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Jun 19, 2013 - 10:20 AM
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mstrox
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Just listened through this for the first time, and it was okay. The action music was as expected, functional but nothing to write home about. The most interesting parts were the theme used previously in the trailer, and the softer, quieter moments which are limited. Might pick up some power upon second listen, or once I see the movie, like "Batman Begins" did.
Unless something changes, my prefered way to listen to the score would be in Zimmer's half-hour demo suite on disc 2. It has all the major ideas, and since the score proper was processed within a hair of its life, the demo sounds the same as the orchestra.
One thing I did like was that the booklet was full of pictures of the performers - moreso than pictures of the movie, at least in the special edition. Of course none of those pictures were of the actual orchestra (lol) but it is nice to see a release focusing more on the music than the film, IMO.
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Well, I've seen the film; I saw it last Friday and I really didn't think much of it. The third act, with 45 minutes or so of overblown CGI destruction and fighting and apocalypse and stuff blowing up and buildings toppling like dominoes and gosh-wow-whizzbang, is probably the most boring 45 minutes of cinema I've seen in several years.
As for the score, I didn't like it in the film - it was a nothing score that made you wish you were hearing John Williams - and having played the album (the 1-disc version) on Spotify this afternoon, it's no better as a standalone listen. I'm not hearing any tunes or any melodies, certainly none that have stuck in my mind. Yes, I know that's what Da Kidz want these days, but that doesn't make it any good.
Whan Zimmer's Man Of Steel sounds like more than anything else is a karaoke album. The CD sounds like the score minus the melodic instruments, and I can imagine playing the CD at home and improvising tunes to go on top of it. You've got the rhythm, you've got a bass note to give you some indication of the key, but you have to put in the flute line or the viola line or the banjo line. But I can't imagine anyone actually sitting down and listening to MoS as music. I genuinely don't get it.
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Jun 19, 2013 - 4:08 PM
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David-R.
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Just saw the film, and now listening to the score for the first time. I definitely hear a Superman theme (I can spell it out [might not be 100% accurate] if you like - C-E-G, C-E-G-Ab, C-E-G-A, C-E-G-B? [I think], Eb-D-C). Zimmer's music is usually tied more closely to the film, so I waited until I had watched it until I gave the album a listen.
This reminds me of a situation in where someone had edited the Tumbler Chase scene from Batman Begins with Elfman's 89 Batman music. I started to stream the video and thought "oh man, this'll be great!" But as I watched it, the tone just wasn't right. I think the 89 Batman soundtrack is one of Elfman's best works, but the feel of the music and the overall tone of the movie clashed with each other instead of meshing; it was a distraction that took me out of the movie. That is how I feel it is with Williams' original music vs. Zimmer's Man Of Steel. Williams' soundtrack is unquestionably a masterpiece. But the tone of his music just might not work with this more realistic, more human Superman film. Zimmer's music, while less melodic, sets the mood much better in this film. Would I love a big, heroic intro for Superman? Absolutely. But it might not have worked out in Man Of Steel.
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I started to stream the video and thought "oh man, this'll be great!" But as I watched it, the tone just wasn't right. I think the 89 Batman soundtrack is one of Elfman's best works, but the feel of the music and the overall tone of the movie clashed with each other instead of meshing; it was a distraction that took me out of the movie. That is how I feel it is with Williams' original music vs. Zimmer's Man Of Steel. Williams' soundtrack is unquestionably a masterpiece. But the tone of his music just might not work with this more realistic, more human Superman film. Zimmer's music, while less melodic, sets the mood much better in this film.
You gotta be kidding. More human? More realistic? What could be LESS human and LESS "realistic" (this is a superhero movie, right????) than THIS?!
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The formula:
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE - Krypton & Smallville sequences
SUPERMAN ii - Battle of the super villians done in the style
of TRANSFORMERS cgi destruction
equals MAN OF STEEL
brm
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