TMP Score

[dub]

Just sitting here working and listening to the TMP score. While I love all of the scores, and I might even have different favorites at different times, this score is just a brilliant masterpiece and truly stands apart from the rest. It's just so carefully honoring of the content and everything just weaves together in such an organic way. While other scores in this franchise are fun and epic, and awesome (don't get me wrong), none embody the heart of the series as completely and with as much stunning detail.

 

[Iamnotspock]

It may be my favourite film score. Just brilliant from start to finish.

 

[Albertese]

Yeah, top rank in my book also. Maybe not best of all film scores ever, but certainly up there, and for my money best of the Treks.

And yes, every time I watch the movie on DVD, I do sit through and listen to the Overture.

--Alex

 

[Green Shirt]

Putting a dollar value on artistic achievement is dicey at best, but anybody know how much Goldsmith was paid for his work on the score?

 

[martok2112]

My two favorite Goldsmith scores in Trek.... TMP and Nemesis.

 

[HIjol]

Putting a dollar value on artistic achievement is dicey at best, but anybody know how much Goldsmith was paid for his work on the score?

In 2012' the "Going Rate" for a Big Budget Feature was 400K for Music Budget (composer keeps what she or he does not spend) and a 200-400K Composers Fee

Source: Getting the Best Score For Your Film by David Bell

(David Bell (born April 17, 1954) is an American composer, known for his music for television shows. From 1984 to 1991 he contributed music to 79 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, 5 episodes of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", followed by 66 episodes of Star Trek shows from 1994 to 2003. In 2002 he won the ASCAP Award (Top TV Series) for Enterprise, shared with the series' other regular composers.)

Source: Wikipedia.

My two favorite Goldsmith scores in Trek.... TMP and Nemesis.

Agreed! He was among few Peers!

 

[SevrinThree]

As a HUGE Motion Picture booster, I have to heartily agree. The score is magnificent. I just got the 3-disc limited edition soundtrack and highly recommend. It sounds incredible, has the COMPLETE score, in the correct order, and has TONS of alternate versions that Goldsmith ended up scrapping and re-writing. Super cool stuff.

 

[arch101]

My complete TMP score resides in my classical collection, with Holst, Wagner, Sibelius, Richard Rogers and others, not in my film score collection.

 

[Procutus]

I really can't add anything to what's been said above. TMP is not only my favorite Trek movie, but the score really does stand head and shoulders above the rest. While I know that a lot of folks have criticized the lengthy inspection tour of the Enterprise at the beginning, the way the music swells as we face the ship head-on was just brilliant, IMO.

 

[dub]

For me, it's not a movie that lends itself to rewatches. I have to really be in the mood. But I can't imagine what it must have been like in the theater. Must have been awesome. I can't imagine any fan after their initial watch complaining about the long reunion scene with Kirk and his Enterprise. After a rewatch or two? Or after YEARS of rewatches? Sure, I can see the complaints about length of scenes and pacing. While there are plenty of slow scenes for me in the film, I will never grow tired of Kirk approaching the Enterprise, from the moment Scotty starts the ride until the pod meets the ship. It's beautiful and breathtaking. The actors, especially William Shatner in that scene. Brilliant. The ship - wow! Still the best Enterprise for me. And the music. I can't say enough.

 

[FormerLurker]

I got to see it a week or so after my fourteenth birthday, as I recall. Both times Enterprise went to warp successfully, I giggled like a schoolgirl. One of my schoolmates was there, and after we got back to school, he never made mention of my Trek fandom disparagingly again.

 

[drt]

For me, it's not a movie that lends itself to rewatches. I have to really be in the mood. But I can't imagine what it must have been like in the theater. Must have been awesome. I can't imagine any fan after their initial watch complaining about the long reunion scene with Kirk and his Enterprise. After a rewatch or two? Or after YEARS of rewatches? Sure, I can see the complaints about length of scenes and pacing.

Heh, on one occasion during the initial release, I sat in the theater for seven hours and watched it three times in a row.

With regard to the pacing, it probably didn't help that for twenty years the only home-viewing option was the super-extended version.

 

[Procutus]

Still the best Enterprise for me.

Yeah. Same for me as well.

 

[RandyS]

For me, it's not a movie that lends itself to rewatches. I have to really be in the mood. But I can't imagine what it must have been like in the theater. Must have been awesome. I can't imagine any fan after their initial watch complaining about the long reunion scene with Kirk and his Enterprise. After a rewatch or two? Or after YEARS of rewatches? Sure, I can see the complaints about length of scenes and pacing.

Heh, on one occasion during the initial release, I sat in the theater for seven hours and watched it three times in a row.

Something you'd NEVER get away with today.

I remember doing that too, but in my case it was the first Star Wars two years earlier. I was with my cousin.