 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm reminded of when I was a kid and someone would drop a stink bomb on the school playground.
;-)
Personally I did like it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Score is easily the best thing about the movie.
Spielberg should have stuck with this one. We could have traded the more convoluted elements of the plot for the emotion the film was so sorely lacking. Watching it, I kept wondering, "Does Nolan actually love his kids?" It's the easiest audience manipulation, the father/daughter stuff, and Nolan blows it. If you listen to the album, you can hear the emotion there, but the way Nolan lays it into the movie just doesn't work.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My impression watching the film was that I didn't care for most of the score. I'm not a big fan of minimalism. Only during the End Title credits did the music finally offer the sense of magic and emotion that I felt it should have had all the way through. Maybe if I listen to the music on its own I'll have a different, better impression of it, but it did not grab me during its use in the film.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My impression watching the film was that I didn't care for most of the score. I'm not a big fan of minimalism. Only during the End Title credits did the music finally offer the sense of magic and emotion that I felt it should have had all the way through. Maybe if I listen to the music on its own I'll have a different, better impression of it, but it did not grab me during its use n the film.
Too bad that end credits music wasn't included on any of the 30 releases, Preston!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shaun -
30 releases?!
PNJ
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Posted: |
Jan 28, 2015 - 7:18 AM
|
|
|
|
By: |
stroppy
(Member)
|
Well let's see.
HOW many topics does this score already have with a large multitude of opinions already on it?
But nope, you start a new thread only to bash it. It's typical troll behavior (not saying you are one, just behaving as one) so no wonder people will counter it like that.
Don't be ridiculous. I'm not "bashing" anything. This is a FORUM, is it not? And, as such, people write their opinions. If you like the score...that's fine. Write your reasons why. I DON'T like it for the reasons given. But to accuse me of being a "troll" is downright stupid! There may, very well, be a lot of threads about this topic but I only visit here sporadically so I haven't seen them. And one of the reasons I only visit sporadically is because of folks like you. You can't tolerate another pov and instantly attack, accusing someone with a different opinion to yours as being a troll. Note that I have not attacked any of the posters who liked the score...I gave my two cent's worth and that's it. So, really, you ought to have a good long look at yourself.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Superb score for a superb film, but I don't think it's the Second Coming of moviemaking which some make it out to be.
No, you reserve that particular accolade for the even less-deserving AVATAR. (Sorry, Thor, couldn't resist.  )
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: |
Jan 28, 2015 - 2:06 PM
|
|
|
|
By: |
MikeP
(Member)
|
I'm reminded of when I was a kid and someone would drop a stink bomb on the school playground.
;-)
Personally I did like it.
That's a very sarcastic way of defining things. I had written a longer opening post which I then edited because I wanted to see what people thought of the score without my interpretation colouring what they wrote.
Okay...here goes. I'm not a fan of Zimmer's "music". He seems to eschew creating themes or the use of leitmotif. Instead he creates tones that move up and down the scales. You can't come away trying to whistle a theme from this soundtrack because there isn't one.
Had Williams scored this film or, (heaven help us) Goldsmith, it would have added to the magic Nolan was trying to create on the screen. Call me old fashioned (and I am) but I look at today's movies and tv and really miss the lack of care and creativity in creating their music scores, if they even have one. Apart from the venerable John Williams I can't think of one modern day film composer (still alive) that I actually can equate to the greats of old. Perhaps Alexandre Desplat being the only exception.
If I was a multimillionaire and lived in Hollywood and was an high-up administrator at any of the major studios I'd be trawling all of the greatest music institutions looking for young people who can create memorable and evocative scores and then hiring them on long term contracts. But sadly I am not a multimillionaire and the studio system is dead.
Okay...now you can fire your barbs at me.
Well, says you 
You don't like Zimmer, and that's fine. I love Williams, Goldsmith, Waxman, and for me there's no problem in enjoying Zimmer's work right along with them.
And I find his music full of themes, including Interstellar. I'm in my early 50's and love this score as much as, say, Peyton Place.
And you mention Desplat, a composer I just don't like much at all. One score of his I enjoy ( Hostage ) but things like that Guardians animated movie, that score - for me - was just all over the place and not exciting at all.
You bemoan what you see as a lack of creativity and care in modern movie music, but Zimmer is someone who does go in some unexpected, creative directions...and just still gets pissed on for it anyway
Oh, and when people use quotation marks around the word music...man that just irritates me to no end. The score is indeed music. You may not like it and that's OK, you don't have to like it. But that quotation thing is a smug little way of looking down one's nose at it, just because it isn't your cup of tea.
Not that I'm crazy about tea. Iced tea, yes...not hot tea.
But, opinions are opinions. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
