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So I just watched the Incredible Hulk on bluey-dooey-ray disc and it looked great. It was watchable, not too bad, MUCH better than that HULK film they made a few years ago. Anyway, I was listening to the music and they only good thing about it, in my opinion, or at least the only memorable thing was the lonely man theme which wasn't even composed by Craig, it's by Joe, DUH. The music was so unmemorable throughout the whole thing, just a bunch of strings and percussion and no themes or melodies at all.
Sorry, but I love themes and melodies and such, and lately, we don't get them much.
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I dont fxxking get you guys...first it nags about that whole soundtracks arent released, and when they do release complete music it still nags...JESUS WEPT
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I prefer Elfman's approach infinitely more. The opening credits on HULK (2003) are better than Armstrong's entire score, especially with the silly sounding portamento down in the celli and basses. Sorry but that just sounds sophomoric.
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I prefer Elfman's approach infinitely more. The opening credits on HULK (2003) are better than Armstrong's entire score, especially with the silly sounding portamento down in the celli and basses. Sorry but that just sounds sophomoric.
Its funny since I see the same approach in motif between the two movies. Elfman's is more Herrmann, surely - but they're both very simple, very "reactionary" bits. I think both work very, very well for the movies they're attached to.
Yeah, I can see the symmetry in approach. I guess it comes down to personal taste for me. I like Elfman's descending 6 note motif more. I think the construction of that opening cue is fantastic. I usually can only make it half way though the entire soundtrack but what I like on it, I like an awful lot. Armstrong is just a composer whose chord choices and arrangements just leave me cold.
As a very wise friend of mine said recently, there are no good scores or bad scores. I'm not quite as evolved in my take on it. I'm still at the level where I do think there is inherent strengths or weaknesses in a given score. Or at least approach.
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I think a Mychael Danna score would have been fantastic. He's an underrated commodity IMO. His Hearts of Atlantis is beautiful. But I did not think Elfman's HULK was "predictable". It showed a different aspect of Elfman to my ears.
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I'm disappointed that this didn't get a major label release, but since it probably wouldn't have otherwise gotten released, I'm a giddy little pig rolling around in the soundtrack poop that a legit CDR is being pressed.
And a great score, for me better than Elfman's (though I do enjoy Danny's main title).
And kudos on the 2CD set - geeez, guys, program your MP3 player to make it into a single album if you want, but I for one am happy to not have to read a thread on here (or post one, for that matter) that says, "holy *#&%, cue x is missing from The Incredible Hulk. What's wrong with those labels?!?"
Ah, film scores. Where would we be without 'em?
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Nov 12, 2009 - 5:47 PM
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KevinSmith
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I'm disappointed that this didn't get a major label release, but since it probably wouldn't have otherwise gotten released, I'm a giddy little pig rolling around in the soundtrack poop that a legit CDR is being pressed.
And a great score, for me better than Elfman's (though I do enjoy Danny's main title).
And kudos on the 2CD set - geeez, guys, program your MP3 player to make it into a single album if you want, but I for one am happy to not have to read a thread on here (or post one, for that matter) that says, "holy *#&%, cue x is missing from The Incredible Hulk. What's wrong with those labels?!?"
Ah, film scores. Where would we be without 'em?
For the people who haven't seen the movie, a one disc with the highlights would be fine.
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I saw the film at the cinema and got the DVD but not the soundtrack album. The only memorable music was those few seconds of the Harnell theme and the reason there was just a few seconds, was because Armstrong or someone knew that his music was boooooring compared to something from 1978!
And one of my cats sat through the entire film, watching it. I think he likes film music, as when I play something, he goes up to the speaker and sits in front of it. Other music, he doesn't do that. His favourite score is The Martian Chronicles, he loves the pan pipes and other ethnic end blown flutes.
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Nov 13, 2009 - 5:39 PM
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Jon A. Bell
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I prefer Elfman's approach infinitely more. The opening credits on HULK (2003) are better than Armstrong's entire score, especially with the silly sounding portamento down in the celli and basses. Sorry but that just sounds sophomoric.
Its funny since I see the same approach in motif between the two movies. Elfman's is more Herrmann, surely - but they're both very simple, very "reactionary" bits. I think both work very, very well for the movies they're attached to.
I agree. I love Elfman's score to the first Hulk film, but when I finally got around to seeing The Incredible Hulk on DVD a few months ago (I missed it in the theaters when my wife and I were moving), I was surprised at how good the score was.
Then a couple of weeks ago, my wife got me the complete score from Amazon as an anniversary gift, and I've listened to it quite a few times. Personally, I like the pitch-bent cellos mingling with the organ, and I think the score works very well in the film. (And it's got actual themes that recur and are developed -- what a concept in modern film scoring!)
Had I picked this up last year, it would've been in my Top 5 scores of 2008. I don't know why people are so down on Craig Armstrong (this is the first score of his I've heard), but I love his music for the Hulk.
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