Useless trivia knowledge: James Horner's memorable Aliens score was APED from...

[The Fake Shemp]

... from his own work on this underrated, dark Disney gem.  I am watching Aliens, shortly after watching Something Wicked This Way Comes and realized that Horner took a lot of his experimental cues from his work on the Ray Bradbury adaptation and composed them into his Aliens score.

I also want to recommend Something Wicked This Way Comes - not only did Ray Bradbury write the screenplay, so his written work wasn't shat on, it's an incredibly fun movie to play around Halloween (or any time, as I show!).  Johnathan Pryce plays one of my favorite movie villains of all-time in this movie (the part where he is tearing out pages of a book and taunting Jason Robards' character with his own mortality is fantastic!) and it even throws in a hot Pam Grier for good measure.  The movie is terribly adult at times for a Disney production.

[Boogie]

James Horner is a lazy-ass composer who rips music straight from his previous scores?

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.

[The Fake Shemp]

 

He's pulled a Danny Elfman and regurgitated a similar sound on many of his scores, but here is evidence of lifting whole cues!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

now see if you can identify the other five movies where Horner used those cues

[The Fake Shemp]

Before or after Aliens?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I can name at least two pre-Aliens off the top of my head (Krull, Star Trek)

Horner is a hack

[The Fake Shemp]

I've never seen Krull, but I've heard his Trek work and it's not nearly as blatant as the cues lifted from Something Wicked This Way Comes.  I'm not a big Horner fan (I don't even own any of his scores), but his work on Aliens is certainly memorable.  Apparently, though, not as creative as I thought.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I dunno, Horner is pretty legendary in film score circles for only having written one original score in the past 10 years. Everything else is lifted whole cloth from his previous works. There's no composer more reviled for "self-plagiarism."

[The Fake Shemp]

Not even Zimmer?  Didn't Horner also do the score for The Rocketeer?  That was pretty good too.

[TVC15]

Is that the movie where Dianne Ladd shows her titties?

[The Fake Shemp]

I don't think so, dude.  It was still a Disney movie.  I found my favorite scene from the movie, though!

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[Eric P]

I've never seen Krull,

don't

it's one of those times where the marvel comics magazine adaptation is better than the source