Top Five Film Composers

Composers play a very important part when it comes to the film making process. They are the ones who write the scores to play throughout the run time of the film. Composers watch the film to see what kind of score they want to write for the film, whether it be melancholy, inspiring, epic, or happy. These people are what make a movie more engaging, and these are the five that are best at it.

Remember this is my own opinion, if there is a composer that you thought should have been on here comment down below!!!!! Please Like and Share with your friends as well took me a long while to do this one hope you all enjoy!!!!!!!!

5. John Williams  
                               
                             

 John Williams is without a doubt one of the best if not the best working composer we have today, writing iconic scores to such films like: the Star Wars franchise, the Indiana Jones franchise, ET, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, three Harry Potter movies, Superman, and the list goes on and on. Williams has been working for sixty plus years and has garnered fifty Oscar nominations, winning five, fifteen BAFTA nominations, winning seven, twenty-five Golden Globes, winning four, and has been nominated for sixty-seven Grammy's. Despite him having all of this acclaim I feel as if his last few years of scoring films haven't been the best, but nevertheless are great. In my opinion there are four composers that I have come to like over the past few years, and in some respects I feel as if my other four composers over Williams are better than him, but he is a fantastic composer and his scores will long be remembered after he is gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0ZQPqeJkk < Star Wars Main Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLZJaAm2hw < Indiana Jones Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9QTSyLwd4w < Jaws Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-pEhrJsCw  < Harry Potter Leaving Hogwarts 

4. Ennio Morricone
                                 

 Ennio Morricone is perhaps the most influential film composers ever, having made the scores for movies like: A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few dollars more, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once upon a Time in America and just recently The Hateful Eight. Morricone has over five hundred credited movies dating all the way back to 1960, out of the all the composers on this list he has been working the longest and his work is still aspiring people today. Even though Morricone has been working as long as he has he only has two Oscars and only one of those two is a win for best original score, the other is an honorary Oscar. His works will long be remembered after he is gone. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4 < The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Main Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5Xczethmw < Once Upon a Time in America Theme 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuyYc0gINbU < Once Upon a Time in America Deborah Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qkHwszVUc < The Surrender 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMKYAqxiZBM < Rabbia E Tarantella 

3. Thomas Newman 

                           

Thomas Newman is a man, who has composed some of the greatest movie soundtracks ever made. Newman has over one-hundred composer credits to his name, which includes: The Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Finding Nemo, Cinderella Man, Wall-E, Skyfall, Spectre, Passengers, and the most famous of all The Shawshank Redemption. Thomas Newman has no Oscar wins despite being one of best composers working today, he is currently sixty-one and has two upcoming scores he's composing. Thomas Newman is a composer whose scores has the power to inspire film fans and people in general he is simply one of the best and greatest composers. I hope Thomas Newman's scores will be remembered by film fans long after he is gone. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUXKiOm0Ps < The Shawshank Redemption So Was Red and End Credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoa9Y1DGzYQ < Skyfall Tennyson 

2. Hans Zimmer 

                                     

 Hans Zimmer slowly but surely became one of my favorite composers working today, not only has he done the score for The Lion King but has also done the scores for: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Gladiator, Interstellar, The Last Samurai, 12 Years a Slave, Pirates of the Caribbean 2-4, Rain Man, the Sherlock Holmes movies, The Amazing Spider-man 2, Batman V. Superman, and so many more. Zimmer has one Oscar for his score for The Lion King, two Golden Globes, and four Grammy's, Zimmer is regarded as one of the best composers behind John Williams, but in my opinion he is better than John Williams. He has made some of my favorite scores to some of my favorite movies ever, for long while there he was my favorite composer and made some very moving scores that made me think. But sadly he was dethroned as my favorite composer, his scores are some of the best ever the more people listen to his music the more recognition he'll get as one of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbD0MqeNqY < The Dark Knight Trilogy Main Themes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db21NA71gTg < Inception Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHPTPUpQ1I  < Gladiator End Songs 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngKxF3Cqh4 < Man of Steel Theme 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tp3cEwUqME < Batman V Superman Batman Theme

