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Vaderbait Registered: Sep '01	Date Posted: 12/11/05 5:43pm Subject: RE: X3
	Funny you should mention Wrath of Khan, considering that's the feel Singer was apparently going for with the end of the X2 storywise and musically. So I guess it worked.
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JMN77 Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 12/11/05 7:49pm Subject: RE: X3 - Date Edited: 12/11/05 7:52pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JMN77
	Vaderbait posted: Is his fusion of orchestral and modern electronic music appropriate for a superhero epic? Oh God. I've never heard any of his music, but this description doesn't bode well. Electronic music sounds empty. Unless you're Basil Poledouris doing RoboCop! But, that's a different story, now isn't it. P.S. I had no idea that Micheal Kamen died. How did he die? -----signature----- http://boards.outerrimsieges.com/ Release the Kracken..... GET THE SACRIFICE ON!
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Boba_Phat Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 12/12/05 8:09am Subject: RE: X3 - Date Edited: 12/12/05 8:13am (2 edits total) Edited By: Boba_Phat
	He suffered from multiple sclerosis. Edit: This composer sounds like a good choice. -----signature----- Can't escape from the common rule... If you hate something, don't you do it too
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JMN77 Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 12/12/05 8:24am Subject: RE: X3
	Boba_Phat posted: He suffered from multiple sclerosis. Sad. Thanks for the reply Boba_Phat. -----signature----- http://boards.outerrimsieges.com/ Release the Kracken..... GET THE SACRIFICE ON!
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Jedi_Master_Conor Title: Manager: • SFF: Movies Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 12/12/05 7:57pm Subject: RE: X3
	i'm really excited about the music for this movie. i expect it to be really epic like. especially w/ the scene of magneto moving the golden gate bridge as seen in the teaser trailer
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 5/18/06 5:48pm Subject: RE: X3
	Seeing that the soundtrack will be released Tuesday, I thought I would give this thread a bump. I've heard some samples from this score and it sounds promising. It's always difficult to tell what a score will sound like from 30 second clips, but I'm liking what I hear. I hope that Powell's does many more scores. I really like just about everything I've heard of his. Anyway, here are links to the clips: Clips One Clips Two In other John Powell news, his score to United 93 will be released on June 6. The score helped the movie quite a bit, but I'm not sure how will play on an album.
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Well_Of_Souls Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 5/19/06 9:26am Subject: RE: X3
	Hmm, those clips were decent but not great. I'll have to hear how it sounds in the film and then on CD before making a judgment, though. It just seems a little too over-dramatic. Perhaps a little less bombast would have helped. -----signature----- "Okey dokey, Doctor Jones, hold on to your potatoes!"
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Zarm_Rkeeg Registered: Jan '03	Date Posted: 5/19/06 11:26am Subject: RE: X3
	Me, I enjoy the bombast, but... IS there actually an X-men theme? I mean, it's kind of hard to say, considering we have a different one for each movie! Me, personally, I liked the X2 theme. To each their own. But to me, this X3 theme is kinda like the FF... you can recognize it within it's own context, but it doesn't really stand out or seem recognizeable otherwise- slightly disjointed and tuneless- and not at all catchy like some of the great superhero cinematic themes. I don't know, it just seems to bland... not 'insufficient bombast, music is too slow'-type bland, but 'half-effort, no creativity in main themes anymore'-type bland. -----signature----- Nolinecinemas.com Hitler must be handing out ice skates, 'cause that actually makes sense. - J_L What's more foolish: Believing in a God you can't see? Or being offended by a God you don't believe in? Possibly TFN's only Ugor fan Also praying for Two_Legs
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Well_Of_Souls Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 5/19/06 11:40am Subject: RE: X3 - Date Edited: 5/19/06 11:41am (1 edits total) Edited By: Well_Of_Souls
	I agree about the themes, although I like what I'm assuming is the Dark Phoenix theme. Powell is one of the few composers around who usually composes thematic material that I find myself humming randomly during the day. These clips don't seem to hold that same quality, though. And bombast is perfectly fine, especially the kind that Powell usually churns out, it's just that I guess this bombast sounds rather unfocused to me. -----signature----- "Okey dokey, Doctor Jones, hold on to your potatoes!"
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 5/20/06 11:53am Subject: RE: X3
	Well_Of_Souls posted: And bombast is perfectly fine, especially the kind that Powell usually churns out, it's just that I guess this bombast sounds rather unfocused to me. Unfocused seems to be a key theme to the production of this movie. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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sithgoblin3 Registered: May '01	Date Posted: 5/21/06 4:39am Subject: RE: X3
	I wish Lalo Schifrin had done the score -----signature----- "Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
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Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 5/21/06 7:37pm Subject: RE: X3
	As for Powell, I was really hoping for someone like Elliot Goldenthal who has a history of taking over the third film of franchises. Because if the X-men franchise has been missing anything, it's painfully annoying brass.
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Well_Of_Souls Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 5/22/06 12:33pm Subject: RE: X3
	Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon posted: As for Powell, I was really hoping for someone like Elliot Goldenthal who has a history of taking over the third film of franchises. Because if the X-men franchise has been missing anything, it's painfully annoying brass. I love Goldenthal and, now that I think about it, he might actually have been a really good choice for this project. -----signature----- "Okey dokey, Doctor Jones, hold on to your potatoes!"
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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 5/22/06 2:40pm Subject: RE: X3
	The reviews start to come in: MMUK's review. -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 5/22/06 3:17pm Subject: RE: X3
	Hmm, I tend to agree with most of Mr. Broxton's reviews, so while he didn't trash the score he didn't praise it either -- which also seems to be the opinion of the few people who have seen the film. I'll still pick it up though, especially since I've pretty much enjoyed the clips.
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