The film clip from Rambo Last Blood at the end of this video has Roque Banos' In the Heart of the Sea tracked in. Is it so in the film? Or did they accidentally showed a extract from the temp-tracked version?
Damn... Fingers rapping on table action rhythm. Trumpet blasts that almost sound synthesised. That infernal drumming that one has heard in any number of action trailers and film over and over the past decade... Uninspiring. Ugly. I REALLY miss Jerry! Between this and the recent Dark Crystal score, my faith in modern scoring is dipping. It’s just scoring to picture in a calculated mechanical manner with no sense of the score having a life of its own too. No spirit or real emotional depth and connection. :/
One thing is if he had kept it to the film itself. But when Tyler's irritating action riffs blast over the montage sequence of the previous RAMBO films, my heart sank. Why on earth didn't they use "It's a Long Road" for this, or some variation thereof?
While I did enjoy the film, it's pretty clear to me that Adrian Grünberg (the director) is no Stallone in terms of ambition. Stallone's own RAMBO from 2008 was a far more visionary work, including his notes to Tyler during the scoring process.
Gotta say after a first listen not what I hoped for. After hearing the three samples from the interview I was really excited for this score but yeah it is lacking in the action department. Don’t understand why Tyler did not tap into the full arsenal of Goldsmiths Rambo action cues. Instead we get Tyler’s standard action scoring from other scores of his. Missed opportunity.
Gotta say after a first listen not what I hoped for. After hearing the three samples from the interview I was really excited for this score but yeah it is lacking in the action department. Don’t understand why Tyler did not tap into the full arsenal of Goldsmiths Rambo action cues. Instead we get Tyler’s standard action scoring from other scores of his. Missed opportunity.
I was equally unimpressed with his previous Rambo score. I don't know if he "gets" Goldsmith or not, but his music certainly doesn't show it.
One thing is if he had kept it to the film itself. But when Tyler's irritating action riffs blast over the montage sequence of the previous RAMBO films, my heart sank. Why on earth didn't they use "It's a Long Road" for this, or some variation thereof?
God! How I would have loved to have heard Goldsmith's unused end title for Part II over this sequence.
Huge disappointment. I thought JG’s music would be adapted throughout and finish with the original theme. His action music is tedious - just sounds like the Fast and the Furious. That thumping synth bass thing is probably the most irritating sound of modern film scores. What a racket.
Also dissapointed by this score. I like several of Tyler's scores and his Rambo theme from the previous film was good. But in this one appart from a few renditions of that theme in piano the rest of the score is really bad. He should have used more the Goldsmith action themes as his generic drums banging get tiresome and boring.
Also dissapointed by this score. I like several of Tyler's scores and his Rambo theme from the previous film was good. But in this one appart from a few renditions of that theme in piano the rest of the score is really bad. He should have used more the Goldsmith action themes as his generic drums banging get tiresome and boring.
Just came back from seeing this. I too am disappointed in Tyler's work. Just generic and bland especially after his work on part IV I expected better.
David Morrell, the author of the original book, hated the movie and didn't like the score much:
"In 2016 Sly and I had numerous lengthy telephone conversations about creating what he described as a “soulful” Rambo. Then he stopped communicating with me. One element of our conversations is in the new film (the search for the missing child as an example of the family he never had), but instead of being soulful, this new movie lacks one."
"The music has that droning synthetic sound that TV dramas use to support needless, tedious dialogue. The characters are post-it-note caricatures. Rambo could be called John Smith, and the film wouldn’t change." https://www.facebook.com/DavidMorrellAuthor/posts/2431450953612216
I haven't seen the film, but I liked the score's quieter moments.
Just got back from seeing the film and i loved it! So refeshing in this time of ridiculous PC culture that Stallone comes along with a hard as fuck action film.At 73,he proves that age is just a number.
Really liked Tylers score too.It pays tribute to Goldsmiths themes but stays relevant for todays movie going audience.My favourite track is when Rambo is setting up those traps.
No spoilers but the end credits is a great tribute to the whole franchise.
I saw the film today and it was not nearly as good as the previous installment. It was obviously heavily edited in regards to story and running time, so much so that you couldn't even root for the bad guys to get their comeuppance. There isn't a shred of suspense or surprise in the film. It's a gorefest without any pleasure of watching the baddies get theirs. I felt nothing but a waste of time.
Secondly, I did not know that Brian Tyler did the score and in fact, based on what I heard in the film...I thought it might have been Marco Beltrami!! For sure, the opening scene uses The Long Road Home/main theme and it was nice to hear it but after that I didn't anything else remotely resembling Goldsmith's motif's or melodies.
