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- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeJan 19th 2014 edited
Captain Future wrote
NP: Superman Returns (2006) - John Ottman / John Williams
Expanded edition on LLL.
This release really shines! The sound is brilliant, maybe even better than the sound of the original release that was great already.
Volker
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- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJan 19th 2014 edited
Sorry, can't tell. Since my physical collection is at my parent's place and I am currently listening to mp3s at my place, I have no access to the booklet.Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 19th 2014
Casey Stone.
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- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014 edited
NP: Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) - Graeme Revell
This score always suffered fom comparison with Toto's (amd Eno's) great score for Davis Lynch's big screen adaptation of Herbert's classic novel. I'm not sure if such a comparison makes any sense at all.
In my books, both the mini series and it's score are underrated. Revell has crafted an ambient, moody score, more in line with Brian Eno than Toto. Great stuff, if you ask me.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Nice one Captain, I feel like playing something "similar"...
NP : DUNE - Toto
Excellent! I've always loved this score.
Here's a bit of trivia. Did you know that QUINCY JONES was originally slated to score this?On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
47 Ronin - Ilan Eshkeri
Pretty enjoyable. Probably the best post-Stardust score of his I've heard. Some particularly vivid orchestral action writing in this, with brass slurring/clusters a la Nicholas Dodd. Love the rapid, stylized string writing in "Dutch Island Fugue" as well! Unfortunately there are also rather a lot of dead spots on the lengthy album; "Tengu" grinds things to a halt for a good six-plus minutes, and nothing much happens in the opening cue either...
It's a shame that films like this and Renny Harlin's Hercules are tanking. Hopefully studio execs don't think it's because of the composers...
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- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014 edited
Timmer:
Had he have the Fremen sing gospels then?
Speaking of Quincy Jones: I listend to parts of The Color Purple yesterday. There are some peculiar things about it: The Delerue lift, the legion of people who worked on it, and always the thought how John Williams might have handled the project. But in this case the composer hired the director, not the other way around.Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorchristopher
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Edmund Meinerts wrote
47 Ronin - Ilan Eshkeri
Pretty enjoyable. Probably the best post-Stardust score of his I've heard.
That would be THE YOUNG VICTORIA for me. It's a very different kind of score but has some fantastically gorgeous music. -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014 edited
NP: The Core (2003) - Christopher Young
This score was hyped in its time. Something that never really translated to me. Now, noone seems to be speaking about it any longer. Curious.
Volker
Edit: I seem to like it much better this time around ...Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
It is AMAZING! Then, and now. Brilliant, massive and ballsy score. We need more of this (not the crappy movie though).Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Demetris wrote
It is AMAZING! Then, and now. Brilliant, massive and ballsy score. We need more of this (not the crappy movie though).
I actually love the movie, but then again I have a thing for sci fi of this type.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Wyatt Earp - James Newton Howard
Absolutely spectacular. His best score. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
One of, definitely. I'm not sure I could place it above his best Shyamalamalam scores though. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Steven wrote
One of, definitely. I'm not sure I could place it above his best Shyamalamalam scores though.
I would place most of JNH's scores above the Shyamalan efforts. Except maybe THE VILLAGE. I like that one.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Yeah, but you're really weird. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 20th 2014
Even by Thor's standards that is weird. JNH's pyramid of quality, with one of my own recordings added for illustrative purposes:
Wyatt Earp
Snow Falliing on Cedars ~ Some Shyamalan
Some other Shyamalan
<MASSIVE GAP>
Recording of me having diarrhoea
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
So not a big JNH fan, then, I take it?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Massive fan of his good stuff (i.e. Wyatt Earp, Snow Falling on Cedars and most of the Shyamalan). My pyramid diagram was slightly oversimplified because I also quite like some other things.
But no other film composer blows quite so hot and cold for me. His stuff comes across as either great or terrible, most of the time.
Interesting to read in the Wyatt Earp liner notes that he said he made a conscious decision to stop writing music like that because he didn't like it any more, preferred more textural music afterwards. Good news for you, probably. -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Steven wrote
Yeah, but you're really weird.
Actually, he's weirtarded!
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- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014 edited
Southall wrote
Even by Thor's standards that is weird. JNH's pyramid of quality, with one of my own recordings added for illustrative purposes:
Wyatt Earp
Snow Falliing on Cedars ~ Some Shyamalan
Some other Shyamalan
<MASSIVE GAP>
Recording of me having diarrhoea
Everything else
And it's official. You're weirtarded as well. Completely ignore JNH's Disney efforts, for instance, is inexcusable. And no mention of Waterworld?
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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Dinosaur's quite good. That's in the "also quite like some other things" category I revealed in my subsequent post. (The other two are astonishingly overrated shite though. People who like them are weirtarded.) -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Atlantis is shit? Credibility factor going waaaaaaaaay down, Southall.
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- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Atlantis was probably one of the last times a composer went all-out for a mediocre animated film.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Atlantis is pretty darn good adventure film. Treasure Planet is too!
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- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Scribe wrote
Atlantis was probably one of the last times a composer went all-out for a mediocre animated film.
How we easily forget The Greatest Miracle. Tsk tsk.
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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Erik Woods wrote
Atlantis is shit? Credibility factor going waaaaaaaaay down, Southall.
-Erik-
Parts of it are quite good but a lot is too generic for me. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
For me, JNH could hardly go wrong in the 80s and 90s, whatever the genre and/or style of music. It was only from the mid 2000s onwards that things started to go a bit 'up and down'. He seemed very conscious about this change of sound himself, especially in the action genre, when I interviewed him in Ghent. Be that as it may, he is still among my Top 10 film composers of all time.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Atlantis is by quite a distance my favorite JNH score. Just spectacular stuff from beginning to end (yes...the five or so minutes of Mickey-mousing in a seventy minute score don't bother me all that much). And yes, the film is very solid and enjoyable! I wish Disney went back to making that kind of thing and I wish it had been more successful when it first came out.
Note: The above opinions may be influenced by childhood nostalgia to a certain degree...
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
I have no nostalgia for ATLANTIS (I was 24 in 2001, and I don't think I even saw it when it came out), but it's -- for the most part -- a good score. Some of the mickey-mousey action tracks are a bit too noisy for my taste, but then you have something like "The Crystal Chamber", which is one of my favourite JNH tracks of all time.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorErik Woods
- CommentTimeJan 21st 2014
Southall wrote
Erik Woods wrote
Atlantis is shit? Credibility factor going waaaaaaaaay down, Southall.
-Erik-
Parts of it are quite good but a lot is too generic for me.
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