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Mar 9, 2005 - 11:59 AM
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swoony
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Saw an advance screening of this wonderful movie starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner about a woman who becomes a tsunami of anger when her husband leaves her for another woman. There were no title credits, so I had no idea who wrote the score. The music was rather upbeat for such an angry movie, and almost whimiscal when is should be dark. It reminded me of my reaction to the score in "Birth" and I said to myself, I wouldn't be surprised if Alexandre Desplat wrote this score.
When the credits came up, sure enough, it was Desplat. I've always thought he's been overrated by fans because while the music is always distinctive and interesting, it always seems to be at cross-purposes with the plot. This was Desplat's first score that almost worked for me.
Desplat reminds me of Maurice Jarre for some reason. His style, his juxtaposition of music. Something about it.
There doesn't seem to be any plans to release Desplat's score, which is unfortunate, because I like Desplat's scores on CD more than I do in the film.
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How was the film?
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I've never been real high on Mike Binder as a writer, but I love the idea of Joan Allen playing a sexy spitfire. And you've got some fine actresses playing her daughters.
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Neither will receive a release.
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May 12, 2005 - 10:07 PM
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Joe E.
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Saw an advance screening of this wonderful movie starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner about a woman who becomes a tsunami of anger when her husband leaves her for another woman. There were no title credits, so I had no idea who wrote the score. The music was rather upbeat for such an angry movie, and almost whimiscal when is should be dark.
I finally saw the movie last night, and thought very much the same thing about the score. Portions of score (not the whole thing, but more than one snippet) seem almost perversely whimsically at odds with the drama that suffuses most of the film. It's a curious decision, and not one I'd necessarily have made, but I'm thinking it works well.
There doesn't seem to be any plans to release Desplat's score, which is unfortunate, because I like Desplat's scores on CD more than I do in the film.
I see from the other thread that after posting this you later found the music did indeed get released after all. Have you gotten the album, and if so, how do you like this one apart from the film? I'm thinking I'll get it myself...
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Well, we have our faults. 
Mine was based upon info I knew at the time and other members statements.
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I got the MOD CDR in the mail today from Amazon and it's a complete disappointment. 
A) It's not made from a proper complete album master, it seems to be just all the individual mp3 files burned to a disc. About half the tracks are meant to flow directly into each other, yet the mp3s all have 2 seconds of silence at the end. I had to edit the mp3s to make a proper CD that removed those unintended silences, but there were still blips at the end of those tracks. The 2 second silences are all present on the new CDR, which is not the way the album was meant to play.
B) There is no artwork at all, except the cover. The rest of the packaging is generic black text on gray background. Truly lazy.
Everything about this CD release is a miss. I don't have the technical ability to compare the CD to the mp3s to compare the sound quality, but I don't hear any noticeable difference.
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I just bought this album as well and the sound drops out on a few tracks before those tracks end, then comes back. Is this is a production error? Time to get out the "pitchforks and torches."
Disappointed Peter
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I just bought this album as well and the sound drops out on a few tracks before those tracks end, then comes back. Is this is a production error? Time to get out the "pitchforks and torches."
Disappointed Peter
When they mastered the mp3s they put a standard 2 seconds of silence at the end of every track, not realizing that the tracks are NOT meant to have that, as most flow into each other.
I had hoped the CDR would be done from a proper album master, without those silences, but they clearly just burned the altered mp3s to a disc.
I made my own CD a few years back, editing out those silences.
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