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split-second editing,
Bond with a machine gun,
explosions galore,
unwitty one-liners,
indifference towards a Vodka-Martini, shaken, not stirred,
superficial characters,
QOS-style opening credits.
Uh oh you're going to get into trouble....
Lots of machinegun fire
Lots of CGI
Don't want Eve as Moneypenny
Don't want Dench to quit after this film
Don't want Fiennes to be M
Don't want Moneypenny to NOT be in the film
And some of mine...
No internal jokes
No 50's easter eggs, as almost every1 here said
if make CGI's, PLEASE. make'em the most realistic as possible.
I think that will be done! We have waited so long for it now? They cannot afford to mess it up!
Hope so mate, i want them to go fully at it, bond should be bond at his maximum now, in full flow as 007. origin/reboot story is history now or should be.
In a few movie's the bond theme appears out of nowhere and feels out of place with the rest of the score. heard some of newmans work, admittedly its not my taste. though i hope he approaches it wanting to make his own stamp, and his soundtrack is more organic.
crap? Casino Royale is awesome compare to DAD which had too much CGI and TND Bond using a machine gun too much
CR is awesome compared to any Bond film. 'Nuff said.
What melodies ? CR's score is a extremely poor. Many very underwhelming, basic, simplistic cues that don't belong in Bond films. CR's score is the most typically hollywoodian action music in the franchise... Barry's soundtracks are lightyears better. Even Serra's GE score was much better.
You must have been listening to the beatles without ear muffs then? Barry i will give you! Serra i will not! They brought someone in remember to rescue parts of his work?
And you'll find many, if not a majority of musicians who think that CR's score is extremely poor, and that GE's soundtrack is musically better, even if the music not for everyone's taste. But CR's score is a poor soundtrack, no matter how you look at it... It may sound nice to your ears, but it's much poorer than Serra's GE. It's like comparing a Kit-Kat chocolate bar with a meal in the most fancy restaurant of Paris... the chocolate bar may taste nice, but it's nowhere as elaborate near as a meal in a fancy Paris restaurant...
Who made you the judge over others people's taste?
I am a musician as well and I know several other musicians that are into Bond - highly skilled people with years of experience. They all hate Serra's score and find it very lacking.
Leave behind your distaste for GE's score and just analyze the cues... it's evident that this soundtrack is better than CR's. I'll give you that CR sounds better and more 'classical' than GE's, but the latter is the better score.
If you don't focus on the odd-sounding music in GE, you'll clearly see Serra made much more elaborate music than Arnold. CR is just very, very basic, simplistic music. Just read the partitions to see that it's very simplistic music that anyone could write, or even write better music than this... I don't think this is what you'd expect from a professional composer, that it's very easy to write as good, if not better music than what he did...
Read the partitions... most of CR's cues are just simplistic to the extreme... is that what you want for Bond music ? Simplistic music from a so-called 'professional' composer that anyone could write ? or even write better music ?
As i said - leave behind the odd-sounding music in GE and just study the partitions... it's clearly evident GE's soundtrack is much more elaborate and musically greater than CR's.
It's laughable that a musician would seriously say that CR's music is better than GE's... it's like saying a catalogue of cooking recipes is better litterature than Victor Hugo's novels, or Voltaire's books.
You are arguing that "anyone" could have written the CR-score.
Another proof of your hatred towards Arnold. I get it, okay? But what I do find "laughable" myself, is that you are trying to define what other people should or should not like and what they themselves define as a "good meal." It's like arguing that vegetarians don't eat proper food!
Besides, there are much more to music than partitions. For me (not you, I know) good melodies comes first. That's what defines a good musician in my world.
Likewise, you can find guitarists which are much more technically brilliant than Slash (Malmsteen fx). But Slash is considered one of the best guitarists in the world, because he has made some wonderful and "simplistic" riffs.
CR is a poor soundtrack. But if you want to love this score, you can love it all you like... but it doesn't change the point that it's poor music...
With arguments like "anyone could have written the CR score" who's exaggerating here?
Well have you read the partitions of CR's soundtrack ? Because I have, and I have read more elaborate music written by people in music school than Arnold...
CR's score is simplistic to the extreme. End of. Reading the partitions of many of the tracks, it's clearly evident the music is quite easy to write. Anyone with basic musical knowledge could have written the same music, if not even better music. There's no complexity in the partitions at all. So anyone can come up with a basic melody and write a cue.
Anyone can write a post on MI6Community. It's easy, it's not litterature. But try to write a 500 page novel like 'Around the World in 80 Days', and you'll find that not many people can write such a thing.
Well, Arnold's CR is a post on MI6Community. Anyone can write a post here. Some posts a better than others, but anyone can understand how to write a basic one.
Many of CR's cues are just notes put together into very basic melodies... it's quite easy for someone who plays an instrument to write his own music, he just puts notes together... Anyone can put notes together randomly.... but writing complex music is a different matter entirely... and there is no complexity at all in CR.....
Anyone can learn to be "technically brilliant", but it takes creative skill and a lot more musical talent to create music that will appeal to people (and their feelings).
That's what seperates the artist from the technician.