Alexander Nevsky - Original Score

Alexander's dramatic soundtrack

Advantages: beautiful music to a great film, very touching, cheap
Disadvantages: carelessly made booklet, weird extra track

of gold and red as you can see in the picture. The writing "Alexander - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Vangelis" looks like gold, with the words "Alexander" and "Vangelis" being bigger than the rest. The back of the CD has the tracklist on it, next to a picture of Alexander in battle on his horse. The booklet is basicly a long piece of paper folded four times. On the first page there is a photgraph of Vangelis with the information that all the music has been composed, arranged, produced and performed by him. In the lower corner of this pages we get some more information on people who contributed to the songs because some other instruments played by other musicians are featured in a few tracks. There is also information on the recording staff and studio, On the next two pages the tracks are listed again and there is more information ...

morticiaaddams 29.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Alexander (Original Soundtrack) - Vangelis

Batman: The Original Score

Advantages: The most powerful Batman score ever composed; an Elfman classic all the way
Disadvantages: So what if it isn't the most sophisticated score in the world?

of the basic characteristics that define his music, namely quirky rhythms, diverse percussion, and simply out-of-the-wall weirdness. Many other contemporary composers were baffled at exactly how to react to the highly original man, with admiration or digust? In 1989 however, the perception of Elfman changed drastically. Batman was the most ambitious project Elfman had ever embarked upon and he took full advantage of the opportunity. The musical duties were divided between Elfman, whose score would fill about 80% of the film, and Prince, who wrote a number of songs to be used at various points in the film as background music or more prominently during few sequences (like the art museum scene and the money-parade scene). With Prince taking care of the song-part of the movie, Elfman would employ the use of a large symphony orchestra of gothic ...

berlioz 24.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Batman (Score) - Danny Elfman

Poor Score

Advantages: A chance to see three of the best actors ever, together.
Disadvantages: See opinion.

The Score undoubtedly wins the unnecessary film award and deserves to be remembered only for bringing together the three best method actors of their generations, namely; Brando, De Niro and Norton. I call the film unnecessary, because why on earth do we need another crime/thriller movie with Brando or De Niro when we already have The Godfather, Casino and Goodfellas to name a few. The Score just covers old ground and doesn’t even do it that well anyway, with both stars doing similar roles in better movies. Edward Norton is the only actor with an argument for being in this film, and even he is already worthy of better things than shoddy heist movies. For Gods sake! the guy was in Fight Club and American History X, he doesn’t have to appear in this shameless showcase of talent. The Score is basically just a distant ...

willgould 03.10.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The Score (DVD)