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That's putting it mildy. Newman should be a patron of the International Insomniac-relief Association, if you ask me...
I was trying not to be too harsh.
I just find his scores so polite and unexciting. There's absolutely zero adrenalin in his music - like it's been stripped of character and personality. It's like the musical equivalent of prozac or magnolia paint. It just sort of blands everything down to a rather dull evenness.
Or his American Beauty score
Or Road to Perdition
Or The Green Mile
Or Shawshank Redemption
Or, more recently, Saving Mr. Banks
He's not John Barry, but no one is. He certainly is much better than David Arnold, Bill Conti, or Eric Serra.
P.S. this is not an April's fool's day joke. I'm still not used to this tradition, for we don't have it in Spain.
Agreed. Electric guitar would be far more suited to the current 007 incarnation than the synth/electronic cues which have tainted the soundtracks since the 90's, in my opinion.
Someone like Johnny Marr or Kirk Hammet would add a much needed sonic edge to Craig’s Bond.
I like this one as well, although it pretty much sounds like what John Powell did on Bourne. Skyfall in general did at times, I'm surprised people didn't mention this.
Here's another.
I don't agree on the part where you said he's better than David Arnold, though. At least not for Bond. I think CR and QOS are two of the best scores in the franchise. They have the perfect balance of classic and modern with some very memorable themes and melodies.
And Tennyson and Enquiry, which one should listen to always in a row. For me, they're one.
Its a great action piece and fits perfectly with the onscreen action.
Completed agreed as well. Those guys are amazing on the guitar, it would add so much to the soundtrack.
Johnny Marr worked with Hans Zimmer on the 'Inception' score, so I see no reason why a similar collaboration shouldn't be possible between Howard Shore and someone like Marr, Hammet or even Jeff Beck...
Can't wait for the mediocre score Newman will give us...
Another example from The Shawshank Redemption
Meet Joe Black
Yes. Listening to all of his scores here just totally confirms my sense that he is a really bad fit for SP. He writes skillfull background elevator music for dramas. And unlike Horner who can weave memorable melodies into his scores, Newman seems totally incable of that. For me, his music, like Logan's scripts, totally lacks the ballsy swaggering quality a Bond requires. They went back and corrected Logan's weak script. No fix will be possible for what I fear, as some others have posted, will be SP' weak link. He won't kill the film, but he sure won't elevate it.
In his defense, the track "Komodo Dragon" was quite intriguing as it incorporated both the Bond theme and Adele's Skyfall. It worked really well with the score. However, someone here on the discussion board said that Newman didn't compose this himself, but it was done by an assistant. Does anyone what the story exactly was? It this is true we can only hope the particular chap is back on board as well.
If Newman were not to do the next one, I'd rather have Desplat or Giacchino or even Alberto Iglesias than Arnold or Horner.
Have you listened to the end titles of the Shawshank Redemption I just put up here?
Casually?
Like it wouldn't go unnoticed.
Exactly, which is why I hope Newman composes all the music this time around. Lifting music from Previous Bond films is pretty lazy.
What did he lift for Skyfall? Bond Theme. Yes, what more? Why do you think he's going to lift Arnold's best score?
Why couldn't Newman be bothered to do his own arrangements? He too good to rearrange it as the other previous composers? And CR is far from Arnold's Best score. TND is his best score.
I don't think Newman is at all mediocre. He's obviously skilled and he is good with subtle non-intrusive music for dramas. That is no doubt why directors like to use him for films that are mostly dramas. I just think he is a bad fit for an action film like SP, that requires lots more than subtle background music. I have also yet to hear a score of his with a memorable melody.
What really bothered me after listening to all of the links above to his scores, is that after playing each of them, they all seemed to just run together, and almost sounded like they were all part of the same score. I'm no film music expert, and this is all about taste, but I could hardly differentiate between his scores.
It's close but it's not the same arrangements.
And Casino Royale's score is superb. By far his best. For me, the Arnold-Bond scores go like this: CR, TWINE, QOS, TND and DAD
The Soundtrack Version differs from the Film Version. Watch the DB5 reveal. The CR version is used then when the DB5 leaves it turns into the Soundtrack version.
Yes. Arnold's The Name's Bond...James Bond was used twice. Once briefly for the DB5 reveal and the final Scene in M's office and the End Credits.
Here's the version of Breadcrumbs that plays in the film version.
http://picosong.com/VNKD/