Well, your experience is different than mine, I thoroughly enjoyed LLL's presentation of The Sum Of All Fears, all the choices made make for powerful, musically well-rounded tracks adding up to a great listen overall. I actually hate short tracks under or around a minute, it makes for a jarring listen with all those breaks between these, especially if I'm simply shuffling tracks on my iPod or iPhone. Combining short cues into longer tracks is much appreciated.
A cue like "Changes" should never have been joined to anything else, much less overlapped! It's a standalone, single-minded piece of music. Plus "Shoot Him" (the overlapping cue in question) is actually suited to being the coda to "Deserted Lab", and if anything should have been joined to that, because it concludes the series of "lab" cues that begin with "The Reservoir". There are other examples of nonsense editing on the disc. It's a rare example of a LLL cock-up.
Also, a good album can't be sequenced to accommodate one random listen to happens to want to listen on shuffle play. It has to make musical sense - or at least film narrative/dramatic sense.
According to the cue sheet I have, there's a piece called "2½ MILES DOWN - VIOLIN TOOL KIT" which was superimposed over the cue twice. It's this soft, dreary violin with a synth background to give it a fuller sound.
It's an insert along with a cue called "Wild Piano" which is heard when the R.O.V. pans past an old piano in the sunken ship.
I don't have a spreadsheet, but I have Paramount's official cue sheet from 1998 which says exactly how long each piece of music is used and the moment on screen it begins.
Hi Could you please sharing this document again ? Thank you so much.
