Reply To: Alan Silvestri
It would be easy to now list a lot of favorites, but I choose two that I especially love:
JUDGE DREAD and MOUSE HUNT.
JUDGE DREAD is a varied, rich action score with muscular themes, suspense cues, and just an all out tour de force… Silvestri here steps into Goldsmith/Poledouris territory, and he keeps up with them. I was surprised how much I enjoy the score, given that I didn’t care all that much for the movie iteelf. It’s become one of my favorites.
And MOUSE HUNT is just a delight, like Peter and The Wolf as a film score. The theme is infectious, and the music is in such wonderful spirit, as if a modern composer scores a classic keystone cops/Laurel&Hardy movie, which is basically what it was.
Those two are definitely favorites of mine.
I’m right now listening to the new PLAY DIRTY score, which is off to a promising start.