1. James Horner 

  

James Horner was one of the best composers ever and in my opinion was the best and the most underrated composer ever, who composed movies for Aliens, Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn, Star Trek III The Search for Spock, Glory, Field of Dreams, An American Tail and Fievel goes Back, The Rocketeer, Casper, Jumanji, Balto, Mighty Joe Young, The Mask of Zorro and Legend of Zorro, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, Avatar, and his final three scores were Southpaw, The 33, and The Magnificent Seven. James Horner composed some of my favorite movies ever and his music inspired me so much, every piece of music he's ever written moves me so much from his epic score in Braveheart to Apollo 13 to Glory to more recently The Magnificent Seven. Horner was taken too early from us in a plane crash that happened in July of 2015, I remember where I was when I heard he died. His magnificent score in Braveheart made me realize how much I love music and how it can affect a person, Horner will be long remembered from his works he was truly one of the best and is my favorite composer ever. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkLrnI7SsVY < Braveheart  'Freedom' The Excecution Bannoburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fra-m7RNMrU < Apollo 13 The Launch All Systems Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wz1xA5kxVI < Titanic Hymn to the Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBszwBjbaXw < The Magnificent Seven 2016 Theme 

                                               That's all Folks 

 Comment Down below which one's you think I missed!!!!

Why I think a remake of The Fugitive(1993) is a bad idea!!!!

I know this is a few days late, but here are my thoughts on Warner Brothers remaking The Fugitive(1993). So it was announced this week on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, that Warner Brothers has decided to remake the remake of the original Fugitive Television show from the 60's and the remake was in 1993. Here are three reasons why I think this is a bad idea. Reason number one, the original remake was brilliant, I mean if people go back and re-watch it and see how brilliant and awesome The Fugitive(1993) they will realize this is a movie that can not be re-made.

Reason two, the performances, the two main performances by Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones are brilliant. Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble a man who is convicted of killing his wife, but he is the only one who knows that he is innocent and he is the only one who knows who killed his wife, the one armed man. He gives a brilliant performance as Richard Kimble and I can not see anyone else in this role but Harrison Ford. Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard, the man who is hunting Kimble, and he does not care if Kimble did not kill his wife or not. Jones gives an equally brilliant performance as Gerard, and even won him an Oscar for this role, they play off of each other brilliantly and I once again say there are no other two actors who could not play these characters any better.

                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ11Ws3tqP0

And a third and final reason, the chemistry, the chemistry between Ford and Jones and all the other different people they come across can not be recreated in a remake and the same chemistry that was in this movie would not be in the newer remake I feel like. Ford's back and forth with Jones and everyone else he meets and vice versa for Jones was spot on in the original remake and I feel like as much as they try to recreate this chemistry they can not. I still feel like there could be hope for this movie, but it will not be able to re-create the same product as the original and plus we kinda already got a rip-off of the film this year in the form of Taken 3. I never saw Taken 3, but I have heard that it was terrible copy of The Fugitive. But, other than that this movie is a terrible idea and The original Fugitive remake is great movie and people should not watch the new remake and instead watch the original remake which is far superior in every way.

         

               

               Anyways have an awesome night and an awesome Sunday tomorrow

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About Me

My name is Will Hall, I live in Brownsburg, Indiana, I have a dog and two goats, I am also a film nerd, I love talking about movies, video games, books and life. I am a Christian. I love my friends and family.

I got started collecting Blu-rays in 2011. My main inspirations for wanting to talk about film are Chris Stuckmann, Jeremy Jahns, The Flick Pick, Beyond The Trailer, AMC Movie Talk, and last but not least Schmoes Know, all of these guys have inspired me so much to be a film critic. 

Some of my favorite movies: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Braveheart, Gladiator, star wars(original trilogy), and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.