Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
Primus1101 wrote:Not a surprise, really. I would say it's the greatest soundtrack I have ever heard.
Primus1101 wrote:Not a surprise, really. I would say it's the greatest soundtrack I have ever heard.
TulioDude wrote:For me,3 tracks comes in my mind:
-Unicron Theme(Pretty cool)
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-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
Convotron wrote:I love the soundtrack for the movie! White Lion's version of the Transformers theme and Instruments of Destruction are often on my playlists.
starfish wrote:Oh, and while I'm at it, it amazes me to this day that the score for 'Star Wars' is so highly regarded. Here we have a movie, set in an entirely different universe, which broke all the rules of science fiction and was truly groundbreaking. So what music did they use?
A bog-standard orchestral score, that's what.
Now, I fully understand that John Williams was a great composer, and that his scores for the Star Wars films were all brilliant pieces of music... but the problem was, they just didn't mesh with the films at all, in my view. Surely in a groundbreaking film set on alien planets, they should have used music that was similarly groundbreaking and alien? But no, they spoiled it all by going with a full orchestra score - the only cliché in a film which went all-out to break the mould!
Which is why the Transformers soundtrack is so great, because it 'fits' the film like Star Wars doesn't. In a film about robots and high-octane action, we get a high-tempo score, performed largely on synthesizers and drum machines, which dovetails perfectly with the essence of these synthetic, robotic life forms.
Here's a good example: at the end of 'Death of Optimus Prime', the music and the beeping sound of the heart-rate monitor blend together so well and so beautifully, it's a terrific combination of heartfelt music and steady machinery, which is what 'Transformers' is all about, really.
Another example: the ending of the short track 'Witness to a Funeral'. Is it a final, out-of-tune chord that's being played there, or is it Unicron's scream when he realises that the Matrix was being passed on to Ultra Magnus? Until I bought the instrumental soundtrack album (at one of the BotCons, I think), I honestly did not realise that it was, in fact, part of the music, rather than one of Orson Welles' vocalisations. That's how it should be - the music bleeding in with the rest of the film so well that you can't even tell which is which.
Look at what other films do: In 'The Last Temptation of Christ' the reason Peter Gabriel's music worked so well was because it suited the film perfectly, eschewing the clicheéd orchestral score for more authentic Middle-Eastern instruments.
Another great example is the soundtrack of the 80s Matthew Broderick film 'War Games' (this was on TV in the UK a few days ago), which used a perfect juxtaposition of bombastic military marches for the army base scenes and 80s synthesizers for the all the computer hacking scenes. This resulting in a cracking final theme, where Broderick's computer hacker was actually in the army base, and you got a peice of music that combined the military drum rolls and brass with the synthesizers and vocoders.
Apologies for the rant, but anyway, to cut a long story short - music should fit the film. Transformers does it, Star Wars does not (with the exception of the Cantina Band Song).
So there!
Psychout wrote:Less of the drama please, this is the internet, it's serious business.
Bloodlust wrote:Are you serious? You know that John Williams and Star Wars were the first movie then to NOT have a song in their soundtrack? All the other movies during that time were singing movies, John Williams broke the mold by USING a complete orchestra.
Bloodlust wrote:How does the soundtrack not fit the movies? Have you ever listened intently to it? Such as "Here They Come!" and "Battle of Yavin". How do those pieces not fit the movies? High octane action in music at it's best. The Trench Run part still gets my heart beating. The "Jawa Theme" fits the Jawas.
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