Real Name:  Gavin

Age:  21

Location:  Cork, Ireland

Married?  are you?

What's interesting about me:  I play piano, almost totally by ear and without discipline (which is a blessing aswell as a hindrance). love filmmusic becasue of its versatility in style, and all that. film music can literally be anything musically, and it expands my tastes into different genres, namely classical, then jazz, and ambient music. Though its really irritating when people ask me my fave kind of music, i tell them, then they just don't care. Cant blame them though, it is boring to talk about if you dont listen to it.

Favorite composers/artists:  Williams, Goldsmith are at the top. James newton Howard comes next, but he is starting to bore me with his recent material. i love Bruce Broughton for his upbeat material and westerns. one of my utmost favourites though is Joe Hisaishi from Japan. His music, mostly for japanimation, never ceases to move and entertain me, and i have a love for asian music in general. other composers i like are Basil Poledouris, Christopher Young. Im starting to be increasingly impressed by Dario Marianelli and Alexandre Desplat, ones to look out for.

Favorite soundtrack(s):  officially, they are mostly scores by Williams. The Star Wars Saga is the very best, followed by A.I., E.T., Close Encounters. Followed by Dances With Wolves, Braveheart and The Thin Red Line (fave historical period filmscores).

Why I like Movie Music:  It's alright, i guess. Some good tunes and stuff...

Additional Comments:  my opinions on filmmusic have changed a great deal over the past years and are still changing. I dont agree with a number of my reviews as much as i used to, expecially the really old ones and am trying to update them one by one. One thing worth noting to those that have read all of the above, i am more coherent in person.....probably, well no, not really. I do mumble every now and again when i get bored, so its a good thing that to you, i exist purely as just words on a webpage.

Profile last updated on:  8/11/2008 11:39:52 AM (Mountain Time)

Comments & Reviews by pianoman
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
Air Force One
Alexander
Alive
American History X
American Journey
Angela's Ashes
Angels in America (TV)
Around the World in 80 Days
Atlantis The Lost Empire
The Avengers (score)
Basic Instinct
Batman Begins
Bless The Child
The Boy Who Could Fly
Braveheart
Broken Arrow
The Brothers Grimm
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (remastered)
Chain Reaction
Chicken Little
Cinderella Man
City of Angels
City Slickers II
Cliffhanger
Constantine
Contact
Copycat
Crash (score)
Dances With Wolves
Dark City
The Dark Crystal
The Da Vinci Code
The Day After Tomorrow
Devil's Advocate
Dinosaur
Doom
Dragonfly
Dreamer
The Edge
Edward Scissorhands
The Empire Strikes Back - Deluxe Edition
Enemy at the Gates
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (remastered)
Evolution
Fantastic Four (score)
Far and Away
Final Fantasy The Spirits Within
Flightplan
Forrest Gump (score)
Galaxy Quest
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hellboy
A History of Violence
Hollow Man
Home Alone
Hook
Hoosiers (Best Shot)
Incognito
Independence Day
The Interpreter
I, Robot
Jurassic Park
K-PAX
Lady in the Water
Last of the Dogmen
The Last of the Mohicans
Lawnmower Man 2 Beyond Cyberspace
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Legend of Zorro
The Matrix Revolutions
Memoirs of a Geisha
Michael Collins
Minority Report
Miracle on 34th Street (score)
Mouse Hunt
The Musketeer
Nell
The New World
North
The Omen - Deluxe Edition
The Patriot
Predator
Presumed Innocent
Princess Mononoke
The River Wild
Roughing It
Rudy
Sahara (score)
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
Silverado
Sleepers
Sphere
Spirited Away
Stargate
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace (expanded)
Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
Star Wars - Shadows of the Empire
Stepmom
SWAT
The Terminal
The Thin Red Line
The 13th Warrior
Timeline (unused score) (SACD)
Total Recall (expanded)
Treasure Planet
True Women (TV)
Valiant
Van Helsing
The Village
War of the Worlds
Waterworld
Wyatt Earp
X-Men 2 (X2)
X-Men The Last Stand (X3)

Compilation Comments & Reviews by pianoman
John Williams - Greatest Hits 1969-1999
The Ring / The Ring Two