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I don't know why some are surprised with the direction Beck went.
My surprise is because John Powell didn't have to go that way on the director's previous films and I can't believe he would have gone that way had he done this film. "It's all the director's fault" is an easy thing to say but it's getting a bit boring hearing it. Maybe Beck wanted to write something amazing and Liman told him he wanted something rubbish instead, but surely then it's the composer's responsibility to persuade him otherwise. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Who knows.
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I don´t know... I don´t think this is terrible at all. Sure, it contains familiar elements. But it is crafted very well, has a nice theme and is pretty entertaining to me.
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The score didn't impress me but the film was a blast.
MV
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Jun 11, 2014 - 3:57 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I think Tom Cruise is becoming the modern day Charlton Heston, choosing his sci-fi projects not without a healthy dose of wit, grace, charm and intelligence.
Minority Report, War Of The Worlds, Oblivion and Edge Of Tomorrow (have I missed any?) are all what I would term well above average in comparison to most other efforts of the genre these days.
Like Oblivion, this one recalled other films to me (Starship Troopers, Saving Private Ryan, Groundhog Day, Source Code), but since I really liked those other films, so to with this.
Cruise is brilliant, carrying the whole film with a sense of good grace.
Blunt offers sterling support and the other characters, from Gleason, Paxton and the other squaddies, are all well defined, despite some short screen time for some of them.
The score is what it is and while I would have preferred to hear Beck fashion his own Starship Troopers-like score, this serves the audience of today, I suppose.
I did notice it on a few occasions and when I did, wished for more like it (and better developed), but while it's a missed opportunity for me, music-wise, it certainly didn't harm the film (although I would have thrilled at some romance during the first kiss, other than a high-pitched string sustain).
Great film, on par with DREDD as another recent fave of mine.
Sad to see I had to catch an afternoon showing of this, as there are NO evening showings of it after barely two weeks out, other than 3D, which I don't bother with anymore.
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