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I don't mean to blindly defend the guy, as Lord knows I've had my disagreements with him, but I kind of fundamentally dislike it when people claim a reviewer doesn't "get" a score. What is there to "get"? Maybe he just doesn't like the music as much as you do.

And I didn't mean to give the impression that I think his word is "scripture" or anything.

And let's not forget that it's music we are talking about, opinions and reviews are all subjective. But people tend to get a bit defensive from times to time about things they like

It's in his arguments. He tries to interpret scores and sometimes he is very much way off-base with what the composer tried to do to fit the picture. If the score is basically leitmotivic in the Golden Age/Star Wars/Wagnerian sense, his calls are very good, but when something for a large project basically goes off that route, he is pretty much mistaken in his interpretations. Then again, the way he perceives music also disallows him to see how leitmotivic The Dark Knight trilogy is. Of course, these scores don't feature leitmotifs in the traditional sense, but rather in a soundscape sense (it's a normal thing for Hans to use sounds rather than tunes to signify something, also in a repetitive, leitmotivic sense - see Joker and Bane).

Something like Patriot Games also is something he didn't really get. I think a masterful stroke by Horner was something that Clemmensen didn't like in particular, scoring a sequence like The Hit "oblivious" of what's happening on screen, concentrating rather on Ryan's slow discovery of what the plan really is. But yeah, scoring against the picture is not exactly something he's a fan of.

I could give a lot of examples like that.

But that's part of disagreeing. You did that same at Filmtracks recently concerning CC's review of The World's End.

-Erik-

Try Tropic Thunder, one of my favourite recent self-deprecating performances .

True...I said just there that I do have significant disagreements with him (as I do with all reviewers except for myself ) but at least I can see where he's coming from. I've always felt that a good reviewer (of anything) is not necessarily someone you always agree with, but rather someone where if you read the review, you can tell whether or not you would like what's being reviewed - regardless of whether the reviewer him/herself does.

I find that score completely dull outside of the excellent main title cue.

NP: Clash of the Titans (1981) - Laurence Rosenthal
Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Orchestrated by Herbert W. Spencer.

Those were the days ...

Volker

It's interesting that you say that, because I do sometimes find myself wondering how someone can love Inception so much but not like the Dark Knight scores...

Krull James Horner

This is good.

Images - John Williams

Fascinating, if only for being like nothing else in his body of work, though of course it's a very fine score in its own right. Some eerie atonality here that I love and an addictive melody early on that I can't get out of my head.

Very sincere effort for what I hear is a mediocre film. Skram has an amazing sensitivity for colours and texture, and uses melody in a sparing, but effective way. I'm looking forward to hearing the new score for the recent "Amnesia"

James Horner

DONE!!!







phew ......I feel so much better now!