Glad you took it the right way…it was meant (somewhat) tongue in cheek.
.. because it's true, to an extent.
Horner did like to basically reuse and tailor cues over and over (see also *batteries not included turning up again in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, for instance; the crossing over of Land Before Time with Journey Of Natty Gann, etc…). We used to have a running joke in our family when a movie was on and we didn’t know who had done the music but I would always call it on a Horner score. Which is why I do adore The Rocketeer, since that was the first time in a good ten years or so that he came up with a whole new bunch of tricks…even if he then did proceed to use *those* in a good few films afterwards. Talented guy, and composer of many great *themes*, but he never really pushed himself enough to create truly original great full *scores*.
