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While I like Elfman´s score for JUSTICE LEAGUE I would not consider it better or more pleasing than his first two BATMAN scores.
But this is a general problem with today´s blockbusters - they rarely leave the kind of breathing space in which a score can develop more than action music (which in turn too often gets buried in the mix anyway). The more action and sound effects create a frenetic atmosphere, the less possibilities a composer gets. He rather has to fight for prominence or has to underline the chaos that already is onscreen.
If you look at Donner´s SUPERMAN or Burton´s BATMAN, action and character and atmosphere are so much better balanced and therefore Williams and Elfman had room to really react accordingly.
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Aside from some glaring factual mistakes in this article I largely agree with his point. However I couldn't disagree with him more when he says specifically orchestral scores and not superhero scores at large. This "issue" is by no means limited to the orchestral efforts, but also includes the RCP scores since they too have been largely forgettable.
Why not turn to people who could actually deliver the goods instead? This is true for most part, they hire inferior talent and not the best or most interesting composers in the business. Yes, I don't consider Patrick Doyle, Brian Tyler, Steve Jablonsky, Junkie XL, Henry Jackman, Michael Giacchino, Danny Elfman, Christophe Beck and some others anywhere near the best even if some of them are OK choices that could potentially deliver a very good score.
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It's all a matter of acceleration. Multiple "composers" allow for quicker, interchangeable results to meet deadlines. It's also not exclusive to film music, but to screenwriters and special effects as well. Studios now have multiple FX houses, big and small, doling out scene specific work in a timely manner. Long is gone the manner of ownership a film could boast by being visually identifiable by a particular house. If Disney keeps up their hiring/firing/hiring approach, they may have to rely on several directors just to get A Star Wars Story completed for a summer release.
It's as if they're all racing to some finish line that never was.
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