Because he didn’t have the kind with a lock on it!

It’s a common trend among “serious” actors to slag on their mass market roles. Alec Guinness hated that to people under a certain age he was only known as Obi Wan, and often criticized the Star Wars movies in interviews.

That’s unfair. Name pretty much any memorable orchestral track from a movie and there’s like a 90% chance John Williams wrote it — the theme from Jaws, the Star Wars themes, the Indiana Jones theme, the E.T. theme, the Jurassic Park theme. Ron Howard is a middling director without any real vision. Sometimes his movies…

Because he didn’t have the decency to leave an audiobook version?

why go through the guy’s diaries?  leave his privacy

Why are we reading Alan Rickman’s diaries?

While this article did mention it, it didn’t include the very next line, which was so good I had to take a snapshot of it when I came across the Guardian article this weekend:

 Except for the John Williams diss, but nobody's perfect. 

Well he was an ac-TOR. Perhaps 'hideous' meant 'unsubtle, not very adventurous but really sweeping' - a fair note for the movie and the score 

If you’re keeping a diary you’re going to write down what MOVES you (one way or another).

And his main bitch (if people actually do read his dailies) was that the direction was focused mainly on the movement of the cameras and the blocking.

More than slightly hyperbolic - he’s snarky about almost everything and everyone else’s process - because his is different/his own. Until he gets where the person (actor or director or friend) is coming from. His love for his fellow humans shines through his entries though. 

What’s funny is his Galaxy Quest character felt the same way about that role as Rickman seemed to about Snape.

Sure, and you’d probably get a bit snarky about it in your diary if you had to work with them as well. 

Late career John Williams is less about a full great score and more about getting that couple second hook they can reuse forever. He is not a terrible composer by any stretch and the HP score is pretty good but its no Superman theme

I mean very few kids are great actors at 12

Its worth noting that these are short diary entries he wrote all the time. So some of the items are not really out of context, but of a certain time. For example he wrote that thing about Daniel Radcliffe while filming the first movie(I believe). He later has entries of going to lunch with him as an adult and how much…

I’ll admit that aside from the wonderful Hedwig’s Theme, his Sorcerer’s Stone is not among my favorite scores.  Certainly not as good as the Prisoner of Azkaban. But ‘hideous’? No.  

“Hideous score by John Williams”?!?

Snape isn’t controversial. He’s very simple.