My Love of Musical Scores

So one thing that I love in movies is the Orchestral Scores that accompany whats going on in the movie. In my opinion the music is what gives a scene its emotion, or rather enhances it. For example, (depending on how often I've seen a movie) I can recite the lines of dialogue in time with the music. I guess that sounds weird, but I really can.  It seems that musical scores are only getting better as time goes on (even though theres a lot of musical overlap these days). Since there are too many movies with great soundtracks, I'm gonna add some of the greats of movie score composing and add a few movies as part of their credits...

Some of my favorite movie score composers...

James Horner - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Titanic, Avatar.

Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Star Trek: The Next Generation

(you may have noticed that the first are really star trek heavy, those are just the movies that I remember them being in... but if you check them out they have scored tonnes of movies!)

Hans Zimmer- The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Last Samurai, Crimson Tide, The Prince of Egypt

 and an up-and-coming composer is

Michael Giacchino - Up, Star Trek (2009), The Incredibles, Ratatouille.


Now you maybe wondering where John Williams falls amongst all this, because he is composer people thinking of when they think of movie scores, well I don't want to say that he's over rated, because he isn't, he's done great, if not amazing work on scoring movies, I just felt the need to spotlight others.