Goffe Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) I have been listening to the scores for one week now, and I felt like creating a thread. Here is my ranking: 1. POA: most amount of memorable cues. 100/100 Buckbeak's Flight A Window to The Past Double Trouble 2. SS: the best themes, by a mile. 95/100 Hedwig's Theme/Prologue Leaving Hogwarts Mr. Longbottom Flies 3. HBP: the only one to successfully mix the sense of impending doom (latter characteristic of the films) and magic (former characteristic of the films) 95/100 Journey To The Cave The Friends Opening 4. GOF: the most all-around great score. 90/100 Harry In Winter The Goblet Of Fire The Story Continues 5. COS: a weaker effort by Williams, but still pretty good. 85/100 The Chamber of Secrets Fawkes is Reborn/Fawkes The Phoenix Meeting Tom Riddle 5. DH2: a second-tier POA, its few good cues, are really motherfucking good. 80/100 Courtyard Apocalypse/Statues Neville The Hero Dragon Flight 6. DH1: Super blah score, it has no theme identity, the filler is way too similar to what it is supposed to be the pillars of a score. With that said, bland Desplat is still superior to most composers today. 75/100 Snape to Malfoy Manor Obliviate My Love Is Always There 7. OOTP: no strong themes, no strong filler, most of its good cues are good because Hooper rearranged Williams themes. 70/100 Flight of the Order of the Phoenix A Journey to Hogwarts The Sacking of Trelawney Edited July 5, 2015 by Goffe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 PoA = GoF > PS > CoS (Fawkes theme ftw) > DH1 > DH2 > HBP > OotP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 DH2 PoA SS DH1 GOF COS HBP OOTP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 PoA = GoF CoS DH2 SS OotP HBP DH1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) oh shit, I forgot COS I would place it between GOF and DH2, Fawkes theme is pretty great, but it isn't even the best theme in the score, let alone all material that Williams created for the series. Edited July 5, 2015 by Goffe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 surprised that ddddeeee put DH scores so low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 surprised that ddddeeee put DH scores so low. The drama is spot-on but the action music is limp. Why hire Desplat just to make him sound like Zimmer? No thanks. Sky Battle is better than any action cue in DH2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 The drama is spot-on but the action music is limp. Why hire Desplat just to make him sound like Zimmer? No thanks. Sky Battle is better than any action cue in DH2. the first 40 seconds of Skybattle is amazing, eeh for the rest. Fireplaces Escape is a better action cue in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 The drama is spot-on but the action music is limp. Why hire Desplat just to make him sound like Zimmer? No thanks. Sky Battle is better than any action cue in DH2. Courtyard Apocalypse, Statues, and Panic Inside Hogwarts are AMAZING action cues! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Courtyard Apocalypse, Statues, and Panic Inside Hogwarts are AMAZING action cues! The first two are the two most generic cues Desplat has written. No doubt someone was breathing down his neck telling him what to do. That simple and generic progression is the complete opposite of what Desplat normally writes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) Courtyard Apocalypse, Statues, and Panic Inside Hogwarts are AMAZING action cues!Panic Inside Hogwarts almost made my top 3, pretty great cue. Statues theme is easily DH2 highlight, the theme and its variations also happens to play in the best scenes of the film. Edited July 7, 2015 by Goffe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 The first two are the two most generic cues Desplat has written. No doubt someone was breathing down his neck telling him what to do. That simple and generic progression is the complete opposite of what Desplat normally writes. Goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 The first two are the two most generic cues Desplat has written. No doubt someone was breathing down his neck telling him what to do. That simple and generic progression is the complete opposite of what Desplat normally writes. Wrong, he has written far more generic stuff for scores like Syriana, The Upside of Anger, Julie & Julia and Argo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 POA GOF SS DHP2 COS HBP DHP1 OTTP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumos Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 PS POA COS GOF DH1 DH2 HBP OotP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
