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No threads? Seriously?
What if I told you there was a Jerry Goldsmith quote? What if I told you that Michael Giacchino voices a stormtrooper (er, again)? What if I told you that Patrick Doyle inexplicably gets bupkis?
Also: It's a great Henry Jackman score. Probably not quite as good as the first (although the Slaughter Race song justifies everything). But it follows the notion of the film of moving from an 80's video game sound to a more fully orchestrated onslaught of modern games.
Seriously, why did they write NEW music for Merida? And why am I so excited that they used seven notes from Goldsmith's Mulan (instead of a song which is what all the other characters got)? (No Sleeping Beauty either.)
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I'm looking forward to this one, I think Menken wrote some songs for it.
One. And it's staggering in it's wonderfulness.
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No threads? Seriously?
What if I told you there was a Jerry Goldsmith quote? What if I told you that Michael Giacchino voices a stormtrooper (er, again)? What if I told you that Patrick Doyle inexplicably gets bupkis?
Also: It's a great Henry Jackman score. Probably not quite as good as the first (although the Slaughter Race song justifies everything). But it follows the notion of the film of moving from an 80's video game sound to a more fully orchestrated onslaught of modern games.
Seriously, why did they write NEW music for Merida? And why am I so excited that they used seven notes from Goldsmith's Mulan (instead of a song which is what all the other characters got)? (No Sleeping Beauty either.)
I heard a cue from the score and THOUGHT the Mulan theme was in there. Glad it wasn't just a rip!
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Dec 11, 2018 - 1:35 PM
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John Mullin
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We saw this picture the other weekend and we really liked it! I thought some of the film's commentary on the staggering amount of useless junk on the internet was really incisive and funny, as were the inane viral videos that Ralph posts throughout the movie.
I remember that the first score in 2012 really turned me on to Henry Jackman. That and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS the year before really made me think the guy had a ton of talent. In WRECK-IT's case, I loved how he integrated various video game sounds from many different eras into the music (which he does again in the new score too). Unfortunately, he never really matched that again for me. I remember excitedly buying PIXELS when it came out, but there was virtually nothing interesting in it... same with his CAPTAIN AMERICA scores, same with THE KINGSMEN, same with JUMANJI 2, same with THE PREDATOR...
This score kinda brought me back, though, and I think there's a lot of great stuff in there. I wonder what it is about this material that makes his work show more signs of life? I loved the MULAN quote among the others that he made in the score.
I thought the Alan Menken song was cute (my daughter is obsessed with it), but it's kinda weird to me that a lot of what he does now is sort of parodying himself here and there in other movies. I thought the songs he wrote for TANGLED with Glenn Ballard were brilliant... as were the ones they wrote for GALAVANT. I'd like love to see him get another palate like that to work with instead of taking these one-off gigs where he's sending himself up.
I didn't catch Michael Giacchino vocal cameo, but then, I don't really know what his voice sounds like. I assume his speaking voice is sort of like a bad, lukewarm impression of John Williams' speaking voice. Normally, any time Giacchino contributes any audio to a film, I feel the film is worse for it, but in this case, it was localized and innocuous enough that I didn't really notice or mind.
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