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if you were captivated by Don Davis' maturing orchestral and choral themes for The Matrix
Reloaded and wish to hear the progression of those ideas towards a victorious finale of
religious proportions.
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if you cannot tolerate the unsettling battle between satisfying harmony and challenging
dissonance that Davis utilizes to very nearly the end of the trilogy.
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only if you seek to complete your collection of all five of Jerry Goldsmith's feature Star
Trek scores, for this entry is by far the least dynamic and engaging without good reason.
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on the expanded album presentations if you expect more than just a couple of minutes of
memorable material; the rest of the additional music is largely redundant and compounds the
stylistic weaknesses of the work.
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Runaway (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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only if you desire to hear Jerry Goldsmith's first all-electronic score and are prepared for a
badly dated and harshly grating rendering that firmly roots the work in its era.
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if you expect the quality of Goldsmith's underlying composition to compensate for the
irritatingly raw electronic tones employed to give the film a futuristic edge.
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The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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on the 2013 2-CD set if you enjoyed the magnificent final twelve minutes of choral majesty in
the original version of the film and desire some additionally strong music from earlier in the
story that was ultimately rejected.
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if the dynamism of those twelve minutes, along with a handful of vintage 1980's Alan Silvestri
action cues, aren't worth extended sequences of mundane and sparse electronic atmospherics
that sustain most of the score.
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Vibes (James Horner)
- Updated Review, With Additional Album |
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only if you maintain an absolutely complete James Horner collection and wish to seek this
score's historically elusive album for half an hour of rhythmic, flute-led jungle funk and odd
ambient textures.
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Avoid it... |
if Horner's early, improvised, electronically experimental works serve more as a curiosity for
you rather than a necessity, in which case Vibes isn't worth your time.
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if you are prepared for a nearly perfect exhibition of intelligent balance between loyalty and
originality in a superhero score that entertains in a multitude of ways.
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Avoid it... |
if you are bothered by the idea of wholesale adaptation of John Williams' original 1978 score
in this resurrection despite John Ottman's best attempts to integrate that classic identity
into a fresh, new environment.
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on the 2003 or 2013 albums to rectify the issue of incomplete presentations with prior
products if you desire one of Jerry Goldsmith's more noteworthy horror scores.
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on the 2013 Kritzerland album specifically if you expect to find significant new material
beyond that of the 2003 offering, or if you prefer the intensity of the action sequences heard
during Goldsmith's first Poltergeist score.
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