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 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 8:07 AM   
 By:   Jostein_H   (Member)

This score is pretty damn entertaining. Tyler also seems to have snuck in the "turtles in half shell" jingle from the 90s cartoon, disguised as a brass fanfare.

Loving it so far.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 8:18 AM   
 By:   Machionic   (Member)

Main theme is very fun. Overall score is nice and thankfully lighthearted. If you liked (or loved) Thor 2 and Iron Man 3, this is right up your alley.

You'd thought Platinum Dunes would want to do a generic Jablonsky with bwaa and droning and he scored pretty everything PD related, but Tyler's persona is too big for that.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 8:21 AM   
 By:   Jostein_H   (Member)

Brian Tyler seems to be getting big enough to be able to not adhere to the Remote Control style so much. He's got chops now

 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 9:24 AM   
 By:   Talos   (Member)

Brian Tyler seems to be getting big enough to be able to not adhere to the Remote Control style so much. He's got chops now

That would be great. Ditch the whole Hans Zimmer style, and go back to Darkness Falls / Frailty style... that's just so much better.

When the studios ditch the Zimmer sound, bring on Talgorn again. Proper film music with intelligence and class. Alas, one can only hope.

(listening now to the turtles score, its quite fun and (too) loud for sure) I miss Goldsmith now more than ever.

Even I think Tyler has talent, in this (loud) mode... its just "noise" going nowhere.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 10:48 AM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

Brian Tyler seems to be getting big enough to be able to not adhere to the Remote Control style so much. He's got chops now

That would be great. Ditch the whole Hans Zimmer style, and go back to Darkness Falls / Frailty style... that's just so much better.

When the studios ditch the Zimmer sound, bring on Talgorn again. Proper film music with intelligence and class. Alas, one can only hope.

(listening now to the turtles score, its quite fun and (too) loud for sure) I miss Goldsmith now more than ever.

Even I think Tyler has talent, in this (loud) mode... its just "noise" going nowhere.


Personally, I don't understand all the praise for this score. Almost every cue in the album feels like the volume is dialed up to 11... it's like every scene is scored as if it was the finale. When Brian Tyler burst onto the scene with Children of Dune, Timeline and Darkness Falls, I thought he showed a tremendous amount of promise. Sadly, nothing he's written since has really impressed me. I guess I can't fault the guy if this incredibly amped up writing is what the studio execs want, but it does not make for good album listening.

Chris.

 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 11:28 AM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

Electronics in this score?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 11:36 AM   
 By:   MattyT   (Member)

I listened to this score this morning and personally I was bored with it. It sounds like every other action score that Tyler has written in the past couple years with very little personality. IMHO Klaus Baldet wrote a much better score for the Ninja Turtles (now it just needs a release!) My favorite recent score of Brian Tyler was "Now You See Me" just because it sounded so different than his typical action stuff. I think the "Into The Storm" score is a better listen of the two new Tyler releases, even though it borrows from Hans Zimmer's Inception score ("Time).

 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 4:50 PM   
 By:   AdoKrycha007   (Member)

According to Brian, CD won't be released mad

"I always want a CD release too but unfortunately that decision isn't up to me. But we did an extra careful job mastering this to make it sound awesome in this format"

 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 9:54 PM   
 By:   Ravi Krishna   (Member)

At least it's available in lossless format from HDTracks.

http://www.hdtracks.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-score

 
 Posted:   Aug 5, 2014 - 10:03 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

According to Brian, CD won't be released mad

"I always want a CD release too but unfortunately that decision isn't up to me. But we did an extra careful job mastering this to make it sound awesome in this format"



Bummer.

No CD, no purchase.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 6, 2014 - 8:46 AM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

Shame that Atlantic screwed the pooch on a physical CD, but so it goes. Still, I want the music, so download it is. Just not the $20 download , Amazon is fine.


The score itself works great, a big fun adventure score that isn't breaking any new ground but still delivers a good time . Which of course here means it is sh*t on a shingle big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 6, 2014 - 9:07 AM   
 By:   Machionic   (Member)

I think, this should've been the Guardians of the Galaxy score (with all due respect to Tyler Bates's score), not TMNT. Fits perfectly with his Thor and Iron Man or Marvel Universe Phase 2 scores.

Anyone else got reminded of Don Davis' Matrix 2-3 in some cues?

Very little, DeputyRiley. Pretty much every cue is a very loud orchestra with choir.

 
 Posted:   Aug 6, 2014 - 9:45 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

At least it's available in lossless format from HDTracks.

http://www.hdtracks.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-score


$21 dollars for a digital download? I got HTTYD2 on CD for $10. LOL

 
 Posted:   Aug 6, 2014 - 10:00 AM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

Very little, DeputyRiley. Pretty much every cue is a very loud orchestra with choir.

Thanks for the response, Machionic!

 
 Posted:   Aug 6, 2014 - 5:23 PM   
 By:   nuts_score   (Member)

It seems that a couple of you are just ecstatic about Brian Tyler scores in general.

I warn you to not follow up his 2003 score for The Hunted with this one. You'll wonder what happened to Brian Tyler but the quick answer is possibly that he is spreading himself thin over this kind of genre fare. I was delighted with his scores for Far Cry 3 and Now You See Me, but he's back into this rut where he can obviously prove he knows his way around a sizable orchestra and choir but this one seems lacking in personality compared to those earlier two I mentioned.

 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2014 - 1:56 AM   
 By:   AdoKrycha007   (Member)

Score review - http://www.soundtrackgeek.com/v2/soundtrack-review-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2014 - 10:41 AM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

It seems that a couple of you are just ecstatic about Brian Tyler scores in general.

I warn you to not follow up his 2003 score for The Hunted with this one. You'll wonder what happened to Brian Tyler but the quick answer is possibly that he is spreading himself thin over this kind of genre fare. I was delighted with his scores for Far Cry 3 and Now You See Me, but he's back into this rut where he can obviously prove he knows his way around a sizable orchestra and choir but this one seems lacking in personality compared to those earlier two I mentioned.



Don't forget last year he had the lovely score to "Standing Up", a score very very different from Iron Man, Thor, and Turtles.

It isn't a rut so much as giving the project an appropriate score. Now You See Me's score was the best thing about the movie, the sound fit the "hip" fast paced feel of the movie. Different style of movie, different score.



 
 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2014 - 11:18 AM   
 By:   Machionic   (Member)

Ok, I wish I could say this overall score works better in the film, but most of it was buried under loud piles of sfx. Ultimately the whole movie almost gave me a headache.

But still, in a few moments were it's not, works well enough.

 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2014 - 6:03 PM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)


It isn't a rut so much as giving the project an appropriate score. Now You See Me's score was the best thing about the movie, the sound fit the "hip" fast paced feel of the movie. Different style of movie, different score.


Interesting because I thought the tone of the "Now You See Me" score was waaaay of the mark. The film was also rubbish. I don't think anyone working on that movie had any idea what the film was suppose to be. However, I loved the score on CD.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, Tyler's TMNT score is an absolute hoot! It might be one of the best things he has ever done (based solely on the album experience.)

-Erik-

 
 Posted:   Aug 7, 2014 - 8:40 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

What I've heard so far is decidedly epic. And amusingly the CD has more score than was commercially released for all four previous movies combined.

 
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