TheUlyssesian

The Shape of Water is the only one I enjoy in any way. 
 
but God that’s an uninspired list. 

I would go so far as to say the movie owes more than 50% of its emotional impact to Gia. He definitely got people around the world bawling at that one cue.

I actually liked the film too. It had a charismatic lead performance from MBB and the story was decently well written as well.

I actually liked the film too. It had a charismatic lead performance from MBB and the story was decently well written as well.

I actually liked the film too. It had a charismatic lead performance from MBB and the story was decently well written as well.

Wow great work @TheUlyssesian, this is awesome! I love this website! 

I think its grotesque overuse is what destroys the theme. Like if WW so much as takes a breath, that woman busts out wailing on the soundtrack. It is overused to the point of parody. 
 
 
This is a supercut and I can confirm even this is not all the instances of that theme. There are many more in the film. It really is relentless.

For real. I mean if there is a market for a fucking 4 hour release of a Junkie XL score for a niche superhero film.
 
Surely, surely, surely, there is a market for 4 hour releases of a John Williams score a property as broadly popular as Star Wars.

For real. I mean if there is a market for a fucking 4 hour release of a Junkie XL score for a niche superhero film.
 
Surely, surely, surely, there is a market for 4 hour releases of a John Williams score a property as broadly popular as Star Wars.

For real. I mean if there is a market for a fucking 4 hour release of a Junkie XL score for a niche superhero film.
 
Surely, surely, surely, there is a market for 4 hour releases of a John Williams score a property as broadly popular as Star Wars.

I think the point is - even take the movie's premise is a given - what's delivered by R & R is extremely basic - video game and youtube video level accompaniment and not worthy of a thousand awards.
 
It's the kind of score Thomas Newman could have written in his sleep with his brain 90% lobotomized. And you can bet he still wouldn't have won an Oscar for it.
 
The bar for these "new" composers is really low.

Well, decided to listen to this score after looking through this topic and seeing many here give praise to it. Jon Batiste should have done the whole score, without a doubt. I'm sure he could have made some heartwarming orchestral / jazz pieces that would have worked brilliantly. I'm in agreement with @TheUlyssesian that Thomas Newman has danced circles around the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score before it was even written (if you can call loading in a bunch of Logic instruments and playing basic harmonies and looping melodies written). 
 
"Pursuit/Terry's World" is the only Reznor/Ross cue worth a damn. Where it mixes the Jazz style, and beautifully/seamlessly mixes it into a similar sounding synth piece. The rest is the same simplistic, pleasant, ambient piano and synth that people like Hans Zimmer or RCP composers in general, Thomas Newman, and various video game composers have done again, and again, and again, often doing it better.
 
It's not impressive, it's not revolutionary, it's not interesting to listen to, it's not special, it's typical. It's the new generic. The fact that these type of scores that work fine in the film get awards as often as they do, is a testament to how low people's standards for music have gotten. This is a score I and many other amateur composers could have written within a month at most, if I spent a day on each cue. 
 
"Well it worked really well in the film." Sometimes silence works really well in films. Doesn't mean we should praise the music for not existing. A more melodic score for this movie probably would have worked as well, would have had more effort and skill put into it, and would've been a more rich listening experience in film and outside of the film. These 2 composers were chosen because they're associated with a lot of really good movies, and many audiences, critics, and directors follow a very simplistic logic for film music. If the movie sucks, the music sucks because it emphasized crap writing. If the movie is great, then the music was great and fit the film perfectly. 

Hildur to score of course. She will win the one prize that has alluded her so far - the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hildur to score of course. She will win the one prize that has alluded her so far - the Nobel Peace Prize.

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again. 

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again. 

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again. 

Hildur to score of course. She will win the one prize that has alluded her so far - the Nobel Peace Prize.

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again. 

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again. 

Hildur to score of course. She will win the one prize that has alluded her so far - the Nobel Peace Prize.

Memo to Mangold: Fucking finish your edit before you give it to Williams. DO NOT butcher his score. I hope Williams made it clear to Kathy that he's not going to stand that nonsense again.