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Kris Oscar® Winner	I have been waiting for this score ever since I heard John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams were doing it. I finally have it!!! This is a terrific score. Powell and HGW did again. Wouldn't it be great if those two would score a big movie like Gladiator together? Are they scoring something together at the moment? The Hare and the Tortoise? np More Music From Shrek **/***
posted 12-05-2001 02:27 AM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	After listening to it several times, I must say that it's a good score, but not a great one. No better or worse than a lot of the stuff that's been released recently, and quite honestly no better than a lot of the MV efforts in the past few years. Not bad by any means, and quite fun, but great it's not.
posted 12-05-2001 02:43 AM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	The G-W/Powell score is a thing of beauty. Amazing work, truly.
posted 12-05-2001 07:32 AM PT (US)

TimT Oscar® Winner	Yeah I like it also. I think you need to give it another listen Hasta. Its more further away from the typical MV sound than usual.
posted 12-05-2001 08:36 AM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	TimT, it's far more MV sounding than Antz or Chicken Run IMO, and doesn't get points for being as creative or witty. It's a more pleasant album on the whole, but personally, when compared to so many other works, it's hard to call it "a thing of beauty" or "amazing"... You want beauty? Go listen to some Thomas Newman! You want amazing? Check out Shore's Fellowship of the Ring!!! Unfortunately - and Tim, I've given it a good 5 listens - there would be a number of scores this year I'd put over Shrek if making my "top" list.
posted 12-05-2001 02:21 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	I thought it was more or less a toned down version of ANTZ. Less frenetic, basically, but still good nonetheless. At least more than Monsters, Inc. On a similar note, I listened to the commentary track on the DVD and I found that the directors really loved the work the Harry and John did. And I tend to agree. But it also raises some issue as to how much they had to adhere to the temp track while not make it seems so. Also.... Thomas Newman music = beauty? Not anymore. Especially when he keeps regurgitating the same thing over an over again. And no comment on Lord of the Ring. (Trying to buy it cheap now. ).
posted 12-05-2001 02:40 PM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	I don't have anything to say to that whole "it sound like an MV score"...what the hell does an "MV score" sound like? Rhetorical question. I'd say overall the score, if anything, sounds interestingly more like a David Arnold Bond score mixed with a little Basil Poledouris...than a so-called "MV score".
posted 12-05-2001 07:58 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	I'd say "sounds like an MV score" probably, more or less, well... No... I think it means, yea, THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE AN MV SCORE. Pull your head out or your ass Lancelot. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can act like a normal person (I know you aren't, but you at least try to act like one). Thanks.
posted 12-05-2001 08:08 PM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Lancelot: I don't have anything to say to that whole "it sound like an MV score"...what the hell does an "MV score" sound like? Rhetorical question. I'd say overall the score, if anything, sounds interestingly more like a David Arnold Bond score mixed with a little Basil Poledouris...than a so-called "MV score". In all seriousness it does bear a slight resemblance to Arnold's Bond scores in a couple of tracks. The Ride the Dragon cue does sound a little like Trevor Rabin's Deep Blue Sea but not MV.
posted 12-05-2001 08:10 PM PT (US)

Dinko Oscar® Winner	Saw the movie last week, and can't say I was much impressed by this score. Had it's moments, but I don't think I'd actually spend money on it. Maybe someday at a used CD store.
posted 12-05-2001 08:10 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	Dinko, that's my recommendation exactly; if you find it used, pick it up, otherwise wait for it used
posted 12-05-2001 08:18 PM PT (US)

Spicy Ramen Oscar® Winner	Havent gotten around to picking this one up yet, but yeah I agree with HadrianD. It was definitely more subdued compared to Antz's bombastic music. I remeber vaguely some of the stuff, but nonetheless I'll pick it up as soon as I see it.
posted 12-05-2001 09:24 PM PT (US)

André Lux Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Lancelot: ...what the hell does an "MV score" sound like? Sounds bad. But I have to admit that SHREK is a ok score, for the usual MV patterns.
posted 12-05-2001 09:43 PM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Hasta: I'd say "sounds like an MV score" probably, more or less, well... No... I think it means, yea, THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE AN MV SCORE. Pull your head out or your ass Lancelot. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can act like a normal person (I know you aren't, but you at least try to act like one). Thanks. Hey, dumbass: I realize I'm usually critical of negative response, but I try to refrain from being directly insulting....sometimes, though, I don't know what it is--this board brings out the worst in me. Much the same way I'd ask "what's a MV score?", I'd ask "what's a normal person?" Would that mean more like you? Or is that another question you can't answer?
posted 12-05-2001 10:12 PM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	Lancelot, can't we just make up and make babies together?
posted 12-06-2001 04:55 AM PT (US)

Hasta Oscar® Winner	I'll be the lady
posted 12-06-2001 05:20 AM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	Hey, I've got nothing to gain by bitching a blue streak here (i.e. I don't want to piss you off)....I'm just trying to defend a unpopular (though not incorrect) position.
posted 12-06-2001 05:24 AM PT (US)

Quill Oscar® Winner	The most frustrating issue is pigeonholing a composer(s) simply because of their affiliation. In general I feel most of the criticism for MV is biased and not well though out. I personally think that they write scores for a space in the film industry that is not suited to the other top name composers. I don't understand the sharpening of knives everytime a synth score is produced...sometimes John Williams strings simply don't fit a type of film...The Hulk would be a good example. While I don't always agree with Lancelot, I can concur that the outpouring of negativity directed at certain composers is a pitiful waste of time.
posted 12-06-2001 09:15 AM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner	Not taking sides, but I agree with what Lancelot is saying. A typical "MV score" has many aspects to it that makes it an MV score. ANTZ and Chicken Run IS, by all considered "MV scores". It's written by MV people, using the same sound pallete, minus synthesizers. "MV scores" ought to just be consider regular scores.....The stereotyped sound that makes MV infamous is quickly disappearing from the repertoir. Would you even think that Thin Red Line or The Pledge or Everlasting Piece to have the typical MV sound? The fact is, its perpetuation IS by non MV people, LIKE TREVOR RABIN, whom I say must go back to his Deep Blue Sea score and copy that again. It was probably the most original thing he has EVER DONE. ... .. . Rant mode ending. ANYWAYZ, gotta go back to work now. All those grants and contracts has to be filed
posted 12-06-2001 09:15 AM PT (US)

Lancelot Oscar® Winner	Wow, that's two....I'm almost prepared to run for president.....
posted 12-06-2001 02:27 PM PT (US)

HadrianD Oscar® Winner
posted 12-06-2001 06:38 PM PT (US)

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