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What's the likelihood of a CD release?
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Nov 2, 2024 - 10:19 AM
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Thor
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Might check them out again, then, and see if it's possible to make a calmer playlist of those things, but it's certainly not high on my priority list.
I think THE MUMMY RETURNS was the last time Silvestri fired on all cylinders, a score that is excellent through and through. That is 23 friggin' years ago! Since then, I've only found six soundtracks "worthy" of my collection - THE POLAR EXPRESS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CROODS, COSMOS, READY PLAYER ONE and HERE. The first two I've kept as is, CROODS, COSMOS and READY I've had to whittle down. HERE I can also keep as is.
Silvestri has always been a top 10 composer for me, but in later years he's fallen off that list and into the group of runner-ups. Which is still high up, and I still adore him, but SOME of the juice has gone out of my fandom. Fortunately, when I hear things like HERE, especially the good parts, I'm comforted that he still has it in him. Would be neat if he got more assignments outside Zemeckis and the Russos, to stretch his legs.
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Love the score about to see the film. Excited!
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Nov 3, 2024 - 8:20 AM
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Tom Servo
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Might check them out again, then, and see if it's possible to make a calmer playlist of those things, but it's certainly not high on my priority list.
I think THE MUMMY RETURNS was the last time Silvestri fired on all cylinders, a score that is excellent through and through. That is 23 friggin' years ago! Since then, I've only found six soundtracks "worthy" of my collection - THE POLAR EXPRESS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CROODS, COSMOS, READY PLAYER ONE and HERE. The first two I've kept as is, CROODS, COSMOS and READY I've had to whittle down. HERE I can also keep as is.
Silvestri has always been a top 10 composer for me, but in later years he's fallen off that list and into the group of runner-ups. Which is still high up, and I still adore him, but SOME of the juice has gone out of my fandom. Fortunately, when I hear things like HERE, especially the good parts, I'm comforted that he still has it in him. Would be neat if he got more assignments outside Zemeckis and the Russos, to stretch his legs.
Very interesting to see your list!
My most-listened scores by Silvesti still tend towards his action, S/F and genre work, from VAN HELSING, THE A-TEAM, BEOWULF, THE WITCHES and all his AVENGERS scores in that group. I've never really warmed to his more sentimental scores like FORREST GUMP and now, HERE, which is in the same vein. The "End Credits" cue from HERE is certainly a pleasant summation of the score and I love that it's indeed a memorable theme, but I still really go for the "sturm and drang" instead!
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I thought the movie was quite interesting and I really liked it. Silvestri's score is wonderful so I walked away a happy camper!
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I thought the movie was quite interesting and I really liked it. Silvestri's score is wonderful so I walked away a happy camper!
Thank you. It really is a terribly underrated movie, just not fitting into the zeitgeist. It will be rediscovered years from now, I‘m sure.
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Unfortunately, the film has tanked, so the chances of a CD may have become even more remote (that's not to say a CD release of a score HAS to be linked to box office/profits etc, but...).
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Dec 30, 2024 - 2:28 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I generally like Zemeckis, even if he can be wildly hit and miss.
I admire his efforts to try something different, even if he has become a bit too reliant on Motion Capture and gimmicks more lately.
I did intend to see this at the cinema, when it eventually lands in the UK.
But a mate gave me a pen drive USB with this film included on it...and I caved and we watched it last night.
For me, it's another MISS I'm afraid, despite it not being MARWEN or PINOCCHIO level bad.
It was all too gimmicky and fake (and haphazard) for me to ever enter into the drama.
Scenes came and went and overlapped and faded, with a myriad of characters and situations, never allowing any REAL emotion or drama to build.
Most of the film looked like the main characters weren't even in a REAL ROOM but merely standing in front of a projection.
And all the time, I couldn't help but think GIMMICK or FAKE.
Some bits were okay or mildly amusing (loved the baby flying off the couch) but overall, it was quite flat and also grim and depressing (lots of wasted lives and unfulfilled dreams on display with the characters).
The music was quite lovely though, in that dreamy GUMP/CONTACT typical Silvestri style.
There wasn't much score, with lots of source music and songs spelling out the various time periods that were passing the viewer by.
And I don't feel it would have been any better viewed on a BIG cinema screen either, as the film resembles a small box-theatre play most of the time, very small scale and intimate...much like a TV drama (it actually could all be done on stage, with a bit of back-screen projection for the changing times/visual FX playing out behind the main actors).
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