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Mar 31, 2010 - 7:42 AM
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David-R.
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Definitely one of my top composers at the moment, one whose new releases I anticipate nearly as much as a new John Powell or Christopher Gordon or and maybe even a hair more than some bigger names like Alexandre Desplat or Danny Elfman, who's also been doing superior work lately.
To me SPEED RACER is his magnum opus to date. Just pure fun that I still listen to regularly a couple years later. A score that just keeps on giving.
I also really like his video game score to TURNING POINT: FALL OF LIBERTY. I find it very annoying that it's only available on a DVD from which I have been unable to rip the audio, meaning I have to listen to it through my computer speakers.  And I also think, as far as his VG scores go, that CALL OF DUTY is very underrated. Not as hummable as the MEDAL OF HONORs, which I also love, but a very listenable spiky action score nonetheless.
I must admit that I don't love the music for LOST as much as many -- it has some beautiful moments but trying to listen to the CD straight through I get bored -- but "Roar!" from CLOVERFIELD is magic, and RATATOUILLE is wonderful.
Yes. the Speed Racer soundtrack is fun. And I agree w/ the Lost comment: liked the season 1 soundtrack the best, but two and three seemed weaker to me. Maybe I need to revisit them.
I think the Call of Duty franchise soundtrack collection needs to be rereleased in a more complete form - for more content and to make it more widely available.
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I've certainly found him to be a good composer, and a fun composer.
Some of his scores are among my personal favorites:
Star Trek, Lost, The Incredibles, M:I III, Ratattouille and UP.
He's also rather old school in many ways, not overly reliant on synths, and scores movies in a very old-fashioned way, which I appreciate.
If ind that he and Bear McCreary are producing great material, and are people to watch.
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Mar 31, 2010 - 2:35 PM
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Thor
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To be honest, I've never understood what the big deal is about his music. Doesn't do anything for me, and it just comes off as "pretty orchestral music" without anything to latch onto.
Which kind of begs the question Thor, why post in this thread then? You've done this in other threads about Giacchino saying the exact same thing. We get it, no need to reiterate it and spoil a thread for those who do have the capacity too see more in his music. Just seems a bit pointless that's all. Thanks!
Oh, I don't know....I see these threads as no different than a regular roundtable discussion at a pub. Someone says he likes this or that thing, or is in favour of this or that, and then opens up the floor to the other guys around the table (whether they share his view or not). Of course, if the topic initiator asked everyone who disagreed or didn't share the preference to just shut up, that would be another thing, but that would have been kinda rude, don't you think?
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