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MikeH reacted to #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal in The Official I HATE Giacchino thread!
Goldsmith scoring big budget now would be music paired down to its barest essentials. Yet be still captivating somehow.
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MikeH reacted to publicist in The Official I HATE Giacchino thread!
This one was a pleasant diversion, really. Though listening to TLW recently had a sobering effect on my appreciation for a lot of recent orchestral scores.
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MikeH reacted to Code 000. Destruct. 0. in The Official I HATE Giacchino thread!
I've said it with more words and probably more eloquence elsewhere, but - this guy really fucking irks me. Bits of greatness here and there. Lots of mediocrity. And most egregiously, a brand which has insidiously gained acceptance by resembling enough peoples' childhoods (on an extremely weak surface level), a fact which will lead to a continued and spreading mediocrity when it comes to old school orchestral scoring. Were you mad when Zimmer replaced Silvestri? You should be mad about Giacchino replacing Desplat. Zimmer, as it turns out, is a great of film music. Will Giacchino manage to turn things around, ever?
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MikeH reacted to publicist in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
I can just imagine by what harebrained criteria the almighty internet decides what is 'better'.
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MikeH got a reaction from DarthDementous in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
Among all of the expected "Giacchino should score VIII/he should re-score TFA/did you know Williams' orchestrators write his music?/What is an orchestralator?" comments I've read across the internet today, this was my favorite (from someone who apparently did not get the memo):
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MikeH reacted to crumbs in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
John Williams asks for 12 months? John Williams gets 12 months.
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MikeH got a reaction from Will in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
Among all of the expected "Giacchino should score VIII/he should re-score TFA/did you know Williams' orchestrators write his music?/What is an orchestralator?" comments I've read across the internet today, this was my favorite (from someone who apparently did not get the memo):
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MikeH reacted to BloodBoal in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
suckmuckduck.
Best username I've heard this year.
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MikeH got a reaction from John Dutton in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
Among all of the expected "Giacchino should score VIII/he should re-score TFA/did you know Williams' orchestrators write his music?/What is an orchestralator?" comments I've read across the internet today, this was my favorite (from someone who apparently did not get the memo):
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MikeH reacted to Code 000. Destruct. 0. in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
The Most Epic Emotional Song In The World (We're Not Crying, You're Crying)
#perfectstudymusic #moveoverjohnwilliams
God I fucking hate everything.
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MikeH reacted to Muad'Dib in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
I really wonder what the pianist is laughing about at the end
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MikeH reacted to Code 000. Destruct. 0. in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
You have yet to hear a score by him etc. You. You. Someone else may find him to have ruined countless films and to be responsible for dreadful albums - in other words, a shit composer. What of them? You're tired of other people having different personal preferences than you do. Here you are acting as though your own frame of reference on this is the right one, and everyone else has a skewed perspective, but that's also the thing you don't want done to you. So long as people do this sort of self righteously hypocritical opining, there will be others who call bullshit on it, so I think it's time to end the victimized Giacchino fan act and accept that some people hate what you like.
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MikeH reacted to #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
Gia was not born to do it. Can we please after 20 years move away from this "Giacchino is the next John Williams" schtick!
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MikeH reacted to Code 000. Destruct. 0. in Michael Giacchino's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - 2022 Expanded Edition now available
I was talking about this with some colleagues today. At the risk of appearing overdramatic, I have to say that this is possibly the most disappointing thing to happen in film scoring in recent memory and probably beyond.
Giacchino is by leagues the lesser composer, first of all. Regardless of the things he does here and there that I do in fact like, speaking as objectively as possible from a pure musical perspective, it's just not even close.
The real disappointment, however, even more than the loss of what would have been (is) a compelling work, is the implication it has for future scores, the why of it. Whatever "cover story" is given as explanation is best ignored. This film obviously was going somewhere that the bean counters were uncomfortable with, which probably means somewhere good, and it got retooled to be safer. Now the same thing is happening with the music.
This is far more insidious a thing, and more damaging to the landscape of the industry, than the overabundance of the RCP blockbuster sound as a result of studios pressuring the following of certain models. Now even those last few films that may have been used as a canvas for inventive, fresh "traditional" scoring are being handed over to the safer choice. Will Giacchino now be as ubiquitous as Zimmer once was, and his imitators somewhat still are? Will there be an appropriate amount of whining about that, or will everyone eat up the new standard with gusto, a slop of symphonic mannerisms produced by assembly line for the nostalgia-addict masses?
Desplat is one of the very, very few in this musical world who could be called a truly great composer. Giacchino is not. And yet the latter is being handed every major franchise. The former is constantly held at arms length by an industry that apparently wants only to either produce grating Zimmer imitation scores, or to comfort 80s kids - and never have I been more annoyed to be a part of that generation.
Well fuck that, Disney. I don't want your movie, I want Edwards' movie, and I don't want Giacchino's score, I want Desplat's score. And so do plenty of others, whether or not they realize it.
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