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| 4/28/13
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Quills (Stephen Warbeck)
- All New Review |
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Buy it... |
if you want a touch of class to go with your serving of insanity, Stephen Warbeck's music for
this film a roller coaster ride of mostly insufferable, challenging ideas meant to represent
madness and sexual deviancy.
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Avoid it... |
if you have small children in your home and wish to remain lucid and cognizant until they
reach adulthood, at which point you can pray that they will never love this score.
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if you have enjoyed the many similar blends of muscular Western orchestra, varied choir, and
intoxicating Eastern specialty instruments in the numerous equivalents from other offshoots of
the Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams sound.
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Avoid it... |
if no amount of awesome melodic beauty in the melodramatic portions of this score can
compensate for its rather sterile and inelegant posture in the action cues.
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Buy it... |
if you're a sucker for high-quality, orchestral fantasy and adventure scores, always in search
of the genre's hidden gems.
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Avoid it... |
if the genre of 1980's spin-off fantasy music sounds tired, derivative, and badly dated to
you, especially when it attempts to borrow frequently from James Horner's vintage techniques.
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if you appreciated the conservative sound of Dennis McCarthy's music for the concept's
episodes on television, for Star Trek: Generations is largely a simple expansion of that
sound.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect the memorable themes or dramatic majesty of the superior film scores that came
before and after this comparatively dull entry in the franchise.
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if you noted the superior combination of Russian folk and classical waltz techniques in the
context of the film and have less interest in hearing Dario Marianelli's faintly functional
romance writing.
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Avoid it... |
if you expect your heart to be moved by the melodrama of this tragic tale of societal
asininity, the lack of depth in the romantic element of the music causing this score to rotate
between grim, cold undertones and source-like applications.
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| 4/3/13
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Godzilla (David Arnold)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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Buy it... |
on any of the limited albums for this score (ranging from the original 1999 promo to the
official 2007 and 2012 sets) if you have any affinity for David Arnold's large-scale style of
patriotic action and drama.
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Avoid it... |
on the original Sony product of 1998, even at its dismally perpetual sale price of $0.01 on
the used market.
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