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      CommentAuthoromaha
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
    I really enjoyed it. The entire ending was a non-stop thrill ride!

    This movie really made me angry though. So, I haven't watched it sense.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
    Anyone else a fan of Burwell's ROB ROY score? I love it!

    just trying to set the thread back on it's own rails
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008 edited
    Timmer wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    It's a very bad score, no matter if you're an Elfman fan or not, imo.


    From what I noticed it worked fine in the film though I can't imagine it being an enjoyable album!?


    Yes, it is. It's one of the top 10 greatest Elfman soundtracks of all time, in fact! But you probably have to be predisposed to liking - on the one hand - groovy percussive writing and on the other hand, the moody soundscapes of "post rock".
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
    Well i admit i haven't watched the movie yet - which i plan to soon, but on cd it's a very tough listening experience. If i wanted to hear really good, modern rock-y Elfman there's always WANTED which is ages beyond.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  1. Timmer wrote
    Anyone else a fan of Burwell's ROB ROY score? I love it!

    Me! Me! Pick Me!!!

    Beautiful movie, wonderful love story, great actors, even greater actresses (Jessica Lange performs her heart out), and the honest to earth BEST sword fight ever - no music, no swashbuckling, just an honest and brutal fight to the death.

    And the score is downright perfect.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    Well i admit i haven't watched the movie yet - which i plan to soon, but on cd it's a very tough listening experience. If i wanted to hear really good, modern rock-y Elfman there's always WANTED which is ages beyond.


    Well, yeah, that's very good too (and in fact, I just saw the film, which was quite good also!), but it's a different kind of rock sound.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2008
    Ralph Kruhm wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Anyone else a fan of Burwell's ROB ROY score? I love it!

    Me! Me! Pick Me!!!

    Beautiful movie, wonderful love story, great actors, even greater actresses (Jessica Lange performs her heart out), and the honest to earth BEST sword fight ever - no music, no swashbuckling, just an honest and brutal fight to the death.

    And the score is downright perfect.


    Yeap! What a sword fight punk beer
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  2. Isn't Burwell scoring Twilight? Nov. 21 is going to be a girl-fest at every theater in the U.S. (not sure how well these books have been received internationally).
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      CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2008 edited
    Timmer wrote
    Ralph Kruhm wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Anyone else a fan of Burwell's ROB ROY score? I love it!

    Me! Me! Pick Me!!!

    Beautiful movie, wonderful love story, great actors, even greater actresses (Jessica Lange performs her heart out), and the honest to earth BEST sword fight ever - no music, no swashbuckling, just an honest and brutal fight to the death.

    And the score is downright perfect.


    Yeap! What a sword fight punk beer

    Just wanted to add that Tim Roth´s Cunningham is one of the best villains ever. A totally believable guy you just love to hate.

    And a nice trailer, too...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2008 edited
    christopher wrote
    Isn't Burwell scoring Twilight? Nov. 21 is going to be a girl-fest at every theater in the U.S. (not sure how well these books have been received internationally).


    Yeah... He's scoring it, and yes, it would seem every single girl on the face of the planet is going to go see Twilight. Yuck. I mean, it's not that I'm a guy and 'guys can't be into romance' (as we are so stereotyped) that makes me sick at the thought of this book and film, but the amount of people who are reading it. It's insane. Seriously, almost every girl at my school has started reading it within the past week just because the movie's coming out! Everyone who reads it gets hooked; I may read it out of curiosity in the future, but I will be sure to wait awhile until the film has ben released and the hype has died down. It's just annoying. I have a feeling (and I know it's mean devil, but I kind of hope) that the film will be merely another Eragon and fail to live up to expectations. But I am interested to see how the score turns out.
  3. I went to his site a week or two ago, to the Current Projects page and "Twilight" had been moved off it (replaced with a new assignment, by the way) and to the regular list saying he had finished recording the score. For some reason, unlike his other new scores, there is only one sample up.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2008 edited
    justin boggan wrote
    For some reason, unlike his other new scores, there is only one sample up.


    Hmmm... Well, samples are up at Amazon, if you want to check them out.
    • CommentAuthorEnemyToo
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2008
    Bella's lullaby definitely sounds like there's a little too much going on. It's not bad, but I was expecting more of a soft, literal lullaby track.
  4. Happy Thanksgiving folks!

