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Apr 24, 2013 - 5:35 PM
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nuts_score
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Great article linked above!
I saw this film earlier this week in IMAX and I cannot recommend it enough. A terrific piece of modern Science Fiction entertainment which calls upon elements of past work to create something that is involving, and new yet seeming familiar. In an age when remakes and sequels and constant superhero films reign supreme, it's remarkable to see a movie like Oblivion come along.
And, my God, the score sounds incredible in the film and Kosinski is batting 2 for 2 when it comes to sound mixes. A lot of modern filmmakers can learn from his approach. Since seeing the film I've been reading about Joseph Kosinski and his background education in architectural design. Watching Oblivion (with memories of TRON Legacy) and I am struck by how much this influences his camera framing and reliable tech design. His approach in Oblivion harkens back to films which had great depth of detail within the futuristic technology -- like Blade Runner, Star Wars, and 2001: A Space Odyssey specifically. All of these films feel lived-in, and the vehicles, and weapons, and even the food feel physically possible within the limits of the world created on screen. I do not get these same feelings from the empty films of Michael Bay or JJ Abrams, though it might be possible if either director successfully removed their head from their ass.
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Apr 26, 2013 - 4:28 AM
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Diederik
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Great article linked above!
I saw this film earlier this week in IMAX and I cannot recommend it enough. A terrific piece of modern Science Fiction entertainment which calls upon elements of past work to create something that is involving, and new yet seeming familiar. In an age when remakes and sequels and constant superhero films reign supreme, it's remarkable to see a movie like Oblivion come along.
And, my God, the score sounds incredible in the film and Kosinski is batting 2 for 2 when it comes to sound mixes. A lot of modern filmmakers can learn from his approach. Since seeing the film I've been reading about Joseph Kosinski and his background education in architectural design. Watching Oblivion (with memories of TRON Legacy) and I am struck by how much this influences his camera framing and reliable tech design. His approach in Oblivion harkens back to films which had great depth of detail within the futuristic technology -- like Blade Runner, Star Wars, and 2001: A Space Odyssey specifically. All of these films feel lived-in, and the vehicles, and weapons, and even the food feel physically possible within the limits of the world created on screen. I do not get these same feelings from the empty films of Michael Bay or JJ Abrams, though it might be possible if either director successfully removed their head from their ass.
You are right about the realistic feel of the film. It is a grounded approach to sci-fi where everything is designed so as to look and function as if it could function within its own fictional world. This approach really helps me to feel like I am there and that it could be real, a thing many sci-fi and action blockbusters sadly lack.
Now that the film has settled in, I must say that I think even higher of it than I did right after viewing it. It is a great piece of entertainment, with an absolutely engrossing story and also intellectually stimulating. The music also really helped the film, creating a great forward momentum, but also a great sense of drama and in the finale a sense of inevitability. I might just buy the soundtrack album.
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The Oblivion score is dreadful. It goes on and on and on when most of the time what the pictures needed was SILENCE and NOT wallpaper music. Instead, we get that media ventures sound crap all the time. Really, it was getting on my nerves.
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The Oblivion score is dreadful. It goes on and on and on when most of the time what the pictures needed was SILENCE and NOT wallpaper music. Instead, we get that media ventures sound crap all the time. Really, it was getting on my nerves.
Indeed!
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I'm starting to think we need a litmus test to let people in here.
YOR agrees with ugly face gut using a cheap hat.
Hanzimmer fans are not realy film music appreciators.
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Its hilarious that you somehow construed that from my earlier statement.
My complaint - which I guess may not have been as obvious as I thought it was? - is that someone thought the score was like Hans Zimmer when its much more in line with Tangerine Dream, Synergy, Richard Band sorta thing... maybe even a little Hawkwind? But its no surprise given that the film is by the director who did the Tron sequel.
Which was scored by Daft Punk. Which Bruce Broughton had a hand in.
And if its good enough for Bruce, its damn well good enough for the rest of us folks.
No, Oblivion score sounds like a pastiche of Zimmer-Tangerine-Dream-Gorgeous-Mororder trash.
The same as Tron Legacy.
Poor old Bruce Broughton surely was ashamed to work on such mess, but, well, we all need money...
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"I'm Sending You Away" - is worth the price of the album.
+1. Most definitely!
Definitely great soundescape for a shampoo comercial.
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Hanzimmer fans are not realy film music appreciators.
Its hilarious that you somehow construed that from my earlier statement.
My complaint - which I guess may not have been as obvious as I thought it was? - is that someone thought the score was like Hans Zimmer when its much more in line with Tangerine Dream, Synergy, Richard Band sorta thing... maybe even a little Hawkwind? But its no surprise given that the film is by the director who did the Tron sequel.
Which was scored by Daft Punk. Which Bruce Broughton had a hand in.
And if its good enough for Bruce, its damn well good enough for the rest of us folks.
I also LOVED the score to TRON LEGACY and as I am a fan of Hans Zimmer's work, I can honestly say I found it no where near his style and the work is very much in line with Daft Punk's discography.
Even now I return to it and don't find any work of Zimmer's that could be a companion piece.
I'm also a fan of this score for OBLIVION.
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