You said it, R2. He's like a second-rate John Williams, who is a second-rate Jerry Goldsmith.
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And Jerry Goldsmith was a third rate Bernard Herrmann.
Goldsmith was great!
Alien
To me, R7, Goldsmith is more like Alex North than Herrmann.
Hmmm, that's interesting R9. I'm only familiar with North's work on DEATH OF A SALESMAN and STREETCAR. Goldsmith's work for BASIC INSTINCT which I love, reminds me a lot of Herrmann's VERTIGO.
R7
I agree with you, R9 -- that was certainly a Herrmann-esque score. Honestly, I don't find Goldsmith's post-Omen scores all that compelling. Still, I consider him a worthy successor to Rozsa, North, Herrmann, and Waxman. I wouldn't put Horner or Williams in the same category.
Horner, Williams and that woman who did CIDER HOUSE RULES (Rachel something?) can turn any scene into dreck with their syrupy scores.
Goldsmith's score for the 1968 PLANET OF THE APES is perhaps his best.
Second best to Alien.
Nonsense. . . .Jerry Goldsmith's greatest, theater-shaking epic music was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." I loved that roaring, grinding "blaster-beam instrument" he designed just for that one Star Trek score. If you've seen the movie, you know those snarling sounds I mean.
[quote]And Jerry Goldsmith was a third rate Bernard Herrmann.
Hermann was a solid composer, but not all that. Most people don't even remember him today.
Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on.
Far across the distance
and spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.
Near, Far,
wherever you are,
I believe that the heart does go on.
Once more, you opened the door
And you're here in my heart,
and my heart will go on and on.
Love can touch us one time
and last for a lifetime
And never let go till we're gone.
Love was when I loved you,
one true time to hold on to
In my life we'll always go on.
Near, far,
wherever you are,
I believe that the heart does go on.
Once more, you opened the door
And you're here in my heart,
and my heart will go on and on.
You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on.
We'll stay, forever this way
You are safe in my heart
and my heart will go on and on.
Other nice scores by Jerry Goldsmith:
The Secret of NIMH
First Knight
L.A. Confidential
I'll drink to that, R18, "The Secret of Nimh" was a surprisingly scary, intense, room-shaking score for a small children's movie. It certainly frightened me as a little kid.
Other Goldsmithian gold nuggets: The Mummy, Poltergeist, Total Recall, Supergirl and Hollow Man (whose music reminds me of Basic Instinct warped on a heavy mushroom trip).
Some empirical musical proof that Jerry Goldsmith's genius makes that James Horner copycat-hack look like a stupid, thieving, musical bitch.
