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Au contraire. Goldeneye is quite possibly the most underrated Bond title track of them all, and I'm no fan of Bono. Every time I hear it I'm astounded that the song wasn't a general hit. But then I look at popular tastes and it all becomes quite clear...
I abominate the music in FYEO's Citroen chase. That sort of cheesy, keyboard disco has no place in Bond, even in 1981.
It's certainly an odd juxtaposition, but I kind of like it.
In SP it's better, the Rome sequence I would even call brilliant score wise. Also the PTS again. The rest is...well, noise.
Count me in on the appreciation for MR's boat chase. (I assume we are talking about the Amazon chase, as opposed to the Venice one..)
I find it to compliment the grandiosity of MR, and it's ethereal score.
- the slide whistle ruining the greatest car stunt in cinema history
- what is that stupid noise when Bond grabs the sumo's bottom?
Shanghai Drive is noise? Right.
And the title track isn't exactly bonzer either, is it? Barry makes good use of it throughout the score, though.
The 'Skyfall' track in Scotland may be my favorite track out of the films, very haunting and I was one of the few who was happy to hear it slightly re-used during SP's funeral scene with Lucia.
Darn, all this talk makes me feel like watching SF again now. I have to get through the Marvel stuff first in anticipation of Civil War though.
I remember being in the cinema thinking I recognise that drum beat seriously no, what are they doing????
It just came across as rather odd, I don't know whether someone thought they'd go a bit Tarantino by using existing pop songs in the film.
It's fine when it's specifically chosen to compliment a scene and QT like Scorcesse is a master at this, say for instance the Layla piano break in Goodfellas or Little Green Bag in Reservoir Dogs just to name few examples.
Bond is not the place for this kind of thing, stick to the scores please.
The 007 theme doesn't belong there, lol.
I think that's a bit harsh and unfair. Listen to the soundtrack properly on it's own. It's not the greatest Bond score but I think it's a good score that fits the film well.
Love that piece as the DB5 drives across the Scottish scenery.
Also like that foreboding music as the boat travels to Silva's island.
I also like the SPECTRE score even though a lot of it is regurgitated from Skyfall.
I think it's a very underrated score. I love 'A Drive In The Country' the way Conti incorporates the Bond theme into it is very clever.
Some of his romantic pieces in FYEO are gorgeous.
Love that score!
Conti's music as Bond is menaced in the Cortina ski lift is just as good and evocative, in its own way, as some of Barry's best, IMO. And BTW, I'm convinced the scene in SP where Q is similarly stalked by goons in the Huffler Clinic is homage to that scene in FYEO.
I never thought about it before, but the parallels in SP are notable. It probably was an homage.
The Spectre soundtrack is a bit of a curious one to me. There are some excellent new original pieces (Los Muertos Vivos Estan, Donna Lucia, Backfire (with its excellent choir additions, Crows Klinic, Safe House and Detonation) but the lack of proper bond theme (apart from the opening) is disappointing (theres no Bond theme in Snow Plane at all) although it does rear its head in the latter parts of the movie (Detonation, Westminster Bridge), though not fully.
I tend to view it as more of a refinement of the Skyfall soundtrack, which it is, but there are some odd placements (for example, why is the 'Enjoying Death' cue used when Bond is talking to Q in the Hoffler Clinic).
It doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the score overall (which I like) but given that Spectre is supposed to be a big love letter to the big bonds of old, the lack of the series' core component, its theme, is rather odd.
We do hear it a bit more than SF. But it is odd. You can't even hear the classic guitar riff.
Well, actually the bebop (2:33) appears, but yeah, it's just a couple of seconds, and the fact that the guitar riff is completely left out of the movie was disappointing.
I think so too. I find the "Drive in the country" tune very entertaining, maybe not Bondian, but com'on it's like Hamlish's approach a bit funky and enjoyable. It also fits so perfectly tothat funny and amazing car chase.
I also really like the underwater sounds and the romantic but also mysterious theme of "For your eyes only" in some of the underwater scenes.
I wish I could say the same about the ski chase. But here it just does not work for me.
His hate of SF and outright worship of SP knows no bounds.
For a film regurgitates the previous films score and it's supposedly better??
I wouldn't say SF score was that good but at least it was original and not a lazy rehash.
I found SPECTRE a huge disappointment like some others, I know some really liked but the BondJasonBond006 propaganda train for it is going off the rails with ridiculousness.