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Nov 12, 2022 - 10:58 AM
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Thgil
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The movie was complete garbage. Awful acting, cringe characters, terrible special effects. The showdown at the end was right out of a 50's monster movie after than ran out of money or something. The only redeeming quality was the soundtrack.
My perspective was that it was a comprehensively dull movie. Because of that, I've never heard the music outside the film, and it got pulled out of my memory with that viewing experience. I think I intuitively connect the music with the vibe of a picture so much that I subconsciously expect ... well, not bad, but maybe just dull music. Yet, here I am a Goldsmith fan, with numerous examples to the contrary, and clearly people are excited about it. How does it compare, stylistically, with Barbarian? We all have our "That's not for me, but I'm sure glad for the listeners who love it" releases, but I'm really just in the dark on this one.
I would check out samples of the score on YouTube. It's much lighter in tone than Barbarian, and the main theme is totally different, but it's still a fun score. There are several cues where Poledouris reiterated material from the first score in new arrangements and with new orchestrations. It also has reused material from his score to Sword and Sorcery Adventure, so it's quite an eclectic mix of new and old.
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Thanks, guys. Well said characterizations, those, for setting up expectations. I didn't think a CD-unreleased score would be on YouTube, but of course it is. I'll try that, or the samples, once they're up.
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It’s been released on CD David — just in incomplete form. Are you finding previously unreleased music on YouTube (which isn’t the Tadlow Prague recording)?
Yavar
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I just re-watched DESTROYER and while it’s certainly not the faux-epic the first film was, it was light and tighter paced with a wider variety of characters. Neither film has much “depth” but on the whole it’s not the train wreck it’s been made out to be. Certainly vastly better than RED SONJA from the same team.
The score is much faster paced than the Tadlow re-recording. Smaller orchestral forces of course, but I think Tadlow hoped to enhance the epic feel by making a recording with grander tempi. There should be enough significant differences between the two that listeners will be able to argue the merits of one over the other. And this being FSM they will.
That's why we're here. :-D
I agree, I saw DESTROYER years ago, but actually enjoyed it. It was a silly, goofy fantasy movie, had much in common with the Italian Hercules movies from the 1960s...
I love the re-recording that Prometheus did (it was actually Prometheus, not Tadlow, though the two get often mixed up), and while the forces and performance for the original soundtrack recording of DESTROYER are inferior, I will get this release nevertheless, so my "Conans" are complete. Nice cover design too. :-)
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That's why we're here. :-D
Oh no we're not!
Too soon?
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I'm curious to hear how people think DESTROYER stacks up against BARBARIAN in terms of music. Is this a JAWS/JAWS 2 type situation where there is some thematic overlap but they're distinctly different scores? Or is DESTROYER just taking the BARBARIAN car for another spin?
It's a different score, some themes from the first movie make appearances, but it’s a substantially new score, with new themes and set pieces.
I like the score very much, though the original soundtrack recording was less than ideal and Poledouris didn't like it. The Prometheus recording is terrific though.
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I have both the Prometheus recordings of the two Conan scores and the Intrada edition of Conan the Barbarian. I will get this new Intrada release of Conan the Destroyer as well.
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