Bad...really BAAAADD... not only as music. Silvestri had those poweranthemes in his score, but Talgorns is boring and when the song on that CD is the best part, it says it all...
Well, I like Silvestri but I prefer the Talgorn score in two samples. Less synth driven. More dramatic to me. I choose by the music and not the composer.
While I love Silvestri, Talgorn's score has always been far superior in my opinion. But it is just that, my opinion.
Check out the score in this action scene, then compare it to the one above from Delta Force 1. The music starts at the 7:38 mark.
This music is anything but zzzz inducing.
I was alittle harsh in my judgement of Delta Force 2 , but it holds no candles compared to Silvestris Delta Force, but I just looked at the training clip from DF 2 and noticed it was exactly the same Ju jitsu moves I am training...cool
You couldn't find a better bit than that bullet riddled piece? Here's how it should be done:
At t=4:00 "We both lost a dear friend but hey that was a few minutes ago so let's bygones be bygones have a big laugh and get out of this stinkin' but ugly sand box".
And that "Shine sweet freedom" section starting at t= 5:28 is so out of place it's great.
Ah ...... Delta force part 2 was the superior film. Part 1 had the superior soundtrack even though they over used that theme with a vengeance. "Delta force" was a franchise that was like "Sledge Hammer" politically incorrect comedy without the laugh track. Only "Walker Texas ranger" was funnier.
Ah the mid eighties when reactionary beyond belief were still the bordering on facist fun. The golden years of reactionary escapism: Red dawn, Amerika, Rambo, Delta force, Rocky 4. They knew how to package poison in a such sweet pill.
It's like comparing Poledouris Conan score to Morricones Red Sonja. Now them is fighting words. Putting down Red Sonja as a bargain basement score or even a bargain basement film.......
Chuck after you finished bowing to Glen Beck you go get this misguide transgressor!!
Weirdly this never connected with me, and I'm a big Talgorn fan.
I remember thinking there were a lot of big anthemic synth moments that should have been performed by a live orchestra, and then boring grumbling orchestral moments that might as well have been relegated to synths. The creative choices about what was performed live and electronically seemed odd and arbitrary and I don't find myself revisiting it often.
ROBOT JOX, ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES, LE BRASIER, THE TEMP or his fantastic unreleased score for EDGE OF SANITY this isn't, but I think I recall a handful of orchestral moments I enjoyed - Can't recall what they sounded like now though...
