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I can remember Harry Potter's theme, the Shire theme from LOTR, the classic themes from Star Wars IV-VI and some of the themes from AOTC.
Themes work.
Cool thing I liked about the music!
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I can remember Harry Potter's theme, the Shire theme from LOTR, the classic themes from Star Wars IV-VI and some of the themes from AOTC.
Themes work.
When the shuttle carrying Pike, Kirk, Sulu, and Olsen leaves the Enterprise, the four-note intro plays. Very cool!
I think Giacchino's main theme is wonderful. The reveal of the Enterprise at Spacedock is absolutely wonderful, and the music fits perfectly. Its like it was always there. I had hoped for a long time that the score would make use of the Goldsmith and/or Courage themes, and that the Enterprise would warrant such usage, but I didn't even think about it when I saw the movie the first time. I just had the biggest grin on my face and almost a tear in my eye. And the grin has been on my face every one of the five times I've seen the movie.
I think Giacchino's main theme is wonderful. The reveal of the Enterprise at Spacedock is absolutely wonderful, and the music fits perfectly. Its like it was always there. I had hoped for a long time that the score would make use of the Goldsmith and/or Courage themes, and that the Enterprise would warrant such usage, but I didn't even think about it when I saw the movie the first time. I just had the biggest grin on my face and almost a tear in my eye. And the grin has been on my face every one of the five times I've seen the movie.
darkwing_duck1
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I can live with "other" themes, so long as they keep the monologue and Courage theme as the start of the credits each time...I had tears running down my face at that point!
Nowhere Man
Commodore
the fight music was the only thing missing. I liked the music tha was when we first saw the narada. I also wish they would have the TOS dramatic music ba ba bah bum ba ba bahI thought the music was great and very memorable. In fact, the soundtrack is in my car right now. However, I am waiting for someone to dub the action scenes to the TOS fight music.
I am going to get it real when i next go out, there are lots of them in HMV (music store)
ST-One
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That's actually a good thing. A movie score isn't supposed to draw too much attention to itself.
I too think the CD is poorly edited... I mean 43 minutes of music from a two hour film?
It's very memorable to me. It's so unashamedly grand and heroic.
I know that it's similar to the start of Enterprising Young Men, but I would have enjoyed the music from the Main Title included. As you say, there's plenty of room left on the disc to include it as it is in the film.
I absolutely enjoyed the electronic ping sound at the very beginning and also the moments when the first measures of TOS music are heard. And I teared up at the end with Prime Spock saying TOS introduction text and the music of the old show playing.
This said, I've really appreciated that otherwise the music was all new. Having TOS soundtrack all along would have been weird.
I keep humming it.
I hope it stays for the other movies, if only to mark them as nuStar Trek. I hope they keep the Vulcan theme too, it has sort of become Spock's theme along the movie.
This said, I've really appreciated that otherwise the music was all new. Having TOS soundtrack all along would have been weird.
I'm like you on this one. It became glaring when I went to see the movie two more times. There are wonderful bits missing from the CD, if only a longer rendition of the beautiful Vulcan theme.
Same here
I keep humming it.I hope it stays for the other movies, if only to mark them as nuStar Trek. I hope they keep the Vulcan theme too, it has sort of become Spock's theme along the movie.
It really works when Kirk and Spock beam back to the Enterprise after saving Pike. You can hear the bells intertwined with the transporter sound... it was really quite spine-tingling when I first heard it.
I also liked the part where Spock Prime tells Kirk about "a trick he learned from his old friend" and the music that goes along with that up until Kirk and Scotty are beamed aboard the Enterprise.
I also liked the part where Spock Prime tells Kirk about "a trick he learned from his old friend" and the music that goes along with that up until Kirk and Scotty are beamed aboard the Enterprise.
Wow - you're kidding, right?
I have to question your ability to "hear" and recognize music because there is the one theme tune they play over and OVER again. I SERIOUSLY have to question the musical opinion of anybody who cannot identify that repetitive theme.
I think you need to see the movie again; I felt a little confused about the music the first time I saw it. There was way too much else going on.
Then I bought the soundtrack, and it helped organize it a little bit. But what really sealed the deal was subsequent viewings. I am really sold on the music now. It can't be divorced from the screen very well.
It's good, because the movie has plenty left to provide for repeat viewings.
Couldn't agree more; the sequence where Spock, Kirk and Pike beam back to the Enterprise was even more thrilling because of the theme!
I thought it was OK, but it has stiff competition from previous Trek films. I can still hum the themes from "The Undiscovered Country," plus all of Horner's and Goldsmith's themes.
This new movie score seemed to cobble together elements of all those past Trek films, with booming action themes in the tradition of Horner's "Wrath of Khan," plus the more classical elements of Goldsmith's "The Motion Picture" score, and I also swear I heard a few seconds of John Williams music from "The Phantom Menace" or "Indiana Jones" at a couple points.
Overall, this film's score was both new and familiar, and certainly better than "The Voyage Home" and "Generations," but it's still pretty much an imitation of Horner, Goldsmith, Williams, and other great film score masters.
This new movie score seemed to cobble together elements of all those past Trek films, with booming action themes in the tradition of Horner's "Wrath of Khan," plus the more classical elements of Goldsmith's "The Motion Picture" score, and I also swear I heard a few seconds of John Williams music from "The Phantom Menace" or "Indiana Jones" at a couple points.
Overall, this film's score was both new and familiar, and certainly better than "The Voyage Home" and "Generations," but it's still pretty much an imitation of Horner, Goldsmith, Williams, and other great film score masters.
I really love the music from the movie! Some things that come to mind right away:
-When I first heard that snippet of music on the official website (I think it's from "Hella Bar Talk"), I thought that parts of that sounded like you could mesh in the TOS theme. Sure enough, during the end credits, that's what happens at one point!
-I was watching "Mirror, Mirror", and some of the music for this movie has the sound cues from what was used in that episode. Not exact, but definitely similar.
-At the end credits, about 1:20 or so into it, the way the TOS theme sounds like I was watching a second season episode. The theme's version then is stunning.
-When I first heard that snippet of music on the official website (I think it's from "Hella Bar Talk"), I thought that parts of that sounded like you could mesh in the TOS theme. Sure enough, during the end credits, that's what happens at one point!
-I was watching "Mirror, Mirror", and some of the music for this movie has the sound cues from what was used in that episode. Not exact, but definitely similar.
-At the end credits, about 1:20 or so into it, the way the TOS theme sounds like I was watching a second season episode. The theme's version then is stunning.
Granted its not the best Trek soundtrack out there, but it had its ups and downs.
Giacchinos Trek theme was epic sounding and bassy.
The opneing notes are the ones i kept pointing out in the theatre.
The instance its used in the trasnporting scene was if to say 'Here they are, Kirk and Spock, beaming together for the first time' it was a nice use of the opening bars from TOS.
Giacchinos Trek theme was epic sounding and bassy.
The opneing notes are the ones i kept pointing out in the theatre.
The instance its used in the trasnporting scene was if to say 'Here they are, Kirk and Spock, beaming together for the first time' it was a nice use of the opening bars from TOS.
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