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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
lp wrote
NP : Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Mychael Danna
It's okay. I like how unlike Mychael Danna this score sounds. There are a few good tracks, but most of these cues sounded way better when accompanying the onscreen action.
Is this Mychael? I thought it was Jeff. In any case, I agree with your assessment. An odd choice of composer for this film, and probably not the right one. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Timmer wrote
Steven wrote
Krull James Horner
It is, in all honesty, utterly beyond me how anyone could dislike this?? (At least as far as being a film music fan goes.)
Yeap! I wish there was an 'shake head in uncomprehension' emoticon for Krull non-believers.
Surely you mean incomprehension?
(This is never going to end, is it?
)
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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Steven wrote
Timmer wrote
Steven wrote
Krull James Horner
It is, in all honesty, utterly beyond me how anyone could dislike this?? (At least as far as being a film music fan goes.)
Yeap! I wish there was an 'shake head in uncomprehension' emoticon for Krull non-believers.
Surely you mean incomprehension?
(This is never going to end, is it? )
Do you mean the correction of grammatical errors, or the love of Krull?
Either way, you're probably right. As long as the internet lives, people will make minor grammatical errors. As long as Demetris lives, people will be forced to say how great Krull is - on a regular basis. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
I hereby rule that the phrase 'For the love of God' be replaced by 'For the love of Krull'. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Steven wrote
I hereby rule that the phrase 'For the love of God' be replaced by 'For the love of Krull'.
Agreed....By Krull!
UN-comprehensible....a minor G dubya moment from me
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- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009 edited
Southall wrote
Martijn wrote
NP: Fargo - Carter Burwell
Holy crap!
This is beautiful!
Melancholic and harmonious, with a lot of musical twists and turns -also in orchestration- to keep things interesting.
What a great little score! I'm sorry I didn't discover it earlier.
4.5/5
This is a fine album and a fine score, but crediting it to Carter Burwell is a bit of a stretch. I know that both album and film do credit it to him, but it's all folk music.
Now James, shall we start talking about other film composers who take out a mortgage on the music of others with only a 10% deposit?
Using folk tunes, particularly when he and Kompanek reworked it so that it had the Burwell sound, is bread and butter for many a film composer.
NP: Nid-de-Guepes (Desplat)
'You're all gonna die!' Great motif for the villain underneath that bit of dialogue.A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorAtham
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
For the love of Krull and all that is holy!
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- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
DreamTheater wrote
franz_conrad wrote
NP: The Missing (Horner)
Very solid main theme. The way he saves up the full revelation for closing moments of the film (with that trumpet harmony) is a beautiful choice. I see what James meant about it being a score planned from the outset.
A truly uninspired score from Horner IMO. It features all his usual and tired tricks and frankly the album is way too long. Being the Horner-fan I am, this disappointed me.
There's a few tricks that weren't there before. Just off the top of my head. The way the electronic sounds enter at moments was a new trick for him, anticipating his work on films soon after. The use of the orchestra chairs as percussion added a nice clicky percussion sound that sounded like an even more powerful kind of col legno (probably because any player can bang their chair on the ground, but only the cellists can play col legno). I'll agree the album is a bit long, a problem on just about every major Horner score since TITANIC. I edited a 25 suite of it once which I listen to more often than the full score.
I do resist the notion that the score is just a retread of LEGENDS OF THE FALL. I can hear a motif or two that I heard in A BEAUTIFUL MIND, but the main themes - both the settler style theme and the fanfare theme - are QUITE DIFFERENT in contour and (even) idiom to the hymnal themes of LEGENDS.
If this is an uninspired score for Horner, then INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL is an uninspired score for Williams. Not that hard to make for the maker, but pretty much perfect.A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
franz_conrad wrote
Southall wrote
Martijn wrote
NP: Fargo - Carter Burwell
Holy crap!
This is beautiful!
Melancholic and harmonious, with a lot of musical twists and turns -also in orchestration- to keep things interesting.
What a great little score! I'm sorry I didn't discover it earlier.
4.5/5
This is a fine album and a fine score, but crediting it to Carter Burwell is a bit of a stretch. I know that both album and film do credit it to him, but it's all folk music.
Now James, shall we start talking about other film composers who take out a mortgage on the music of others with only a 10% deposit?
Using folk tunes, particularly when he and Kompanek reworked it so that it had the Burwell sound, is bread and butter for many a film composer.
Yes indeedio... not disputing that. But hey, let's not have one rule for one composer and another for all the rest. The music in the film and on the album is great. I do like Fargo. -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Just so long as you attack Steiner's CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE on the same grounds next month, all will be well.
NP: Australia (Hirschfelder)
This is the short promo score that's going round. There's some good things here. But it is amazing how many small licks you can hear of other things as you listen to this. This really was a temp track retread for poor Hirschfelder at times.A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
franz_conrad wrote
Just so long as you attack Steiner's CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE on the same grounds next month, all will be well.
Does it have to be next month? I'd much rather do it during March. -
- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Southall wrote
lp wrote
NP : Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Mychael Danna
It's okay. I like how unlike Mychael Danna this score sounds. There are a few good tracks, but most of these cues sounded way better when accompanying the onscreen action.
Is this Mychael? I thought it was Jeff. In any case, I agree with your assessment. An odd choice of composer for this film, and probably not the right one.
HAH! It was Jeff Danna. But my statement (that it doesn't sound like Mychael Danna) is still correct.
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009 edited
NP : Love Affair - Ennio Morricone
What a LYRICAL and MESMERIZING love theme, and the gorgeous strings, as only the Maestro can do. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
lp wrote
NP : Love Affair - Ennio Morricone
What a LYRICAL and MESMERIZING love theme, and the gorgeous strings, as only the Maestro can do.
