[Malte Müller]

Also often he seemed to give away his best themes for low profile projects.

Well, Goldsmith is the king of good score for not so good moves, isn’t he?

Yes, on some of his 80s synth score it sounds a bit cheap. At least nowdays. I think I read somewhere that he basically always used factory sounds and perhaps that is a bit too “plain”. Although other 80s score often suffer from the same.

I don’t like to use the term “dated” because every music is a child of its time. I think it primarily affects his scores from the mid-80s on. UNDER FIRE, LEGEND or GREMLINS find less problematic. I find RUNAWAY exspecially weird. I like it but I always felt it is actually written for orchestra and not really for synths.