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Anyone know who is scoring the new Walking Dead series? Assume that it's Bear McCreary, but IMDB doesn't say and neither does Bear's website.
My understanding is that it's Paul Haslinger, not Bear.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Main Title Theme by Atticus Ross
That's a strong word.
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It was a slow burner. I' m a big fan of Bear McCreary and although I liked what I heard of the score, it was far more in your face than Bear's background score. For a pilot that had to set up quite a bit, certainly when it came to characters, I thought it did well. I did groan at some of the "homages" to other zombie movies, especially Shaun of the Dead. (Some of the dialogue even seemed to foreshadow events in the same way Shaun of the Dead did).
Examples I noticed:
The Church scenes reminded me of 28 Days Later
When Madison approaches Art, listening in to the classes, it reminded me of Shaun approaching his "Dad" in Shaun of the Dead.
The attack on the gurney was similar to scenes in Romero's Diary of the Dead.
Madison is looking out of the passenger window of a car and sees a dark figure in a park, that could be a zombie. That was very similar to a scene in Shaun of the Dead.
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It was a slow burner. I' m a big fan of Bear McCreary and although I liked what I heard of the score, it was far more in your face than Bear's background score. For a pilot that had to set up quite a bit, certainly when it came to characters, I thought it did well. I did groan at some of the "homages" to other zombie movies, especially Shaun of the Dead. (Some of the dialogue even seemed to foreshadow events in the same way Shaun of the Dead did).
Examples I noticed:
The Church scenes reminded me of 28 Days Later
When Madison approaches Art, listening in to the classes, it reminded me of Shaun approaching his "Dad" in Shaun of the Dead.
The attack on the gurney was similar to scenes in Romero's Diary of the Dead.
Madison is looking out of the passenger window of a car and sees a dark figure in a park, that could be a zombie. That was very similar to a scene in Shaun of the Dead.
Most of these homages seem directed at John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
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It was a slow burner. I' m a big fan of Bear McCreary and although I liked what I heard of the score, it was far more in your face than Bear's background score. For a pilot that had to set up quite a bit, certainly when it came to characters, I thought it did well. I did groan at some of the "homages" to other zombie movies, especially Shaun of the Dead. (Some of the dialogue even seemed to foreshadow events in the same way Shaun of the Dead did).
Examples I noticed:
The Church scenes reminded me of 28 Days Later
When Madison approaches Art, listening in to the classes, it reminded me of Shaun approaching his "Dad" in Shaun of the Dead.
The attack on the gurney was similar to scenes in Romero's Diary of the Dead.
Madison is looking out of the passenger window of a car and sees a dark figure in a park, that could be a zombie. That was very similar to a scene in Shaun of the Dead.
Most of these homages seem directed at John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
I didn't feel that at all. I'm not arguing as it's a personal thing. Yeah, there were scenes that took place in a church but I felt they owed more to the church scene in 28 Days Later. Some of the choices of direction even seemed to mirror that movie, except there was no graffiti saying that the end is extremely effing nigh ;-)
The bodies scattered around the pews reminded me of 28 Days Later when Jim is looking at the pews and notices movement, before he's chased by the infected.
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I watched every episode in every season of WALKING DEAD, which was uneven to say the least, and while the first seasons were great, the show took some turns for the worse in its later seasons. Worst was the replacement of some vital characters with all the folks from "Magna's group", nearly all of which were horribly written characters that I just wish would finally get eaten by zombies or killed by enemies... alas, no such luck.  And the Commonwealth plot with its political undertones and back story was just very heavy handed, and I never fully bought all the killings and conspiracies going on there. It was stated the Commonwealth had about 50,000 people. While that is larger than any of the other communities up to that point, it's still only the size of a small city. So disappearing people would make the rounds quite quickly.
On the plus side: Angela Kang managed to make the zombies scary again in the final season, individual episodes were at times very good. The conflict with the "Reapers" at the beginning of season 11 played out much better than the whole commonwealth deal at the end of season 11.
I did watch the first season of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, but never continued with season 2... it was just too many zombie shows. Even though some WD characters, especially Morgan Jones, crossed over to FTWD. Not sure if and when I will pick up another one... DARYL DIXON looks like it could become interesting.
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