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If the movie was done about 10-15 years ago with JNH on board, I would be VERY excited to hear it... considering quality of his recent output... well, not so much.
Don´t give up on him. He still can be brilliant.
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If the movie was done about 10-15 years ago with JNH on board, I would be VERY excited to hear it... considering quality of his recent output... well, not so much.
That's pretty much my reaction every time I see JNH's name on anything. It is not a good feeling.
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When I started listening to Snow White, I felt that rush of relief. "There's my James Newton Howard!" Then the Zimmer action music started and I started soldering off the iTunes part of my hard drive.
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I saw part of the trailer before a Youtube clip of something I wanted to see.
I watched it thinking: not only does this look to showy, but totally unecessary. If I wanted to see this, I'll see the old Disney animated film, and then skipped the rest of the trailer.
Can people even act anymore without getting into costume and putting a self-important look on thier face with a passing Fourth Wall gaze and pretend like they're all that and they don't have to get into character, anymore? Geez.
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I think James Newton Howard is at the top of his game and I am so excited to hear Maleficent. His first two Hunger Games scores are my favorites of anything he's ever done and I can't wait to hear what he comes up with next (not that Maleficent will be anything like HG).
I also really dug Parkland too, which was terrifically low-key and haunting with some wonderful atmospherics and plaintive horn solos. The only score of his I couldn't get into lately was After Earth but for the record I loved his Bourne score (although it was a bit lacking) as well as Snow White and the Huntsman. How can anyone not love the cue "White Hart" from that score?
I wouldn't say he's on a roll now, he's on yet another roll. I'll also amend my "he's at the top of his game" statement to say he's returned to the top of his game, if he ever left it. He blows me away with each new score and I have zero doubt that Maleficent will be incredible.
Haha that was hilarious, man! Good job!
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Soundtrack coming to Big Screen Music Records. WOW!
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The big difference between Batman Begins/The Dark Knight scores and The Dark Knight Rises, for me, is the loss of JNH. I thought the first two scores better than the third, which is a solo Zimmer effort (if something like that actually exists--ducking a shoe right now)....
This is not the thread for this thought, but one of the things I hated about The Dark Knight Rises' score is the frequent use of the previous two films' end credit music as in-film action music. You hear that 20+ minute demo suite that Zimmer did and then you hear what it was turned into by his "team," you can't help but be angry at this way of scoring films by committee. There were good ideas in that suite, actual variations on the action stuff from the previous movies, but in translating it into the score itself, they just cut and paste the end credits over numerous action scenes. It was just jarring how wrong it was.
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