Reply To: Composers that you disliked, but now like?
That’s interesting, Alan, because I prefer 90s Horner over the early stuff.
The composer that has had the biggest turnaround for me is, I think, Mark Isham. Another one I severely disliked in the 90s. I found him to be a one-trick pony, always inserting those trumpet and jazz licks in everything, regardless of film genre. And I didn’t like those slow, synth-infused things since I was all about the bombastic and upbeat.
Well, times and preferences change. With CRASH (2004), I had a complete 180 on Isham. Blew me away, and I consider it one of the ten best synth scores ever written. This led me to re-explore works I had inititally dismissed, loved what I heard and now I’m quite the fan, with a considerable digital collection.