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The only thing that should be won by someone calling themselves 'The Weeknd', is the Grammy for Bell End of the Year.
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Absolute shite. Emotionless dross. Although I'll forgive you as you're from Switzerland and presumably partial to Euro pop cack.
then you have to forgive the whole world as it is already internationally No 1 and will be the biggest selling single of this year soon.
They can listen to whatever tosh they want. Modern number ones are flash in the pan acts. He'll be a memory by the end of the decade. Decent mainstream pop is dead.
"It's all a matter of perspective."
The SF soundtrack features some nice tunes (especially like Shanghai Drive) and it fits the movie's look quite well - but is not really entertaining when just listening to it.
The SP soundtrack sounds and feels like a carbon copy of SF's to me - besides the very first track I find it not good at all.
Aside from the ill advised decision not to find a place to blast the JBT, I did like Arnold's work for both CR and QoS.
ie if you commit to the theme ahead of time, then you simply design a film where the theme has a place.
That was the approach for the first 20 films, but it was decidedly not the approach for the last 4 films. In fact the opposite was true.
The filmmakers decided the theme would not be blasted during the film.
I don't count the DB5 interlude in SF, as that was clearly an attempt to address fan complaints.
So Mendes had the theme compartmentalized, insulated from the rest of his film.
LTK overuses the Bond theme? I think it's used six times in the whole movie, and only three times it blasts in full action mode.
I've speculated on why I feel this way in the past, and my conclusion is that it's because Arnold's compositions are so weak for the most part in this film that the Bond theme stands out.
Such was not the case with Barry, who created several memorable and unique themes and motifs in nearly all of his films, so that the Bond theme stood out less. In fact, when I watch a Barry scored Bond film, the Bond theme is the last thing I'm waiting to hear since there so much other good stuff there.
I'm surprised that the TND score is getting such a kicking on here as I've always thought it was a really great score. I'd have to watch the film again to see how much the Bond theme is used but listening to the expanded CD it's not particularly evident. Some lovely Bondian music in it like, 'Kowloon Bay', 'Paris and Bond' and the brilliant 'White Knight'
The one that I really like is that little bit when Bond is leaving Kaufman's on the rooftop, and he sees Stamper approaching.
Matched perfectly with the cool strut of Broz as he bounced down the car park stairs. One of his best moments as Bond.
I might have even forgiven the step brother angle had the score been good
Fortunately that didn't bother me at all. Every time I heard a cue copy and pasted from Skyfall it sucked me right out of the film and it made me mad each time. No other Bond composer has done this, It's so damn lazy.