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Tarzan - David Newman

This is absolutely delightful.

Oh yes, that one was good!

Earlier, heard HARD RAIN - Christopher Young

An absolutely brilliant action score, packed to the gills with interesting variations on his many action motifs. It's quite amazing the diversity he achieved with this, including a great main theme and sly use of a harmonica. Sadly, there aren't too many other scores like it in his back-catalogue.

Now onto EVIL DEAD - Roque Banos

5 tracks in; it's great when he unleashes the full orchestra but it's only been in small, sharp bursts thus far. The rest of the time, I'm struggling to stay awake.

Some good stuff in there indeed; some cues are very fine, but why do i hear Zimmeritis in here as well?

(btw my only favorite Newman score is Serenity, which doesn't make me the expert on the man...can't quite get his style all these years)

So, so far we have Patrick Doyle, Jerry Goldsmith & Hans Zimmer.

Add to this, the gaps between the tracks reminds me of John Cage.

Can no-one write anything original these days? Or are people just trying to find other composers in people's work?

"... rather that Newman has adapted his style to a more Zimmerised "

This is what i understand as well.

I haven't heard the score yet but I'd like to point out that just because something sound a bit like Zimmer doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.

NP : TARZAN - David Newman



I thought I'd give it a try.

JP : ROBOCOP - Pedro Bromfman


Somehow I made it through the 7th track before deciding I'd had enough.

This is NOT good.

When David Neeman starts doing it then it's bad thing.

-Erik-

Damn iPhone!

Sorry!

-Erik-

:shakes-fist:

I'd the rather the director hire an RC composer instead of having Newman write in this manner. Why hire Newman if you don't want to hear HIS sound?

-Erik-

I wonder if that's how it went. Newman has worked with these filmmakers before and not done it. I am told that it was Patrick Doyle's decision and nobody else's to go the way he did on Thor and then Jack Ryan, a way of showing Hollywood that he could do that stuff if that's what they really want (and evidently it is), to ensure he can still get high-profile work outside of his reliable collaborator Branagh. Maybe Newman - whose assignments have rather been drying up in recent years, though of course that may be his own choice - decided to do the same thing.

I think the person to blame for all this is fairly clear and it isn't Patrick Doyle or David Newman or Kenneth Branagh or whoever directed Tarzan. Whether it was his intention or not, everything is now about him.