@bluejay said:
I know Horner gets a bad rep around here...
What's wrong with Horner? I don't know about his present work but I think his score to Glory is still one of the best scores to a war movie ever composed. The angelic boys choir, which soars above the ensemble, perpetuates the yearning of freedom the former slave soldiers felt and the sacrifice of life and innocence to earn that freedom. I enjoyed the score more than I did the movie.
The movie kind of pissed me off because it was historically inaccurate. In reality, Col. Shaw was a whining mama's boy who had no desire to lead a regiment of black soldiers during the American Civil War because he knew that they would never be used in combat, only as laborers. Upon constant whining to his parents, who were close personal friends to President Lincoln, did he finally get his way. But, this is a thread for another forum.