Among the things on the 2-disc set is a "composer profile on Danny Elfman."

There are a bunch of supplements, but I thought they were lacking on quality. I found myself not learning anything from what I was watching and just giving up on them. Instead of being a very interesting and entertaining supplement to the film like the additional disc to Moulin Rouge, I think that here the second disc was just a gimmick to raise the price by $5. Or maybe I just didn't care about the film and watching the added material just made me more uncomfortable.

The Danny Elfman featurette (7 mins) put a sour taste in my mouth. Elfman mentions how he came up with "themes" for the film. What freaking themes? Each one of these "themes" is then showcased in a scene from the film without dialog or effects so that the listener can notice what they knew all along: This score contained no themes!

So while the score doesn't have any strong themes, it was still enjoyable in the film. Dennis Sands' mix sounds really great, as always. (Remarkably enough, a reviewer over at DVDfile thought the score wasn't mixed to the rear channels enough. I wonder if he and I were listening to the same audio track!)

Slight spoiler below:
What was up with that ending? I thought it was completely idiotic! This movie was a two hour love story and to have it end like that? Dumb.

[Message edited by jonathan_little on 11-09-2002]

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
What was up with that ending? I thought it was completely idiotic! This movie was a two hour love story and to have it end like that? Dumb.

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Heh. When I saw it in the theater, people were yelling "what???" during the end. They were incredulous. I was one of them who just couldn't believe it happened, but then if they are going to follow the Spider-man mythos/story, it makes [some] sense.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
so that the listener can notice what they knew all along: [b]This score contained no themes![/B]

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I'm not sure how having "big responsibilities" and having a relationship at the same time would somehow put the world in danger. I mean, are we supposed to assume that MJ is an evil young woman who just wants to control the world via Spider-man? I'm glad that Spider-man has "evil woman" sensors in his mouth so that he can kiss a female and can easily blow off the bad ones by telling them how he'll always be her friend.

This film reminds me of Perl Harbor in many ways. We have this lame love story inside of a big bugdet, snazzy computer graphic action extravaganza. Inside of the half-assed "love story," there is a cute girl who is going from man to man for seemingly no good reason. Then we have a score... well, I won't say anything more about the score, since just saying it has no themes has put the Soundtrack Police on alert.

The more I think about this film, the more I dislike it.

There's the Powers and Responsibilities theme, AKA Uncle Ben's Theme, which starts with four notes, then a lower note, and it goes up for three descending notes. It plays at the very end of "Revenge", and at a bunch of other places.

There's the Green Goblin Theme which plays in a "heroic" fashion at the beginning of the tram car climax. The whole Parade Attack is based around it, and a soft, chilling version plays when Norman looks at himself in the mirror in that (I'll admit) cheezy scene.

The so-called "love theme" is just the Spider-Man theme played softly.

MJ is no evil woman, by the way, but Peter feels (justifiably) that having people whom he loves puts THEM in danger. That's why he can't have an Achilles' heel like MJ around.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
I had no info at all regarding the Spider-man series before seeing the film, so perhaps that's why it makes no sense to me.

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