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if you're looking for a score to reliably help you zone out, in this case representing James
Newton Howard's light dramatic mode with saccharine, pleasantly innocuous consistency.
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if you desire any of the plethora of songs you heard in the film or, for that matter, any
orchestral depth as engaging as the main theme that John Barry famously wrote for this project
before dismissing himself.
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on the 2010 La-La Land or 2012 Intrada albums if you're interested in hearing a superior
presentation of one of Jerry Goldsmith's most vibrant, thematically diverse, and arguably
forgotten "Star Trek" scores.
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on any of the albums if you want to hear the replacement music for the brainwashing sequences
in the film or if you expect Goldsmith's material for those scenes and concepts to match the
strength of the remainder of this otherwise entertaining entry.
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on any of the available albums if you are a casual fan of the film and Jerry Goldsmith's work
for the franchise, and especially if your interest in the music stems from the dramatically
noble and pastoral "First Contact" theme.
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on the 1996 album and seek the 2012 follow-up or one of the numerous bootleg variants of the
2000's if you are specifically interested in the occasionally interesting but generally not
spectacular material missing from that initial product.
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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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if you are accustomed to hearing transparent themes, easy concepts, and mostly bright attitude
in your animated film scores.
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Firewall (Alexandre Desplat)
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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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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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Hostage (Alexandre Desplat)
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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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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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