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I actually thought Howard's Wayne Family string theme was one of the strongest aspects of the music from the whole franchise. I missed it in the final installment.
I don't think Zimmer "ruined" Howard. Given how films are more product than art, I'm not surprised but the general lack of excitement in scores. Composers are being forced into more insane deadlines, temp tracks, focus groups, etc. I think it was clear that JN Howard's score integrity for the Shyamalan films was uniformly excellent because, like him or not, Night was the biggest and most constant voice in their collaboration. When you have execs (aka tone deaf IQ deficient money whores) calling the shots, it's disruptive to the creative process. Given that all these composers work in relative solitude, it's not terrific when multiple bodies in the film process pull them this way and that way.
I enjoy all of Howard's music for M Night's films. The Happening has some truly amazing moments in it. I'm looking forward to this with the hope that the composer is given the latitude by the director that is seldom afforded to many working professionals in the industry these days for the reasons listed above.
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AE is absolutely a return to form for JNH. 
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Personally, I find Shyamalan to be an excellent director and writer. I have enjoyed every one of his films except The Last Airbender. As to puting himself in his films, i always thought it was a homage to Hitchcock. I also find Shyamalan in some curious way is akin to Kubrick in the way he handles plot narrative and dialogue.
JNH's music on the other hand I found a revelation for Shyamalan's films but outside of those it left me for dead - apart from Waterworld and The Postman.
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Personally, I find Shyamalan to be an excellent director and writer. I have enjoyed every one of his films except The Last Airbender. As to puting himself in his films, i always thought it was a homage to Hitchcock. I also find Shyamalan in some curious way is akin to Kubrick in the way he handles plot narrative and dialogue.
JNH's music on the other hand I found a revelation for Shyamalan's films but outside of those it left me for dead - apart from Waterworld and The Postman.
Hitchcock didn't put himself in roles that were central to the film's plot.
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AE is absolutely a return to form for JNH.
about time after 10 years of producing garbage and ripping himself off.
Garbage to YOU and YOUR taste, but possible GOLD to others who really enjoy his work.
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about time after 10 years of producing garbage and ripping himself off.
Wait, so The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, I Am Legend, King Kong, and Water Horse are...garbage??
Lady in the water, the Happening and I am Legend is just some inferior variation of The Village, Dreamcatcher and The Devil's Advocate.
King Kong is a rush job.
Water Horse ... it's so inferior to his earlier, similar works (Dinosaur, Waterworld, Verticle Limit, Atlantis, etc.) that I can't listen to it for ten minutes without reaching for my Dinosaur CD.
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