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Anyone else care to weigh-in on the score itself? Seems like it hasn't really gotten much attention, especially compared to his last Stephen Sommers' scores.
It's lots of fun, typically muscular for a Silvestri action score. Lots of traditional Silvestri military percussion and brass. Superb Silvestri motifs add to the fab action cues. The rock synth elements appear now and again but add to the driving tempo without ever sounding like Media Ventures. One of the few albums I have wanted to play more than once. Though I have now exhausted it I think so need a break from it. Waiting to hear if we will get a replacement disc now.
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Man, this is the nerd dilemma of '09....I managed to hear this score and love
it - it's like Silvestri's greatest hits, and never a dull moment - even the hokey
electric guitars made me smile. Sure, he's putting one foot in MV Remote Land
here, but as a hater of most things new and Zimmy, I really like this one, a rare
example of current albums I've actually made it through more than once and
enjoyed....and it's fantastic to work out with!!! Too bad Silvestri didn't get
Transformers and that other guy this one.....
Now, the bad thing is having to hold off buying it since I want to see how
this Varese mastering thing is going to play out....probably not in our favor,
but yes it sounds like crap in many parts. A real shame, another smudge on
VS's non-existent customer service, since we do and will keep buying their
records and complaining until.......
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Man, this is the nerd dilemma of '09....I managed to hear this score and love
it - it's like Silvestri's greatest hits, and never a dull moment - even the hokey
electric guitars made me smile. Sure, he's putting one foot in MV Remote Land
here, but as a hater of most things new and Zimmy, I really like this one, a rare
example of current albums I've actually made it through more than once and
enjoyed....and it's fantastic to work out with!!! Too bad Silvestri didn't get
Transformers and that other guy this one.....
Now, the bad thing is having to hold off buying it since I want to see how
this Varese mastering thing is going to play out....probably not in our favor,
but yes it sounds like crap in many parts. A real shame, another smudge on
VS's non-existent customer service, since we do and will keep buying their
records and complaining until.......
....until we start a petition or send enough emails to jam up their email boxes to see if Varese will rectify the problem or give everyone a straight answer to so what they're planning to do. Only then, will they listen. I got the album anyway since it was on sale at Best Buy for 12.99 at least for this week. We'll see what happens, great score indeed!
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"beyond that, there are no 30 second clips of telling us it's wrong to smoke or steal"
Quite the contrary. For example, I was surprised how badass this film is and how much they strech the brutality to the limits of its rating.
I really liked the film. Its a nice action movie. Nothing more and nothing less. Lightyears ahead of transformers (2). This film actually attempts to develop some characters while some setups and plot twists are really nicely executed. The paris chase is just badass! Poor people on these streets!
The end credits begins with a dreadful song, then goes into a suite of the score edited together of several score pieces such as a part of the paris chase and others (including one short bit that was definitely not on the CD). The end credits track from the CD wasn't used in the movie.
One thing i noticed was that the score was mixed relatively low into the film's soundtrack. At least it did not feel as present as in van helsing or the mummy returns, but when you hear it, it gets the fluids going (and i am sure some of the people in the audience will buy the CD, some even stayed during the credits).
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How'd did you all come to see the movie? Did you see it in Digital?
Paramount supposidly beefed up security on this movie, and have digitally locked all but the first reel for theater test screenings over here until thursday night.
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I had no problem seeing it. UCI did one regular advance screening here (berlin, germany) which was open to regular audiences. Did not seem to be a big deal and the theater was only half filled.
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Just came out of my local's second screening and I have to confess I'm feeling slightly puzzled as to why I enjoyed given that it shares so many faults with the unmitigated rubbish of Transformers 2 - based on a toy, full of things going bang, large-scale destruction, a ludicrous overload of CGI, and the women are pure eye candy. It's not particularly well written, it's monumentally senseless and overblown from start to finish, and some of the computer effects are sub-par. But dammit it's fun.
Good to hear Silvestri in action mode, though, and I might well pick up the album (if this sound quality malarkey is resolved). That would only be the second of this year's new scores I'm interested in (the other being Giacchino's STAR TREK).
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Had a response from Varese re the GI Joe sound quality. Doesn't look good...
We also heard of some web site threads complaining about this disc and have since put effort into getting to the bottom of this. As I'm sure you know, there is a tendency in the message board world to light fires which are not based on facts. There is a great deal of misinformation spread about this way. We did actually receive a few emails about this as well, but the emails from different people were virtually identical ... word for word. We found that a little suspicious.
As a matter of procedure, viewing a spectral analysis of the audio files is never part of the approval process. A mastered album is always carefully listened to by Varèse Sarabande, the album producers and engineers and is approved before it is duplicated. This album went through the same approval process.
I can assure you that, after re-listening to the disc, everyone involved continues to stand behind the sound quality of the disc.
Hope that helps.
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