Oh, wait....

Yeah some parts in the movie (but not on the CD) seem to be inspired by another score, but is it the first time that this happen? No! Is it wrong? No if every people concerned agree.

For my part, I would say that doing an action only score, that run around 90-120 minutes long is very hard. I mean, not only doing an action score, but doing an interresting and original action score. If somebody is able to do it, then I'll congratulate him cause it's very difficult. I don't like when people doesn't respect a composer and his work for a movie by laughing at him.

These guys have most of the time 2-3 weeks to see the movie, find the ideas, record all the themes and underscore, make it accepted by the director, then by the producers, and dealing with the cut and recut of the movie (even a few days before the deadline) and then, arrange it and record it with an orchestra. Most of the steps to create a score take a lot of time, but finding ideas is sometime painfull, especially when you have to stick in a specific style (like xXx which is almost non-stop action).

Just try it once, and you'll see what I mean. ;-) Of course, you can like or dislike a music, and that's good. But not liking it doesn't give you the right to laugh at a composer's work.

I'm not knocking Zimmer. In fact, if it's Zimmer I want, I'll get the real thing. Not some pale imitation.

Ryan
NP: Media Ventures Demo Disc / Randy Edelman / Rejected

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Originally posted by GrizzlyMV:
These guys have most of the time 2-3 weeks

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It's not that often that it's such a short turnaround period.... generally they have a bit longer to get everything done....

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Originally posted by Dinko:
Oh, Tim... how could you do that? By saying that the music which sounds like Zimmer is not on the CD, you pushed sales of the score lower, so now all the Zimmer weirdoes won't buy it. ( )

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Other than the opening cue, this score is absolute poop.

Next time I want to hear this type of 'tihs' (read backward) I'll go rent the latest straight-to-video Dolph Lundgren movie. Though in all fairness, Paul Zaza has done much better for Lundgren than this lame synth underscore fillermusik Edelman did for XXX.

Also, will someone *please* explain to me the logic of hiring a highly expensive AFM orchestra when the final mix is going to sound like synth banging? Can't they just bang on the synths without hiring the orchestra? Seems it would be much cheaper to hire the Hollywood Studio Synthesizer as opposed to hiring both the Hollywood Studio Symphony and the Hollywood Studio Synth.
Explicate to me I beg, as the logic escapes me.