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"I just hope it doesn't turn into the situation we had w/ Javier Navarrete on CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 where a talented composer, new to big-budget American films, is muscled into writing a dumb and cheap-sounding Media Ventures score"
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I would hope not.
I know he (Ratner) has a lot of detractors around here, but he does seem to prefer more traditional or retro scores to his films and has let the likes of Schifrin, Elfman, Powell and Beck write some pretty good scores in the past.
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Jul 17, 2014 - 2:08 PM
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maximus_rh
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I saw a screening of this today, I thought it was very dumb but also a lot of fun. Unpretentious and barely 100 mins long, which is rare for a modern blockbuster!
I liked the score and certainly wouldn't say it was a case similar to the homogenisation of Javier Navarrette on Wrath of the Titans. Having said that, it's definitely a modern action score (lots of pounding!), but there's also a lot of great stuff, including some surprisingly jazzy Schifrin-esque (well, a little) material towards the beginning, a suitably heroic theme for Hercules and some strong action music. In a way it reminded me of Andrew Lockington's Percy Jackson 2 score, in that it's a solid, often memorable score clearly showing the composer's personality, but one that also often conforms to the modern blockbuster sound.
I look forward to hearing the album, a fair bit of the action material is obscured in the mix so maybe all that pounding had more nuance than I could make out!
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Do you subscribe to Spotify? If you don't, it's 96-160 for everything. But you knew that, I'm sure.
At least it doesn't have the same audio artifacts as I hear in all these Soundcloud previews. Whatever they do, the quality is still at least listenable. And I get 160 on everything because I only listen through the desktop version. 160 is enough to preview something.
But 128 isn't?
Either way, I am disappointed that of course this score sounds like we all could have predicted without seeing a composer's name attached.
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