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I don't remember the score for Ex Machina but will now go back and check it out. The film was just okay. Strong performances make it work. The final demise was great... when Grant Morrison wrote it in a Zenith comic strip in the late 1980s. It also worked in the film. Looking forward to seeing Annhilation and hearing this score.
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The 11 bonus tracks on the second "disc" appear to be an iTunes exclusive, those tracks are not included on the Amazon download.
I don't see a listing for an actual physical CD anywhere though.
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I'm not listened the entire score, but there are creepy vocals, very creepy.
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Feb 28, 2018 - 7:21 PM
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The agonizing death of real music in movies continues as another "visionary" director chooses the obvious, musically-myopic 21st century approach to musical storytelling. Like ARRIVAL, this is another film that would have benefitted from an iconic score with life and humanity and musicals storytelling chops.
At least Japan is still delivering the goods with real musicianship and real film scores.
Yet another big romantic score you mean? So everything that isn't that isn't real film music? They lack distinctive scores in Japan too, it is a global "problem", not just the western part of world. The musicianship in general is better over there true, but it is still as much as status quo musically as in the west, sorely lacking in distinctive scores.
Arrival is on the iconic side of things - Jóhannsson provided a score that in Hollywood is nothing short of a miracle. When was the last time we heard a distinctive score like that in a blockbuster? How is that obvious or predictable, it could have been much worse - yet another Zimmer-style score, postminimalistic writing or big romantic gestures - instead what we got was something more distinctive. And I am not even a big fan of either Arrival or this score, which I don't think is as good as their Ex Machina score, but I still like both scores. As much as I like the big romantic writing when done competently, it has been done to death before, and also likely better than what any living film composer aside from Williams will be able to do.
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Now have seen the movie and listen the score... it's pretty interesting and very creepy.
The music is atmospheric, obviously, but in this type of movie, i don't think something with themes or motifs, will accomplish the goals of the director, beacuse the idea of this site is bizarre and strange, and the music accomplish that greatly.
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Mar 17, 2018 - 3:53 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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The film is...interesting.
It's biggest failure for me, like many these days, was my complete lack of investment in any of the characters.
If you don't give a stuff what's gonna happen to them, it's just an exercise in technical achievement.
And technically, it's VERY impressive (just like Ex-Machina, his other brilliantly shot, cold fish of a film).
The Bear sequence is intense. The end sequence is thought provoking.
The music is mainly sound design, with some guitar strumming cues early on. The Finale scenes had some weird sound manipulation that was strange and otherworldly, but quite effective.
I thought overall it was quite good, but not great and I would never watch it again. It did offer up some intelligent thought though, which is rare in film these days. It does bear some similarities to ARRIVAL.
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