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I decided to download this score and film from iTunes to watch whilst I am holidaying again in Sorrento, overlooking the Bay of Naples. I am a long in the tooth Science Fiction afficiando since the early 70's and have seen what are to me very good SF genre films and some pretty poor ones. Fore me the pinnacle of achievement in this genre is 2001 and, for different reasons, Planet of the Apes (the original). I prefer hard SF but am not immune to liking Science Fantasy. I thoroughly enjoyed both After Earth and Oblivion.I thought the plot was robust and enjoyable and the narrative thrust, cinematography and CGI pretty damned impressive. I will definitely be buying the bluray. Whilst not a fan of Cruise I have to admit he does turn out some impressive films, IMO. I was also impressed with Daft Punk's score for Tron Legacy and am doubly impressed with the score to Oblivion. I have had it constantly playing on my iPod while reading a hard SF novel and sun bathing beside the pool. One small niggle, I thought the score somewhat overpowered the visuals in places by being a tad loud. I was a follower of the Rotten Tomatoes site but am beginning to feel it doesn't chime with my assessments of quite a few films lately. But there you go.
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I'm a big fan of Oblivion both film and score. Was one of my favorite movies of the year. Was able to rent the movie the other day and I will be buying the DVD. It is one of the better SCIFI movies I have seen in some time.
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Finally saw it. Liked it. If they were making a ton of futuristic sci-fi I might not have liked this so much. But they're not so I thought this was terrific. (From purely hardware smut it was awesome.) I liked Cruise a lot in it. As he gets older he seems more comfortable with underplaying and he’s getting good at it. I actually got the score when the movie came out. I thought it was ok, but it reminded me too much of Batman Begins and Tron: Legacy. Having seen the film I now know my favorite bits. (StarWaves and Earth 2077 are terrific.) Turns out I have the “deluxe” edition. I made a playlist of the NOT deluxe and I like it better. Less is sometimes more.
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Finally saw it. Liked it. If they were making a ton of futuristic sci-fi I might not have liked this so much. But they're not so I thought this was terrific. (From purely hardware smut it was awesome.) I liked Cruise a lot in it. As he gets older he seems more comfortable with underplaying and he’s getting good at it. I actually got the score when the movie came out. I thought it was ok, but it reminded me too much of Batman Begins and Tron: Legacy. Having seen the film I now know my favorite bits. (StarWaves and Earth 2077 are terrific.) Turns out I have the “deluxe” edition. I made a playlist of the NOT deluxe and I like it better. Less is sometimes more. I aasume you got the score as a download? I sure would like to obtain it on CD if it ever was released. I enjoyed every last track of the delux edition.
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I aasume you got the score as a download? I sure would like to obtain it on CD if it ever was released. I enjoyed every last track of the delux edition. iTunes. Maybe I'll go back and try getting into the whole thing. I have been coming back to this a lot these days. An interesting listening pattern seems to be start Oblivion, move to the Oblivion sounding bits of Man of Steel, say "the heck with this" and move to Williams' Superman, realize I don't WANT to listen to bright and orchestral, and either go back to Oblivion or move over to Pacific Rim. I've done this three times this week.
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I love the fact that M83 got this scoring gig. By the way, M83 is now scoring You And The Night, starring none other than Eric Cantona.
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I aasume you got the score as a download? I sure would like to obtain it on CD if it ever was released. I enjoyed every last track of the delux edition. iTunes. Maybe I'll go back and try getting into the whole thing. I have been coming back to this a lot these days. An interesting listening pattern seems to be start Oblivion, move to the Oblivion sounding bits of Man of Steel, say "the heck with this" and move to Williams' Superman, realize I don't WANT to listen to bright and orchestral, and either go back to Oblivion or move over to Pacific Rim. I've done this three times this week. Heh heh. That is SO much me as well when it comes to my listening experience. Sometimes I can just go for what I want but usually it involves the process you describe. I will check out Pacific Rim now that you mention it.
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Just like Tron Legacy, Oblivion is a story-based movie which struck me as bland (especially the characters) and visually expressionless. There's virtually no emotional or storytelling power (pretty is not beautiful). It's an expensive 2 hour episode of The Twilight Zone. Kosinski's next project is The Twilight Zone, BTW. The last time I was intrigued by this type of stories was when I was 12. Alex
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