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I enjoy the scores quite a bit. The second is by far the best. (I guess my ears are broken  ) I love the themes for Davy Jones (especially the uses of organ and music box) and the Kraken, and it has some good use of the themes from the original film, particularly during the water wheel fight. After that, my order of preference for the scores are 3, 1, 4, 5.
The extra music in the box set is nice, but half the bonus disc is demos and remixes. Hopefully Disney will put out expanded releases of the scores, particularly the first three some day.
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I loved the film and parts of the score. I would have thought more of it if 1) the album had been better and 2) they hadn't lifted part of Wojciech Kilar's Dracula. But there are some pretty terrific themes and set pieces in there if I remember to look for them. Jack's entrance and the first sword fight between Will and Jack are standouts.
I'm not overly in love with the whole score of 2, but the concert suites of Jack Sparrow, The Kraken, and Davy Jones got played almost continuously that year.
Pirates 3 is one of my favorite scores ever, and definitely of the 21st century. It has all the detail and use of themes and character that I find missing from, well, pretty much everything these days.
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I have the CD by Badelt from the first movie. I NEVER play it. Too noisy (and too orchestral) for my current taste.
And I will surely never see any of the films.
But I admit there are certain nice themes here and there.
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I've always felt that the post-60s Disney was more to do with what parents THINK their children SHOULD want than what they actually DO want: reassuring the moms and dads who buy the tickets ... apparently Disney didn't like the concept at all originally, and were firmly against Jack Sparrow becoming the central character. It's as well he did. A saccharine 'boy meets princess' pirate movie would be awful. But Depp's character brings genuine trickster life, and helps kids grow up. And the children aren't patronised: plenty of decent adult symbolism in the pictures.
The score is okay, has many good passages, and is thematic enough for a child to adopt as his/her own tune.
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Too noisy (and too orchestral) for my current taste.
Too orchestral? Is there such a thing? Most of the scores today, do not have enough orchestral!
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apparently Disney didn't like the concept at all originally, and were firmly against Jack Sparrow becoming the central character.
Jack is in no way the central character. That's something 2 and 3 struggled with and it's what sunk 4.
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I got distracted when part of the theme sounded very similar to something I'd heard before in the 'Gladiator' score.
This. But I do like the jaunty fiddle theme for Jack Sparrow. Best part of the first score for me, and it got developed more in the second to good effect. The second score was a giant leap forward in musical quality, and then the third score was an even bigger leap forward, IMO (though one of the best of the 21st century is still a bit of a stretch, IMO.) "Up Is Down" is totally addictive to me. (Hey, woodwinds!)
Unfortunately, as the scores were drastically improving over the course of the trilogy, the films themselves were getting worse and worse. Therefore I have more nostalgia tied to the first (rather trashy) score just because I loved the film so much. But the far superior music is unfortunately somewhat still tied in my head to really convoluted and frustrating overwrought movies.
The first and second score are the best; the others I don't think I've even heard.
Thor, surely you must be able to realize what a ridiculous statement this is. How on earth can you confidently pronounce the judgment that the first and second score are the best, when you haven't even heard any of the other three?? Why even spend the time writing that?
Yavar
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Well give it a listen. Musically speaking, it's quite noticeably the best of the three IMO. Not quite CutThroat Island, of course.
Yavar
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(though one of the best of the 21st century is still a bit of a stretch, IMO.)
It's not a very high bar.
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