Tribe.net. Local Connections Jeremy http://filmscore.tribe.net/thread/4130eae2-e399-401f-9dc0-d8fcd36c9679#c868364d-7ebd-42ea-9cce-dbafbe4801d1 2007-02-15T03:13:08Z 2007-02-15T03:13:08Z

Tell me about it. James Horner's scores to Star Trek 2 / Krull / and Battle Beyond The Stars are pretty much all the same score! Huge passages from each film are almost note for note. Which is not to say I don't enjoy his work - it's just that he gets somewhat repetitive in projects. Moreso than other composers I've heard. They'll write progression that they like and do some variations - that's called style. But he has a tendancy to just reuse whole sections. Another thing I noticed is his score to Honey I Shrunk The Kids borrows heavily from Danny Elfman's score to Pee We's Big Adventure. Listen to them side by side . . .especially the opening tracks. It's almost as if he's simply tracking a film rather than scoring for it sometimes. (Using stock music instead of creating fresh music) I guess he can, as he's built his own library of stock music :) It's a shame that Gabriel Yared's score to Troy got replaced with Horner's take on it. While Horner's is a decent score - it doesn't have the emotional resonance that Yared put into his version. Oh well -J

Jeremy 2007-02-15T03:13:08Z Josh http://filmscore.tribe.net/thread/4130eae2-e399-401f-9dc0-d8fcd36c9679#f7c6e75d-e8c7-4543-bfd9-e9218016778e 2007-02-12T17:32:49Z 2007-02-12T17:32:49Z

I've noticed it too! James Horner, along with being a plagiarist himself, has seen his music from Aliens used in the first Die Hard movie. Both films were produced by 20th Century Fox.

Josh 2007-02-12T17:32:49Z Jeremy http://filmscore.tribe.net/thread/4130eae2-e399-401f-9dc0-d8fcd36c9679#5b61c888-6a2f-4c3f-8837-c65bf7c6fde0 2007-02-10T02:42:00Z 2007-02-10T02:42:00Z

They use temp tracks from the film a lot of time for this . . . because the actual film as not been scored yet. A lot of times - that is true Sometimes they have music written specifically for it - such as Judge Dredd - Jerry Goldsmith wrote the Trailer Score - specifically for that trailer. Though Alan Silvestri would later score the actual film - nothing good came of it :)

Jeremy 2007-02-10T02:42:00Z DRACO-T http://filmscore.tribe.net/thread/4130eae2-e399-401f-9dc0-d8fcd36c9679#c655d5a5-2414-4d33-8789-2771e78e1299 2005-01-04T10:49:56Z 2005-01-04T10:49:56Z

I know and it gets old...one would think that they can use music composed for the movie their actually advertising. Although I have to say David Arnolds score to Stargate was awesome! But indeed an over used theme for too many movie trailors as well as a few others.

DRACO-T 2005-01-04T10:49:56Z Jeanie http://filmscore.tribe.net/thread/4130eae2-e399-401f-9dc0-d8fcd36c9679#2680acf9-1d9e-4dd3-a801-4e05a2006825 2005-01-03T18:29:20Z 2005-01-03T18:29:20Z

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Have you ever seen a preview for a new movie, and the music is re-used from another movie? I hear it all the time... of course now I can't come up with good examples. A few: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - music from Stargare SG-1 tv theme. Things I've heard re-used: Pay it forward, Dave ... Has anyone else noticed this?

Jeanie 2005-01-03T18:29:20Z