SCORE (A doc for fans of movie scores)

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2:52p, 9/5/22

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Finally got around to watching this. I appreciated that they gave John Williams such a large section. I mean, you can enjoy others more, but I think it's an objective truth that no one has affected movie scores like John Williams.

Watching it brought up a question for me. Can a movie's score be iconic without the movie itself being iconic? I'm sure there are iconic movies that I wouldn't say have particularly amazing scores, but it seems like every iconic score also required an iconic movie.

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In reply to Lathspell • 1:47p, 9/8/22

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DallasTeleAg said:
Finally got around to watching this. I appreciated that they gave John Williams such a large section. I mean, you can enjoy others more, but I think it's an objective truth that no one has affected movie scores like John Williams.

Watching it brought up a question for me. Can a movie's score be iconic without the movie itself being iconic? I'm sure there are iconic movies that I wouldn't say have particularly amazing scores, but it seems like every iconic score also required an iconic movie.

I would nominate Transformers for being an iconic score on a not very great movie.

The Autobots Arrival theme in particular comes to mind.