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Re: Attn Craig: 2015 Top 10
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• Posted by: Edmund Meinerts   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at 2:01 p.m.
• IP Address: p3ee2ff25.dip0.t-ipconnect.de
• In Response to: Attn Craig: 2015 Top 10 [EDITED] (JBlough)

> List:
> 1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
> 2) Tomorrowland
> 3) Jupiter Ascending
> 4) Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seasons 1 & 2
> 5) Da Vinci's Demons Season 3
> 6) Pan
> 7) San Andreas
> 8) Seventh Son
> 9) Cinderella
> 10) Victor Frankenstein

An outstanding list for the most part, but we part ways on Tomorrowland I'm afraid. The more I listen to that score, the more it comes across as an enthusisatic, moderately talented music major freshman trying his level best to write "the perfect 80s adventure score" and falling well, well short. There are certain chord progressions in there, particularly the theme that sounds like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, that make me want to tear my hair out at the roots at how awkward and viscerally "wrong" they sound. 3:33 of "Edge of Tomorrowland" is an example.

Unfortunately I can't put into words exactly what it is that bothers me so much about it. It just makes me feel like a cat that's been stroked the wrong way. I can't fault the enthusiasm, but it's weird for a composer with a nearly 20-year career at this point to put out something that strikes me as so blatantly...amateurish, somehow.

Is anybody else having the same issue with this score? Note that I don't have a problem with the "Pin-Ultimate Experience" material, which seems to "own" it simplicity in a way that feels more natural. It's really just that awful Henry Jones Sr theme that gets to me. Argh! frown




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