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Most Memorable Film Scores
Posted by Michael Avila on 07/ 4/08 at 01:01 PM

notes.jpg(Warning. The following post could have you humming certain themes to the point of insanity)

Where in the name of John Williams have all the good movie scores gone? Special effects work may be raising the bar of excellence on a weekly basis due to the Blockbuster of the moment, but movie music has lost its way. Filmmakers seem content to just use a play list from their iPod as background music instead of searching for the transcendent score that will stay in your head, long after the credits have rolled (thanks a lot, John Hughes and Quentin Tarantino!). Even the films that use composers settle for the type of generic, interchangeable fare Danny Elfman's been churning out for nearly 20 years. Where's the bombast, the pageantry? Silence those computerized rhythms and give us some horns! Jeffrey and Alison and the rest of the RT crew searched our memory banks for the Top 25 most memorable movie scores. They are...CLICK HERE!


  
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