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A tweet from Singer: "JohnOttman wants out of the cutting room so he can start writing the score. #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast Soon John!"
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Really bummed Jackman is not back . Next to Kamen his is my favorite. Can't beat his First Class theme. "I Am the Doctor"? (I actually loved First Class.) As much as I've come to love other Powell scores I still don't like X3. Kamen's X-men is my favorite, but Ottman's X-2 is pretty terrific.
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Great news indeed. Love X2... the LLLR expansion is marvelous. Looking forward to this... R.I.P. to Mr. Ottman's frequent collaborator... Damon Intrabartolo... who passed away this past August.
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Don't like Ottman's work either as a composer or and editor and so teaming him with Bryan Singer, who I consider to be at best a journeyman director, (Superman Returns is an insufferably inept movie and how he even got funding for Jack The Giant Killer is beyond me) does not give me a lot of hope for this movie. Shame because First Class was fantastic. Agree with most of what you said here except for the part about First Class.I thought that was an awful movie which threw continuity out the window ( Xavier loses the use of his legs despite the fact that previous X films show that this accident did not happen to him until much later in life ) and what the heck was up with Michael Fassbenders accent? He suddenly went all oirish as soon as he put on the Magneto helmet. The score was also very overdone.
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Just watched X-Men First Class again last night. It's far superior to The Avengers and I would go so far to say that it's one of the best superhero films. The Xavier/Magneto story line is terrific, with perfect casting. And every character in the X-Men ensemble is given their weight, perfectly balanced in the overall story. The execution and direction are top notch. Never a dull moment despite the big action showdown (those tend to be boring - Avengers and Man of Steel both went overboard to the point where I didn't care about anything anymore). As far as the score, I think Henry Jackman did a terrific job. When I first heard it, I wasn't so sure, but it quickly started to grow on me. I love the montage music as well as all the Magneto stuff (it doesn't need that extra melody that Jackman originally intended to have on top). Also, love that they used Michael Kamen's concentration camp theme in the opening. The bit in bold made me laugh.
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Ottman did an ok job at reusing John Williams's themes for Superman Returns, but nowhere near as good as Ken Thorne or Alexander Courage did for their Superman movies. At leat they knew how not to mess with perfection unlike these composers today. A great thing about older movies from the 70, 80s to mid 90s was that those movies which had multiple sequels, all had distinctive main themes and sub themes which were reused and expanded upon in the sequels. The fact that this X Men series doesn't even utilise a single Main theme which has been memorable or been reused again is frankly proof of how terrible these modern film directors and composers are. They have no concept of creating a distinctive melody or memorable theme which stands out and which continues in the next installment. All they do is create a generic, useless score which nobody can remember or even bother to listen to again because they are simply devoid of anything memorable. It doesn't help that these recent superhero movies seem to have different directors for each sequel, and then these directors hire someone completely different to the original movie's composer, and then create a score without a single connection to the previous one. Its frankly hilarious.
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