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NO!

It's Spielberg on auto-pilot.

It's still woth watching though, I mean, fer cripes sake....it's got DINOSAURS!!!

The score is FANTASTIC!

Lost World is one of the best scores by maestro Williams ever. But personally I am biased for the Jurassic Park score because it was my first JW score I got!

NP: Speed Racer - Michael Giacchino

This is a great example of the result when a composer pours his heart and soul into scoring a movie. Without doubt this is one of the best scores of last year, fun race cues and beautiful emotional material with choir! Love it

Rescuing Sarah is one of the most adrenaline-fueled action tracks I ever heard!

NP: Cheri (Desplat)

Arrived with the composer's Coco from Colosseum yesterday. And loving it. The main waltz theme of 'Rose Acacia' and 'Flower Tunnel' is gorgeous - haunted and romantic like so many an old movie love theme. The reprise at the end of 'An Old Woman' summoned to mind the closing images of Scorsese's beautiful THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. For melody, think of something like Umebayashi's 'Polonaisse' from 2046.

Another motif reminds me of the 'Mr Nygma's Dance Card' variations on the Goldenthal BATMAN FOREVER theme. That's a very specific reference, I know. Those who know that score well will doubtless spend a little while wonder where they've heard one particular chord progression before.

Electronics play a surprising part in the score (a period film). One could expect a cue like 'All goes well with the world' or 'Return Home' (except for the use of the waltz melody as a brass fanfare) to sit without much adjustment in a modern film like SYRIANA. But somehow it all fits together.

The big setpiece cue of the album - the 'Water Wheel' (for PAINTED VEIL fans) is 'The Wedding'. Many of the themes play a part in this extended piece, which I'm really looking forward to seeing on screen.

NP: BRIGHT ANGEL -- Christopher Young

Quite lovely score, lots of woodwinds, lots of tender scoring, lots of soft melodies
Nice background score

The third and fourth discs have the most musically stunning moments of the whole trilogy IMO!

Ok, thanks for making me salivate with anticipation. Will check 'em out later.

Dark City expanded (Trevor Jones)

Or how dark and light come together in the most fantastic way. This score has one of the most astonishing finales Trevor Jones has written. But I equally love the action music and calmer cues, I always found that Jones could write interesting underscore and this one is no different. The themes are strong and appropriately dark and it all culminates in a gloriously emotional finale that always sends shivers down my spine. Wonderful score, though the regular album version already has all the best music on it.

And there ain't NO TECHNO on this...

One of the worst films of the Sinbad series. The 7th Voyage is much better.

I'm listening to something I have no clue about. It is a film called Don McKay with music by Steve Bramson. Some sort of independent film which will be shown in the Tribeca Film Festival. Wish I could see the film.
Thomas

NP: Star Trek: Generations - Dennis McCarthy

So bloody simple yet incredibly effective. I love the theme even though it probably the most simplistic of all the Trek themes... minus Giacchino's which I think is the most simplistic of them all .

I love the angelic Nexus music. The music gives the Nexus life.

The "Jumping The Ravine" and "Two Captains" music is about as perfect as you can get musically to represent the meeting of the two greatest Starship captains. McCarthy provides a nice counterpoint between his theme and Courage fanfare as we say so long to Captain Kirk during "Kirk's Death." And I really enjoy the action material even though it too is incredibly simple but it has a pulse and is quite effective in the movie.

The album, if I can recall, is in chronological order with the exception of the End Credits which opens up the album. It was a wise decision to open up the album this way to introduce the listener to the major themes before getting into the score proper.

I think this is the one Star Trek score the divides Trek and film music fans the most. You either love it or hate it. But open your mind to this one and I think you will find that it is a worthy entry in the Star Trek film music universe.

-Erik-

I think this is one of those unfortunate scores whose problem is simply that it suffers in comparison. I neither love it nor hate it - it's really pretty good - the problem is, it's hard not to compare it with all the ones around it and it doesn't fare too well in that comparison. On its own terms, it's good - way beyond anything McCarthy did for the tv shows.

What?

Master of The World, the OST which he'll compare to the lp.

Crystal clear is it not!?

NP: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Leonard Rosenman

Not as bad as I remembered. The comedic action cues are not HORRIBLE but not the best Trek cues I've ever heard. "Chekov's Run" is the better of the two. I can't stand "Hospital Chase." However, cues like "The Whalers" - "Crash-Whale Fugue" and "Home Again: End Credits" are superb! I like Rosenman's playful and adventurous main theme which of course resembles his theme from The Lord of the Rings but unfortunately only appears at the beginning and end of the album. Again, not a bad score at all. It fit the tone of the film like a glove and Rosenman was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination for his efforts.

-Erik-

NP: Star Trek: First Contact - Jerry and Joel Goldsmith

Another fine Star Trek effort from Maestro Goldsmith with assistance from his son who wrote one of the very best cues in the film - "The Flight of the Phoenix." I love, love, LOVE this score.

-Erik-