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| 4/29/07
- | Bopha!: (James Horner)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you enjoy Horner's minimally rendered, ethnically charged works.
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Avoid it... |
if another blast of the sakauhachi flute over tired percussion and bland electronic
soundscapes is not your cup of tea.
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| Rating: | *
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| 4/26/07
- | The Lord of the Rings (1978): (Leonard
Rosenman)
- All New Filmtracks Review, Replacing a Donated Review |
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Buy it... |
if you are accustomed to Leonard Rosenman's dense and dissonant styles and are able
to separate his interpretation of Tolkien's world from Howard Shore's.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect Rosenman's score, despite its complexity and creative
instrumentation, to in any way approach the grandeur and elegance of Shore's
commonly accepted masterpieces.
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| Rating: | **
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| 4/21/07
- | Alien 3: (Elliot Goldenthal)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you enjoyed the score's majority in the film itself and are already well aware of (and
prepared for) Elliot Goldenthal's progressive styles.
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Avoid it... |
if you believe that the score maintained a failed balance between frenzied, obnoxious horror
and misplaced religious romanticism in the film.
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| Rating: | **
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| 4/18/07
- | A View to a Kill: (John Barry)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you've never given this Bond score a second chance, for it features a strong action theme,
outstanding flute solos, and vibrant instrumentation.
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Avoid it... |
on the 2003 EMI album if you already own the 1991 Japanese import, for the 2003 "remastering"
adds extremely distracting levels of tape hiss.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 4/15/07
- | Terminator 2: Judgment Day: (Brad Fiedel)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you want two muscular, superior performances of the title theme from the first film.
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Avoid it... |
if you're asking for headache by sitting through Brad Fiedel's library of screeching and
grinding metallic sound effects over pounding, brutal percussion.
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| Rating: | **
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| 4/12/07
- | Sleeping with the Enemy: (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you enjoy Goldsmith's delicate themes of innocence performed by solo woodwinds over lofty
strings and tingling electronics.
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Avoid it... |
if you prefer your thriller scores to actually thrill you, for the most interesting parts of
this one will deceive you in their delightful beauty.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 4/9/07
- | The Man in the Moon: (James Newton
Howard)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you're intrigued by a good cross between the small town romance techniques of
Rachel Portman and the instrumental creativity of Thomas Newman.
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Avoid it... |
if light folk rhythms with wild mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and exotic flute are too
much of a contrast to the score's soft string and woodwind melodies.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 4/5/07
- | Always: (John Williams)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you are a John Williams completist and appreciate even the composer's most unassuming
and mundane efforts.
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Avoid it... |
if you, like most others, are baffled by Williams' inability to conjure any magic, romance, or
other spirit for this film's subject matter.
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| Rating: | **
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| 4/2/07
- | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: (Jerry
Goldsmith) - Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you're interested in hearing one of Jerry Goldsmith's most vibrant, thematically diverse,
and forgotten Star Trek scores.
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Avoid it... |
if you just can't shake that image of Uhura dancing and don't want to get anywhere close to
the hapless 80's song she was dubbed to.
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| Rating: | ****
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