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I watched this film only to hear Smith's score, written only a year after his cool The Rock score. I absolutely don't like the orchestral mickey-mousing comedy music that is very clicheed - it was quite a bit of that in this film. But there were also some quite cool rock-based music with synths, guitars and drums, especialy in the beginning of the film. Elements from The Rock was not very evident though, not very strange...
How is that suite on the CD? Is it the comedy music or the rock-based music? Was there ever a bootleg or promo available from this film?
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But there were also some quite cool rock-based music with synths, guitars and drums, especialy in the beginning of the film.
Quite cool indeed. That was exactly the stuff that everybody was missing on the 2 Williams scores.
How is that suite on the CD? Is it the comedy music or the rock-based music? Was there ever a bootleg or promo available from this film?
I don`t hope so. At least if I would be Glennie-Smith I would have done everything possible to avoid a promo of that stinker.
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Dec 22, 2003 - 9:55 PM
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So you stayed up for this TV2 film on sunday as well, Jon? Since the first two HOME ALONE films are part of my childhood (well, teenage years, at least) and I have a nostalgic relationship to them, I wanted to see what this recent third installment was all about as well. Unfortunately, it was plagued with an abundance of clichéed "cutesy" factors - John Hughes at his worst, IMO. Hasn't there even been a FOURTH film since this one?
But I agree with you that the music was often good, particularly when it was allowed to settle in a "groove" of some kind, like you mention. I'm a bit disappointed that Glennie-Smith didn't include more of Williams fantastic themes (except for the first bars of the main theme over the logo), but his style is very different, so it was too much to expect. What surprised me the most, though, was the inclusion of an Oingo Boingo song (I can't remember which at the moment) - quite unusual for a non-80's movie. I got the feeling that it was a cover, though, since it didn't sound exactly like the original that I have. I'm not sure if it was Elfman who sang.
NP: SPIDERMAN (Elfman)
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Dec 23, 2003 - 6:30 PM
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Yeah, Bjarte, it was from that DVD set I seemed to remember there was a fourth film. Do you know who star in this, and who the director and composer are? (I guess I could check the imdb, but I'm too lazy right now). Good priority with RETURN OF THE KING, though. Many of my friends have already seen it, and I'm struggling to find someone to see it with between Christmas and New Years' Eve. Don't tell me anything about it, btw. I want to have a "fresh" experience, and so I have evaded all threads about it.
As far as I know, we now count five Norwegian members: Thor, Bjarte, Jostein, "FirstBreath" (Jon) and Nils (who posts very rarely, but still lurks, I believe). I think that's a record in the 7 years I've been here. Let's continue the trend. 
NP: "Atom Heart Mother" (Pink Floyd)
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So you're revealing my identity there, Thor?
:-)
Just kidding...
Home Alone 4 was a TV film from 2002. No composer was credited on the IMDb.
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Jul 10, 2009 - 3:16 PM
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So I got to revisit this 1997 sequel in my "films-with-Oingo-Boingo-songs-in-them" quest.
It lacks the charm and mood of the first two, but is still a decent kiddie flick with some entertaining setpieces and "cartoon traps" throughout. John Hughes clearly had fun writing this, even though he didn't direct. (I see that this contradicts some of what I wrote previously in this thread, about six years ago, but so be it).
In a way, it was smart to move away from the "bumbling thiefs" of Pesci and Stern in favour of some professional, international assassin types. Made the contrast to the childish contraptions all the more evident.
And what about the young teenage girl Scarlett Johansson, eh? She's the only one of the cast that would make it to the A-list.
Glennie-Smith's music was quite good, now that I got to listen to it with more attention. One aspect of it follows the "tchaikovskian" style appropriate of the season that Williams applied to the first two movies (and Williams' own theme makes a cameo in the opening), with glockenspiel and all. This is used for the homely scenes or for the kid's shenanigans. The other aspect is a more techo-based pop idiom more typical of MV scores. This is used for the thugs, and gets a particular workout in the airport scene. Sounds like a hybrid of late 80's Pink Floyd and Gavin Greenaway's brilliant music for B.U.G.S.
Oingo Boingo appears once again in what most be one of the last soundtrack appearances (next to previously-discussed CASPER: A SPIRITED BEGINNING), this time with the song "Home Again" from the 1987 album BOI-NGO. It's used appropriately after the kid says "This is MY home!" and we get the typical "setting-the-traps" montage. It is indeed the version with Elfman singing, but it may be a remix of some kind. There are a bunch of other songs too (both diegetic and non-diegetic), but none that really made an impression.
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