Ben wrote: ↑November 14th, 2020, 8:24 am
(Uncle Buck and Curly Sue were both directed by Hughes after She's Having A Baby, BTW...)
(checks IMDB)
...Huh. Thought those were his Howard Deutsch films.
(Just like Chris Columbus won the "Direct a John Hughes comedy" look-alike contest with "Adventures in Babysitting", and won the chance to direct the Home Alone movies.)
Hughes did go back to screenwriting the "Beethoven" St. Bernard comedies in the 90's under the screen name "Edmond Dantes".
Heheh, cute, John, see what ya did there, hehehhh...
droosan wrote: ↑November 14th, 2020, 12:39 pm
But (also IMO) John Williams' score for
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is superior to his score for the first one .. lusher overall, and with many wonderful variations to his
"Somewhere in My Memory" theme. It definitely ranks among my favorite of Mr. Williams' film scores.
Both Alones did not DESERVE scores as good as John Williams gave them, and, from the sounds of them, he seems to have taken them as a fun composer exercise in Whimsical Atmospheric Christmas music.
As to whether HA2's "
Merry Christmas" is a better atmospheric Williams Christmas song than the first Alone theme or "Somewhere", I leave that question unresolved.
