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Topic: DREAMER soundtrack review
PeterK
FishChip
How's this for a review? Won't take much of your time, let's you know which scores are next of kin, and has no star rating:John Debney's new score is a bountiful mix of JNH's Man in the Moon or Promised Land, John Williams' The Reivers and Randy Newman's Avalon, with slight hints of Tom Newman's Horse Whisperer (I'm a horse film, after all). Joshua Bell is heard prominently in the first track, yet near completely lost in the rest of the score. Try not to be misled by Sony press suggesting this is some Joshua Bell centerpiece. The hidden bonus track is completely pointless.
OK. Should I have gone into more philosophical conjecture about the relationship between the right front muscle of a horse's leg and the left pinky muscle of a violin player such as Joshua Bell? I feel something is missing, and that would seem to polish the review off well.
posted 10-21-2005 09:45 AM PT (US) Dinko
Standard Userer
Too short. In 2005 we expect you to name the scores it sounds like, and the scores it borrows from. Also, how was Hans Zimmer involved? Did James Newton Howard actually write the main theme? Is it closer to Paulie, Cutthroat Island, Gunmen or The Passion of the Christ?What is it with Joshua Bell and film scores?
The Red Violin
Iris
Ladies in Lavender
Dreamer
Any others?Not that there is anything wrong with that. I'm just curious.
PS: "I'm" a horse film? Weird.
posted 10-21-2005 10:27 AM PT (US) PeterK
FishChip
LOL! Make a separate list of the scores the music sounds like, and then a list the music borrows from? Great! ctrl-c, ctrl-v.Sony Classical's infinite wisdom in the marketing dept require all Sony Classical soundtracks to have Joshua Bell performing. Bell is such a superhero, his solos even get their own recording engineer. By the way, you named all the Sony Classical OST Bells.
Re "I'm a horse film" Hey, this is a soundtrack review. Instead of describing the music in the third person, a first person POV might be interesting. OK, weird.
posted 10-21-2005 11:01 AM PT (US) zimmerito
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Debney in other Clone Form.its a charming and very well orchrated score.With a nice main theme.
the track race remind me a little to far and away.
NP:far and away
posted 10-21-2005 01:24 PM PT (US) Luscious Lazlo
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Click here to be bored to tears by high-string pulsing and french-horn clarion-calls.
posted 10-21-2005 02:09 PM PT (US) SBD
Standard Userer
I think the clip sounds nice.
posted 10-21-2005 08:09 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB