Does anybody else find his music boringly repetitive and overbearing and just not that good?
I do...especially after having endured him hijacking the Boston Pops for many years.
“Does anybody else find his music boringly repetitive and overbearing and just not that good?”
It depends ... I find his music outstanding during a film. However, I find very few of his tracks worth listening to outside of that context (Superman theme, Raiders march, parts of the ESB soundtrack are some examples ... and even then I don’t know if it’s “great music” or nostalgia :-) ).
Compared to the kind of kinetic Zimmer/electronic crap dished up in most movies these days, Williams is Mozart in comparison.
Just my opinion.
I know one thing. I would hate to be a brass player doing the Star Wars score. I saw the London Philharmonic do the Star Wars tour in Nashville. When they finished, I turned to my hubby and said, “And the brass section says AMEN!”. LOL!
No, not in the least. I love good film scoring, and Williams is as good as it gets. He is fully the peer to Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, and miles above the likes of Danny Elfman. The music is constructed to support specific scenes in a movie, and Williams employs leitmotif which, out of context, and arranged as a suite, could sound repetitive. But that is true of any film composer's music. A good film composer is basically a miniaturist, setting music for 2 or 3 minute scenes over and over.
The separate leitmotifs/themes for Darth Vader, Luke, and Lea are brilliant and nothing less than perfect.
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Omg, I didn’t see yours before writing mine just above this one. I thought I would be alone.
I sure don't. In my mind, he is one of the few contemporary composers whose work might endure past the spring thaw. His themes from "Jurassic Park" and "Star Wars" are legend, and the "Exultate Justi" from "Empire of the Sun" is brilliant. He puts hacks like Bernstein to shame.
Which film composer would you put forward as great?
I like the score he wrote for “Family Plot,” an Alfred Hitchcock film. I love the harpsichord, harp and woodwind instruments used.
No. I have a good impression of him, from what I know. The guy is prolific, and I'm sure I'd positively recognize a lot of his work if I heard it, even if it doesn't immediately come to mind.
But, I liked his work on the Harry Potter films, and most of all I really liked his compositions for the Home Alone movies back in the 90's. Beautiful stuff.