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What about Carmen Electra?

I don't know about the 'first proper major original score' though. Whyis King Kong always the example? I believe last year was the celebration of 100 years of film music (in France). There should be earlier scores than King Kong's, right?

Carriers

An original (or at least different) approach to the already tiring virus infection genre. Focusing on a small group of characters on its way to a safe zone (and the tension/s generated among them) instead of a bunch of characters being pursuit by ultra-mega-fast-blood-thirsty infected beings. Well shot, edited and a very good performance by the whole cast, specially Chris Pine.

3.5 out of 5

Is your bed big enough for her, your wife and yourself?

What if the bed was falling down a large hole and they would die unless you threw them out?

Of COURSE there have been...however Steiner's score for King Kong is considered pivotal as it was the first score that created a thematic unity and musical narrative to not only support the images on screen but actually be an integral part of the story (with some great crossover effects not employed until that time, like the use of diegetic music crossing into the score (like the jungle drums on Skull Island)).

It's the very first way a score was written and employed in a modern fashion and in the way as we understand, employ and appreciate film music still today.

Before that, they were compilations of older pre-recorded material on grammophone disc, along with either improvisational pieces by the pianist or even an orchestra, plus perhaps classical music that constituted the movie's "soundtrack", for instance 1926's "Don Juan" and 1927's "The Jazz Singer", the latter also brought the official end of Silent Era, coupled with 1929's Steamboat Willie by Disney. There were some earlier attempts for an original score, but the first time someone sat down wrote and recorded with budget and large orchestra proper film music that followed the on-screen happenings is King Kong by Steiner, at least in the official bibliography.

You may call Sup II corny (though I still love it), but not Sup I, which is classic epic emotional movie magic (that's 100 times better than The Dark Knight can ever hope to become).

FACT !!!

Oh Sup 1 is definitely movie magic. But there are enough scenes in it that I can't stand now.

As always, you throw these matters into perspective.

Sometimes, when I lay on a good mattress, I just want to die. So it's all dependent from your bed gear Southall.

Do you have good bed gear?

I was going to ask whether I'd die in his bed or not. But perhaps that is off topic, so I won't open that discussion.

Beware the thorns in that bed of roses.

I finally gave in 2012

Switched off brain and found it:

BLOODY FANTASTIC AND LOUD. PROPER HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT.