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Salt - Newton Howard

What does it say about me that I like this more than The Last Airbender?

Not good stuff

Cool! I didn't knew. Glad to see that and I contacted Arvid for that. It's a useful engine.

The Killer and Hard Boiled are great action films, wish they would receive a remastered soundtrack though. The mono mix on both films is seriously underwhelming and flat compared to what the U.S. can provide soundwise.

Red Cliff I and II are easily on the kickass level of Face Off, with enormous attention to character development and relationships (too much at times ) and incredible battle scenes. I saw the nearly 5 hour version of this and having it truncated to half of that for western audiences I think they mostly omitted those long character and dialogue scenes. But those do add a lot of depth to the characters and their motivations. Love the whole build-up to the final battle in fact.

NP : Legend of the Guardians - The Owls of Ga'Hoole - David Hirschfelder

A heroic main theme , beautiful choral accompaniment , bombastic moments - this score has it all and was a pleasant surprise !

In honour of Valentine's Day, NP: Black Hawk Down - Hans Zimmer

Dark, violent and unrelentingly bleak. As much as I enjoy a lot of his more mainstream compositions, I swear I still find this the man's best work! A gutsy, uncompromising approach to a subject matter rather forgotten by the US (and pretty much ignored by the rest of the world).

Awwww, how quaint, the last of the great romantics eh?

...or Delerue...or Kilar...or Legrand...

More in celebration of Valentine's Day: Cannibal Holocaust - Riz Ortolani

Aside from the lovely, gentle main theme, this is terrible, eclectic seventies nonsense, best to be forgotten quickly.

Switching to Miklos Rozsa's Sodom & Gomorra (on the Digitmovie label. which is a far superior version to the earlier Cambria one). Not Rozsa's best, but it's still Rozsa, in a pretty dark and ponderous mood. This score is better than I remembered, though!

If I remember right, Rozsa's score is about the best thing of the movie.

Never heard the Ortolani score...any good?

I honestly couldn't say, never having seen the film.
The soundtrack is not a "must hear", but it's still very, very good, especially now it's presented as well as it is on Digitmovie. I held off buying that as I have owned the Cambria edition for many years, and it never did anything for me. Goes to show what a proper production (including editing and cleaning up) will do!



Apparently Peter likes it a lot better than I do.
To me it's generic seventies hogwash.

Already seen it, and loved it. I liked it more than Saving Private Ryan, film and score.

Shameless self-promotion, if you are interested in my thoughts on that score, I recommend the article I wrote some time ago, it's here on MainTitles.

Some of my theories when it comes to composing process were proven wrong in direct conversation with Hans Zimmer, I'll happily answer questions here.

LINK - JERRY GOLDSMITH

Quirky, unpretentious and ultimately unremarkable... but I like the mostly electronic sound, which is synth drum based and features an array of wacky sound effects. It makes for a somewhat cool listen, but then I'm a sucker for 80s Goldsmith. Hey it's still more interesting than a lot of the stuff I'm hearing these days. At least Link has a fun theme and a few attempts at creating melodies, though it's far removed from the orchestral delights of his better scores, of which there are a lot. But since this is my first listen, I'm actually pleasantly surprised it isn't a dreadful bore.