2010

[crocodile 7,983]

As predicted, the new Narnia score by David Arnold ends up in my third category (honourable mentions), for being very enjoybale but overall a bit too predictable and obvious for its own good. A Second Coming this is not.

Karol

[Quintus 5,399]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score since ID4. He shown so much promise, back then.

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score since ID4. He shown so much promise, back then.

Not even Casino Royale?

I like him a lot, but I think people were treating this too much, as Karol said, as the second coming, which is unfair to Arnold not only because he's done some exceptional work since ID4, but also expecting him to conjur magic from something as uninspired as the Narnia movies.

I mean, come on, he's not freaking Jerry Goldsmith.

[Hlao-roo 389]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score.

I mean, come on, he's not freaking Jerry Goldsmith.

He's certainly not.

[Jay 37,284]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score since ID4. He shown so much promise, back then.

Tomorrow Never Dies is excellent as well

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score.

I mean, come on, he's not freaking Jerry Goldsmith.

He's certainly not.

Unless he's into that sort of thing.

[Quintus 5,399]

I've not gotten into an Arnold score since ID4. He shown so much promise, back then.

Not even Casino Royale?

Yeah, it was a good score, but I wasn't wowed or anything like that. I like Arnold too, so much in fact that I'd love him to work with Spielberg after, you know... John goes.

I'd rather see Arnold do the latest blockbusters and such over someone like Gia.

[Ollie 1,059]

I'd just like Arnold to lay off the electronics every now and then.

[Quintus 5,399]

Me too. His old orchestrator was the business.

[Ollie 1,059]

I don't mind him using them but at times they can be overbearing. TWINE & DAD are prime examples of too much.

[crocodile 7,983]

I'd just like Arnold to lay off the electronics every now and then.

Well, then The Voyage of the Dawn Treader should please you in that regard.

Karol

[Quintus 5,399]

Has it any of his signature strong melodies? I'm shallow like that when it comes to modern scores - I need a good theme or two usually - to get me into the wider score.

[crocodile 7,983]

The only thing I can remember is the theme from the previous scores and the bit from Godzilla which appears 3 or 4 times. Nothing else in there, I'm afraid. Lots of fantasy music, some ethnic woodwinds, choirs and some trademark brass. But no themes I can recall.

Karol

[Ollie 1,059]

Yeah there are a few Arnoldisms that appear in his scores from time to time.

[John Crichton 4]

There's a theme that's in both Stargate and ID4.

[crocodile 7,983]

And there are some bits in the new one that sound like Stargate too.

Karol

[King Mark 3,625]

doesn't sound like it's an instant classic

[Neimoidian 14]

The only thing I can remember is the theme from the previous scores and the bit from Godzilla which appears 3 or 4 times. Nothing else in there, I'm afraid. Lots of fantasy music, some ethnic woodwinds, choirs and some trademark brass. But no themes I can recall.

Karol

I remember the new theme just from listening to the samples, but I must admit there is nothig really special about it. Yet, it's more distinct than Desplat's new Potter theme. The whole score probably will be like this too.

Me too. His old orchestrator was the business.

Arnold still works with Nicholas Dodd as far as I am concerned.

[crocodile 7,983]

The only thing I can remember is the theme from the previous scores and the bit from Godzilla which appears 3 or 4 times. Nothing else in there, I'm afraid. Lots of fantasy music, some ethnic woodwinds, choirs and some trademark brass. But no themes I can recall.

Karol

I remember the new theme just from listening to the samples, but I must admit there is nothig really special about it. Yet, it's more distinct than Desplat's new Potter theme. The whole score probably will be like this too.

The be perfectly honest: it is not. HP7 sounds like Desplat and CON3 sounds like Arnold. But neither is really that distinctive.

Karol

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

If I heard DH1 sandwiched with a few other in-distinctive scores while I was blind-folded, I probably wouldn't have guessed the composer.

[crocodile 7,983]

Well could always say it's John Debney. You'd be right every time.

Karol

[fommes 153]

I mean, come on, he's not freaking Jerry Goldsmith.

Of course not. He's way better.

[Neimoidian 14]

There's a theme that's in both Stargate and ID4.

Which one? I have never noticed that there is a theme that's present in both of these scores.

[Quintus 5,399]

Is he referring to the fanfare-ish heroic motif?

[Jay 37,284]

I've never heard a theme from Stargate in ID4 either, and I've listened to both scores LOTS of times

[lonzoe 18]

Yeah i agree with some that say this year was lackluster for film scores and that reissues and premiere releases of old filmscores is the main thing that's giving me my money's worth.