Preparing for my first listen to "First Steps", I'm revisiting John Ottmans' Fantastic Four-Scores, starting today with his work for the 2005-Film (which was a perfectly fine earlier Superhero-Flick, albeit one so deeply tied to its era (mid-2000s) that it came across as comical. Still, I liked most of the cast and the entire thing was breezy enough that it didn't annoy me too much).
The Score is fine: Technically well made, well composed and orchestrated. Not the best Superhero Score and not even the best of the ones Ottman composed, but much better than the worst. And say about the Theme what you want but I think its super catchy.

Also (re)listened to:
"Elektra" (Christophe Beck). Not great, but there was some interesting creativity going on (the film is bad, by the way, but I don't think its "11% on RT"-bad)

"The Don is dead" (Jerry Goldsmith). Was in the mood for some Goldsmith and this thing popped up on my Amazon-music Playlist. Effective, if grim, Suspense-music interspersed occasionally with a nice Love Theme. Not a classic, but a perfectly okay work by anybodies standards (and, I dunno, the electronic Zapping someone described as Fart-noises didn't bother me too much. Mostly because the much more agressive "Farting" in Goldsmiths' Rambo-Sequel-Scores didn't bother me either )

> Preparing for my first listen to 'First Steps', I'm revisiting John
> Ottmans' Fantastic Four-Scores, starting today with his work for the
> 2005-Film (which was a perfectly fine earlier Superhero-Flick, albeit one
> so deeply tied to its era (mid-2000s) that it came across as comical.
> Still, I liked most of the cast and the entire thing was breezy enough
> that it didn't annoy me too much).
> The Score is fine: Technically well made, well composed and orchestrated.
> Not the best Superhero Score and not even the best of the ones Ottman
> composed, but much better than the worst. And say about the Theme what you
> want but I think its super catchy.

Wow I haven't listened to that in ages. It kinda went in one ear and out the other. Should give it another shot.

> 'The Don is dead' (Jerry Goldsmith). Was in the mood for some Goldsmith
> and this thing popped up on my Amazon-music Playlist. Effective, if grim,
> Suspense-music interspersed occasionally with a nice Love Theme. Not a
> classic, but a perfectly okay work by anybodies standards (and, I dunno,
> the electronic Zapping someone described as Fart-noises didn't bother me
> too much. Mostly because the much more agressive 'Farting' in Goldsmiths'
> Rambo-Sequel-Scores didn't bother me either )

Heh heh. I'm with you. I found the score solid 70s Goldsmith. The synth stuff didn't bother me as much as it does other folks.

Giving "Jurassic World: Rebirth" by Desplat another spin. I don't know. It's fine. Desplat just doesn't click with me like he does with others around here. I keep trying and I keep feeling like I'm missing something with his scores. The last one I enjoyed enough to listen to a few times was "Valerian", but even that doesn't get much rotation these days. "Rebirth" has some solid moments of action, but the Williams quotes are where it seems to soar, and that is just strange. The Giacchino scores ran into the same problem too, but I feel that Giacchino's work was just more engaging to me. Anyway, trying it one more time to see if I missed anything.

Also yesterday
Poltergeist II: The Other Side - Intrada 2017 digital mixes
Glory & Honor - Intrada
Enter the Dragon
Rush Hour

Today
Great Expectations (1998)
Return to Paradise
Ever After
Small Soldiers - Varèse Deluxe
The Horse Whisperer
Hard Rain - La-La Land
Antz
Goodbye Lover