tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post8015990715995032475..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Movie Music Musings: The Goldsmith Award 2012Roman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-45606041816280103692017-06-19T10:45:57.882-07:002017-06-19T10:45:57.882-07:00It's true, when you get a Giacchino score you ...It's true, when you get a Giacchino score you know what you're going to get. He was certainly influenced by the scores of the 80s and 90s with John Williams and James Horner being obvious influences.<br /><br />Now if you want to hear something a bit different for a superhero movie, Junkie XL composed the score to "Deadpool" which is not like much else you usually hear in the genre. It sounds more like "Mad Max: Fury Road" which is also a Junkie XL creation.<br /><br />Yeah I like a good mix of listening in my scores. "Neon Demon" is one of my favorite scores from last year and the score to "Nerve" may be even better (I'll have to share that one on this site). Still I don't begrudge Giacchino or folks tackling the large scale orchestral scores. I love that style too much. Surprisingly it is starting to share the spotlight with the Hans Zimmer heavy sound we also get (and he was Junkie XL's mentor, so there is a lot of Zimmer sound in XL's music).Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-4546614460667506822017-06-15T08:37:48.131-07:002017-06-15T08:37:48.131-07:00I enjoyed the movie having read the book, but I ca...I enjoyed the movie having read the book, but I can see why the modern teenager audience might not have liked it. Well, who knows really? Am I kidding myself into thinking I know what teenagers think these days? At any rate, the soundtrack sounds pretty generic to me like most soundtracks. If it's a genre, like action or in this case, an epic fantasy like Carter, you get the rousing theme, some bombast and so forth. Hollywood gets pretty predictable a lot of the time. <br /><br />I do like it when they go a different route from expectations like the synth soundtrack of The Black Rainbow, Stranger Things, or The Neon Demon. You don't hear enough jazzy soundtracks too much anymore. Of course that's not going to work with John Carter or perhaps Spider-Man. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-2325013665512501602017-06-10T08:37:42.197-07:002017-06-10T08:37:42.197-07:00Yeah I want to check this one out some day. I read...Yeah I want to check this one out some day. I read the novel a few years back and had a good time with it. I couldn't imagine how the movie could have been so poor with Disney following the story and sinking their cash into it. But I can see people getting too much a Prequel vibe from it. I think one of the main reasons the new Star Wars films are doing so well is that they seem very separated from the prequels.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-71847769210214718522017-06-08T07:42:19.041-07:002017-06-08T07:42:19.041-07:00I rather liked “John Carter,” though “rather liked...I rather liked “John Carter,” though “rather liked” was a common enough sentiment to be the problem. Disney didn’t get enough bang for its quarter-billion bucks. But it was a good adaptation of ERB’s potboiler “A Princess of Mars” nonetheless, and the music and the music suited the unabashed hero/heroine elements. The earthly conspiracy parts of the movie (which deviate from the book) were an unnecessary and time-consuming distraction, but I imagine those set up things for the sequel that never happened.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com