Do you all remember the very first time you saw this film? We spent the first 15 minutes being moved to near tears by what eventually led to Kirk's birth -- a scene which was all music and nothing else. Then to see those little shuttlecraft shilouetted against the sun, only to crescendo into the main title sequence? If that moment didn't take your breath away and convince you that this composer "gets it"? I don't know what would. I was in an orchestra for 8 years, and though some themes were repeated often at least he didn't become increasingly dependent on synthasizers like Jerry Goldsmith did with each score he wrote.
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-- Steve
"If a sixth Star Trek television series is ever realized, it will be set in the new universe." -- cdydatzigs, June 15, 2009.
...it's a pity though it didn't get nominated for an Oscar. I believe it's the best Trek score since TWOK and one of the finest works in years. I simply can't stop listening to it and I really hope there will be a complete score with all the missing parts at some point...
I thought it was a great score; not as good as some of the other Trek scores, but still top notch.
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"I would be happy for Star Trek to come along decades later with a new group of minds. I'd love someone to say, 'Besides this one, Gene Roddenberry's was nothing!'" - Gene Roddenberry
"...I think it would be wonderful years from now to see Star Trek come back with an equally talented new cast playing Spock and Kirk and Bones and Scotty and all the rest, as they say tomorrow's things to tomorrow's generations..." - Gene Roddenberry
The score for Star Trek does have some good things in it, but I was highly disappointed in it. I think the music when Kirks father is talking to his wife after JTK is born and the suicide run is beautiful. And the main theme is catchy.... but after you've listened to the first 10 minutes of the score, you've heard all there is to hear. The rest is just the same theme rehashed over and over... and over and over again!! It was the only part of the movie I felt was sub-par.
James Horner should have scored this movie. He should have won this award too. He blew it away on the Avatar soundtrack, it has much more replay-ability in my opinion. It's the best soundtrack I've heard in awhile.
This guy writes some pretty lame music. It always sounds the same and really overdoes the melodrama on "Lost".
Give me Mark Snow's "X-Files" work or Bear McCreary's BSG or Caprica work any day!
Let me tell you, I love the score - best Star Trek score since Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country.
Congrats to Mr Giacchino.
Gustavo
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