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| 6/30/07
- | Hercules: (Alan Menken)
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Buy it... |
only if you are a absolute, die-hard collector of the Disney musicals and were a young,
appreciative teen at the time you first saw the film.
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if you grew accustomed to the quality of the serious, magical, and dramatic musicals that Alan
Menken produced for Disney in the early 1990's.
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| Rating: | *
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| 6/27/07
- | The Edge: (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... |
if you collect Jerry Goldsmith's soaring and majestic title themes and want to hear the
composer orchestrate most of his own material for the first time in decades.
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if you expect Goldsmith's trademark strength in the action and suspense sequences.
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| Rating: | ****
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| 6/24/07
- | Contact: (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... |
if you want a touch of sentimentality from Forrest Gump and a short burst of brilliant Alan
Silvestri action in one early cue.
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if you expect a thoughtfully creative score to rival the intellectual nature of Carl Sagan's
ideas.
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| Rating: | ***
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| 6/21/07
- | Con Air: (Mark Mancina/Trevor Rabin)
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Buy it... |
only if you are an extremely hardcore collector of Media Ventures scores and are
prepared for the electronic mayhem on display here.
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if you expect any minimal level of intelligence in your blockbuster action scores.
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| Rating: | *
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| 6/18/07
- | Vertigo: (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... |
on the early 1996 Varese Sarabande re-recording if you seek the pinnacle in the
collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann in stunning, digital sound.
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on the re-recorded album only if you are a purist for original recordings and can
tolerate the damage that the years have done to the score's mono and stereo master tapes.
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| Rating: | *****
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| 6/15/07
- | Star Trek: First Contact: (Jerry Goldsmith/Joel
Goldsmith)
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Buy it... |
on the 1996 GNP Crescendo album if you are a casual fan of the film and score, and your
interest in the music stems from the noble "First Contact" theme.
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Avoid it... |
on the 1996 album and seek one of the numerous bootleg variants only if you already have that
commercial album and are specifically unsatisfied with its missing cues.
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| Rating: | ***
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| 6/12/07
- | Restoration: (James Newton Howard)
- All New Filmtracks Review, Replacing a Donated Review |
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Buy it... |
if you appreciate intelligent adaptations of baroque style into a modern, richly melodic,
and powerfully performed score.
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if you've never cared for the 17th Century style of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries,
for such works both exist as source material throughout the film and are the basis for the
original score.
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| Rating: | *****
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| 6/9/07
- | Sudden Death: (John Debney)
- All New Filmtracks Review, Replacing a Donated Review |
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Buy it... |
only if you're a sucker for stale, predictable orchestral action music for an equally
formulaic film.
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if you seek any kind of redeeming element to elevate this otherwise competent score beyond the
rest of its tired class.
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| Rating: | **
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| 6/6/07
- | SeaQuest DSV: (John Debney)
- All New Filmtracks Review, Replacing a Donated Review |
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Buy it... |
if you want a preview to the ambitious action rhythms and thematic progressions of John
Debney's classic score to the 1995 dud Cutthroat Island.
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Avoid it... |
if you are a devoted SeaQuest DSV fan seeking an all-encompassing selection of the best music
from throughout the series.
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| Rating: | ***
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| 6/3/07
- | Mortal Kombat: (George S. Clinton)
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Buy it... |
only if you are a die-hard enthusiast for the video game and its screen adaptations.
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if you expect even a minimal level of intelligence in your film scores.
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| Rating: | FRISBEE
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