HP Movie Score (was: Academy Awards)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Zorb17 at a... wrote:
>  
> > I was actually rooting for HP *not* to win for best score. 
> > The music was  overbearing, and that repeated theme got annoying, 
> 
> John Williams' stuff all sounds the same to me; by this point in
> his career, he could turn over the whole scoring job to some intern 
> with copies of his previous work.

There was more wrong with the score of HP&SS than being copied from 
Williams's previous work. I can't recall ever having HATED a Williams 
score before (it's true that I don't go to many movies, but I sure 
did go to the first Star Wars many times the year it came out), and I 
absolutely LOATHED the HP&SS score. I covered my ears with my hands 
and winced in pain several times during the movie! The two things I 
found *most* disgusting were that 'celestial voices' or 'angelic 
choir' thing that played for Harry's first sight of magic, first 
sight of Hogwarts Castle, and something else. THAT sound effect is 
cheesy enough when used for predestined soulmates's first kiss, and 
there is NO EXCUSE for using it anywhere else!, and that Grand 
Triumphant (pompous, grandiose, too damn loud) Upswell as the 
Hogwarts Express headed back to Muggledom. Leaving school for summer 
break is not exactly the same emotional color as defeating an Evil 
Empire or even winning an Olympic Gold Medal, and should not have the 
same music. Yuck.