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 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 12:30 PM   
 By:   scorechaser   (Member)

I love SIGNS , but my most favorite of all three has now become UNBREAKABKLE. I can´t explain it. It is very "silent" for most of the time, but somehow, this score grows on me. Especially of course REFLECTIONS OF ELIJAH is a beautiful score. And the theme is just breathtaking good.
Also you favorite cue by JNH for SHYAMALAN?

1. Malcolm is dead (SIXTH SENSE)
2. THE HANDS OF FATE PARTS 1 AND 2 (SIGNS)
3. REFLECTIONS OF ELIJAH (UNBREAKABLE)

Your turn!

Philipp

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 1:06 PM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

I didn't like the Signs score, but I enjoyed the music in both The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The "Visions" track from Unb. is a very good one, with those massive Enigma-like rhythms. This is actually the only track from these movies that I have.

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 2:27 PM   
 By:   Bjarte   (Member)

The Sixth Sence:
"Malcome is dead" is stunning, but I really like the piano motif in "Run to the Church to. The the score has some very creepy parts to like "Suicide Ghost". Can´t listen to the track alone in the dark. Afraid I would start to se ghosts...

Unbreakable
"Visions" are a very good track to. But "falling down" is my favorite. With "Blindsided" as a very good second.

Signs:
I think I like the complite soundtrack. Cause it bilding up all the way. The three note motif during the score is fantastic. High light is The Hand of Fate part I.


 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 2:46 PM   
 By:   Southall   (Member)

I thought Signs was a very poor album and The Sixth Sense worked much better in the film than away from it. But I like Unbreakable a lot (the score, not the film).

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 3:34 PM   
 By:   DaveBuzan   (Member)

UNBREAKABLE is both my favorite M. Night Shyamalan picture and my favorite JNH score.

"Visions," "Blindsided" and "Mr. Glass/End Title" are my favorite cues on the album.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 3:48 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Unbreakable
"Visions" are a very good track to. But "falling down" is my favorite.


Really? There's a track called "Falling Down"? That's gotta be an inside joke! big grin

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 6:27 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

A tie between UNBREAKABLE and SIGNS, both have so many great moments...

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 8:19 PM   
 By:   David Coscina   (Member)

UNBREAKABLE is both my favorite M. Night Shyamalan picture and my favorite JNH score.

"Visions," "Blindsided" and "Mr. Glass/End Title" are my favorite cues on the album.


Yeah, I agree. Both film and score have a resonance that the other two films, while still quite good, don't quite get. Unbreakable was so layered with metaphors, probably why half of the movie going public didn't "get it".

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 8:41 PM   
 By:   SheriffJoe   (Member)

I had a surreal and somewhat supernatural experience concerning THE SIXTH SENSE and 9/11. I woke up on 9/10 and was never more depressed in my entire life. I was near tears the entire day and ended up listening to THE SIXTH SENSE the entire day...non-stop. Did this add to my already heightened depression? I'm not sure. I only know that the next day...my feelings were a drop in the bucket compared to what really occurred.

Thus, THE SIXTH SENSE holds a rather strange, but powerful place in my heart. While I love SIGNS and like, despite the HORRIBLE sound, the UNBREAKABLE disc, Night's first MAJOR studio film is my favorite to date.

SheriffJoe

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2004 - 11:52 PM   
 By:   metaphor123   (Member)

I wasn't too impressed with TSS and Unbreakable scores - but JNH hit a home run with 'Signs'.

I am eagerly anticipating 'The Village', but I don't know what kind of score JNH will decide upon.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 2:44 AM   
 By:   DavidOC   (Member)

Joe, why were you so depressed? It must have been pretty bad.


I think all 3 are fantastic scores and so different too in many ways. But each of them serves their film perfectly and have great replay value on CD. Signs is brilliant, though perhaps a little repetitive on disc, but there are many wonderful, subtle themes in Unbreakable and despite the fact that it possesses few BIG orchestral moments, it manages to be addictive listening. There's something almost hypnotic about it.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 7:35 AM   
 By:   John B. Archibald   (Member)

I had a surreal and somewhat supernatural experience concerning THE SIXTH SENSE and 9/11. I woke up on 9/10 and was never more depressed in my entire life. I was near tears the entire day and ended up listening to THE SIXTH SENSE the entire day...non-stop. Did this add to my already heightened depression? I'm not sure. I only know that the next day...my feelings were a drop in the bucket compared to what really occurred.


I had a sort of similar experience with Howard's score for SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, which is love. I still associate the TV footage of the WTC falling with the sequence involving the Japanese being deported beneath a waving American flag.

Do you want to do coffee sometime? I live probably near you, right here in San Diego.


Thus, THE SIXTH SENSE holds a rather strange, but powerful place in my heart. While I love SIGNS and like, despite the HORRIBLE sound, the UNBREAKABLE disc, Night's first MAJOR studio film is my favorite to date.

SheriffJoe

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 7:37 AM   
 By:   John B. Archibald   (Member)

Is JNH scoring the new Shyamalan film, THE WOODS?

I saw a preview for it, with narration by a voice that sounded like William Hurt, with the screening I went to of PETER PAN, which, by the way, I enjoyed very much, ditto the JNH score.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 9:55 AM   
 By:   Timmer   (Member)

I believe it's been retitled The Village John.

I prefer The Woods!

 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 2:47 PM   
 By:   scorechaser   (Member)

Me too, because THE WOODS is what the story is actually about. I am looking very much forward to it, and of course to James Newton Howard´s hopefully great score.

 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 6:46 PM   
 By:   WesllDeckers   (Member)

I was pretty much blown away by the Signs main titles! I love that the titles were actually made just for the sake of the music.
Best piece of music Howard has evver penned, IMHO.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2004 - 7:39 PM   
 By:   David Coscina   (Member)

I was pretty much blown away by the Signs main titles! I love that the titles were actually made just for the sake of the music.
Best piece of music Howard has evver penned, IMHO.


Yes, that music was quite amazing. What I also find awesome is Howard's writing in SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. Just listen to "Tarawa" and "Humanity Goes on Trial". Really amazing music from JNH. I rented the film last weekend and it's a small, quiet film but Howard scored it with so much verve and vigor. I'm glad to see that this credo didn't die out with Williams and Goldsmith.

 
 Posted:   Aug 4, 2018 - 5:58 AM   
 By:   davefg   (Member)

With the Shyamalan / JNH partnership all but finished, what is your ranking of the JNH scores for the Shyamalan films? I offer:
The Villiage *****
Unbreakable *****
Signs *****
Lady in Water *****
The Last Airbender *****
The Sixth Sense ****
After Earth ***
The Happening ***

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 4, 2018 - 10:04 AM   
 By:   SoldierofFortune   (Member)

Hardly, very hardly this one, but... I going with Unbreakeable

The most listened score in the partnership

 
 Posted:   Aug 4, 2018 - 5:34 PM   
 By:   Adm Naismith   (Member)

Unbreakable

 
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