@ProfoundSilence Seems like the composer had a lot of fun making all those sounds and stuff, yea, but that's that as far as I'm concerned.
@davidson I don't care as much the riffs being similar to something else, they are just not exciting per se.
But that applies for the majority of stuff. I find like 95% of metal rather boring and frankly quite daft, yet there is some metal stuff that's fricking great. The old-school composers have the advantage that when their ideas are generic, they at least can do funny, interesting and noteworthy things with them. Like that Steiner's King Kong we are talking about in the other thread. There are no Williams-y super melodies or anything, but the compositions themselves are just sooo good.