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Except Leviathan was a terrible film while The Thing is a modern classic.
That is very true.
Oh boy, is it ever.
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I think we sometimes imagine what a composer would do with material and confuse our imagination with reality.
The honest truth is we honestly don't know what would have happened: what kind of score would have been written, etc.
However, if I was to take a punt from my imagination, I think it would have either been one of Goldsmith's very electronic scores or something more in the fashion of "Alien".
Probably the latter given that's the score that brought Goldsmith's name up in the first place.
However, it's all just fantasy.
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On "Leviathan", by the way, even though the film is awful and it comes in a period of Goldsmith's output I'm less interested in, I would be attracted to a deluxe edition of it. Don't ask me why. Some things are not logical.
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Yes I remember getting Warlock at the same time (in the same parcel, in fact) and thinking, much as I tried to like it, "Ugh!". But Leviathan did indeed become friendly with my CD player.
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I never really got why so many people dislike Warlock. After all the bad stuff I heard about it, when I finally got a copy a couple years ago (for completeness sake) I was rather surprised to be quite taken with it. It was less synthetic than I was expecting with some quite thrilling parts. I would definitely buy a complete remastered version.
Yavar
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Dec 17, 2014 - 10:07 AM
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Morricone
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I never really got why so many people dislike Warlock.
It's always felt very sleepy to me, with action riffs that are very stock for Goldsmith. The main theme has no energy, and is so simple it barely registers. (To me.)
And that is why I love it!
I have never been mainstream in wanting variations of the same stuff over and over again. Yuck, that is what continues to make me lose interest in a composer after composer. But Jerry's war films, westerns, sci-fi, suspense, etc. were never cookie cutter. So horror movies like THE MEPHISTO WALTZ was nothing like THE OTHER which was nothing like THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD nor THE OMEN, TWILIGHT ZONE, etc. WARLOCK sounded like a dirge leading straight down to hell. It actually gave me a sense of pure evil that his more elaborate ones didn't. Used it on student films and many a Halloween program.
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Dec 17, 2014 - 10:18 AM
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SchiffyM
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I have never been mainstream in wanting variations of the same stuff over and over again. Yuck, that is what continues to make me lose interest in a composer after composer. But Jerry's war films, westerns, sci-fi, suspense, etc. were never cookie cutter. So horror movies like THE MEPHISTO WALTZ was nothing like THE OTHER which was nothing like THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD nor THE OMEN, TWILIGHT ZONE, etc. WARLOCK sounded like a dirge leading straight down to hell. It actually gave me a sense of pure evil that his more elaborate ones didn't. Used it on student films and many a Halloween program.
You don't find the action music in "Warlock" to be exactly the same stuff over and over? That's one of the things that turns me off to this score – the action music seems the definition of cookie-cutter.
As for the main theme, it's not enough to be different. It's just too simple for my taste. (Again, my own.) It's like Goldsmith was noodling on a keyboard, hit on a melody, and never embellished it at all.
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WARLOCK isn't "bad". It's just that there's so much that's better and more interesting than it that it falls outside my perimeter of interest.
But folks, this is one of those things that comes down to personal response. No amount of logic in the world is going to change whether it does it for you or not.
Best we simply accept we're different.
Cheers
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