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Buy it... |
if you appreciate massively symphonic and surprisingly serious scores for your animated
pictures and have lingering affection for Elmer Bernstein's obsession with the ondes martenot
instrument.
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Avoid it... |
if you are accustomed to hearing transparent themes, easy concepts, and mostly bright attitude
in your animated film scores.
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| 5/7/12
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Firewall (Alexandre Desplat)
- All New Review |
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Buy it... |
if you could satisfy yourself with the lesser cousin of Alexandre Desplat's score for Hostage,
the same trademark action mannerisms not accompanied in Firewall by as many unique
instrumental colors and tonal rhythmic passages.
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Avoid it... |
if you have issues with how Desplat applies electronics to his scores, a problem in addressing
the high-tech aspects of this film's plot and exacerbated by generic action sequences.
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| 5/1/12
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Hostage (Alexandre Desplat)
- All New Review |
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Buy it... |
if you doubt Alexandre Desplat's capabilities in the mainstream suspense and action genres, Hostage remaining one of the
most impressive expressions of overachieving lyrical complexity in an undeserving context of senseless death.
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Avoid it... |
if you have never much cared for John Ottman's early melodic grace and instrumental creativity in the same genre, for
Desplat's work here sounds in many regards like his own interpretation of the same approach towards intrigue and
executions.
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| 4/27/12
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Galaxy Quest (David Newman)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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Buy it... |
if you can't resist a really good parody score, especially one of the very few that takes
effective aim at the science fiction genre.
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Avoid it... |
if the bright and overly enthusiastic style of David Newman's parody writing lacks the
resounding depth and power necessary to make such music worthy of a standalone listening
experience.
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Buy it... |
on the early Varese Sarabande CD containing a London re-recording of 18 minutes from this
score if you can satisfy yourself with the most heroic symphonic highlights of this otherwise
highly varied score.
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Avoid it... |
on the fuller 2009 presentation of the original recording if you expect to hear Bill Conti
extend the glory of his primary themes with much conviction beyond these highlights.
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| 4/17/12
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Titanic (James Horner)
- Updated Review, With Additional Albums |
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Buy it... |
if you somehow missed the engrossing phenomenon when it debuted in 1997 and you have an open
mind about what is commonly considered (and ridiculed) as the most famous and romantic film
score of the digital era.
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Avoid it... |
if even the price of $0.01 for the first Titanic album on the used-CD market cannot entice you
to explore the James Horner new age triumph that resulted in the best-selling film score album
in history.
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