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As a pianist myself, I abhor non-acoustic instrumentation and call synthesizers toy pianos.
I typically agree, willymcnilly, that actual instruments are the way to go. I also noticed that you and I do that same thing - Church pianist! Very cool. Have you played piano for a while?
I've played piano for 32 years.
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Apr 13, 2014 - 5:16 PM
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Devmo
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Maybe it's because I'm an Elfman fan, or maybe because I hear voices, but I kind of love those Electro-whispers. It's almost a perfect amalgam — the mock-classical orchestral oboe part representing the geek side of Electro's pre-super powers, mixed with the overpowering fuzz and grooves of dub-step for his villainous turn. The whispers are no less a motivational music device than a choir, female vocals, chorus, boy solo or solo instrument. There's only one composer who could get away with this and well, he has!
Whispering has been used before to great creepy effect - Kilar's Dracula comes to mind.
In this case, I dig the Williams-esque ostinato happening underneath, but I just can't get into the voice. What the voices are saying is too cheesy for me - it makes my skin crawl...
The rest of the score has some interesting moments, though.
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I think the voices in the Electro theme are absolutely spot on for the character. The phrases they repeat don´t have to be elaborate - they actually should not be. This is a simple guy feeling betrayed. That´s what they reflect.
I think Zimmer actually did a very interesting trick on this.
I only hope that this will not be copied by other composers in the future...
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and why the urban sound FX at the start/end of tracks?
Easy: to embed the score into the New York in which Spider-Man goes through his adventures.
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The music suits the movie very well, in that it is dumb, poorly written trash made for 12 year olds.
That's the most constructive criticism you could come up with?
Terrible theme that makes me cringe whenever it surfaces.
Those voices lol
Faux-dubstep... the horror :'(
Sound effects that make it sound like a dodgy bootleg ripped from a DVD
Godawful songs
Worst of all the music itself just sounds incredibly simple. I can picture Zimmer sat at his keyboards thinking "Dun dunnnnnnnn dun dunnn dunnnn.... yeah that'll do..."
Horrible, noisy garbage for the kiddies, just like the film.
I´m sure you haven´t seen it.
And if you have you must have jumped at the chance of a preview.
C´mon, nobody has to like anything. But do you actually feel better by badmouthing something?
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