[Closed] Now Playing XIX

May I be the first to congratulate you on this, the second "Now Playing" thread at Maintitles?

NP: The Lazarus Project - Brian Tyler

This isn't bad at all. Tyler's strongest score in ages. Can't remember seeing anyone else mention it.

I liked it (and mentioned it some days ago ). Not his best score in ages IMO, but really liked his non over the top approach for a change.

That's very odd for me to read 'cause i remember the score in the (Dead-boring btw) movie to be of equal dead-boreness. Is it possible it sounds so vastly different on CD? Has he recorded music that isn't in the movie? Perhaps.

I believe you, Southall liking it......well yeah, it must be something different there But am i interested? Well honestly, in the whole Thomas Newman and generally more organic film music - spree of late, i am not sure At least for now.

IS it better than the promo, James? 'Cause i don't know if you've heard it, but it was pretty standard and nothing special in there was to be found.

The Shawshank Redemption Thomas Nemwan

His best score? Who knows. It's my favourite though, while Little Women is my favourite Newman album.

NP:Star Trek Insurrection (Goldsmith)

Probably my favourite treck score since the original one. And the most equilibrated album (or bootleg) for sure.

A lovely main theme and a lot of action ( yes, sometimes a little bit on autopilot but with a splendid recording mixing orchestra and electronics) and some little reprises of all themes.

"The Drones attack" , "the hollow ship" or "the healing Process" are superb futuristic music.

The lovely tunes are pure Goldsmith, They touches me very much.

I will play next: Star Trek First Contact Complete.

This time I will listen the whole score without watching who composed what track. So I will judge the music for what it is.

Alexandre Desplat - Nid de Guepes

I tried listening to this many years ago but didn't make it beyond the first few cues. Then a few months ago I saw the movie and totally loved it (movie and score).
Just started a fresh listen... there's a stirring string theme that's to die for!

This is a score that I've struggled to get into myself. It sounds as though I need to see the movie and then revisit this one?

This is how they learned to work. IF they leave their mostly library-based material NAKED, without tons of reverb, eq and electronic enhancement and fx, it will sound fake and dry.

But those are different arrangments, for the concert usage only. If they left the original orchestrations and arrangements that were aimed for the movie, it would sound dry and naked. They don't want a "heavy"orchestral character in those films. They want them ultra-easily digestible.

Exactly, why don´t do it right for the movie (if you have the means, that they usually have as they do blockbusters), instead of doing it right for the concert suite.

New generation directors who have obviously not grown up with orchestral material primarily, who are forming and following trends that are aiming their pop-corn flicks to similarly oriented, younger audiences who won't appreciate an orchestral quality in their fast-food cinematic products. Think about that.

But if the directors feel that way then it's because they've been conditioned to do so by the prolifieration of the cheap Media Ventures sound in blockbuster films. The early Zimmer action scores featured generally very small orchestras (for budgetary reasons) - there are certainly no budgetary restrictions any more for the RC action scores, so I'm sure they could change that perception if they wanted to. Not every film demands a grand orchestral score - in fact, perhaps not many really do - but if you're going to hire an orchestra, you may as well use it properly (if you even know how to, which many of these composers probably don't). Stick a piece of RC action music in a film without the synths and I guarantee you that the young, impressionable audience will react with amazement at how much better it sounds.