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Sep 16, 2013 - 10:21 PM
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T.J. Turner
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Well it's growing on me. It's certainly not as inappropriate and lazy as Man of Steel. It should fit with the nature of this movie. In fact it conveys the idea of "Speed" perfectly.
Now the problem with the music I find is that it's mostly atmospheric, stuff to express the mood or nature of the scene rather than the drama. So most of the music is just repetitive rhythmic guitar and drum loops to serve as the world's wall paper, without much going on. To me this really exposes why certain album shouldn't be this long. If you are going to release an album over 45 min then at least make sure it's jam packed with as many creative ideas and colors as possible. Jack the Giant Slayer is a perfect example of a long album done right, every track in it has something new going on. But with Rush 90% of the score is the same old things. This would have been better as a 35 min soundtrack release. You could actually delete tracks 2-11 and still hear every idea in the rest of the score!
There are at least three motifs that run through the score. The main one mostly represented by a bass cello like instrument, the second on a electric guitar which sounds like a melody from early 90s rock tune, and the last one by a low bass guitar which is actually lifted from Mission Impossible 2. They work well, and are are what makes the score fun, because they are the only thing breaking apart the repetition.
Over all though its a fun score, it certainly fits the ideas of Speed and Racing and Adrenaline very well, and I do like the thematical ideas, if only it were just more condensed to eliminate some of the repitition. But I'll buy the CD next week still.
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I actually thought it was pretty good, even if it tended to sound like stuff we've heard from him before... my review is as follows: http://www.moviemusicmania.com/2/post/2013/09/rush-hans-zimmer.html
Good review, thanks for mentioning the sound. I didn't find that much distortion, like Man of Steel, but its still annoying since you said it draws you out of the music. But I did notice the little spaces between tracks that are suppose to flow together, I have an MP3 version of this score for now, and I was hoping this would be corrected in the CD version....Also there is some bad compression artifacts that is noticeable in the percussion that I am hoping is also corrected in the lossless release...such as the completely smeared cymbals in "%20". Did you base you review on the CD or MP3?
Thanks! Comparatively, you're right... there's a lot less distortion in Rush than many of Zimmer's recent works. I wrote my review based off of the mp3 version, so I unfortunately can't attest to the CD version. My hope is that such a glaring error would be corrected for that release.
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Sound clips on Amazon sounds very good. Like a mix between MI2 and U2. This is one Zimmer score I should really buy.
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