Haha love it. I am a sucker for giant sharks and the book wasn’t half bad. From a pure turn your mind off kind of flick I am looking forward to this. The choice of music in the trailer was unforgivable though.
The movie looks fun, but I don't expect the score to be anything more than lots of stingers and dissonance and horror tropes.
Same here. I did enjoy the trailer a lot, I have to admit. But at the same time I thought: and this is why JAWS is unsurpassable - it showed the shark as little as possible - and why other shark movies, even with the most astounding CGI will always fall short.
I guess it would be asking too much to have a score that combines the beauty of Debussy's La Mer and the savagery of Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin (or Prokofiev's Fiery Angel or Skythian Suite).
The sad thing is that 30 years ago, composers were able to channel those kind of sources for their scores. Even something as low end like Deep Star Six had some nice scoring by Manfredini.
I loved the books and I love sharks (though not CG ones to be honest) so I'm approaching this film with cautious optimism. Gregson-Williams is a composer I'd like to say I enjoy listening to but he's not written anything in his career that I've really latched onto though his music is serviceable enough in the film context....
I found his music for The Martian to be really excellent in the film, though I've never picked up the album.
His Narnia scores have parts that are actually wonderful and parts that are just the generic MV/RC sound. But Prince Caspian is a big step up in general from LWW.
But if there's one Gregson-Williams score you need to own on CD, it's Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. It suffers from a bit of temp-tracking, especially at the conclusion, but at the same time there's some really fantastic original stuff (Sirens) and the main theme is a brilliant old-fashioned swashbuckling throwback like almost never gets written any more. Check it out if you haven't yet:
But if there's one Gregson-Williams score you need to own on CD, it's Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. It suffers from a bit of temp-tracking, especially at the conclusion, but at the same time there's some really fantastic original stuff (Sirens) and the main theme is a brilliant old-fashioned swashbuckling throwback like almost never gets written any more. Check it out if you haven't yet:
I indeed hope we at least can get something harmlessly fun like DEEP BLUE SEA, in regards to both movie and score. I loved the books as a kid, and it was hilarious/depressing watching the film adaptation be greenlit, cancelled, then resurrected, then cancelled, over and over. And then a trailer pops up out of nowhere.
I look forward the inevitable one to no stars score review on Movie-Wave.net, and the sin video from CinemaSins. The only things that will no doubt be salvageable from this.
What this movie will be, is what Spock calls a "Foregone conclusion".