Homecoming Michael Giacchino is the Composer for Spider-Man: Homecoming

[TheVileOne]

Giacchino's score was solid, but IMHO unspectacular. Like it was good music, and you could hear recurring motifs throughout the film.

But he made a concerted error. The best piece of music in the entire film was the MARVEL STUDIOS logo featuring the orchestral version of the 1960s Spider-Man theme. It's an error because that was more like what I wanted to hear throughout the film.

The recurring motif that Giacchino does use is not as strong.

Sort of like Doctor Strange had a solid score and some recurring motifs, but all the really cool stuff is during the closing credits when EVERYONE IS LEAVING. All that really cool weird mix-up and mash-up stuff that would've been PERFECT for the sound and music of Doctor Strange was nowhere to be found.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I really enjoyed the new theme and I gotta disagree, his 60s theme wouldn't have fit the movie very well. It works as nice nod in the opening credits but thats it. The new soundtrack really won me over.

 

[Stark Bauer]

I find the best soundtracks are those we don't notice...that blend seamlessly with the pictures on screen...it wasn't John Williams good, but it did the job. It was noticeable at the start and felt artificial but became more subtle as the movie progressed

 

[kguillou]

It was a serviceable score, there were points in the movie, certain fist pumping "go spidey, go!" moments that I felt a better theme could've REALLY elevated. Remember that moment in Spider-man 2 when Peter makes his triumphant return back in the costume and Elfman's theme builds and builds up and it gets you pumped? That's the kind of stuff I wanted.

I agree with TheVileOne, it was a huge error not to use the orchestral 60's theme as THE theme of the movie.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

Thought it was a solid soundtrack, certainly better than the past two. Nothing amazing, but that's the usual for the MCU unfortunately minus the theme for The Avengers and the Iron Man 3 soundtrack.

 

[Golgo-13]

Ant-Man and Avengers have the only recognizable themes in the MCU to me It would have been nice if the updated 60's Spidey theme was used more than just the opening.

 

[AlluAllu]

I noticed that Alan Silvestri was credited for his Avengers theme. When was it used in the movie?

 

[TheVileOne]

I really enjoyed the new theme and I gotta disagree, his 60s theme wouldn't have fit the movie very well. It works as nice nod in the opening credits but thats it. The new soundtrack really won me over.

He used elements of the 60s theme for Star Trek in all three of the rebooted Star Trek films.

 

[TheVileOne]

I find the best soundtracks are those we don't notice...that blend seamlessly with the pictures on screen...it wasn't John Williams good, but it did the job. It was noticeable at the start and felt artificial but became more subtle as the movie progressed

To me it depends. Sometimes minimalist music scores work. But sometimes you want those big awesome movie soundtracks. You want those big marches and anthems to really round everything out.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I noticed that Alan Silvestri was credited for his Avengers theme. When was it used in the movie?

Probably when they arrive at the avengers facility

 

[AF3619]

Probably when they arrive at the avengers facility

it sounded more like Elfman´s, also i noticed that there is an arragment when Ironman appears, like a certain tune.

I´ve been listening to the score, the theme grew on me but still liked Elfman´s and even Horner´s better.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Nothing can beat Elfman's score

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, you can't beat Elfman's score. It like the films just nail on the head the emotional core of Peter. When you hear that music you feel you're going to watch a comic of age story of a young man who will become a hero. It's like Uncle Ben wrote the music at times.

Giacchino's score, while I enjoyed it and even though I had a big goofy ass grin on my face as the Marvel logo came up, redoing the 60's theme is lazy on Giacchino's part. It's like he didn't have time and just decided to re-use it. Now it sounds GREAT. But when you have freaking Michael Giacchino, you expect something new and great. Giacchino has to be careful or he'll be the next Hans Zimmer that now just feels like an assembly line.

 

[spiderman2]

Didn't care the music at all but not surprised has I don't normally find music to be that great in most movies to the point were I just forget the music. Zimmer's score in amazing Spider-Man 2 blows this movies music out of the water and so does Spider-Man 1-3 score.

 

[AF3619]

Yeah, you can't beat Elfman's score. It like the films just nail on the head the emotional core of Peter. When you hear that music you feel you're going to watch a comic of age story of a young man who will become a hero. It's like Uncle Ben wrote the music at times.

Giacchino's score, while I enjoyed it and even though I had a big goofy ass grin on my face as the Marvel logo came up, redoing the 60's theme is lazy on Giacchino's part. It's like he didn't have time and just decided to re-use it. Now it sounds GREAT. But when you have freaking Michael Giacchino, you expect something new and great. Giacchino has to be careful or he'll be the next Hans Zimmer that now just feels like an assembly line.

Well, he´s been doing lots of movies lately, the score for the new Apes movie is apparently great, maybe his creativity was depleaded with that and the spider-man score suffered from it.

the movie had the same tune with variations, that´s cool but kinda lazy, also there weren´t many "emotional" scenes to really show off the score, except the [BLACKOUT]"Come on Spider-man" scene, i expected a slow build up to and heroic theme,
the scene was great but the music isn´t that great in general to begin with[/BLACKOUT].

 

[TheVileOne]

Elfman's Spider-Man score has aged well and is far superior.

 

[Johnny-Oh]

The score just like many other Marvel scores is just completely forgettable, and the main musica cue was honestly annoying. It's so disappointing I really wanted Giacchino to make the music and he just didn't deliver, he had already made a great score for Doctor Strange so I don't know what happened.

What's funny is that some people are saying the new Apes movie has one of the best scores of the year and that was made by him lol

 

[Johnny-Oh]

it sounded more like Elfman´s, also i noticed that there is an arragment when Ironman appears, like a certain tune.

I´ve been listening to the score, the theme grew on me but still liked Elfman´s and even Horner´s better.

I was hoping they would use the IM3 theme for that scene but they played some other music

 

[Stringer]

Giacchino is rapidly becoming the most overrated composer in the business with these standard scores he keeps composing for Marvel/Disney. He's too good to ever be bad but this was really another forgettable effort.

 

[Quasimod0]

I've heard a lot of praise for his upcoming planet of the apes score.

 

[Smegger56]

I enjoyed the score of Homecoming. As someone said, only using the spidey theme over the marvel logo was a mistake. If that was THE theme for the film, instant win.

For me, it falls just short of Horners work. But enjoyed very much.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

So im the one who didnt like the idea of making the theme here that 60s theme and I also seem to be the only one to really like the score. I wonder if there's some correlation there.

 

[hafizbat]

Definitely agree the 60s theme was fantastic and the way to go. Big missed opportunity.

Overall the score was alright, better than Horner/Zimmer but still not close to touching Elfman.

Elfman's score is probably the greatest superhero score of all time, and with Giacchino only hitting a run and not a grand slam, I don't see it being topped anytime soon. I'm just glad it exists.

 

[flickchick85]

My favorite remains the Horner score. I don't think this comes close to that one or the Elfman score. But I do think it's better than the Zimmer one, at least.

 

[Smegger56]

My favorite remains the Horner score. I don't think this comes close to that one or the Elfman score. But I do think it's better than the Zimmer one, at least.

Horner's is so good. Real shame he never came back for TASM2. Might have made the film a bit more bearable (though I did like the music played over the Gwen death scene).

This screams Spider-Man (and Titanic, but I'm fine with that as that too was a great score).

https://youtu.be/0ymXXOYL6Sc?list=PL071DDA796FFE4C96&t=288