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 Posted:   Mar 24, 2016 - 7:36 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

Looks pretty crappy, but . . . who will score it? And will they play it straight? Will we finally get the Batman score we want (or deserve) from a goofy cartoon after a string of theatrical films have failed to deliver?

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2016 - 8:58 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The writing seems to scream, "look how clever I am", instead of writing something clever.

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2016 - 9:41 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Um...have you guys seen The Lego Movie? Against all odds it was fantastic. It approached high art...and I'm not joking. I suspect this will also be much better than you would judge it to be from the marketing.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Mar 24, 2016 - 10:12 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Didn't see The Lego Movie but heard good things about it. Back on topic I agree with mastadge this could bring us an awesome "Batman" score.

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2016 - 1:29 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Looks pretty crappy

Dispute that. And given the involvement of Lord Miller, expect Mark Mothersbaugh to handle scoring duties - but will Mariah Carey do an end title song? (She voices Mayor Grange.)

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2016 - 5:30 AM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

The Lego Movie is great. The Lego Batman Movie trailer didn't even make me chuckle.

Are Lord/Miller involved in this? Director is listed as Chris McKay. I see they're listed as producers but I'd imagine they're busy enough with the Star Wars movie that they're not super involved with this. Also they produced Cloudy 2 and that was much worse than the original as well.

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2016 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I did some snooping around online and came up empty. however I did find the following:

There's a music editor listed for the film on IMDb. I clicked on his name to see who he's worked for in recent years. Brian Tyler is one of them (the only likely candidate from the list). If it's him, I'm absolutely gonna shit all over myself, and not in a good way.

The film's wikipedia page (though you can't read much into that since wikipedia can be edited by anybody) lists Giacchino.

Looking over the director's projects as a director, he's only done one film (the rest was television and shorts) and the compsoer on that one film: Zarvos.
The television composer he's worked with more than once, as director: Shawn Patterson.


Four of the film's producer's have worked on one or more recent films Mothersbaugh scored. I suspect, given the success of the Lego movie and the producers involved, they'll be suggesting Mothersbaugh to the director.



Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get get a super karate monkey death sized adult diaper in preparation for Drum Hell and Loudness Wars.....

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2016 - 8:22 AM   
 By:   mstrox   (Member)

I'd dig a Giacchino Batman score, especially since this is a comedy Batman score.

 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2016 - 7:37 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2016/06/09/lorne-balfe-to-score-the-lego-batman-movie/

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2016 - 8:03 PM   
 By:   bondo321   (Member)

Like most action/comedies (Team America), you know this score is going to have to be deadpan serious big grin

 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 3:57 AM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

Samples: https://www.amazon.com/Lego-Batman-Movie-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B01MTBEFEO/

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 5:25 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

"If it's him, I'm absolutely gonna shit all over myself, and not in a good way"
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I NEED to know how you do this...IN A GOOD WAY!!!

 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 8:03 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

LOL, you caught that.


Well, say we have a big exciting fantisy film coming up and you're worried it's gonna be Brian Tyler, Hans Zimmer, defacto Giacchino, Junkie XL, and so forth and so on, but suddenly the composer is announced: Bruce Broughton. You absolutely shit yourself with excitment.


I guess after all the attention the first film got and acclaim, they decided the best thing to do is drop the original composer and take a step down.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 9:16 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Haha...yeah.
I wish someone would sh!t all over Lorne Balfe (he's been doing it to us long enough).

 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 9:19 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Eh, that's too far. I'd say I wish he'd do something else that he was actually good at and got as excited about as he does this. You never know what good he could do elsewhere.

 
 Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 9:57 AM   
 By:   Adventures of Jarre Jarre   (Member)

  • The writing seems to scream, "look how clever I am", instead of writing something clever.

    I'm hoping it'll be the long-awaited roasting of how the Caped Crusader has lately been given a faux-mythic presence, akin to Chuck Norris, though that might piss off Batfans, despite it being a comedy. Some spots seem to nudge toward this possibility.

  • Um...have you guys seen The Lego Movie? Against all odds it was fantastic. It approached high art...and I'm not joking. I suspect this will also be much better than you would judge it to be from the marketing.

    Yavar


    I enjoyed it, but its central message seemed hypocritical, to say the least: something about letting your imagination run free, especially with the help of trademarked properties, at the behest of another's need to appreciate what LEGO deemed fit for a singular purpose (those expensive sets depicting famous architecture).

    I loved the "Cloud Cuckooland" track. It's like being inside a hyperactive kid's head.

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     Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 11:47 AM   
     By:   CindyLover   (Member)

    but its central message seemed hypocritical, to say the least: something about letting your imagination run free, especially with the help of trademarked properties, at the behest of another's need to appreciate what LEGO deemed fit for a singular purpose (those expensive sets depicting famous architecture).

    Leaving aside how it's less insulting to have them use actual properties than making up products for the movie, suppose it had been the other way around (i.e. the dad completely overruling his son), would you still have had a problem?

     
     Posted:   Jan 26, 2017 - 11:48 AM   
     By:   CindyLover   (Member)

    As for Lorne Balfe, having enjoyed his score for Penguins Of Madagascar, this might not be a disaster.

     
     Posted:   Feb 3, 2017 - 4:17 PM   
     By:   mastadge   (Member)

    So I'll eat my words: Balfe knocked this one out of the park. It's a played-straight parody score that riffs on all the previous cinematic Batman music. It's a hoot. It's not a masterpiece, but it is a level up for Balfe and often a lot of fun.

     
     
     Posted:   Feb 3, 2017 - 5:37 PM   
     By:   thestat   (Member)

    Not sure if anyone knocked anything out of the park here, but this is compositionally surprisingly not bad. And yes, it even includes Goldenthal references. Most of it is way too reliant on Junkie's Mad Max temp track - frak, when did that become the new norm! - but it is a fine piece of music. Certainly, up there with Motherbaugh's work for the first film. Now, this is very surprising as I used to detest Balfe for his comments about the use value of film music. Clearly, this as well as Penguins show that at least he knows how to do his job.

     
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