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| Can you love a particular filmscore if you really dislike the movie where it's from? |
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| Hmm, yes and no, it will never be one of my favourite scores, but I can actually enjoy listening to it. |
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Rogue
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Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: |
 
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Jaws 2 more or less stank, but Williams' score is brilliant.
Clockwork Orange isn't a traditional score album, but I love the soundtrack and despise the film.
And there are tons of scores I love that I haven't seen the film for. |
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 lastdomino 
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I have to agree with the others that point out that the soundtrack and the movie are not separate but I do agree that I can love music to a movie that i hate.
A.I. bored me to death but I love the soundtrack. Now having been introduced to SST I am finding many other STs have my interest where I still may never chose to see the film. However - I will continue to recognize the film's value as being the influence that created the score I now like.
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 Alchemist
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:01 am Post subject: |
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I didn't like Troy at all, but both the rejected and the official scores sound great to me!
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Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Well i definitely can see that it can be viewed different ways. After all, someone like Mellowman might well be just enjoying the score simply for its musical content.
yes, soundtracks are all about supporting and enhancing the moods of scenes, but that doesn't mean they aren't good music to begin with. I think you an appreciate a good score, no question, but a good movie, will make a good score better, because you have the additional level of gut reaction built in, based on your visual input.
For me, the good example is Sinbad, done by Harry Gregson Williams... barely adequate movie, very good music!
Conversely though! there are many good movies that would've benefitted from a better score! One that comes to mind in the same time frame as Sinbad, was Pirates otC... Bleech... I don't think the score was on the same level of the movie.
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 TreeBob
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Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Terminator was an excellent movie but the soundtrack!!! Ick!
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 the_lake_effect
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Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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So that would be "Loving the movie and hating the score?"
Yeah, Brad Fiedel's score seems seriously dated. (Perhaps we will defeat the time-travelling cyborg with our 80's techo-thriller sensibilities.)
I did like Marco Beltrami's take in T3, a little more than the movie itself.
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TreeBob
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oops reversal of the topic, sorry. I've got nothing!
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golfboy
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hahaha so many examples of awesome soundtrack, terrible movie:
Krull by James Horner.
Cutthroat Island by John Debney.
And about half of the movies Jerry Goldsmith ever wrote scores for.
Hook was a great John Williams score, overblown movie.
 Then again I'm really picky when it comes to movie quality. |
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LadyInque
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Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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I have a hard time getting into scores if I don't have some context for them, usually the film itself. In fact, I made a list at Amazon of vocal songs that I associate with various movies, because to me, that adds a layer of enjoyment. Sometimes I can imagine a context for instrumental or score work, but not always. But if I like score for which I haven't seen the movie, that tends to be why.
So I seldom have the score for a movie I didn't see. Now, movies I didn't like? Elektra was boredom in a can, but I have the score. Of course, I don't like it that much. I like David Lynch's Dune, but the score sounds very cheesy. I don't imagine I'll purchase it, though that also has something to do with the confusing recording history it has. |
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 TheSnowLeopard
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Joined: Mar 18, 2006
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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I would pick Joe Versus The Volcano. Wonderfully romantic score by Georges Delerue. Awful, and largely forgotton, film with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. |
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 Irulan
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I´ve to say "First knigth", I liked the Goldsmith´s score but the film is so boring... I only enjoyed (a little) the Sean Connery´s scenes
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