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I think the film got the score it deserved. Considering Emmerich's films since at least 2004, I think all his films deserve scores like this. I think composers wanting to do big quality scores should go elsewhere.
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Jun 23, 2016 - 3:33 PM
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Having watched the film today, the CD doesn't do justice to the score. Not only there's a lot of music missing, but also more variations of Arnold's original theme. More action cues (with a lot of choir), plus a couple re-arrangements of some cues from the CD (like a much more heroic version of What Goes Up, a more militaristic version of It's Getting Real, plus a couple of cues with a louder choral volume than in the CD). Kloser's new theme is actually like I mentioned, a representative of the heroism of the new generation of heroes where as Arnold's theme is referenced to represent the heroics of the original cast.
The film itself it's a perfect sequel of the original, not only it's bigger, but it actually expands the plot of the original film (explaining why the aliens attacked the Earth in first place and came back) into a sci-fi and war movie. Greg Keyes's prequel actually explains more of the background of the characters plus what happened to the old ones during the 20 years timeline so the film doesn't deal with them a lot before the action starts. Surprisingly. there's not a lot of worldwide destruction (and Emmerich actually spares a certain landmark for change) and the things that people bitched that didn't came back (Will Smith, the original actress for Whitmore's daughter, and David Arnold) never were missed. So go ahead and bitch as usual, I enjoyed the film and the score and like Emmerich, I don't feel guilty about it.
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Jun 24, 2016 - 12:18 PM
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jlj93byu
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The film itself it's a perfect sequel of the original, not only it's bigger, but it actually expands the plot of the original film (explaining why the aliens attacked the Earth in first place and came back) into a sci-fi and war movie. Greg Keyes's prequel actually explains more of the background of the characters plus what happened to the old ones during the 20 years timeline so the film doesn't deal with them a lot before the action starts. Surprisingly. there's not a lot of worldwide destruction (and Emmerich actually spares a certain landmark for change) and the things that people bitched that didn't came back (Will Smith, the original actress for Whitmore's daughter, and David Arnold) never were missed. So go ahead and bitch as usual, I enjoyed the film and the score and like Emmerich, I don't feel guilty about it.
While I don't quite agree on the score (it WAS better in the film than the album, but I still wasn't a huge fan), I absolutely agree overall on the movie. It is an excellent sequel and I am completely perplexed by the dearth of good reviews as I watch it drop on rotten tomatoes. Granted, the first film is only 61% there, but still, ID:Resurgence is a solid 3.5/5 star film, definitely not nearly as bad as it would appear by some reviews. It was familiar enough to feel like Independence Day, with good continuity, but original enough to not be a retread of the original, and it certainly expanded the universe in exciting ways.
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Well, whether or not the film was financed to some degree by the Chinese government, it just makes sense one of the world's strongest powers would fight along side any country -- ally or enemy -- to stop a planetary invasion from a hostile alien race.
Except for France, which would surrender immediately and welcome their new evil alien overlords. ;-)
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