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Jordi,

Thing is that you're rushing to fat and loud declarations right from the very beginning of the first time you're listening to it. You don't let it rest, you don't leave it its time to grow and get cultivated in you; you're changing opinions all the time and you're hurrying. You're overflowing the forum, sometimes making even the slightest mention of the score off-putting and tiring to members who haven't even had the chance to hear it once, some of them don't even want to 'cause of the over-exposure here. And i said that i am saving my last thoughts on it for after i've seen the movie. I am not declaring anything, i am just thinking out loud.

Depends; his mature body of work during the last years suggests perhaps a slight departure from the leitmotific Wagner-esque approach of his past or, surely, a change in style.

Nobody made you anything mate You're making who you are, not us.

Yes, but this doesn't change the facts.

Yes, and I even agree with you (I'll comment later) but you don't need to say it 43 times. You should go listen to Morricone again to let TLA rest again.

I've seen your comments on Curious case and i wholly agree. But we were just 3-4, now we are getting to be a bigger group just to bust Erik and Martijn

NP: Glory - James Horner

One of the most unoriginal scores that James Horner has written but it is definitely one of the most manipulative [effective] ones too.

Very true....sadly.

Vaughan Williams rips I guess. I wouldn't say it's completely unoriginal though.

-The tragedy theme = Prokofiev
-The self belief theme (the secondary theme) = Flashes of Morricone's The Mission (especially in the timpani/bass)
-The call to arms trumpet solo = a merging of the trumpet theme from Predator and Copland's Fanfare for a Common Man
-Charging Fort Wagner = a merging of Orff & Wagner
-The jubilee snare and flute patterns are from another movie, the name of which escapes me now, but it's a 1970s movie that was nominated for an Academy Award
-"Burning of the Town of Darien" is somewhat similar on that Vaughan Williams classical piece heard in Master and Commander: Far Side of the World

Not to say Glory is a bad score at all, I would give it four stars. I'm just very aware of its influences.

I know.

But back then we didn't have as many Djawadoodooos as today. And no cubase and hoards of realistic vst's. And you had to actually grab the pencil and sheet and write notes on it. Plus the society wasn't bombarding you with rapidly changing media constantly all day long as it does these days, fewer productions were made, at least big-budget ones. Don't know, just thinking out loud.

Maybe bad movies from the 1980s needed the music to make it seem better because they could not hide bad movies through how good the special effects were, like today. That's why movies like Krull and The Beastmaster 2 had huge scores to give the film the sense of epicness it tried to get (which the special effects could not give). Bad movies today, usually, can afford a decent (or bigger) budget for special effects, so they can hide how bad the movie is (or at least create a visual environment for the audience to be impressed with, without having to rely on the score alone to push it along.

Yeap, that's a good reason too, very plausible. But won't they let composers provide such scores nevertheless? Would it be too much then, they afraid? Or are the composers not into that kind of stuff anymore....

Why are we worried about a movie like Clash of the Titans having a score like it had? It really wasn't that good a movie, it won't win any Oscars, and will probably sit in video rental stores for years to come. I highly doubt any fans will promote it as their favourite score.