Guess the Score VII - Robots abound!! by The 'Bairn [FINISHED]

Yay!

I'd celebrate glory again but I'm sure Demetris will make a come back.

what Franz, same points as me? I thought he would whoop my sorry little ass to kingdom come
anyhoo, I made one guess and I'm sticking with it, I just don't know the answers

The natural order of things is restored.

However, it may not last - I'm really struggling with the remaining clips.

Don't worry. Several hours to go.

Final score:

Southall - 28 points
franz_conrad - 26 points
plindboe - 24 points
Tommy_Boy - 22 points
JuPe - 22 points
BobdH - 16 points
Bregt - 15 points
Bregje - 12 points
Anthony - 10 points
Demetris - 8 points

So, Southall wins again - but with a reduced majority! Good last-minute contribution from plindboe and BobdH scrapes a few more points to leapfrog over Bregt!

Thanks again everyone for taking part. Sorry I wasn't able to PM people as much as I'd like to during the contest. Seems like this was another difficult set of clips but hopefully people will have found some interesting music that they had not come across before.

BTW, sites like http://www.geocities.com/brizglace/movie.htm may have helped people make some informed guesses!!

I'm just putting together a few comments with the answers and I'll post them ASAP...

Answers:

Clip 01 - THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) (5) - Bernard Herrmann (5)
Gort, one of the greatest robots in film. Herrmann captures the lumbering power of Gort brilliantly and there's the great use of the theremin!

Clip 02 - FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) (2) - Louis & Bebe Barron (2)
Featuring Robbie. The robot is one of my least favourite parts of this film (along with Earl Hoffman's character). Although the music as a stand-alone listen is very very difficult, there's some of the soundscapes that has stuck with me from having watched the movie.

Clip 03 - JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) (0) - Bernard Herrmann (0)
Talos is more an animated statue rather than a robot/'android - something that I did highlight would be included in the selection as I really love what Herrmann did with this character. I suppose it's very similar to what he did with Gort - a lumbering motif - but with added brass (metallic) colours.

Clip 04 - WESTWORLD (1973) (1) - Fred Karlin (1)
A great rhythmic motif for The Gunslinger. Certainly an exanple of a musical motif that I have been attracted to whilst watching the film. BTW, I've used this clip before in other games.

Clip 05 - LOGAN'S RUN (1976) (2) - Jerry Goldsmith (3)
I'm not too familiar with this score as heard in the movie so I hope that this clip is associated with Box. One of the more melodic parts of this unusual score.

Clip 06 - STAR WARS (1977) (8) - John Williams (9)
I've always loved this sequence of music for when R2-D2 and C-3PO flee in the escape pod. Grand, sweeping but somehow heartbreaking...beautiful. I was tempted to deduct points from anyone who added "A New Hope" to their answers!

Clip 07 - SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977) (0) - Roy Budd (0)
The Minaton (http://www.hakes.com/item.asp?ListID=34 … emNo=62654) is another animated "thing" that I wasn't sure was a robot. I remember this from having seen the movie when it came out at the cinema.

Clip 8 - ALIEN (1979) (3) - Jerry Goldsmith (5)
The whirling dervish that was Ash when Ripley did him in - and it's clearly highlighted in this dramatic cue from Goldsmith. I was suprised that this was not more well known.

Clip 9 - THE BLACK HOLE (1979) (4) - John Barry (5)
There were several robots I could have highlighted but the evil Maximillian was the one I was thinking of when I put this clip in. In this clip in particular it was guess the composer and then get the movie.

Clip 10 - SATURN 3 (1980) (2) - Elmer Bernstein (2)
Hector - not the best name for an evil robot fiend. Onimous scoring from Bernstein to start off with and then it suddenly moves to a lovely, lyrical theme! I must watch this movie to see what's going on!

Clip 11 - CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981) (0) - Laurence Rosenthal (0)
Rosenthal gives a little hint of the mechanism that is Bubo, that annoying owl. You could maybe have picked out the bird-like way the clip soars?

Clip 12 - HALLOWEEN III - SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) (0) - John Carpenter / Alan Howarth (0)
I find this simple musical device to be so sad. It underscores the discovery of a robotic Grandma knitting on a rocking chair (I think). This musical device, for me, adds an emotional level to this scene. Another clip that I like to keep adding to games.

Clip 13 - THE TRIPODS (1984) (0) - Ken Freeman (0)
This is the main theme of a BBC series that was good at the time - even with the ropey effects for the Tripods themselves. It was unlikely that anyone was going to get this - but I did have hope. Anyone who is familiar with Freeman's main theme from the BBC show Casualty - especially the original version of the hospital-based soap that featured the same synths and style - may have made the leap to this show.

Clip 14 - ROBOCOP (1987) (4) - Basil Poledouris (4)
The stand-off between RoboCop and ED-209, there was the hint of Robo's theme at the end of the clip that I thought would give this one away.

Clip 15 - CHERRY 2000 (1987) (2) - Basil Poledouris (2)
Apparently the eponymous Cherry is the android. I have no idea what this movie is like!

Clip 16 - ROBOTJOX (1990) (0) - Frédéric Talgorn (0)
This is an awesome theme for another film that I know remarkably little about. I was a bit surprised that no-one knew this theme.

Clip 17 - TERMINATOR 2 - JUDGMENT DAY (1991) (6) - Brad Fiedel (6)
Another one of those motifs that sticks in the mind from the movie. T-1000 chases Sarah from the hospital.

Clip 18 - BICENTENNIAL MAN (1999) (9) - James Horner (9)
I believe that Andrew is the robot in question in this movie. The "parping" brass gives Horner away for those not familiar with the movie itself.

Clip 19 - THE IRON GIANT (1999) (5) - Michael Kamen (5)
A score that was obviously going to be included in a robot selection!

Clip 20 - A.I. - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001) (8) - John Williams (8)
David was the robot I was thinking off for inclusion in this list. These more minimalist episodes in the score are the highlights for me.

Clip 21 - I, ROBOT (2004) (10) - Marco Beltrami (10)
Sonny. Everyone recognised Beltrami's score. A great clip for a great score!

Clip 22 - SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004) (2) - Edward Shearmur (2)
I didn't use the more familiar thematic stuff and this probably meant that this one was not are readily recognised. Ominous music seems to be quite readily associated with robots?!

Clip 23 - THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (2005) (4) - Joby Talbot (4)
Marvin - the paranoid android - should be square and angular, not curved and round!! The hint of "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish" melody towards the middle of the clip was a big clue!

Clip 24 - DOCTOR WHO (2005) (1) - Murray Gold (1)
This was another clip that was going to be difficult for people. Taken from the Doctor Who Children In Need concert held in Cardiff in 2006, this is a theme for the Clockwork Droids seen in the episode "The Girl In The Fireplace". Well done, James, for getting this one!

Clip 25 - TRANSFORMERS (2007) (10) - Steve Jablonsky (10)
Another full house for this much ridiculed but very familiar score.

Bonus - Alicia (0)
Taken from THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Lonely" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_(The_Twilight_Zone)), this has all the hallmarks of some excellent Bernard Herrmann scoring. Obviously a bit too difficult!

This was one of my favourite clips. I was sure it was by Bernstein!

A quote from the first few lines of the original post:

"...The robot/’droid/mechanism need not be the main focus of the movie, but may just be an incidental character, but each movie does feature some sort of artificial being..."

I can get a game ready, but it probably wouldn't be ready until Wednesday.

Fine by me.

Thanks, Peter.

damn, RobotJox's theme sounded so familiar but I just couldn't get the title in my head. I heard it many years ago but now I know, great theme indeed

And game as well, thanks Alan

BTW, Alan, I didn't guess a Herrmann fantasy score for clip 3, because I didn't think there were any robots in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS or SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, which both fell in the time period. I must look into how they got a robot into JASON!

A quote from the first few lines of the original post:

"...There are a couple of early clips where the subject isn’t technically a mechanised robot – they are more animated (not in the cartoon animation or CGI sense of the word) entities – but the clips are great and I wanted to include them. And you'll get the idea when you hear them..."

Does no-one read the introductory blurb? First BoddH and now you Michael.