Very true! An absolutely gorgeous theme. (Which is a good job, since the score essentially just repeats it over and over again.) -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 22nd 2009
Krull - James Horner (original CD presentation)
As Jacques Delors might say, c'est magnifique! -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
Atham wrote
For the love of Krull and all that is holy!
By Krull I agree!!!On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorMiya
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009 edited
DemonStar wrote
They might do it sometime, yeah. I also think we might be getting a Lion King 4 in the not-so-distant future too
No more direct-to-video cheapquels! John Lasseter dumped them all (except Tinker Bell's) anyway.
I prefer to see theatrical re-release of The Lion King in the future! It was on VHS I saw it for the first time.
Steven wrote
Two peas in a pod you two!
We both are brainwashed by evil Disney.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp -
- CommentAuthorMiya
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009 edited
lp wrote
Miya wrote
NP: The Lion King 1 1/2 (Promo) - Don Harper
Who are Timone and Pumba btw?? I've never heard about characters with such names.
Eh? Really? You've seen TLK right? The warthog (Pumba) and meerkat (Timon) ... that became pals to Simba when he went into exile?
I just can't help nitpicking everything about TLK!
Of course I've seen TLK, countless times. I saw it fully few weeks ago, again. And also I often play it as "background video" when I take dinner or a nap.
I'm seriously thinking about making a website (or maybe weblog) dedicated to TLK music. Album info, lyrics, interview archive, credit lists, composer bios, etc... Maybe I can do it after finishing my graduation thesis.
NP: Mulan (promo) - Jerry Goldsmith
The Huns Attack! The Huns Attack! The Huns Attack!
Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
the lion king
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorMiya
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009 edited
Timmer wrote
the lion king
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
It's OK. Whoa, whoa. It's OK. It's ME.
Carnivores, oy!
Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp -
- CommentAuthorDemonStar
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009 edited
Miya wrote
I prefer to see theatrical re-release of The Lion King in the future! It was on VHS I saw it for the first time.
Me too. But personally I prefer watching movies on DVD rather in theatre because out here in theatres the people get... unruly
Fingers crossed for an isolated score track on the future Blu-Ray release!
NP: Defiance - James Newton Howard
Poor JNH, he deserves an award! -
- CommentAuthorDemonStar
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
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- CommentAuthorDreamTheater
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
Timmer wrote
Atham wrote
For the love of Krull and all that is holy!
By Krull I agree!!!
BY KRULL, WE CAN !!! (as quoted by Barack)
Dinotopia (Trevor Jones)
Another small gem I discovered after reading some people's comments here... Very elegant, beautiful scoring from one of the most thematic composers out there. Like always he has a knack for writing the most stunning main themes, and the way the whole soundtrack flows is something a lot of the newer composers could learn from. It's not often a score grabs me from the first listen, but this one surely does!!"considering I've seen an enormous debate here about The Amazing Spider-Man and the ones who love it, and the ones who hate it, I feel myself obliged to say: TASTE DIFFERS, DEAL WITH IT" - Thomas G. -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
NP: Slumdog Millionaire (Rahman)
Now playing, not on my CD, but in my head. I just saw the film. And it sounds pretty good to me. You could do a lot worse than give that score an Oscar (AMPAS should know, they have many times!). Good to hear a solid song-based score again. (Factotum and Magnolia - another game show based movie - both come to mind as well.)
(I do agree with Erik that the use of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire piece is a standout feature of the music design as well, for which Rahman can take no credit obviously.)
The film is very good. Dickens and Bollywood rolled into one. Of the four Best Picture Oscar nominees I've seen (I haven't seen The Reader) this film has the big prize hands down.A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
NP: Fahrenheit 451 (Herrmann)
This is probably the score that Benjamin Button reminds me the most of in some ways. (Despite the lack of waltzes!) One of Herrmann's most beautiful scores, presented beautifully by John Morgan, Anna Bonn and William Stromberg.A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorDemonStar
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
NP: Black Hawk Down - Hans Zimmer
Leave No Man Behind is one of my all time favourites! -
- CommentAuthorEric
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
Hail Krull !!
NP : Hundra - Ennio Morricone
"Simplicity is the key to brilliance" -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009 edited
Eric wrote
Hail Krull !!
NP : Hundra - Ennio Morricone
Hail KRULL!
Hail HUNDRA!
Hail.....
NP : RED SONJA - Ennio Morricone
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
Southall wrote
lp wrote
NP : Love Affair - Ennio Morricone
What a LYRICAL and MESMERIZING love theme, and the gorgeous strings, as only the Maestro can do.
Very true! An absolutely gorgeous theme. (Which is a good job, since the score essentially just repeats it over and over again.)
Which is PERFECT(!!!!) since I absolutely adores this kind of abashed emotional sweetness. -
- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJan 23rd 2009
franz_conrad wrote
NP: Slumdog Millionaire (Rahman)
Now playing, not on my CD, but in my head. I just saw the film. And it sounds pretty good to me. You could do a lot worse than give that score an Oscar (AMPAS should know, they have many times!). Good to hear a solid song-based score again. (Factotum and Magnolia - another game show based movie - both come to mind as well.)
(I do agree with Erik that the use of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire piece is a standout feature of the music design as well, for which Rahman can take no credit obviously.)
The film is very good. Dickens and Bollywood rolled into one. Of the four Best Picture Oscar nominees I've seen (I haven't seen The Reader) this film has the big prize hands down.
Werd! It's the kind of movies that we don't and should see more. Quality filmmaking with a great story and universal appeals.
