtrack.......

And I will agree with you that Danny Elfman is very unique..... but I wouldn't pick him.

I just don't know. I've never heard of a lot of these folks.


Oh, if Howard Shore is on here there's no way in heck I'm not picking him. If his other stuff is as good as the stuff in LOTR, then it's effing awesome. He's not there, so I'll just pick Someone Else. There.

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Einoo T. Spork wrote:
Oh, if Howard Shore is on here there's no way in heck I'm not picking him. If his other stuff is as good as the stuff in LOTR, then it's effing awesome. He's not there, so I'll just pick Someone Else. There.


Umm...he was there all the time, dude. The names are listed in alphabetical order. I've seen a few movies that he's scored other than LotR--namely, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Game, and Silence of the Lambs.

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Heh. Alan Silvestri's son is in my class.
Filthy filthy rich, I tell ya.

He rented out the movie theater and brought like 100 kids to go see the opening of The Polar Express for free. Gigantic house, too.


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No Ennio Morricone? :eek:

I like his stuff that Tarantino stole for Kill Bill anyway

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I'm pretty sure the two main elements John Williams is made of are win and pwn. I have to vote him. Especially since I got a newfound respect for him after playing a quite lengthy "John Williams Medley" in 8th grade band. ;)

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I know none of these people (I'm probably thinking of a different John Williams. Sounds like a common name)

So, no favorite for me.


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Were is Mr. Joe Hisaishi?

He wrote "The Sixth Stop". It's one of my most favorite songs.

To those who don't know, he's written the music for all of Studio Ghiblis films.

The Sixth Stop was played during the train scene in Spirited Away.


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I'm pretty sure the two main elements John Williams is made of are win and pwn.


You forgot majorly ripping off other composers....>>...or at least, that's a major debate amongst musicians and composers.

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John Williams, with Elmer Bernstein a close second.

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John Williams could not be more overrated. Seriously.

I'm a huge fan of Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) and Joe Hisaishi, so I guess I'll check "Someone Else."

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This is tough. I like Bernstein because he has kind of a quirky sound to his stuff. I like Williams because despite being overrated as IJ suggests, he has some of the most memorable tunes in film history. I also like Elfman despite the popular argument that all of his stuff sounds the same.

Crap...I'll vote for Bernstein. I remember his stuff in Ghostbusters more than any other score.

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I'll go "no duh" and say Danny E.
Nightmare Before Christmas wins it automatically. But the Simpson's theme song, PeeWee's big adventure and Corpse Bride seal the deal.
I don't thin kanyone else has come up with such a wide range of memorable music.

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Crap...I'll vote for Bernstein. I remember his stuff in Ghostbusters more than any other score.
Don't forget Animal House.

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John Williams could not be more overrated. Seriously.

I'm a huge fan of Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) and Joe Hisaishi, so I guess I'll check "Someone Else."


Do you really want to die that young? J/k, sorry but I aam Star Wars OBSESSED!!!!!

John Williams all da way! Ever heard Battle of the Heroes? Most amazing composer ever in my opinion. I've always liked his stuff before my star wars craze ofcourse, but his music in star wars is top notch stuff.


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InterruptorJones wrote:
John Williams could not be more overrated. Seriously.

I'm a huge fan of Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) and Joe Hisaishi, so I guess I'll check "Someone Else."


Do you really want to die that young? J/k, sorry but I aam Star Wars OBSESSED!!!!!

John Williams all da way! Ever heard Battle of the Heroes? Most amazing composer ever in my opinion. I've always liked his stuff before my star wars craze ofcourse, but his music in star wars is top notch stuff.


I'm not saying he's a bad composer--obviously some of his music, in particular for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, is some of the most iconic music in the history of cinema--but in my opinion he's a pop composer. He writes catchy songs that play to mass-market audiences and are incredibly popular and successful. They make him a ton of money and win him a ton of awards, and good for him. But the fact is there are many composers out there who are much better than him, and a lot of them are in the list above. John Williams is basically what Steven Spielberg is to movies or what Andrew Lloyd Webber is to Broadway musicals. I don't dislike any of them, and plenty of my money has (indirectly) gone into their pockets, but I also don't think they're by any means The Best.

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Danny Elfman.

I love pretty much everything he does, and being paired up with one of my favorite directors a lot(Tim Burton) adds more to sheer awesomeness.

He made the Simpson theme song? Huh.

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I love John Williams. I hear he ripped stuff off from Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and even Beethoven, but he didn't any more than the inventor of tires ripped ideas of the inventor of the wheel. He simply built on their ideas like all good composers. My favorite piece of his is "Battle of the Heroes", featured in Episode III. It saved the movie for me. Soundtracks have heavy weight when it comes to movies I like. I've often rejected a movie simply because it had a bad soundtrack. No good movies had bad soundtracks. Gettysburg, Saving Private Ryan, ET, Luther, World Trade Center, they all had good soundtracks.


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My video editing teacher gave me a great quote for all you John Williams bashers.

"Good writers borrow. Great writers steal."

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Beyond the Grave wrote:
My video editing teacher gave me a great quote for all you John Williams bashers.

"Good writers borrow. Great writers steal."


Wow...I really disagree with that. I mean, how does plaigerism make you great?

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Beyond the Grave wrote:
My video editing teacher gave me a great quote for all you John Williams bashers.

"Good writers borrow. Great writers steal."


Your video teacher also sucks at quotes.

The quote is "Good artists copy, great artists steal," and it was Picasso who said it.

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Danny Elfman.

I love pretty much everything he does, and being paired up with one of my favorite directors a lot(Tim Burton) adds more to sheer awesomeness.

He made the Simpson theme song? Huh.


He also did quite a bit of music for the Fable soundtrack.


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I went with the popular vote: John Williams.

When the classic Superman theme started of "Superman Returns," the geek in me jumped in joy. That was pretty much my favorite part of the entire movie. :)

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Danny Elfman.

I love pretty much everything he does, and being paired up with one of my favorite directors a lot(Tim Burton) adds more to sheer awesomeness.

He made the Simpson theme song? Huh.


Just a question out of curiosity: what do you think of his theme music for the Spider-Man movies? More than a few people found it underwhelming.

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Danny Elfman.

I love pretty much everything he does, and being paired up with one of my favorite directors a lot(Tim Burton) adds more to sheer awesomeness.

He made the Simpson theme song? Huh.


Just a question out of curiosity: what do you think of his theme music for the Spider-Man movies? More than a few people found it underwhelming.


Personally, I felt that Elfman's break from Tim Burton films had its strengths and weaknesses. It allowed him to start exploring more outside of his usual style, so he learned more about orchestration techniques and other things as a result, becoming a better composer (IMO). However, those films he scored during that period in the late 90s and very early 2000s (Good Will Hunting, Spiderman, Chicago, etc.) were a lot more bland in their themes. I really enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, since it paired Elfman back up with Burton, allowing him to return with a few new tricks up his sleeve to apply to that ever-classic style we all came to know through such films as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Apart from producing very diverse music, Hans Zimmer could be considered as the godfather of bombastic action film orchestra soundtracks (or whatever), props for that. On the other hand, I really like Goldsmith's music aswell.

It's a tough choice, but I'll choose Jerry Goldsmith.

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I love Howard Shore's music on LOTR too much to not vote for him.
I really admire his ability to change one theme so much and have hints of other themes and change between themes like he did in LOTR.

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