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Jerry Goldsmith said that he was totally bored with "Outland." He just couldn't connect emotionally with it.
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May 23, 2013 - 8:58 PM
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Michael24
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Now while I don't remember reading that Goldsmith came out and said he hated the movie, I do remember reading how he hated how he was treated by Sommers, the director while working on the film. Goldsmith stated he was holed up in a hotel somewhere while composing the score and Sommers was not very communicative while working with him.
I recall reading somewhere that before playing a suite of Mummy music at a concert once, Goldsmith introduced it by saying it was music from "a really crappy movie," or something like that. I always wondered why he spoke so negatively about it, considering he scored movies that were far, far worse. It must have resulted in some bad blood, because on the commentary neither Stephen Sommers nor the producer even mention the score at all until near the very end, when one of them simply says, "This is beautiful music." (While on The Mummy Returns, they speak positively about Silvestri's score a handful of times.)
It's funny to learn about such things. You hear a wonderful score and so just naturally assume that the composer liked the film and was obviously inspired enough to create such a great score. So it's always interesting to find out things like this.
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Goldsmith said something down the lines of
'That was a stupid movie' (about 'The Mummy')
It was at a concert at The Barbican in London.
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John Barry was seemingly not that big a fan of the Bond films after the first few.
In fact, in a 1971 interview, he sounded practically fed up with them.
That said, his views at the time may have been coloured by the strained relations with Harry Saltzman. His relationship with Cubby was obviously much better and Barry did seemingly like working for Cubby.
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I remember Jerry Goldsmith's 1989 concert at the Barbican, which was broadcast live on the radio.
JG: "Who here is a Star Trek fan?"
Crowd cheers
JG: "Well, I'm not one."
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>>>>>>> JG: "Well, I'm not one." >>>>>>>>
So Goldsmith and Abrams have something in common! 
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If you were Goldsmith, you created a better film in your mind that should have been and scored that, making the corpse look much better. He was always the master of finding his own creative challenge in just about any assignment.
Of course, you could always follow John Williams reported reaction to the finished film of Michael Winner's THE SENTINEL--"I'm not doing this--sue me."
God, I caught most of HANOVER STREET on a local station with my senior caregiving client yesterday, and I can't imagine what went through John Barry's mind being face with that. All I can say is he sure didn't rise to the challenge, as it was an even more lugubrious effort than usual from Barry. Even the cues for the action scenes (such as they were) were totally ineffective at getting any energy going.
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God, I caught most of HANOVER STREET on a local station with my senior caregiving client yesterday, and I can't imagine what went through John Barry's mind being face with that. All I can say is he sure didn't rise to the challenge, as it was an even more lugubrious effort than usual from Barry. Even the cues for the action scenes (such as they were) were totally ineffective at getting any energy going.
WWII, B-25s, Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, John Barry. And I HATED that movie!
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