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VOTE: Best Film Scores of 2010

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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Updated my list above.
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    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Christodoulides wrote
    HENRY JACKMAN - Gulliver's Travels


    Surely not? Seriously? *raised eyebrow*
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Yeah...everytime i see such a reaction to my comments about this score (that i really, really enjoy) i truly wonder if i've been playing the wrong album!
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Anthony, have you heard "Ein Roboterleben" ?
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    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    I'll give it a listen tonight.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    The whole score, especially the 2nd half smile
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    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Sorry dude, the last two cues were the most impressive but I really didn't get that into the rest of it. sad
  8. I haven't heard enough of the big scores to have a top 5 this year. Although no doubt there'd be a couple of Desplat scores in there, and probably Sagan too.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2011
    Sagan is 2008. wink
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    Sagan is so 2008.
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  11. Christodoulides wrote
    Sagan is so 2008.

    So passé! wink
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      CommentAuthorCristian
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    Christodoulides wrote
    Sagan is so 2008.


    Sagan is so good.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    Oh, it So is!
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      CommentAuthorCristian
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    Christodoulides wrote
    Oh, it So is!


    Totally!
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    My top 10 scores of 2010:

    1) The Ghost Writer

    Positions 2-10 not awarded due to insufficient data.

    franz_conrad wrote
    I haven't heard enough of the big scores to have a top 5 this year. Although no doubt there'd be a couple of Desplat scores in there, and probably Sagan too.


    Can someone tell me what is so good about Sagan that is not already present in Amar's previous scores? I'm baffled by the high praise for this. I love his scores but I think a lot of his recent work (I don't know about 2010) are cut from the same cloth.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2011
    It's very moving and emotional, parts of it are beautiful. Why does it really matter that he did that before? I found my self lost in that loop a couple of years back when i unconsciously compared everything new i heard with what the x composer did and what the y composer did before. It deprives all the enjoyment from the whole thing.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    Christodoulides wrote
    It's very moving and emotional, parts of it are beautiful. Why does it really matter that he did that before? I found my self lost in that loop a couple of years back when i unconsciously compared everything new i heard with what the x composer did and what the y composer did before. It deprives all the enjoyment from the whole thing.


    A very good point D, we could easily put Barry, Horner, Williams, Delerue etc etc into the same category.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  18. Boys, I know it's so 2008. And the film only played in Australia a few months ago, before which I'd never heard of it. Stop being accountants and become people again. Let yourself fall in love with something without checking the calendar box. So it can't win the Oscar or the IFMCA award. The best ones tend not to anyway! tongue

    BhelPuri wrote
    Can someone tell me what is so good about Sagan that is not already present in Amar's previous scores? I'm baffled by the high praise for this. I love his scores but I think a lot of his recent work (I don't know about 2010) are cut from the same cloth.


    What's good about Sagan for me is that the temp track draws some more diverse sources than just Amar's own work. There's a bit of this, a bit of that, and two main themes that I seem to able to listen to on loop. But, as it wasn't a nature doco / feature length doco, he was free for once to not use those vocalists and ethnic instrumentation that can bore me in some of his scores. The change in texture is helpful, to me at least.

    AO Neanderthal is another interesting one from this. The film seems to be have been temp'd with the Bourne scores, and hearing his version of them is interesting.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    I found AO even better than Sagan, but both are very worthwile works. However, i don't hear any Bourne inside AO?
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011 edited
    My top 10 -

    1) How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)

    2) Alice In Wonderland (Danny Elfman)

    3) Inception (Hans Zimmer)

    4) TRON: Legacy (Daft Punk)

    5) The Last Airbender (James Newton Howard)

    6) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (Harry Gregson-Williams)

    7) The Wolfman (Danny Elfman)

    8) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (Alexandre Desplat)

    9) Knight And Day (John Powell)

    10) Tangled (Alan Menken)

