Anybody else think this is one of his best scores? The battle sequences have brilliant music (especially those sound effects that are similar to the V'Ger noises in Star Trek the Motion Picture). Both the Main Theme and Space Cowboy's theme are so damn triumphant sounding as well. only music i didnt like was the theme tune for the two evil mutants guarding the planet but then maybe thats because its so eerie and threatening.
I enjoyed his score here, but I think Star Trek II was his best. certainly you could here parts of this that wound up in that score as well. Have you ever heard anyone rip-off themselves as much as Horner? I think he's great but he seems to like his stuff so much he re-uses it over and over, lol.
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Just watched BBTS for the first time. Pretty much what I expected, but the score was definitely a high point in the film. Very reminiscent of Star Trek II obviously. Though parts of it reminded me very much of Star Trek I (by Jerry Goldsmith-RIP).
All in all not a bad score at all. Doesn't rank among my favorites from Horner (Braveheart, Star Trek II, Titanic) but his music often adds a lot to any film it is in.
Here's something even more interesting.
Yes, James Horner tends to cannibalize a lot of his music, but, he also ended up (practically note for note) taking a piece from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, (a film made in 1968, long before Horner's time) just shortly around the time we meet the crew of the Discovery, the music used in that piece is taken and used as the opening titles for ALIENS, and is also reused, with a couple slight modifications in Patriot Games.
I cannot remember who composed that piece, but Horner used it for both ALIENS and Patriot Games. How he got away with it, I'll never know.
I totally agree, the soundtrack was fantastic. It was one of the things that made this a far better film than really it had any right to be. It is one of my favourite sci-fi soundtracks of all time.
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I think it is and it looks like Josh Hadley agrees: http://www.1201beyond.com/podcasts/episode-235-the-music-of-the-movies/
shareI bought the score on vinyl after I saw the movie in the theater back in '80. I listened to it over and over and over - I know every note by heart. Horner is an exceptional composer, but for a first movie score this is true magic.
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