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I might pick this up - I watched the film just last week. Good score, but awful, awful movie.
It needed John Williams badly - the dramatic plot, what little there was, was obvious and very melodramatic, and the actual combat was never less than confusing. Putting up titles telling me who and what everything is every other minute doesn't help when all the footage looks the same and then when people are shot seconds later, I can't tell if they're the people I've just been seeing do dialogue or not.
Also, the decision to use original footage was insane. If it wasn't grainy, hard-to-see combat footage making already incomprehensible sequences even worse, it was the laughable sight of real planes landing on ships with brilliant, beautiful sky blue behind them, and then the next shot shows Chuck Heston "watching" them land with grey, dull overcast skies behind him.
Every single stock shot takes you out the film, and just makes the entire thing unbelievable.
BUT the score was good, so I'll maybe grab this one in a little while.
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Ordered.
I recently re-discovered it, by listing quite a lot to the previous Varese release and watching the film again. Great score as far as I'm concerned.
But I agree... the film is terrible. I watched the first time years ago, and had a very poor impression of it. This last summer I picked up the DVD again, and had a hard time going through the whole film. Thank God for Williams score to make me watch it till the end.
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Definately ORDERED!
Waiting along time for this>!
A perfect release without any detractions relating to a 2-cd filler>>!
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Well, the Rerecording seems to still be in print at Colosseum, so I guess they didn't want to cannibalize themselves. Were the THE FURY and DAMIEN re-recordings (and I guess those were the "original soundtrack" albums, weren't they?) still in print when those were included on the later original score recording Deluxe CD sets?
The Fury and Damien: Omen II were indeed re-recordings made at the time of the release. Releasing the original recordings was too expensive at that time to release. So, they rerecorded the music and released it as the original soundtrack album.
This is not the case with Midway. The re-recording was made many years later and should therefore never be released with the original recording.
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VARESE could have included both the soundtrack and their re-recording on the same CD.
They own it, so including shouldn't have been too much of an issue.
But, sadly they didn't.
Ford A. Thaxton
Luckily for us, they surely didn't consider such a thing, even for a moment.
And can you explain in a logical manner what the downside would have been for them to include it?
They own it, so it's not like they have to clear it using it?
Ford A. Thaxton
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Well, the Rerecording seems to still be in print at Colosseum, so I guess they didn't want to cannibalize themselves. Were the THE FURY and DAMIEN re-recordings (and I guess those were the "original soundtrack" albums, weren't they?) still in print when those were included on the later original score recording Deluxe CD sets?
The Fury and Damien: Omen II were indeed re-recordings made at the time of the release. Releasing the original recordings was too expensive at that time to release. So, they rerecorded the music and released it as the original soundtrack album.
This is not the case with Midway. The re-recording was made many years later and should therefore never be released with the original recording.
And where is that written down?
Who sent out the memo saying this?
On what page of The soundtrack fanboy handbook does this rule appear?
:-)
Ford A. Thaxton
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VARESE could have included both the soundtrack and their re-recording on the same CD.
They own it, so including shouldn't have been too much of an issue.
But, sadly they didn't.
Ford A. Thaxton
Luckily for us, they surely didn't consider such a thing, even for a moment.
And can you explain in a logical manner what the downside would have been for them to include it?
They own it, so it's not like they have to clear it using it?
Ford A. Thaxton
Ford, two downsides would be the additional mechanical licensing cost, and possibly upsetting Williams if the Maestro was displeased with the re-recording (I do not know if he would even be aware Varese did it however many years ago).
Lukas
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