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| 8/30/07
- | Disturbing Behavior: (Mark Snow)
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Buy it... |
only if you have witnessed the film and have appreciated the music, and/or you are an absolute
die-hard fan of the more mundane underscores from The X-Files.
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Avoid it... |
if you value any resemblance of intelligent design, creative spark, or thoughtful
inventiveness in your low-budget scores.
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| Rating: | *
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| 8/27/07
- | Deep Rising: (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you never tire of stereotypical Jerry Goldsmith action and horror scores, no matter how
derivative and predictable they are.
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Avoid it... |
if you lament the lack of a distinct personality in many of the late-era Goldsmith autopilot
scores.
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| Rating: | **
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| 8/24/07
- | Dark City: (Trevor Jones)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you seek dense and complicated action music amongst the most challenging of Trevor Jones'
career.
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Avoid it... |
if you don't typically care for synthetic alterations to orchestral music, especially when it
involves an extreme enhancement of the bass region.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 8/19/07
- | Beloved: (Rachel Portman)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you are familiar with the novel and film, and are thus prepared for an extremely
restrained, minimalistic, and sparse score for a very small African-based ensemble.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect anything in this score to have characteristics common to Rachel Portman's more
common light romance and comedy works.
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| Rating: | **
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| 8/16/07
- | As Good As It Gets: (Hans Zimmer)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you seek the tender, romantic side of Hans Zimmer's writing, confined here mostly to lovely
string, piano, and woodwind melodies.
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Avoid it... |
if hearing Zimmer write essentially a Rachel Portman score is a twisted reality too horrific
for your masculine ears to handle.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 8/12/07
- | Armageddon: (Trevor Rabin/Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you want the ultimate anthem representing of the Media Ventures glory days, with
simplistic pounding and extremely basic harmonic themes in their fullest synthetic and organic
blend.
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Avoid it... |
if you've never cared for Hans Zimmer's trademark, synth-dominated action music or any of its
variants.
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| Rating: | ***
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| 8/8/07
- | Antz: (John Powell/Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you enjoy these composers' work for more recent animated films and are interested in
hearing their extremely spirited initial mainstream venture.
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Avoid it... |
if hyperactive mambo and jazz music for a full symphony is a recipe that'll send you looking
for the Rolaids.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 8/5/07
- | Space and Beyond : (Compilation)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
if you seek one of the best compilations of science fiction film music ever to be recorded for
album.
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Avoid it... |
if the set's large collection of tired Star Trek concert arrangements would send you looking
for one of this product's more varied sequel sets.
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| Rating: | *****
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| 8/2/07
- | The Hollywood Sound: (Compilation)
- Expanded Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you are interested in strong performances by the London Symphony Orchestra on some of
the individual themes included.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect the compilation to be a valid representation of the best score themes in the
history of Hollywood.
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| Rating: | ***
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