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My least favorite Williams score of this century, but I will go back and listen to the old album. I can't remember much about it, other than I found it extremely dull and unengaging. I hated the film as well.
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Amazing. It’s probably the closest we’ve gotten to a giant monster score from Williams (JP was gentle by comparison).
So excited!!
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Wow. No one would have believed...
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Wow is right!
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So very cool and totally unexpected.
It always drove me crazy that, much as I love Morgan Freeman's voice, hearing him over the best cues in the score on the CD was maddening -- even the FYC CD included the voiceover.
Until you mentioned this, I had totally forgot about Morgan Freeman's narration.
I hated this film so much that I probably listened to the CD only once.
James
Amen!!! This movie reminds me of Brian DePalma's Snake Eyes in which the first 45 Minutes to an Hour are absolutely great and then...goes to shit.
The only great thing in it is Williams' score which is great to see it finally expanded with the film version of the Ferry Sequence which is the best sequence in the film at least to me.
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My least favorite Williams score of this century, but I will go back and listen to the old album. I can't remember much about it, other than I found it extremely dull and unengaging. I hated the film as well.
Went back and re-listened and I was a little too harsh. Definitely has potential especially if the narration is removed.
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I've always thought highly of this film. I recall it being a riveting and totally immersive experience in the theater. Post-9/11, that fear of being attacked by some unknown force right there in your home town and completely out of the blue really hit home. And my goodness, the tripods—those deep hair-raising foghorn bellows, the gleaming singular "eyes," the searching tentacles, the instantaneous evaporation of anyone caught in their death-rays. This was science fiction like I had never seen it before: a full-scale, worldwide invasion from which there truly was no escape. I'm not sure I can recall another film, mainstream or otherwise, where hope for your protagonists' survival appeared progressively less and less likely as the film unfolded. And yes, the ferry scene—as well as the intersection scene—was tremendously executed. If there's any fault with the film it's with Welles' deus ex machina finish, in my opinion. Simply from a narrative standpoint, with humanity facing such a threat as we have never faced before, to be saved by a quirk of nature just doesn't quite satisfy.
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I like both the score and the movie and for once the narration on the album does not really bother me, so this is not an album where I always thought it is in desperate need of expansion. The original soundtrack album may just be fine for me. But nevertheless nice to see all this stuff released.
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