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I was happily surprised to find I liked the Omen III soundtrack (not the movie) to be not terribly far in overall quality to the original. The use of chorale and the fox hunt are terrific in and of themselves imo.
I'm looking to buy, but I've gotten some mixed input regarding the Deluxe' some folks have told to just go for the "regular".
Grateful for any help. I'm definitely a Goldsmith fan to begin with.
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I was happily surprised to find I liked the Omen III soundtrack (not the movie) to be not terribly far in overall quality to the original. The use of chorale and the fox hunt are terrific in and of themselves imo.
I'm looking to buy, but I've gotten some mixed input regarding the Deluxe' some folks have told to just go for the "regular".
Grateful for any help. I'm definitely a Goldsmith fan to begin with.
A great representation of one of my favourite scores......get it if you can (I certainly have no issue with the Deluxe)!
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I was happily surprised to find I liked the Omen III soundtrack (not the movie) to be not terribly far in overall quality to the original. The use of chorale and the fox hunt are terrific in and of themselves imo.
I'm looking to buy, but I've gotten some mixed input regarding the Deluxe' some folks have told to just go for the "regular".
Grateful for any help. I'm definitely a Goldsmith fan to begin with.
A great representation of one of my favourite scores......get it if you can (I certainly have no issue with the Deluxe)!
Thanks Leigh! Though I liked the movie one heck of a lot less than the last time I saw it (over a decade ago), the score's new material was pretty darn impressive and I just had to watch the whole thing.
I realize that the Damien-and-Christ-statue soliloquy might come across as unintentionally comical to many, however I actually liked that part best. Kind of a pulp Shakespeare (by way of...oh, Dean Koontz).
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Yeah, the Deluxe Edition sounds a lot better, and some of the additional music does help round out the score.
An epic horror score… there aren't many of them, but this is a good one.
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Yes. The "Trial Run" cue is an understated classic, along with several career highlights that aren't so understated.
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Ordered!
Thanks so much to everyone for the input, I have both this Deluxe Edition and Ben Hur Complete Collection coming this week, guess it's an early Xmas! 
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Oh man. I'm late to discovering this one and it's pretty tremendous.
Amazing large-scale choral writing that I'd rank as some of Goldsmith's absolute best, and that "Fox Hunt" cue is just so impressive. Terrific, detailed orchestration and interesting harmonies abound. I'm often highly critical of Goldsmith, if only perhaps because I have a very low tolerance for his use of synths (and because the contrarian in me has to find fault in the status quo somehow!) but this is a faultless, excellent work, very different in intent and scope that his original (also masterful) OMEN score, and mercifully bereft, by and large, of the synthesizers I so lambast Goldsmith for employing. It feels more like an epic oratorio for chorus & orchestra than it does a horror score. Really thrilling stuff. Can't believe I'm just discovering it now!
It's a tremendous effort on its own, made even more striking by its differences from the first two in the series.
What's also interesting to me is how good and worthwhile the Final Conflict score is...while the movie itself is arguably not either.
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I forget WA -- did you ever pick up the second score to complete your set?
Yavar
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I forget WA -- did you ever pick up the second score to complete your set?
Yavar
Abso-root-in' tutely! Damien is so cool, with all the grumpy synths and variations. It made FC's new themes and apocalypticisms stand out even more. Try listening to all three, one after another, in sequence. It's a seriously cool ride, and with the new material on FC, you never get bored.
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Yeah, I never get bored with any of the three, and I have of course listened to all three in a row in one sitting.
(I've also done this with the Rambo trilogy, which was another great, but very different, experience -- though those three scores do each have a separate identity and "feel"...they continue to build on each other rather than almost fully rebooting like each Omen score does.)
Yavar
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Yeah, I never get bored with any of the three, and I have of course listened to all three in a row in one sitting.
(I've also done this with the Rambo trilogy, which was another great, but very different, experience -- though those three scores do each have a separate identity and "feel"...they continue to build on each other rather than almost fully rebooting like each Omen score does.)
Yavar
The Rambos didn't do it for me. I loved the first movie as a film, but the scores kind of left me cold.
And I ended up really liking/converting to JG's 80s works, as I just listened happily to the excellent Lionheart again the other day (there's a candidate for re-recording), Poltergeist. More whose names escape me for now.
But hey, that's just me; everybody's different.
I could be wrong, but I thought the Omen I and II had more variation than the same Rambos.
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