    Here's my review of TWILIGHT, if you're interested smile

    http://www.moviemusicuk.us/twilightcbcd.htm

    Jon
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    MMmmm interesting!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008 edited
    My review of Burwell's Twilight:

    " The one good track is a lullaby which doesn't even sound like a lullaby. "


    Carter Burwell's score to the eagerly anticipated 2008 teen vampire-romance, Twilight, is a rocky, dark work of film scoring. Instead of giving the audience a lush, romantic motif and score, Burwell doles out tracks of screeching electric guitars (Nomads), vehement strings (which sound so small in number that they could be - and likely are - a small chamber ensemble) (Bella’s Lullaby), dangerous-sounding bass percussion (How I Would Die, I Know What You Are, Humans Are Predators Too, The Skin of a Killer, Bella Is Part of the Family, Tracking, Showdown In the Ballet Studio), rural-sounding guitar and percussion (Who Are They?, I Would Be the Meal), tracks of basically boring nothingness (which is unfortunately almost the entire score) (Treaty, I Dreamt of Edward, The Most Dangerous Predator, The Skin of a Killer, Complications, I Would Be the Meal, Stuck Here Like Mom, In Place of Someone You Love, Edward At Her Bed) and the occasional soft, somewhat pretty-yet-haunting tracks of piano and/or guitar (of which some fall into the ‘boring’ category as well) (Phascination Phase, The Lion Fell In Love With the Lamb, Dinner With His Family, Bella’s Lullaby, Stuck Here Like Mom, Edward At Her Bed).

    Now, if you were bored by reading the above list (if you actually took the time to read it), take that level of boredom, multiply it by about five times, and you have Twilight. I kid you not; Twilight is probably one of the most boring scores I have ever bothered to listen to, though I am not sure if this is merely due to my distaste for the majority of the music presented here. Let’s face it: screeching electric guitars and music that sounds like it would better fit a TV documentary about life on a farm is just not my kind of music. And add to that a bleak, two-note chromatic motif (think Jaws, but with the notes descending rather than ascending) which recurs throughout many of the album’s twenty-one tracks.

    Amidst all the boredom and darkness is a slightly dissonant piano motif representing the love of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), the vampire for whom all teen girls around the world would die to have for a boyfriend. This piano motif can be heard numerous times throughout the score, though the most obvious (and beautiful) usage is in the track entitled Bella's Lullaby, which would appear to be the gem of this entire album. In the film and novel, the lullaby is supposedly written and played for Bella by her vampire lover. While I wouldn't necessarily call it a "lullaby," due to its dark, tormented sound, it is certainly quite gorgeous and moving, and is the highlight of the score as presented here. (Hey, I bought the whole album after being drawn in by the sound of this one track, so I guess that says something in favor of the score.)

    I have very little else to say about this haunting (and often times, boring) score, other than that if you are a Twilight fan you will no doubt love it, as all who love the book and/or film do. But as far as I'm concerned, a deep love or liking for a score like this either implies blindness to the difference between good and bad film scoring, or an intense/insane fandom for the subject on which the music is written.
  5. Fear, The Jackal and Mystery, Alaska is three unreleased scores I really want to be released.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008
    Boring is the word, for Twilight.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    Boring is the word, for Twilight.


    You've heard it, Demetris?
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008
    Yeap, lots of times.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    Yeap, lots of times.


    Ah... So it's not bad enough for you to have stopped after the first listen? dizzy cool
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2008
    No, it has some good elements in it. But overall it's too inferior than the average Burwell score.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2008
    Demetris is this another one to avoid?
    listen to more classical music!
  6. Regarding the music to Twilight, I was somewhat disappointed that they had a song instead of score in the baseball sequence.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2008
    sdtom wrote
    Demetris is this another one to avoid?


    I don't think there's anything in there to like Tom. If i am not mistaken you alredy have BURN AFTER READING and IN BRUGES? These are far, far superior. They have something to say.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  7. Christodoulides wrote
    Boring is the word, for Twilight.


    sad, considering this looked like an intruiging project for him
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2008
    This could be another one for TG! He will be known as the man who gives the least stars. cheesy
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2008
    I do have both the Burges and Burn After Reading Demetris. Another one to avoid
    listen to more classical music!
  8. sdtom wrote
    This could be another one for TG! He will be known as the man who gives the least stars. cheesy


    hehe, apparently to Joep it always is 3 stars wink
    the problem is that I hear this crap everytime, and the really good stuff I'm missing out on sad
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2008
    Which is why I lean more these days to some of the fine classical music available.
    listen to more classical music!