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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: GIRLS TRIP (2017) - DAVID NEWMAN   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 6:39 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Another hit comedy for David Newman and another 5 minute cue on a (probably) top-selling song-track release! While I'm glad he's still being tapped to score these hit comedies, I'm never gonna sit through these films to hear his music and a score release is very unlikely Anyone heard it? What's it like?    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 9:59 AM     By:   SBD   (Member) Yeah, the film doesn't look like my cup of tea, either. Thank God for Spotify, though. Piano, light guitar, warm strings, Hammond organ. Fairly reminiscient of BOWFINGER in spots, albeit more orchestral.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 10:05 AM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) His career right now isn't what I'd call dazzling. This film, "Naked" next, and a TV series based on "Green Eggs and Ham". Apparently "The Cat in the Hat" was enough torture for him, he needed more.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 10:15 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) Oh sh!t, yeah...Spotify...I forgot. Will check out the sample track later!    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 12:06 PM     By:   DS   (Member) This kind of film is also not my cup of tea, but it was a big hit this weekend and it's target audience seems to be loving it, so I'm happy for Newman that he has another hit comedy. It's pretty amazing that Newman has been scoring successful comedies in Hollywood for thirty years, and this continues that winning streak. I too would love for him to be doing more different kinds of films, of course - a new David Newman drama or horror score would be fantastic. But I'm happy that - unlike most of his mid-80s contemporaries - Hollywood is still consistently calling him for something.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 12:41 PM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) I don't know -- are we saying successful as in money taken in or in general terms? I don't know about the money, but Newman's comedy scoring career has been poor/terrible for over a decade now: "A Christmas Story 2" (what an insultingly awful sequel) "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" A few Scooby Doo sequels. The endless barrage of Shitmunk films. "Norbit" "The Cat in the Hat" (also insultingly bad) And a rejected effort for that insultingly bad "Pink Panther" revisioning. Maybe others, but I'm not familiar with the rest/familiar enough with he rest to list them.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 1:06 PM     By:   DS   (Member) From "Critters" in 1986 (a modest success in theaters and with critics, and a huge success on video) through "Girls Trip" in 2017 (will make back twice its budget in a few days, and is critically and commercially successful), that's a 30+ year span of success in Hollywood comedy. Yes, there has been ebbing and flowing, but my point is that he had his first hit comedy 30+ years ago and his latest comedy is also a hit. He's a very good composer who started working in the 1980s, who is still being asked to score films for Hollywood in 2017, and these new films are making money.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 1:09 PM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) But, Justin, unlike other great Hollywood composers like Bruce Broughton, Cliff Eidelman, Lee Holdridge...etc, he's still on the roster and getting these bawdy comedies and CGI/animation efforts. THAT'S what we're celebrating here! If he's still in the game and aware of, he's one lucky hit away from that big-time comeback and this is a big hit film.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2017 - 5:26 PM     By:   SBD   (Member) This kind of film is also not my cup of tea, but it was a big hit this weekend and it's target audience seems to be loving it, so I'm happy for Newman that he has another hit comedy. It's pretty amazing that Newman has been scoring successful comedies in Hollywood for thirty years, and this continues that winning streak. I too would love for him to be doing more different kinds of films, of course - a new David Newman drama or horror score would be fantastic. But I'm happy that - unlike most of his mid-80s contemporaries - Hollywood is still consistently calling him for something. Indeed. Big fan that I am, I'd rather have Newman scoring under-the-radar stuff like this than nothing at all. As to Justin's list, there was also a pair of direct-to-DVD "Scooby-Doo" movies and Jackie Chan's THE SPY NEXT DOOR, all likely done as favors to FLINTSTONES director Brian Levant and ARMY OF ONE (and from what little I've seen of the latter, it seems that Larry Charles filmed Nicolas Cage in the same way Bobby Bowfinger directed Kit Ramsey, and I defy anyone to prove me wrong; Charles did direct BORAT, after all).     General Discussion: GIRLS TRIP (2017) - DAVID NEWMAN    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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