@bluejay said:
How about Krull?
I know Horner gets a bad rep around here but at least that's him at his most fun and exciting (and with the LSO!) and Krull is about as bad a movie as could be made.
It is fun and exciting, until you hear each of the things he stole deliberately. That is the problem with Horner - the calculating plagiarism. It is not influence such as John Williams' many influences within his own originality. With Horner it is different, and out and out thievery. And he did this repeatedly. The fact he has the LSO to record his plagiarisms makes it worse and very depressing to me.
I don't understand how you can continue to love somebody who does this. Is this what you do? To get a musical idea for a film score just listen to a classical symphony. There's your theme. The dumbells in the audience will never know because it is from classical music? Well guess what Horner - I know. Every time. I sat in movie theaters hearing to my amazement one stolen theme after another, including actual stolen uncredited orchestrations along with the themes!
One other thing on Horner - he is an example of the REVERSE of this thread mentioned earlier - bad music for great films. The example I am thinking of right now is Wrath of Khan. I recently wanted to see that again for the great story, the best acting ever by Shatner and Nimoy, great FX - but then stopped when I remembered the totally sucking incredibly trite score by Horner, with endlessly repeated augmented arpeggios in the violins signifying "OUTER SPACE" and the evil Khan motif stolen - as usual - directly from Prokofiev's score to "Alexander Nevsky."