Well, a lot of classic movies contain those "uplifting score clichés" -- every single Star Wars score, every Star Trek movie score, E.T., The Right Stuff, Back to the Future, Dances With Wolves, Prince of Thieves, Zorro, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, etc. I mean, what should Horner have used? A ukulele?Monterey Jack wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:56 pm Honestly? I've never liked Horner's score to Apollo 13, which is nothing but a grab bag of his Greatest Hits licks (a little Brainstorm here, a lot of Sneakers there) and generic "uplifting score" clichés (break out the timpani rolls and cymbal crashes!).
Not in my case. There are plenty of films I love with scores that do little if anything for me (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes to mind).I think people like the score because they like the movie so much.
Yeah, there are "nods", lets say, to some of Horner's previous works, but they're all great works -- and I think his music lends tremendous gravitas to Apollo 13.
The scene immediately after the rocket launch, when they are suddenly in zero-G and Horner brings-in that ethereal chorus, is one of the great moments in film scoring if you ask me.