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Powell's X-score is easily better than anything Marvel has gotten to date!

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Agree. Love that score. I didn't include it because it's not in Marvel's connected film universe.

Clint Mansell - Loving Vincent

A beautiful, minimalistic score for a beautiful must-watch film. A Polish-UK co-production, this animated film tells of the last days of the life of Vincent van Gogh. As it turns out, they filmed it with actors and then realized that what they really need is to make the film look like van Gogh's paintings. And in that it's really, really beautiful.

Mansell's score helps building a pleasant, yet very emotional ambience for the film.

Animation is about the movement, not the technique. A friend of a friend of mine was one of the painters.

Hand painting, literally. I'll have to find out more. But they did film the whole thing traditionally and realized that it should be animated to maintain Van Gogh's style. So essentially it's one moving painting and yes, it was painted by hand.

Battle Beyond the Stars James Horner

This is my top pick for a rerecording. This score was also reused in Space Raiders (not the corn-based savoury snack). I guess Corman knew it was good.

Not sure how you would describe Williams' take on Superman ??

The film is the biggest shit I've ever seen.

Majestic - here and there, some noble attempts;
Memorable - once in a while
Thematic - yes, has a few themes, including a really bad one (Zod's pseudofanfare)
Intelligent - actually in the flight cue, yes, very much. And in how the Krypton and Earth themes start with the same four note motif, albeit in different keys (with Earth represented by a major key and Krypton by minor)
Complex - not at all. In fact, lack of complexity is the score's ultimate downfall.

Film is truly crap. Makes me wish not to watch any Zack Snyder again.

I do?

There's the Prague recording of the theme as a bonus track.

EDIT: There isn't. I added that one myself.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer

Heard it last night for the first time outside of the film, and I'm in two minds about it. First of all, listened to it on bed, in the dark, as per usual, and it didn't bore me for a second. Whereas with most of the scores I listen to nowadays that way I don't make it till the end, I was captivated throughout. It's the kind of experience in which the whole is more than its part - especially during that final half hour I was swept away on the ambient soundwaves.

But still.

I love the many references towards Vangelis - but it could've been taken further.
I understand this doesn't need to be an overt melodic score - but more than just the Mesa theme would've been nice.
I like how the action material is mercifully not like the cliché'd RC-sound, and I love the rawness - but it could've been better developed.
I appreciate the added color of the piano - but why not have it lean more towards Vangelis' electronic piano? Why use it so sparingly instead of making the sound an actual thematic construct?
I understand it had to be different from the original Blade Runner and I love how the film is also its own thing - but I miss the filmnoir elements and synth-blues - but that also could've hurt the transcendental mood this one sets.
At times it almost feels cheap - other times it's spot on.

There's some great moments which I wished would've been extended later on - like Flight to LA which combines touches from Vangelis' original with the modern bass and sound - and in general I love the flow of the ambient music, but it also feels underdeveloped. Not so much in terms of thematic development per se, but in exploring the sonic soundscape. They were on the right track, but had to meet a deadline before their work came to its full creative fruition.

Might be because Dooley did work on The Ring.

NP: Pupper Master: Axis of Evil (2010) - Richard Band

Band does a good job at making this an interesting listen. Some of the melodic passages are quite lovely, but there's little to suggest a horror element so far. On the whole the choice of synths and samples is reasonably good.