[ Answers to the Contest ]

Ok.. its been a week.  I had lots of people show up, and bandwidth was used, but had about 10 submissions or so.  Here are the answers: 

1:

This one is How to Train your Dragon . The reason this one was pretty easy, was because this is the opening song on the blog.  If you're a regular here, you should have recognized this... 

This is definitely something most people should have heard before....

Here's another moment from the movie -

See... not that hard.








All right.  Here's the next one:

2:

This is from The Island.  -Steve Jablonsky

One of my favorite String Themes EVER...

Here is the same theme, in another part of the movie:

Here's another Idea from the movie:

3:

This is Pirates of the Caribbean - Hans Zimmer

This one SHOULD be an easy one -

However, my FAVORITE PART of the soundtrack is the syncopation in this one:

4:

Avatar - James Horner

5:

Halo 3!

This one will be more difficult for some... hint: more boys will get this than girls.

But we'll make it blatantly obvious...

6:

This is from Transformers!  If you notice, its the same artist as number 2.  I had some people say those 2 were from the same movie. It was kind of fascinating.  But yes, I'll sometimes screw up the 2 movies listening to the soundtracks.  - Steve Jablonsky 

7:

Lady in the Water! - James Newton Howard

8:

Star Trek - Michael Giacchino 

9:

Chronicles of Narnia

One of my favorite musical moments.

10:

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

11:

Atlantis - The lost Empire - James Newton Howard

12:

Van Helsing

13:

Stardust

annnnd 2 more hints.

Ok ok... one more.

14:

Lord of the Rings - Return of the King

HAHAHA. Musical moment for this one happens at 1:05, but the intro is necessary. I showed this to Danny, and he didn't get it, for the longest time.... and it was a OH MY GOSH moment, when he figured it out.

15.

Braveheart - James Horner

Another favorite String moment.

16:

The Firebird Suite - Fantasia 2000

Leopold Stokowski

This is actually a classical piece. But, it was in a movie, so.. you can either tell me the original song and who its by... or the movie it comes from and who did it.

17:

Saw I and II. 

There are actually 2 songs here from 2 different movies. If you can get the movie group, that works. The first 2 songs are actually parts from the same song. I like these because they push the limits of music.

These next 2 come from another movie in the series, and, Itunes threw fits when I tried to cut them any smaller... (no clue) So... you can listen to the whole things, they're a little longer than I wanted them to be. But, I'll tell you where I was going to cut them off.

:28 seconds in.

1:00 in

18:

Peter Pan - James Newton Howard

19:

Sunshine - John Murphy

Someone redid the main theme for this... Its right here..

20:

Titanic - James Horner

Ok.. here's an easy one.

21:

Resident Evil - Charlie Clouser

22:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Danny Elfman (I got so many guesses for some other Tim  Burton movie. Good job people for catching on to the artist. )

23:

Rescuers Down Under

I'm pretty sure most of you will recognize this, but not know where its from...

24:

Independence Day

25:

Wall-E

(I had lots of guesses of Finding Nemo, and other Thomas Newman movies)

And.... here's a bonus

National Treasure

The winner was still Kristen..., so she'll be receiving the gift card in her email later today.