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It's all the better for your playlist that it sidesteps the horror, though. I know he's not a Zimmer original, just someone who joined up later, but the influence of Zimmer is clear here. It's in that Hannibal vein, where there are 175 strings all playing the exact same notes.
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I liked "Chasing The Boat" for sure.
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I just saw the film. Enjoyable stuff!
I personally feel that this film should have had an electronic 80s based score like the one in Stranger Things though, instead of Wallfisch's more traditional approach. Bummer.
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Yeah, cause all these Amblin films these are trying to emulate are SO FAMOUS for their synth scores.
^ This. I'm always irritated whenever some nostalgic 80s period piece always breaks out the John Carpenter/Tangerine Dream throbbing synth score, when Amblin stuff aimed at a younger audience NEVER sounded like that. It's so commonplace basically because that kind of music is inexpensive and easy to replicate, whereas no composers working today can properly emulate that kind of bright, melodic, fully-orchestral Williams/Horner/Goldsmith/Broughton "Amblin sound".  As much as I love Stranger Things, the soundtrack is totally wrong for the tenor of the show, which is far more E.T. or Poltergeist than it is Halloween or The Fog.
Yeah, doesn't It take place in 1989? Synth scores were on the wane at the time then, too. I will also somewhat disagree with the Stranger Things/Amblin thing. The friendship aspect of the show harkens back to the Amblin stuff, but the horror stuff - particularly the sequences set in and around the lab - is straight out of movies like Halloween III.
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I just saw the film. Enjoyable stuff!
I personally feel that this film should have had an electronic 80s based score like the one in Stranger Things though, instead of Wallfisch's more traditional approach. Bummer.
That would have been the totally wrong approach. Just cause the story takes place in the 80's, doesn't mean it needs to sound like an 80's electronic score. If they would've gone down that road, it would've felt like a cheesy 80's pastiche (like Stranger Things) and that would not have worked for It.
That sound would also not have worked for part 2, which takes place in the present. Also It is a monster that has been lurking around for centuries, not just a summer in the 80's, so the music needs to reflect that as well.
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Yeah, doesn't It take place in 1989? Synth scores were on the wane at the time then, too. I will also somewhat disagree with the Stranger Things/Amblin thing. The friendship aspect of the show harkens back to the Amblin stuff, but the horror stuff - particularly the sequences set in and around the lab - is straight out of movies like Halloween III.
Did they ever actually establish a year in which the show takes place? The show always seemed a bit anachronistic given some of the movies, shows, music and events being referenced. I believe this upcoming season incorporates the debut of New Coke, which I believe was killed well before 1989.
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