CONSTANTINE and the worst score of the year
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:58 am
Hi there, just saw CONSTANTINE in a press showing. Movie was good, starts great, but then doesn't want to know what it wants to be: A Film Noir Dedective Story? An FX Actioner? A religious drama?
But it has its share of fairly good and exciting sequences, Hell looks great, though I didn't like the design of the demons and Peter Stormare was just great as the Devil. Hilarious, but menacing as well.
Worth a look, but don't expect a non-stop-action-movie, which the adverts make it look like.
What the movie truly suffers from is the horrible score, concocted by the overrated Brian Tyler and the uberhack Klaus Badelt. How these two came together on the project I can only explain like this: The makers wanted to throw out Tyler's score, but there wasn't enough time to replace it whole. So Badelt comes in and puts horribel synths pattern everywhere, which neither support the scenes, nor really fits to the scenes.
It saddens me even more, because the movie has such rich visuals, so many different elements which should inspire every composer to write a rich, diverse score. What would Young or Howard have done with such a movie?!!! But then these two idiots gets asked to write the score and they come up with the most boring, simple and annoying music you can think of. What an opportunity wasted.
I never understood why so many soundtrack fans like Tyler and this proofs me once more, that he should write his rock-songs instead of wasting a whole orchestra.
At least the movie was not overscored, I'd say there was only about 50 minutes of "real" music... but that only means, the spotting was pretty bad, too.
But it has its share of fairly good and exciting sequences, Hell looks great, though I didn't like the design of the demons and Peter Stormare was just great as the Devil. Hilarious, but menacing as well.
Worth a look, but don't expect a non-stop-action-movie, which the adverts make it look like.
What the movie truly suffers from is the horrible score, concocted by the overrated Brian Tyler and the uberhack Klaus Badelt. How these two came together on the project I can only explain like this: The makers wanted to throw out Tyler's score, but there wasn't enough time to replace it whole. So Badelt comes in and puts horribel synths pattern everywhere, which neither support the scenes, nor really fits to the scenes.
It saddens me even more, because the movie has such rich visuals, so many different elements which should inspire every composer to write a rich, diverse score. What would Young or Howard have done with such a movie?!!! But then these two idiots gets asked to write the score and they come up with the most boring, simple and annoying music you can think of. What an opportunity wasted.
I never understood why so many soundtrack fans like Tyler and this proofs me once more, that he should write his rock-songs instead of wasting a whole orchestra.
At least the movie was not overscored, I'd say there was only about 50 minutes of "real" music... but that only means, the spotting was pretty bad, too.