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If I didn't love the score, I wouldn't care about the technical aspects (perceived loudness in this case) of the recording. So maybe this was already implied by my bothering to post on DEEP IMPACT, but I love the music.
The City of Prague re-recording of "The Wedding" as heard on THE ESSENTIAL JAMES HORNER is superb, by the way. I wish they had given us more. And the sound level is perfect, too.
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yah I agree, some parts are loud and I do not like to have to keep changing the audio, there is one part when she finds out her mother is dead and a very pretty piano part comes on track 5 or 7 I think and it's so soft I have to crank it all the way up. Although I love the score and the film was good too.
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Jun 26, 2007 - 10:30 PM
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Avatarded
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The only two that I think he has approaced any level of effectiveness with scoring emotions are Searching for Bobby Fisher or Field of Dreams. Most other attempts at scoring emotion have either been so low key as to sink beneath the surface completely, like Deep Impact, or so over the top that they scream out "Emotions Going On Here!!!", like Legends of the Fall.
I'd like to say I respect all opinions, but I would be lying.
In the case of Deep Impact, the score is so damned understated that over-the-top is about the most inaccurate description of it I've ever heard.
This is yet ANOTHER case of composers, regardless of who they are being blamed for how their music is heard in the film, where it is subjected to edits, replacements, cues placed out of order, etc, etc, none of which the composer has any control over. Deep Impact is the same way - the entire ending of the film (when the astronauts sacrifice themselves) had music tracked in from different places than originally scored.
The cue on album is very low-key at that point.
Even that "Horner, The Mystic?" essay written in 2001 touched on that and used this film as an example of what's intended versus what ends up as the final result, outside of the composer's control.
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It's Horner, who the hell cares?
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I do agree that the quiet parts are hard to hear in the car but two days ago I put this on my MP3 player so I get to hear it up close and personal when i go for a walk.
That's a good idea, but lately when I walk with my iPod, the wind is always howling in my ears.
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It's Horner, who the hell cares?
Avie,
How he chooses to use that talent is open to discussion, but can you just get over your
Can you post something that isn't just pissing on someone?
Ford A. Thaxton
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The problem is with the score. It's another tedious effort from Horner. Don't blame the tools, blame the workman!
As I've already said, in my veiw this is a very stong effort by Mr. Horner, right up there with LEGENDS OF THE FALL (another very good score from him).
Ford A. Thaxton
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At some point, Horner-bashing took on a life of its own around here. People do it to sound hip. It's a form of snobbery, in my view.
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Jun 29, 2007 - 7:36 AM
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JSWalsh
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At some point, Horner-bashing took on a life of its own around here. People do it to sound hip. It's a form of snobbery, in my view.
I think it feels good for someone to say things about Horner they never would say to him in person.
How often do people get to talk trash about someone who makes millions in the movie business writing and conducting his own music? Hell, I've done it, we all do it, but some people seem to really get off on it, repeatedly.
Of course, if Horner looked at them the wrong way or didn't say "Excuse me" as he passed them in a corridor, they'd go ape. But they can say he's a talentless hack and there's no repurcussions, AND they can pretend they actually did something that took courage.
I have a lot of issues with Horner, as I've freely expressed. But I don't HATE the MAN as some people seem to.
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Couldn't disagree more..
As far as I'm concerned it's one of Horner's best efforts of the last 10 years.
A must for any serious Horner collection in my view.
Ford A. Thaxton
Yes, I think it's pretty good myself. Wasn't this his first post-Titanic score? I just remember the music being very emotive, like vintage Horner. Good performance by the orchestra too.
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