First off, I'm not even going to touch whatever MoonWoman said. She/he/it (it's a painting!) is not worth it.
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Originally Posted by almacg
As for Williams stealing, rather than writing him off because a few bars of his work sound like the end of Mars, you'd do better to actually listen to his work. The Star Wars soundtracks are possibly the best films soundtracks ever scored (although I'm sure there are some equally amazing scores from bygone eras). Of course it's influenced by other works... isn't every single piece ever written except the first piece of music ever?
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I do agree with the last statement. There is no such thing as "first ever." It always came out of something before it.
Disclaimer: THIS IS AN OPINION!!!
I have listened to his score, almost the entire score from the Star Wars series. I write him off because he is ridiculiously unoriginal. Everything he writes was written before. Personally, the scores of Hermann and Alfred Newman are much richer and have more depth than Williams. Even Miklos Roszca (sp?) did more interesting stuff. A good composer takes something else and reworks it to make it sound new and fresh even though it may be the same thing, just in a different lens. Williams did not do this. He just copied the score from Mars, put it in 4/4 and got his check in the mail. Lucas should just have bought a CD of the LSO playing the Planets and used that. He would have saved a heck of a lot of money and 98% of movie-goers wouldn't have known the difference.
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Originally Posted by spherenine
Doesn't that make Holst and Mahler suck, too?
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No. As said above, Williams was not original.