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So, now we'll be waiting for this release like for a Top-Gun score ? 
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Finally saw this movie! Thought it was fantastic!
Musically, I think it worked very well in complementing the movie, as a usual sounding 2018 action score, with a layer of Schifrin's themes peppered throughout. Listening to it as a soundtrack album, there is SOOO much music that is just same-y action ostinato stuff that is so common now where the orchestra is disguised with synths into some weird hybrid. I'll definitely still listen to this when I listen to the other M:I scores, but I'll probably only listen to a select number of tracks rather than the whole album. I can't help but wonder what this movie would've been like with someone like Kraemer coming back.
One of the things that bugged me was that Balfe didn't carry over the leitmotif's that Kraemer set up for the characters that reprise their roles, like Ilsa and Solomon Lane. He could've still applied his modern sound but still reprised those musical signatures in a unique way. That would've been amazing connective tissue that ends up feeling like a lost opportunity here since it's the first time they've directly carried over the main artery of villain and story into the next movie.
Overall, besides it really feeling like Balfe just took his personal contributions from TDK:Rises and repeated them through the action music, I think the music worked well in the film. In the 6 movies, I'd unfortunately put it toward's the bottom of the list, although I'm not sure where yet.
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Aug 15, 2018 - 2:40 PM
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The Mutant
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Finally saw this movie! Thought it was fantastic!
Musically, I think it worked very well in complementing the movie, as a usual sounding 2018 action score, with a layer of Schifrin's themes peppered throughout. Listening to it as a soundtrack album, there is SOOO much music that is just same-y action ostinato stuff that is so common now where the orchestra is disguised with synths into some weird hybrid. I'll definitely still listen to this when I listen to the other M:I scores, but I'll probably only listen to a select number of tracks rather than the whole album. I can't help but wonder what this movie would've been like with someone like Kraemer coming back.
One of the things that bugged me was that Balfe didn't carry over the leitmotif's that Kraemer set up for the characters that reprise their roles, like Ilsa and Solomon Lane. He could've still applied his modern sound but still reprised those musical signatures in a unique way. That would've been amazing connective tissue that ends up feeling like a lost opportunity here since it's the first time they've directly carried over the main artery of villain and story into the next movie.
Overall, besides it really feeling like Balfe just took his personal contributions from TDK:Rises and repeated them through the action music, I think the music worked well in the film. In the 6 movies, I'd unfortunately put it toward's the bottom of the list, although I'm not sure where yet.
He specifically discusses why he didn’t bring back those themes in the above interview link.
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Finally saw this movie! Thought it was fantastic!
Musically, I think it worked very well in complementing the movie, as a usual sounding 2018 action score, with a layer of Schifrin's themes peppered throughout. Listening to it as a soundtrack album, there is SOOO much music that is just same-y action ostinato stuff that is so common now where the orchestra is disguised with synths into some weird hybrid. I'll definitely still listen to this when I listen to the other M:I scores, but I'll probably only listen to a select number of tracks rather than the whole album. I can't help but wonder what this movie would've been like with someone like Kraemer coming back.
One of the things that bugged me was that Balfe didn't carry over the leitmotif's that Kraemer set up for the characters that reprise their roles, like Ilsa and Solomon Lane. He could've still applied his modern sound but still reprised those musical signatures in a unique way. That would've been amazing connective tissue that ends up feeling like a lost opportunity here since it's the first time they've directly carried over the main artery of villain and story into the next movie.
Overall, besides it really feeling like Balfe just took his personal contributions from TDK:Rises and repeated them through the action music, I think the music worked well in the film. In the 6 movies, I'd unfortunately put it toward's the bottom of the list, although I'm not sure where yet.
He specifically discusses why he didn’t bring back those themes in the above interview link.
Sweet, thanks. I'll take a listen. :-)
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Amazon shows a release date of September 7. Has that been confirmed by LLL?
Who knows?
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#TopGunSituation ?
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I've been coming more and more around on this soundtrack the more I listen to it (through YouTube bc I'm waiting to buy a CD(!) for it). It's still got some spots that I skip through, but overall, I am enjoying it more than I at first thought I did. Not sure if others, like me, who were really skeptical before it came out and a little underwhelmed when they first heard it are feeling something sort of similar now that we've had a lot more time to marinate on it...
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FYI -
This is available to order now. Says it ships the Sept 19th!
lalalandrecords.com
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