[Nick Zwar]

I like James Newton Howard a lot… UNBREAKABLE was a fantastic score… I remember FSM called it “part Arvo Pärt meets hiphop, and part Miklós Rózsa meets Danny Elfman”, which made me buy that score… well, that was a few decades ago. I don’t have FLATLINERS, so I might get it, sure sounds interesting. I’ve seen the movie way back when it came out (I watched a lot of movies back then), but didn’t think it was all that good, so I don’t remember the music.

James Newton Howard, on the other hand, is an excellent composer. I was at a concert he gave some years ago, and not only did I enjoy the music, it was quite interesting that Howard a few times turned from the conductor’s podium and told little anecdotes and background stories about the music he selected. He sure came across as a very likeable person.