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Just watched this fantastic film the other night...... must seek out this score.
And wasn't Martin Sheen's character a total "A-hole" !
Indeed, he was. I always thought that was the weakest element of the film/story. Stephen King could write a pretty compelling story now and then, but his "villains" were habitually portrayed as total/absolute caricatures, with not an ounce (gram) of nuance. Amusing at first, but not for long. One of the many reasons I've stopped reading his books (other reason: many, many, many other interesting books to read).
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The upcoming Shout Factory Blu-ray will apparently have a commentary with isolated score
Can anyone here confirm that the Shout Factory bluray indeed has an isolated score with unreleased music? On their website it's called "Audio Commentary with Isolated Score Selections", so I'm not quite sure if this is indeed an isolated score or just selections from the Milan CD matched to the respective scenes. Would be nice to know before I buy it, especially since I already own another bluray version of it and would buy it only for the isolated score.
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I checked out what was supposed to be an "isolated score" on the Shout Blu-ray, but whoever was doing the commenting, I gave up on trying to enjoy it as this person spoke over the scoring and wasn't even relevant to the music. A disappointment and missed opportunity to just let the music speak for itself. Commenting BETWEEN the cues would have still served the purpose of offering some insight into it, but if you desire an isolated score experience, this is not it.
Thank you for the info. I read in some review that the commentary stops after about 20 or 30 minutes and that only music remains for the rest of the track. But of course the reviewer didn't know or mention if the track included unreleased music or if it only consisted of selections taken from the OST release. So that's something that still interests me. If you're not familiar with the Milan CD, one example of unreleased score would be the brooding music for Johnny Smith's vision of Greg Stillson.
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Hey... had a check for you and no its not a proper isolated score. The part you mention is just normal mixed audio with music and dialogue on the track. Haven't heard it all but a few random checks show music playing over sequences that don't have any so looks like they've done a 'Legend' and just tracked the existing released music over bits in the film and not necessarily even in the right places. Shame.
Thank you very much for the info. Wow, I almost suspected something like this. A pity about the missed opportunity and very good to know. Many thanks!
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Just watched this fantastic film the other night...... must seek out this score.
And wasn't Martin Sheen's character a total "A-hole" !
Indeed, he was. I always thought that was the weakest element of the film/story. Stephen King could write a pretty compelling story now and then, but his "villains" were habitually portrayed as total/absolute caricatures, with not an ounce (gram) of nuance. Amusing at first, but not for long. One of the many reasons I've stopped reading his books (other reason: many, many, many other interesting books to read).
Caricatures? King was absolutely prophetic.
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