I've got more than my share of soundtracks....around 3400 at last count. I'm talking scores here, not compilations of old rock songs. What still makes the hairs stand on end? Horner's music from STII and STIII. It's funny, my kids wanted me to play "Stealing the Enterprise" when we left the underground parking garage we were in..and ya know, it still gives me the tingles. Tine it right when the gate goes up...man, I'm a sci-fo geek!
Horner may be a departure from the music from TOS series, but it seems to stand up so well with music from episodes like "The Doomsday Machine." Do we have to have the orignal theme?YES! Reinvented? NO! everyone deciding they can "fix" classic Trek and make it better needs to watch the history channel where modern engineers and designers tried to build projects based on Leonardo DeVinci's drawings. Oddly, their improvements led to generally crappy results while sticking with the original designs produced more desirable outcomes.
For God's sake, pay James Horner for a score that is memorable. I don't care if I hear bits of Apollo 13, Braveheart, or any other music he's written. I do know these CDs and TOS Music get played regularly while everything from STIV on typically gather dust on the shelf.
Why the hell didn't the get Cliff Edelman from trek 6 or the First Contact Guy?
I hated the revamped scoring and plots for the "Mission Improbable" tv revamped movie series now more than I disliked Star Trek 5 and Uhura and her "fans" calling the boys in the desert
Where the hell is James Horner who did The Wrath of Khan or Trek 3? Chripes!
ANYBODY but GIACCHINO!
This whole project is already turning into another overbloated do-nothing film like "Star Trek The Motionless Picture"
was, and with this latest goof, thats the way they are headed so far.
Thumbs way down on this choice!
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...that they're already talking about a music composer before they even have a script.
I absolutely loved this guys work with the Incredibles and Mission: Impossible 3. I especially loved his attention to details in M:I-3, like bringing back the "Plot" theme from the original series. That was just cool.
Can't wait to see what he's going to do with Trek.
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Yes, yes, YES!!! You knew it was going to happen eventually, but I'm thrilled it's finally been confirmed. I don't often buy contemporary film scores these days (one of the most recent was James Horner's TITANIC), but I ran right out and bought Giacchino's soundtrack to THE INCREDIBLES right after I saw the film for the first time. Certainly one of favorites of the last 5-10 years.
My wife got me hooked on "Lost" and I love his work on that show, too. Reminds me a lot of THE SHINING, for some reason. I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that his score for STAR TREK XI will be fantastic and one of many shots in the arm that the franchise so desperately needs at this point. IMHO, the last TREK soundtrack that mattered was Goldsmith's FIRST CONTACT... and that was 10 years ago.
TREK XI just keeps getting more interesting and exciting to these eyes & ears!
Giacchino is a perfect fit to do this. He did a brilliant job re-inventing John Barry's Bond music for The Incredibles and I think he'll do similiar stuff with Star Trek...I'm sure we'll hear some of Alexander Courage's original fanfare and theme as well as a lot in the style of the great music by Courage, Gerald Fried and others from the original series. The music should be a lot of fun and quite beautiful. Jerry Goldsmith was a brilliant composer, but Giacchino will invigorate things a great deal. Think of this as James Horner coming onto the scene at a fairly young age to score STII, how he really went for it (including bringing back the fanfare), using a lot of the sound of the original series (think of the scene where Khan is first discovered or in Spock's quarters). As beautiful and bold as Goldsmith's score was for TMP, Horner really took things to the edge (including the edge of the ability of the so-so orchestra hired to play the score). I think with Giacchino you will get the same thing...a new/old sound, more dramatic, more exotic, more funky, more back to the 60's roots, but also full, emotional, and beautiful. I'm looking forward to it as a film score fan.
I just hope he doesn't use the Motion Picture Theme. I mean 3 movies in a row with it already, and 5 total movies. Seriously, although that is the single best Trek theme outside the original series fanfare, its boring now. Pleaase put it to rest Mr. Giacchino. Be creative. Come up with something new!
I just hope with all this Abrams entourage that the movie still feels like a Trek movie and not a Trek-themed episode of Lost or Alias. I just hope Abrams has people around him who will not be afraid to tell him if something sucks.
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It's a rip-off. / We're stepped on, and cheated! / We're flat, stone-cold lied to / But we're not defeated / No!
Halen. "The Dream is Over."
Uh-oh. What's that machine Giacchino's using? Is it (gasp) a Mac?!! Oh, great. Looks like one of these arrogant hipsters with a naive superiority complex is doing the music for Star Trek XI. Unless he switches over to Vista in time, the new movie is doomed.
Never heard of him.
Could be great.
He's not a Trekker though, since he used the term "distant radar". Any true Trek fan would use the term "longrange sensors".
sounds good =)
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RE: hmm
by Starbrelz @ 11:31:37 on Aug 23
