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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: PREDATOR: Back in Stock at Intrada   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 20, 2018 - 2:38 PM     By:   Tom Maguire   (Member) I only own the Varese 2003 release. I'd like to hear from people about the differences and whether this is worth double dipping. Or triple dipping? I'm a little confused by about the release history here. Is this right: 2010 Intrada - sells out in a day. 2012 Intrada - fixes some issues from 2010 2018 Intrada - restocking of the 2012? "Ok! You spoke... we listened! Completely re-mastered release of complete Alan Silvestri soundtrack for John McTiernan alien action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes as both licensor (20th Century Fox) and composer seek re-release of wildly popular score to wider market. You asked for every drop of blood, we now give it to you. New CD restores tiny bits edited from earlier issue, removes select crossfades, includes brief cue "The Aftermath" prior to "End Credits". CD plays in chronological order as originally scored by composer. Silvestri's incredibly muscular score is dynamite example of scoring via small motifs. Rhythmic punctuation in low brass, melded with busy percussion figures, creates incredibly terse, aggressive foundation for melodic ideas in strings, upper brass. Another cool idea has heroic musical signature for Schwarzenegger anchoring score yet almost all motifs, ideas are rooted in minor harmonies, not the expected major. Resulting music remains grim, tough, violent throughout! Intrada MAF series release with modest enhancement to original graphic design by Joe Sikoryak plus reprise of informative liner notes from Julie Kirgo. Alan Silvestri conducts." http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7476/.f    Posted:   Aug 20, 2018 - 6:56 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) Well it's a MAF series album so theoretically it's just a restocking of an album that's been "in print" since then, as it were.    Posted:   Aug 21, 2018 - 9:29 PM     By:   johnonymous86   (Member) I bought this score a few months ago and I've been trying really hard to get into it. I really want to like it because I love the movie and I love Alan Silvestri. But I can't really find anything to grab onto with this score. The opening credits set up a great adventure but the rest just feels very--and I hate to say this like it's a bad thing--Stalling-esque. There are a lot of quiet moments of suspense followed by blasts of brass or percussion that can create a jarring listening experience. It just feels like he's scoring VERY close to the action--like an animated film...if that makes sense?? I don't know--maybe I'm missing something. I love Silvestri and I want to love this score but it's kind of a miss for me as of right now.    Posted:   Aug 21, 2018 - 9:39 PM     By:   GoblinScore   (Member) Works best when: pissed off. Going to work & know that day you will face some trouble or stress. Driving in hostile traffic. Need to foster a bad attitude. Pissed off ;-) Or, just marvel at the concise coloristic writing & asymmetric meters Silvestri uses. If you have only the Varese - unless you know every bar of the score & need various edits, stick with it. The Intrada' are nice but in the end not really necessary. I feel the VC sound was fine - but other Predator lunatics disagreed so ask them. Not a fun, easy listen but textbook 80s suspense-action if you have any fondness for that era/genre.    Posted:   Aug 22, 2018 - 2:58 AM     By:   davefg   (Member) Well it's a MAF series album so theoretically it's just a restocking of an album that's been "in print" since then, as it were. Shame this isn't the case with another MAF title, the Great Train Robbery!    Posted:   Aug 24, 2018 - 12:28 PM     By:   Tom Maguire   (Member) I bought this score a few months ago and I've been trying really hard to get into it. I really want to like it because I love the movie and I love Alan Silvestri. But I can't really find anything to grab onto with this score. The opening credits set up a great adventure but the rest just feels very--and I hate to say this like it's a bad thing--Stalling-esque. There are a lot of quiet moments of suspense followed by blasts of brass or percussion that can create a jarring listening experience. It just feels like he's scoring VERY close to the action--like an animated film...if that makes sense?? I don't know--maybe I'm missing something. I love Silvestri and I want to love this score but it's kind of a miss for me as of right now. As famous and collectible as it was/is, it's not a Silvestri I listen to a lot. It works amazingly in the film but as an album listen, I'm going to BTTF 1-3, Romancing The Stone and the Marvel stuff much much more. Heck I think I listen to CHIPS more than Predator.    Posted:   Aug 24, 2018 - 12:45 PM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) The thing with the score for the original PREDATOR is that Silvestri's cues hew very closely to the onscreen action and specific edit points so it may be best appreciated when actually watching the movie. Granted, that is how I discovered this score so many years ago, which might help in how much I enjoy listening to it apart from the movie, but it's not a score that you can come to easily without having seen it first. That's not a slight against the score, it's brilliantly composed and applied to the film and that it's main job. It isn't as consistently tonal and melodic as a BTTF, ROGER RABBIT or FORREST GUMP, but it's no less a highwater mark for Silvestri's career.    Posted:   Aug 24, 2018 - 12:49 PM     By:   Mike Esssss   (Member) The thing with the score for the original PREDATOR is that Silvestri's cues hew very closely to the onscreen action and specific edit points so it may be best appreciated when actually watching the movie. Yeah, I mean at heart it's a suspense movie, not an action movie. The biggest action set piece in the whole thing, the shootout in the insurgent camp, goes almost entirely unscored.    Posted:   Aug 24, 2018 - 12:51 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) I recommend u yuse My playlist. A satisfying forty minutes    Posted:   Aug 24, 2018 - 1:42 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) No crossfades?!!!! The terrorists have won.    Posted:   Aug 25, 2018 - 12:21 AM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) Have tried to love this -- I do love many Silvestri scores -- but to agree with a previous poster, I think that this is one of those scores best heard while watching the film. It just doesn't have much of a life as a standalone.     General Discussion: PREDATOR: Back in Stock at Intrada    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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