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Just finished listening to a whle cue from Silvestri's score to "The Avanger"
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Stopped it after two cues. Just not my cup of tea.

It's a big orchestra in sound, and I thankfully hear no synthesizers, but the theme is middle ground, and I forgot it after I stopped listening.

The material, with a couple brief parts sounding like "Judge Dredd", sounds -- in my personal opinion -- just deeply uninspired,, like he knew what the film needed (and I'm sure it services the film perfectly), but felt no real emotional connection that makes for wonderful scores we've heard before. Though sometimes composer do crank out wonders for aweful films.


I was bored senseless. It went all over the place. It wasn't enjoyable. To me, it joins "Green Hornet", "The Green antern", "Thor" as another missed superhero film score. Is that it? I don't think there are any other superhero films opening this year. Three for sure next year, but this year?


I recorded, but I'll probably delete it in a day if nobody wants it.



Someone at FSM said, "old school", but I hear about five scores in there, and they're all middle era Silvestri -- no "old school" there.

There is no blanket answer, every film, director, composer situation is different. Even if only slightly.

There is no question Silvestri has the chops to deliver on such a film, and why he didn't (in my opinion, again) ... I don't know. Like Goldsmith, he could have went over & above for the film, but he went on auto pilot. I can't say why.

Mexico City - Rolfe Kent
Very strong, almost exclusively guitar centered score.
Melodic and interesting throughout. Kent is really THE name to go to for inobtrusive yet lovely small scores. Even though he still seems stuck in the light dramedy genre, I remain generally quite impressed with Kent's work. It's always enjoyable, it's always pleasant.
Even if he's not been able to do any 'big' sound just yet.

And it seems like every director has a new excuse as to why themes are inappropriate in their movie...Jackman said he wrote a demo of a bold main theme for the new X-Men film and the director was like noooooo so Jackman had to go back and make it more understated.

Monte Carlo - Giacchino

Not without a certain Manciniesque charm at times, but the problem is by the time you say "Manciniesque charm" fifteen tracks have gone by, so short is the average length of the cues. Too bitty and too repetitive to be that enjoyable.

Conan O'Brien?

Do you like ANYTHING?

-Erik-

Would you say that many scores benefit from a complete and chronological presentation? Or is it actually a pretty rare thing, in your opinion?

It's not technically a C&C, Thor. The tracks that are on the single-disc arrangement are NOT present on discs 2 and 3. It's a brilliant score. I haven't listened to it for years.

Megamind - Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe

Not a great animation score by the factory, but it is very enjoyable for 30 minutes.

Cocoon - Horner

Wonderful.

NP: The Perfect Storm - James Horner

Lovely stuff.

Yeah, not a great score, but that Roxanne/Love Theme is one of the most memorable RC theme in recent years.

In keeping with the general sense of negativity over the last few pages of this thread, I simply cannot believe how bad Green Lantern is. Usually I appreciate Howard's understated subtleties but this is just too much (or more accurately, too little!), and the recording quality is awful too so I can't even enjoy the electronics for the soundscape they create.

On a better note, after 6 or 7 listens of Beltrami's Soul Surfer it has become my favorite of the year and actually one of the highlights of my entire music collection...it's just that perfect.