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 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 12:48 PM   
 By:   stroppy   (Member)

Desplat is just brilliant. He is one of the few film composers left who can actually create a set of themes. I loved his soundtrack for "Monuments Men"...just great!

 
 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 2:35 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Shut up, Stroppy.

Sorry, I just really wanted to write that.

 
 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 2:53 PM   
 By:   Mike Esssss   (Member)

Shut up, Stroppy.

Sorry, I just really wanted to write that.


I read it as St. Roppy. As in, "Shut up, St. Roppy."

 
 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 4:50 PM   
 By:   stroppy   (Member)

Shut up, Stroppy.

Sorry, I just really wanted to write that.


? Too much vino last night??

Sorry, I just wanted to write that. smile

 
 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 8:35 PM   
 By:   Maleficio   (Member)

What a great score! I can't wait to get this on CD so I can give my stereo setup a serious workout.

 
 
 Posted:   May 5, 2014 - 11:48 PM   
 By:   Willgoldnewtonbarrygrusin   (Member)

Desplat really nailed it. Definitely a score for my top ten list this year.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 8:55 AM   
 By:   Machionic   (Member)

Love this score! Muto Hatch, Two Against One and Back to the Ocean are my favourite so far.

Somebody said that closest thing to this would be Beltrami scoring King Kong and that's pretty spot on.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 10:03 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Maybe it will work in the film but couldn't be more generic sounding. A total bore.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 10:51 AM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

I quite like this new trailer:



That's the first trailer I've seen where you can see the other giant creatures apart from Godzilla, hopefully it'll be a fun night out at the pictures.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 11:10 AM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

Maybe it will work in the film but couldn't be more generic sounding. A total bore.

It's certainly nice to hear something that isn't totally infused with Zimmeresque ostantinos and heavily infused with obnoxious electronics, though I must confess that much of the score passed me by without jumping out at me much. The one thing I did notice was Desplat's attempt to mimic some of the Ligeti choral material used in the trailer in one of the tracks. To be honest though, while I almost always find Desplat's scores technically well written, they frequently leave me pretty cold.

Chris.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 12:34 PM   
 By:   Lewis&Clark   (Member)

The entire soundtrack is now available on Spotify:

https://play.spotify.com/album/7y27dtoFtGQxBbY1ZNi0qK



But one cannot listen to it yet, right?

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 12:52 PM   
 By:   Maleficio   (Member)

The entire soundtrack is now available on Spotify:

https://play.spotify.com/album/7y27dtoFtGQxBbY1ZNi0qK



But one cannot listen to it yet, right?


Yes you can.

It's also on youtube.

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 2:21 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Maybe it will work in the film but couldn't be more generic sounding. A total bore.

It's certainly nice to hear something that isn't totally infused with Zimmeresque ostantinos and heavily infused with obnoxious electronics, though I must confess that much of the score passed me by without jumping out at me much. The one thing I did notice was Desplat's attempt to mimic some of the Ligeti choral material used in the trailer in one of the tracks. To be honest though, while I almost always find Desplat's scores technically well written, they frequently leave me pretty cold.

Chris.


This film is a bit of a bait and switch. Early on it appeared to be dead serious, now it looks a bit more like Pacific Rim. The score would work fine in a very grim serious setting, but if your gonna have a monster mash then it would have been nice if themes were created for the various characters. (Zilla, monsters, hero's, military, etc.) I'll stick with Akira Ifukube.

 
 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 2:37 PM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)



This film is a bit of a bait and switch. Early on it appeared to be dead serious, now it looks a bit more like Pacific Rim. The score would work fine in a very grim serious setting, but if your gonna have a monster mash then it would have been nice if themes were created for the various characters. (Zilla, monsters, hero's, military, etc.) I'll stick with Akira Ifukube.


Agreed about the bait and switch. I was initially quite excited about the film until the new trailer came out. Pacific Rim was the most overrated movie of 2013 in my opinion, but it at least approached the concept of fighting giant monsters with the requisite level of stupidity. I'm not sure what to make of a super serious movie with two skyscraper-sized monsters duking it out. We'll see...

 
 Posted:   May 6, 2014 - 2:50 PM   
 By:   jedizim   (Member)

Had this playing on Spotify this afternoon while working at my desk...first impressions...excellent score. When the CD arrives next week I will give it a deeper listen, but so far I am impressed.

 
 Posted:   May 8, 2014 - 11:57 AM   
 By:   Maleficio   (Member)

Someone made a piano transcription of the opening track:

 
 Posted:   May 8, 2014 - 12:40 PM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

 
 
 Posted:   May 8, 2014 - 6:48 PM   
 By:   dan the man   (Member)

DESPLAT IS A MUSICAL GENIUS.

 
 Posted:   May 9, 2014 - 2:10 PM   
 By:   Maleficio   (Member)

It appears the score is mixed fairly well in the film, as in, I can hear it :

 
 
 Posted:   May 9, 2014 - 5:06 PM   
 By:   cirithungol   (Member)

Shut up and TAKE MY MONEY!

 
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