Monster Music Of Hans Salter & Frank Skinner - Original Scores

Advantages: More mature take on the Caribbean series
Disadvantages: It's still largely garbage

...Sparrow on a quest to find the chest in order to avoid some major misfortunes due to a debt he owes to Davy (played by Bill Nighy), while the twosome of Will (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) are also after Jack after being coerced by a conniving police sergeant Cutler Beckett to get a compass from Jack that points to that same treasure. What ensues is action, special effects, action, action, supernatural special effects and action. Musically the first film was an outright mess. With Alan Silvestri being dismissed as unsuitable as the film's composer, Bruckheimer turned to his familiar Media Ventures/Remote Control studio of composers led by Hans Zimmer and who turned out a rushed out product in a few weeks time that borrows heavily from the organization's previous action scores. The first score indeed was a disaster... Read review

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Advantages: One of the best scores of the 1990s, need I say more?
Disadvantages: Oh, none whatsoever.

.... Throughout the early 1990's he was mostly involved in writing music for a bunch of movies that were never really meant to be remembered for long, but in the middle of 1995 he really hit it big. CutThroat Island was originally going to be scored by David Arnold who was just fresh off from scoring the hugely popular Stargate, but scheduling conflicts resulted in his replacement with Debney. Debney took the project with much enthusiasm, opting to create an old-fashioned, purely orchestral swashbuckler in the style of the Golden Age masters (the score is dedicated to "Rózsa, Korngold, Steiner, and Newman"). Employing the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices, Debney wrote at white heat some of the most energetic and inspired music he has ever managed to put down on paper and has rarely been able to surpass. Despite being a somewhat over... Read review

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Advantages: Great sound; has a reasonable entertainment value; beautiful love theme.
Disadvantages: Forgettable; not one bit unique; no real main theme.

...Elfman's Batman introducing a whole generation of film goers to film music, it set a benchmark that was not to be overstepped easily. After Elfman left due to irreconsilible differences on the production of Batman Forever, Elliot Goldenthal took over the reins as the genre composer, emulating Elfman's original Batman theme as much as he could without infringing copyright rules and wrote a flashy collection of underscore cues that corresponded with the neon-coloured atmosphere of the new film, complete with fox-trots, two-steps, and brass slurs. This approach was carried on for Batman & Robin, but the poor performance of the film caused the score as well to be forgotten, not even receiving a score-only album like in the previous film. For Batman Begins, Chris Nolan (probably due to studio pressure) decided not to go along with his usual... Read review

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