[Thor Joachim Haga]

One thing worth highlighting regarding Goldsmith is, that he was great with sequel scores. Like John Williams. That was in my view for example a weakness of James Horner. When he created a sequel score to one of his own works the score was mostly more of the same. Only exception that I know of might be CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. But Jerry Goldsmith usually managed to really create something new with each iteration. See THE OMEN, FIRST BLOOD, POLTERGEIST.

I don’t know if he was better or worse at sequels than other composers. But yeah, he often did well. I far prefer GREMLINS 2 to the first one, for example. And THE FINAL CONFLICT speaks for itself.