re: Is Superman (1978) still the gold standard for how to do opening credits...

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The legendary score provided by John Williams just makes it.

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That can be said about a lot of movies. Williams is awesome.

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I was watching that Movies that Made Us series on Netflix and learned that John Williams wasn't the original pick to do the score for Home Alone. It was supposed to be Bruce Broughton but he got caught up doing The Rescuers Down Under and had to drop out. WHie trying to figure out who they could replace him with they made a joke about getting John Williams but never thought it could happen b/c the movie was so low budget. But since Columbus was friends with Spielberg they got a screening set up, Williams loved the movie, and then he turned in one of the most iconic Christmas scores ever made. Even though Broughton is a solid composer in his own right I don't have any idea how Home Alone would be anywhere near as good without Williams doing the score.