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Some of the music sounds a lot like "Rambo" soundtrack


In some places it sounded almost identical. Did anyone else notice this? Granted that Jerry Goldsmith composed for both but he usually creates very diverse pieces of music and rarely if ever repeats himself.

I think the reason may be because Goldsmith was hired last minute as a replacement after the original composer was fired. Since he had little time to compose the music he recycled some stuff from the Rambo movies, particularly Rambo 2 and 3

Mr McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

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Air Force One is Rambo with The President so they probably didn't care lol

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most of the score sounded a lot like the scores of Executive Decision and Star Trek First Contact the previous year. Makes sense since Jerry Goldsmith didn't get much time to write it

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