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Surely even Mendes can see Newman is on autopilot for Bond. He doesn't give a sh*t
God I hope whoever directs the next film kicks Newman into touch.We need a Bond film with a decent score desperately !
Is this typical of this guy? I'm not hearing Bond here. Gladiator maybe.
Howard Shore did something similar for the epic original LoTR trilogy. Just masterful work all round in every way (slow, fast, action, romance etc. etc.).
I guess I like my Bond music jazzier and snappier.
OK, I don't watch GoT, but the penny has just dropped. He did Person Of Interest, and he did running themes for each character and organisation, rather like John Barry. Lots of great sneaky spy stuff.
My comment was meant to be sarcastic, I also care a lot about the score, and I honestly would rather talk about that than "Daniel Craig's hairdo" or "Jamie Bell could become next James Bond" and s**t like that.
He is an excellent & highly regarded composer, but he can't score the action for sh**, and that's where Bond needs improvement.
Here 3 Tracks from his Score on "Person of Interest"
Someone like him is what we need.
I don't remember any of those scores apart from American Beauty. Sure they're fine in a downbeat ambient sort of way.
Unless he is meeting them for a personal promo in the next few months (Baselworld 2017 is just around the corner after all and as I said, their results were awful and they need all the help they can get). I recall Brozz promoting Omega as Bond in between film releases, as an example.
Sorry, I'm not having that. There are parts of CR and QoS that actually rival the best of John Barry (and this is coming from a massive Barry fan). The Vesper love theme is right up there, as is the Barry-circa-1971-sounding Night at the Opera from QoS.
There are decent moments in the GE soundtrack, but some absolute shockers too (the mountain car chase at the beginning), far worse than anything Arnold has ever done.
The score of GE fails in comparison next to CR and QoS.
For Bond composers, this is it for me:
Barry
Martin
*gap*
Hamlisch
Arnold (CR)
Arnold (QoS)
Conti (memorable motifs in places)
Serra (GE)
Newman (SF)
Kamen (LTK)
Arnold (TND)
*gap*
Newman (SP)
*massive gap*
Arnold (TWINE/DAD)
Now for Bond 25 I don't want them leaving us with an option ending for what can happen with Bond 26
Your last sentence there. I can't agree more! This was my issue with SP. Don't tease the fans. If that was meant to be the last movie from Craig there should've been more closure. Not all this open-ended, open to interpretation BS.
I have a feeling This is why Cubby never liked doing continuing stories when he was running things.