Saw the film tonight, easily my pick as best of the year. A carefully researched ensemble procedural with tremendous nuance. Clearly mimicking Greengrass's Bloody Sunday and United 93. Doesn't quite reach the heights of those two masterpieces, but a worthy companion piece.
Reznor and Ross's score is stunning, nearly as effective as their brilliant work for Fincher. I really hope there's an album, there's nothing on Amazon or iTunes and the FYC site or CBS Films just lists screenings, no FYC streaming score there either. Pity. You'd think they'd promote a score from recent Oscar winners who are also major recording artists.
Saw the film tonight, easily my pick as best of the year. A carefully researched ensemble procedural with tremendous nuance. Clearly mimicking Greengrass's Bloody Sunday and United 93. Doesn't quite reach the heights of those two masterpieces, but a worthy companion piece.
Reznor and Ross's score is stunning, nearly as effective as their brilliant work for Fincher. I really hope there's an album, there's nothing on Amazon or iTunes and the FYC site or CBS Films just lists screenings, no FYC streaming score there either. Pity. You'd think they'd promote a score from recent Oscar winners who are also major recording artists.
Really looking forward to both film and the score. I believe I read somewhere that a soundtrack release was planned for earlier next year.
Is the score similar in sound to their work for Fincher? Completely electronic or also some orchestra?
Reznor and Ross's score is stunning, nearly as effective as their brilliant work for Fincher.
Haha, we're allowed to disagree. I enjoy John Barry and John Williams and Herrmann and Desplat and traditional orchestral scores as much as anyone, but I also love their VERY different style.
Dragon Tattoo was my favorite score that year, there's tremendous subtlety to it and it's even thematic. However I'll be the first to admit that the commercial album is unlistenable, it's three discs containing three hours of extended alternate versions, completely out of film order. The FYC of Dragon Tattoo, however, with the original film cues, easily placed in film order, is brilliant.
I can't find the film version of the big final cue, "Heartbreak", anywhere online anymore, but this is the extended album version of it:
And Gone Girl was even more revelatory, because it was commenting on the action, elevating the film, which I already thought was a mainstream masterpiece. The choice to, as they described it, use music that would be like the dayspa muzak Amy hears in her head as she plots everything, was sheer genius.
This cue, for the big revelation montage halfway through the film, is easily my favorite cue that year:
Haha, we're allowed to disagree. I enjoy John Barry and John Williams and Herrmann and Desplat and traditional orchestral scores as much as anyone, but I also love their VERY different style.
Dragon Tattoo was my favorite score that year, there's tremendous subtlety to it and it's even thematic. However I'll be the first to admit that the commercial album is unlistenable, it's three discs containing three hours of extended alternate versions, completely out of film order. The FYC of Dragon Tattoo, however, with the original film cues, easily placed in film order, is brilliant.
And Gone Girl was even more revelatory, because it was commenting on the action, elevating the film, which I already thought was a mainstream masterpiece. The choice to, as they described it, use music that would be like the dayspa muzak Amy hears in her head as she plots everything, was sheer genius.
This cue, for the big revelation montage halfway through the film, is easily my favorite cue that year:
I'll listen to any samples that become available, but for me the attention and adoration these fellas get is just bewildering. Keep in mind I love electronic music and synth scores. Social Network was wallpaper for me, completely forgettable beginning to end ( and it won an Oscar...but, Eminem also won an Oscar, so, ya know, they hand 'em out like candy bars ) . However, there were cues from Dragon Tattoo that were interesting, the ones that channeled Tangerine Dream, and Gone Girl's "Sugar Storm" was nice, and again there was a prominent cue that was a TD sound-alike that I enjoyed.
Otherwise, they just don't click with me. But, the new movie does interest me, maybe this score will be more to my liking.
Reznor and Ross's score is stunning, nearly as effective as their brilliant work for Fincher. I really hope there's an album, there's nothing on Amazon or iTunes and the FYC site or CBS Films just lists screenings, no FYC streaming score there either. Pity. You'd think they'd promote a score from recent Oscar winners who are also major recording artists.
there's a 2-cd set FYC for the Golden Globes, running +100min.
Reznor and Ross's score is stunning, nearly as effective as their brilliant work for Fincher. I really hope there's an album, there's nothing on Amazon or iTunes and the FYC site or CBS Films just lists screenings, no FYC streaming score there either. Pity. You'd think they'd promote a score from recent Oscar winners who are also major recording artists.
there's a 2-cd set FYC for the Golden Globes, running +100min.
I'm told there's a commercial album coming out on Friday. I don't see a listing anywhere on Amazon or iTunes, so I presume it'll be a digital-only release that will just appear at midnight on both. I hope it'll be followed by a physical CD a couple of months later, as with Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl.
I just sold Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. Awful. Meandering. Overlong. Forgettable nonsense. Social Network is okay in places. Hardly Oscar worthy.
Refreshing to see your opinions on these guys in this rather conservative forum, james. I share your enthusiasm for Reznor & Ross, and looking forward to this, especially now after your recommendation.
Are you serious ? Deepwater Horizon was a terrific movie but its score was terrible.
Can't remember much of the score, but I LOVED the movie -- a kind of BACKDRAFT for the 21st century. Definitely in my runner-ups of movies I saw this year (and only one of a few Hollywood films to make it).
) . However, there were cues from Dragon Tattoo that were interesting, the ones that channeled Tangerine Dream, and Gone Girl's "Sugar Storm" was nice, and again there was a prominent cue that was a TD sound-alike that I enjoyed. 