    Other notable mentions - Salt (JNH), Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (Christophe Beck), Gulliver's Travels (Henry Jackman), The Pacific (Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli, etc.), Predators (John Debney), Medal Of Honor (Ramin Djawadi), The A-Team (Alan Silvestri), Unstoppable (HGW), The King's Speech and Tamara Drewe (Desplat)

    Those are most of what I heard this year. smile
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    I'd really love it if more people also heard the non-standard scores each year.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011 edited
    I really thought 2010 was the year when the "import artists" superseded the film composer specialists for the most part. Favourites in this regard include:

    Daft Punk - TRON
    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - THE ROAD
    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - THE SOCIAL NETWORK
    Brian Eno - THE LOVELY BONES

    But there were some brilliant scores by the specialists too:

    Hans Zimmer - INCEPTION
    John Powell - HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
    Clint Mansell (& Tchaikovsky) - BLACK SWAN
    Abel Korzeniowski - A SINGLE MAN
    James Horner - THE KARATE KID
    Elliot Goldenthal - THE TEMPEST
    Harold Faltermeyer - COP OUT
    Danny Elfman - ALICE, WOLFMAN
    John Debney - PREDATORS
    David Arnold - NARNIA

    Disappointments, for me, were:

    Alexandre Desplat - HP7 (and partially THE GHOST WRITER)
    Mark Streitenfeld - ROBIN HOOD
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011 edited
    [edit]

    Ghost writer disappointed you? Have you seen the movie?

    A single man was 2009.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011 edited
    Christodoulides wrote
    Ghost rider disappointed you? Have you seen the movie?

    A single man was 2009.


    GHOST WRITER, not RIDER. The film was fine (Polanski knows how to create chilly, moody, realistic thrillers), but the score underwhelming. The spotting was OK, though. It's sparsely used.

    A SINGLE MAN was a 2010 film here in Norway. I guess that's why I included it.
    I am extremely serious.
  25. Christodoulides wrote
    I found AO even better than Sagan, but both are very worthwile works. However, i don't hear any Bourne inside AO?


    Then perhaps it is even more enjoyable for you? wink
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011 edited
    Thor wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Ghost rider disappointed you? Have you seen the movie?

    A single man was 2009.


    GHOST WRITER, not RIDER. The film was fine (Polanski knows how to create chilly, moody, realistic thrillers), but the score underwhelming. The spotting was OK, though. It's sparsely used.

    A SINGLE MAN was a 2010 film here in Norway. I guess that's why I included it.


    I thought it worked brilliantly in the film, Desplat's work. At parts, the scoring was tremendously clever.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  27. Christodoulides wrote
    Thor wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Ghost rider disappointed you? Have you seen the movie?

    A single man was 2009.


    GHOST WRITER, not RIDER. The film was fine (Polanski knows how to create chilly, moody, realistic thrillers), but the score underwhelming. The spotting was OK, though. It's sparsely used.

    A SINGLE MAN was a 2010 film here in Norway. I guess that's why I included it.


    I thought it worked brilliantly in the film, Desplat's work. At parts, the scoring was tremendously clever.


    Me too. Especially with the end of the movie. I think that this was a great year for Desplat, and he has become one of my favorite composers. I'm looking for The Tree of Life.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    The more i listen, the more i am convinced that the best score of the year is by far

    CHRISTOPHER GORDON - Daybreakers.

    If i were to re-review it i'd give it a solid 5-star rating. The level of compositional writing and musicianship is beyond anything else i've heard this year (and it's been a great year for film music).
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    How To Train Your Dragon > The Rest

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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2011
    Christodoulides wrote
    The more i listen, the more i am convinced that the best score of the year is by far

    CHRISTOPHER GORDON - Daybreakers.

    If i were to re-review it i'd give it a solid 5-star rating. The level of compositional writing and musicianship is beyond anything else i've heard this year (and it's been a great year for film music).


    It's up there.
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