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Old 07-09-12, 10:42 AM
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Well, it's not Hans Zimmer's best work, but it really hit home with the New Age-y synth pop of the 90's, the theme from Green Card. Oh, do I love that one.
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Well, "not-so-great" is relative here, as it's one of my all-time favorite movies - but the critics bashed it at the time (Ebert gave it two stars), so I present to you John Barry's FANTASTIC score for SOMEWHERE IN TIME:

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Re: Great Theme Music On Not-So-Great Movies

Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
John Barry did a ton of great scores for very bad/mediocre films.
Amen. Kudos to "The Black Hole". Cool, majestic theme for an utterly bad film.

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I bought "V. I. Warshawski" for $5 on Blu-Ray just for Randy Edelman's opening and closing theme. Only memorable thing about that movie.
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Re: Great Theme Music On Not-So-Great Movies

Originally Posted by brianluvdvd
John Barry did a ton of great scores for very bad/mediocre films.
Originally Posted by chris_santucci
Amen. Kudos to "The Black Hole". Cool, majestic theme for an utterly bad film.
Yeah, John Barry's theme for The Black Hole is a great theme.

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Just seeing the opening credits of "The Black Hole" with the vector graphics set to that theme music makes it seem like a good movie is starting (...but, unfortunately, the opening credits are the highlight of the entire film).

(Note: revived this thread because I heard the theme again for the first time in a while)
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Here's a cool one if anybody can load up the music to ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Originally Posted by bluetoast
The Phantom Menace's score was very good.
Greatest thing to come out of the prequels is, hands down, Duel of the Fates.
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Re: Great Theme Music On Not-So-Great Movies

Another vote for Jerry Goldsmith's SUPERGIRL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsVD7LVYWP0
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Goldsmith had a lot of great music in otherwise poor movies. One of my favorite scores of all time is from The Final Conflict (aka Omen III). That score is pure awesomeness from start to finish.


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Barry did several great themes for not so great movies. The scores for the 1976 King Kong and the horrific early 80s Lone Ranger are both prime examples. In fact, the way the score for the latter's opening would convince someone what they are about to see isn't going to suck.

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While this movie is far from mediocre IMO, I think it's a shame I can't find this awesome song anywhere nowadays.

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