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Jerry Goldsmith - Medicine Man

That film I haven't seen . Is it really so bad?

Loek Dikker - Wolfsbergen

It´s very diferent from most of his music. Very subdued, minimal and short.

Austin Wintory - The Pathless

The only drawback of the score is its 100 minute runtime, but boy it's some REALLY great writing.

The score is absolutely amazing - a modern masterpiece. But I'm content with my OST ('trademark phrase').

If there's a better Zimmer score, I've yet to hear it. This is Zimmer at his best, the thing that sets him apart. It's the kind of score you can't imagine anyone else doing anything better.

Let us know what you think! For me it's as good as it gets as being the spiritual sequel to The Thin Red Line (while not necessarily always a musical one). I think one cannot underestimate the Malick impact on the film, from early visuals to even casting choices.

Tenet: Ludwig Goransson

Pfff, this is not for me. People are comparing this to Inception, but this is more Dunkirk than anything else. I found myself getting agitated just by listening to it, I wonder if it would hurt me from enjoying the film (which I haven't seen yet, no surprise there considering this Covid madness). Inception at least had a thundering sense of OMG, mostly when Nolan's visuals and Zimmer's thundering score kept blowing you away. But this OMG feeling is completely gone here. Absolutely disliked it, and I hope it doesn't ruin me from enjoying the film too.

Mulan: Harry Gregson-Williams

Saw the film first, then listened to the score. My impression in the film was at first... positive. But now I feel the same of the film as of the score. It's so .... bland. I mean even when the Reflections theme keeps popping up, it does literally nothing to me. This is such a beautiful emotional theme and it's just devoid of every bit of emotion that Goldsmith put into it. Even the action music is basically Prince of Persia, but then weaker. I must be getting old but these are blockbuster scores, and they hardly made an impression whatsoever.

I’ve been exploring Interstellar and now I understand what all the hype has been about - it’s simply stunning! The more I listen, the more I love. There are a few tracks that have the high pitched ambient background sound that I can’t stand and which turned me off of it the first time. I think that sound must remind me of a mosquito buzzing in my ear or the ringing my head makes before I’m about to faint, and both of those experiences bring up a strong reaction/emotion of fear - so that’s why I hate when that sound appears in the music, because it puts me on high alert, and all I can focus on is that single irritating sound. It appears most prominently in "Dreaming of the Crash", “Coward", “Detach", "Atmospheric Entry" and others, so I might skip those from now on.

However, I’m so glad I bought the expanded edition because I think the really fantastic stuff appears on disc two. I was really wowed by "No Time for Caution", the percussion, strings and organ are such an interesting mix there, and I just love them together. And then the following 2 tracks after are just gorgeous: "What Happens Now?", "Who’s They?, then wow, pow, “Murph” happens that blows you away, and "Tick-Tock” is just a dream - intense and gentle at the same time. Those two tracks are definitely the highlights for me - some of Hans’ best work ever I might even say. It’s just dramatic, moving, luscious, uplifting, classical, operatic, modern - all the things! I may just start on disc two from now. The organ-heavy pieces are definitely my favorite.

Apart from the high-pitched sound I mentioned on several tracks, the music is incredibly relaxing, which I never knew, since I only sampled previously and heard said pitch so I dismissed the score basically. I think it’s such a brilliant and interesting choice to use the pipe organ so prominently, envisioning the mix of an old stone church somewhere and a warm wood and metal pipe organ - something organic, yet cold, cozy and empty - which makes so much sense when (from my memory) the film is about loss, and also about the love of family - the pipe organ really is those two things in music form. I’ve listened through twice, but will be coming back for sure.

I'm no huge fan of Interstellar (both the film and the music), but I couldn't believe my eyes when I discovered no Time for Caution (the only track that blew me away in the film) was not even on the original CD. Sometimes I just don't understand how that's possible in this day and age.

Anyway, I will check out this expanded treatment later.

I'm actually really surprised you don't like Tenet, Thor. Strikes me as your kind of thing. Too noisy I guess?

Agree about Mulan. What a disappointment, I really had hopes for that one considering HGW's past successes with big historical films. It sounds so thin.

The cue as heard in film doesn't exist as a separate cue/file. Probably they mixed and mingled several cues into one in post-production. Many people were angered by how the cue as eventually (after high controversy) released on the expanded edition is not the film version.

Probably it's either an early demo or a hasty attempt at reproducing it.

Fearless: Anne Kathrin Dern

Excellent theme, though using it a bit too much. And it would have kicked even more ass if it was full blown orchestral.

Hi Tim!

Good to see that you still have access to your favourites.

Good to see you're still keeping the flame lit here Alan