[Closed] Now Playing - Part XXII

Thx


Agree with the first part. But the second half being like X-Men 3 with electronics? WTF?! Jumper doesn´t come closer to X-Men 3, AT ALL. They have nothing im common.

I am absolutely positive that there's a motif in Michael Clayton, I found it just in the two listens to the downloaded version I had. But I'm waiting til I get the CD to verify my theories.

I have the original and Silva re-recording.

If anyone want's uplifting this is it, I LOVE it!

Heard last night: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (DeLuxe Complete) - Stephen Sondheim

Such a lush score, beautiful orchestrations and performance by orchestra and cast! Sure, I've understoond the main cast doesn't have the tonal reach of an Angela Lansbury and you might consider this rendition a bit 'thin', but see it this way: it's a different approach done by actors, thus concentrating on the personal espect (hence the lack of chorus), which gives a different feel to it. If you want to have the same approach, go listen to the Broadway recordings. Burton has done something slightly different with it, and it works marvelously.

While during the film I didn't have favorites yet, the songs now all stand out, having that "oh yeah, that one!" quality. The musical use of thematics within the songs is just brilliant, all coming together in the moving Final Scene (watch out, only for those who already have seen the film!). I feel Sweeney Todd really is the best moviemusical in years.

I couldn't have said it better myself. First listen = nothing. Second listen - annoying guitar theme, sliding brass ''theme'', some other ''heroic'' motif I think and then that strange Asian sounding string instrument (which I really like).

I also spotted a little ''motif'' with some electronics (it's in Bridges, Rules Banking and Roland At The Lair (like the bass line of it). There's also the little piano theme in the first and last tracks but they're pretty much exactly the same so is it really a ''theme''?

Indeed, liked it a lot, shame that the movie isn't as good.

NP: Surf's Up - Danna

Weird score, but fun. A really curious amalgam of styles - Philip Glass, Danny Elfman, The Beach Boys...

the beach boys?

NP: Broken Trail (David Mansfield / Van Dyke Parks)

A really beautiful score -- a perfect blending of Chinese style with Western. A bit like Basil Poledouris's The Legend of Butch and Sundance and Lonesome Dove mixed with the more sterotypical Chinese music style one associates with the culture. Simply beautiful.

No theme to hold on to, no real emotion, no substance. Just a plain old noisy, generic, ordinary work.

-Erik-

Bah. Not very well developed. Some simple melody that was put together in a James Horner moment with so substance.

-Erik-

Now HE was a film composer!

-Erik-

Haha, touché.
The truth is I´ve recently "discovered" the score outside the film in the double cd , and all I can say is that I´m stunned by this piece of art.

Yupper. An outstanding score with one of cinema's greatest main themes!

Ever feel in the dumps, play the Overture!

-Erik-