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- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018 edited
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- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018 edited
In fact, I feel a list coming on...
Best scores*:
1) Solo - John Powell (& John Williams)
2) Ready Player One - Alan Silvestri
3) Jurassic Park 5: Jurassic World 2: The Lost Fallen Kingdom World - Michael Giacchino
4) Ant Man & The Wasp - Christophe Beck
5) Black Panther - Ludwig Göransson
(And James Newton Howard's Red Sparrow suite gets an honourable mention... rest of the score is standard JNH thriller filler.)
Worst scores*:
Fallout - Lorne Balfe
Pacific Rim Uprising - Lorne Balfe
12 Strong - Lorne Balfe
The Hurricane Heist - Lorne Balfe
Tomb Raider - Junkie XL
*so far, of course
And for those lazy fucks who like to abbreviate things:
S - JP&JW
RPO - AS
JP5JW2TLFKW - MG
AM&TW - CB
BP - LG
F - LB
PRU - LB
12S - LB
THH - LB
TR - JXL -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
I'd add Ocean's 8 to the "best of" list too! -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
Ooh, yes. That's a good choice. -
- CommentAuthorAidabaida
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
Steven wrote
In fact, I feel a list coming on...
Best scores*:
1) Solo - John Powell (& John Williams)
2) Ready Player One - Alan Silvestri
3) Jurassic Park 5: Jurassic World 2: The Lost Fallen Kingdom World - Michael Giacchino
4) Ant Man & The Wasp - Christophe Beck
5) Black Panther - Ludwig Göransson
just replace ready player one with infinity war and the board will give you level 5 clearanceBach's music is heartless and robotic. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
Ready Player One > Infinity War in this household. I'd put something else on the list instead of Black Panther but otherwise it's an excellent one.
Hard to argue the other end of the table. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
I find that I have only a marginal interest in a couple of the scores Steven mentions. My favorites of the year lie elsewhere.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2018
I bet you're going to love the new Mission Impossible then. It's one of the worst scores for a major franchise in years. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJul 15th 2018
I doubt it.
I really have very limited interest in the big franchise/blockbuster things that everyone raves about around here.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorCaliburn
- CommentTimeJul 15th 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout - Lorne Balfe
First 10 minutes in and I want to cry in a corner.Editor-in-chief at http://soundtrackworld.com / http://soundtrackwereld.nl -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout Lorne Balfe
Brexit, Trump, now this. How did it comes to this? -
- CommentAuthorLSH
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
Wow. First reactions to this score are even more negative than I expected they would be. Oh dear.
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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
I think it's boring more than it's outright bad. 90-odd minutes of album, at least three quarters of which must be repeats of the Dark Knight action ostinato. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
If it was outright bad, at least it would be noticeable. But it's worse than outright bad, it's boring like you say.
To go from what I think is the best Mission Impossible score to this is insanity. -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018 edited
It is beyond outright bad. It is one of the worst scores I have ever heard.
This is apparently an acceptable standard.
Meanwhile, this is music. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
I did come to it after listening to Steve Jablonsky’s Skyscraper, which is so pathetic it defies belief. -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 16th 2018
As if Balfe's score wasn't unlistenable enough, there's even an album of remixes! -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2018
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Joe Kraemer
To use Tom Cruise himself as an analogy, it's like that scene in Minority Report where he eats a maggot-ridden sandwich along with rotten milk and mercifully finds a tub of water to wash it down. This score is that refreshing water to the rotten food that is Fallout. -
- CommentAuthorCaliburn
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2018
Southall wrote
I did come to it after listening to Steve Jablonsky’s Skyscraper, which is so pathetic it defies belief.
I found Skyscraper better since I did it the other way around! :D (And yes, that one is forgettable as well)Editor-in-chief at http://soundtrackworld.com / http://soundtrackwereld.nl -
- CommentAuthorAidabaida
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout
“Ethan! Ethan! Why is he running, Dad?”
“Because we have to chase him. He’s the hero the IMF deserves... but not the one it needs right now.”Bach's music is heartless and robotic. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2018
Some men just like to see the world burn.... by hiring Lorne Balfe. -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2018
NP: Movie Classics: The Music of Ennio Morricone & Hugo Montenegro
I was dimly aware those recordings existed. I recently read, that these recordings got played on the radio quite a bit back in the day and that for many who didn't see the Leone films in the cinema, those recordings were actually the first exposure to the Italo Western music of Morricone. I prefer the originals for being more wild and anarchist, but these recordings are fine alternatives nevertheless.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2018
Captain Future wrote
NP: Movie Classics: The Music of Ennio Morricone & Hugo Montenegro
I was dimly aware those recordings existed. I recently read, that these recordings got played on the radio quite a bit back in the day and that for many who didn't see the Leone films in the cinema, those recordings were actually the first exposure to the Italo Western music of Morricone. I prefer the originals for being more wild and anarchist, but these recordings are fine alternatives nevertheless.
Volker
Great album!I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2018 edited
I've been out of touch for a couple of weeks (holiday), but the Balfe backlash has me tantalized. I've always appreciated his work; this might just be for me. I'll let you know in a couple of days (I'm sure you're all trembling with anticipation). Anything non-Giacchino for the M:I franchise has me perked.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorLSH
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018
I haven't been able to get past the first 6 cues. They were more than enough. -
- CommentAuthorLSH
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY - JOHN POWELL
Now this is what modern film music should sound like. I FUCKING LOVE THIS. -
- CommentAuthorAidabaida
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018 edited
the soundtrack to the first Jurassic World is one of my favorites of the 2010s, so when I cued up the fallen kingdom album tonight I expected a lot. I made it 40 minutes before I turned in the towel. The soaring melancholy beauty of the original only returned once or twice and in between was endless... endless... endless bars of simplistic, brutish, dull, unmemorable, anonymous action/suspense music.
Thor has a point about (some of) Giacchino's recent music. never thought i would say that.Bach's music is heartless and robotic. -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018 edited
The first Jurassic World score was bridge from Williams to Giacchino. The second one is Giacchino coming into his own.
The soaring melancholy beauty of the original only returned once or twice ...
You probably are referring to Giacchino's own gorgeous Main Theme here, which I also would have hoped to have been applied more often.
...between was endless... endless... endless bars of simplistic, brutish, dull, unmemorable, anonymous action/suspense music.
Agreed. The suspense material in the middle part is dragging. Still I love most of the score, which - so far - I have not experienced in context. My personal highlights are the choral parts.
VolkerBach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018
If you go in expecting wonder, like I foolishly did on my first listen, you will be disappointed. What it is is epic, end-of-the-world music. The big theme for the volcano/island/indo-raptor (??) is fantastic. This is one of Giacchino's best. -
- CommentAuthorAnthony
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2018
Although I was quick to label it as "disappointing", I have come around to it. It's great, and better than Jurassic World. Tracks like "Go With The Pyroclastic Flow", "Raiders Of The Lost Isla Nublar" and "Jurassic Pillow Talk" are just excellent.
Although my enjoyment of Giacchino's scores has wavered recently, hearing the new Mission: Impossible score really put into context how much better something like Fallen Kingdom is.
