It's always fascinating that in 2020, whenever someone makes a thread about a score - basically just hailing its virtues - people will immediately start posting requests for expanded releases or pointing out missing music. As if that's all there is to it. Would never have happened 20 years ago.
In any case, yes, it's a pretty damn impressive score, smack in the middle of David Arnold's golden period. I remember when I got it, people had told me how lush and John Barry-like it was, so I had expected something slow and romantic. Little did I know that this is, in large part, an energetic action score! I can't remember if I ever saw the film, though.
After all this years here, I still not understand, how could it be - Thor likes film music (very often - same titles as I); but I wants expanded/complete releases, and Thor, literally, HATE them.
After all this years here, I still not understand, how could it be - Thor likes film music (very often - same titles as I); but I wants expanded/complete releases, and Thor, literally, HATE them.
I don't need to or mean to put words in Thor's mouth but I think the point wasn't so much about a hatred of expanded or complete releases so much as the fact that over the years the focus of any discussion has moved almost entirely away from the scores themselves--i.e., what brought us all here in the first place--and onto cataloging for cataloging's sake. I guess it's natural, and it's symptomatic of where the marketplace has taken us in the last 20 years. When places like FILMUS-L and this board first started there wasn't much discussion about it because so many questions got quickly shot down with "That's [Paramount/Universal/Disney/etc], that ain't gonna happen." I mean, there's a difference between listening and consuming.
It's always fascinating that in 2020, whenever someone makes a thread about a score - basically just hailing its virtues - people will immediately start posting requests for expanded releases or pointing out missing music.
Might have read: "It's always fascinating that in 2020, whenever someone makes even just a passing comment about a score expansion while hailing its virtues – one person will immediately descend upon us as if alerted by magic to proclaim the same views on expanded releases that he has already spouted 2,435 times and that everyone here knows by heart." As for the score... probably my favorite by Arnold.
Good movie. Great score! Now they need to make this movie available to watch digitally and we need an expanded score release!
Kino Lorber is supposed to be releasing this on Blu Ray in a new 4K transfer which they announced earlier this year and might still be coming at this end of this year so stay tuned.
As for the score, the album was a last minute thing in which David Arnold got the go ahead on a soundtrack album by Atlantic Records and all he could put on the album is what was released and he said once in an interview, that if he had more time, he would've put alot of what's missing now on it, which I'd also want too. A very majestic score and easily one of his best scores.
The question now is if Universal who now owns the rights to most of the Savoy Pictures library now would go ahead an expanded album. I honestly really hope so, it's long overdue!
Discovered yesterday that this movie is now available on digital for purchase. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look. I think Arnold's score is fantastic in it. Been hoping for a score expansion of this one for a while.
Hey funny to see this thread, I was just listening to this awesome arrangement on Youtube--the first time I was able to sit and enjoy the score outside of the film (which is not a terrible film, just not great either). The score is beautiful...I definitely hear a lot of the Arnold-isms that were used to great effect in some of his more well-known scores of the era. I yearn for this kind of full-throated orchestral scoring to return to the mainstream.
It's been many years since I watched the film and clocked the unreleased music, but I believe the whole score was 60-70mins in the film. Unlike most of his 90's scores, the album was pretty comprehensive, but it did have a few cues that stood out. I sure would buy it.
