The Amazing Spider-Man Reboot composer?

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This is amazing. So incredibly awesome - and this feels very different from Horner's other soundtracks which is great! (Don't get me wrong, his other soundtracks are awesome too, but I don't need to be reminded of Enemy at the Gates or Troy while watching Spider-Man).
 
Eh i didn't like the first 20 seconds kind of sounded like a Old Nintendo Game or something with the high trumpets or atleast i think they were trumpets the rest sounded pretty good
 
Mee TOO So much emotion put there have a feeling that its probably about his parents
 
I just hope that the score of this film is iconic enough to be used for the sequels. The Raimi trilogy had such a great theme to it, and was part of its identity.
 
Super disappointed in the sample, I expect way better from James Horner. It honestly sounds like an inferior version of Elfman's theme rather than something original.
 
People are going to like it, and people will dislike it. I enjoyed it, and that's all that matters for me. If you dislike it, then maybe you will enjoy it more when you see it in context. Otherwise, its not the biggest deal.
 
Horner's music is something I listen to both in and out of the films all the time, because I collect his music. I have every single score ever been released by him. I proudly call myself one of his biggest fans and supporters.

I had no interest in this film until learning he was scoring it, because like most of the "mainstream" audience I didn't see a point to quickly rebooting Spider-Man. I didn't have the problems many fans did with the Raimi trilogy. I had no idea what the hell Horner was going to do with this film because he hasn't done a superhero movie (aside from a kind of superhero film in 'The Rocketeer' back in 1991) and in 2010, said in an interview that he was never interested in doing "summer tentpole movies" like this - he specifically said "Spider-Man" ironically enough but this film wasn't in production or anything so his comments predate this film, so there had to be something in this particular story he latched onto to agree to do it. His perspective was that there's no need to be doing the same Zimmer / Jablonsky / Remote Control productions thing of percussive loop-based "propulsive" music which is all about driving the action.

So many remarks here about how "different" and "weird" the music is, when to someone like me there's absolutely nothing weird about it - it's probably weird to many listeners here because as a collective audience, you're probably so accustomed to that same Zimmer / Jablonsky style of electronic loop based music that anything outside of that (Transformers, Iron Man, The Dark Knight Rises from the sound of it, and other big action movies the Zimmer-based sound is a part of) any other music will sound out of the ordinary or 'Disney' like.

That's just the observation I get, I have no idea how accurate or not it is.
 
NL197 said:
Horner's music is something I listen to both in and out of the films all the time, because I collect his music. I have every single score ever been released by him. I proudly call myself one of his biggest fans and supporters.

I had no interest in this film until learning he was scoring it, because like most of the "mainstream" audience I didn't see a point to quickly rebooting Spider-Man. I didn't have the problems many fans did with the Raimi trilogy. I had no idea what the hell Horner was going to do with this film because he hasn't done a superhero movie (aside from a kind of superhero film in 'The Rocketeer' back in 1991) and in 2010, said in an interview that he was never interested in doing "summer tentpole movies" like this - he specifically said "Spider-Man" ironically enough but this film wasn't in production or anything so his comments predate this film, so there had to be something in this particular story he latched onto to agree to do it. His perspective was that there's no need to be doing the same Zimmer / Jablonsky / Remote Control productions thing of percussive loop-based "propulsive" music which is all about driving the action.

So many remarks here about how "different" and "weird" the music is, when to someone like me there's absolutely nothing weird about it - it's probably weird to many listeners here because as a collective audience, you're probably so accustomed to that same Zimmer / Jablonsky style of electronic loop based music that anything outside of that (Transformers, Iron Man, The Dark Knight Rises from the sound of it, and other big action movies the Zimmer-based sound is a part of) any other music will sound out of the ordinary or 'Disney' like.

That's just the observation I get, I have no idea how accurate or not it is.
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So being the Horner collector and fan that you are, how do you feel about the music samples? How does it compare to other Horner film scores in your opinion?

Personally I like most of what I hear, but am not sure I love it yet. Hope to. All it will take is a great movie to go with the music, and I'll love it. :yay:
 
grieven said:
So being the Horner collector and fan that you are, how do you feel about the music samples? How does it compare to other Horner film scores in your opinion?

Personally I like most of what I hear, but am not sure I love it yet. Hope to. All it will take is a great movie to go with the music, and I'll love it. :yay:
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I'm so accustomed to people hating Horner's music (and the man himself) that I don't even care anymore about if someone has a problem with it simply because it's pretty much almost everyone who does. It's when people are happy that is surprising!

I like that right off the bat (I mean spider, bat comes a little later) there's a strong trumpet-led main theme, very fast paced and most of all, fun. It's a fun, uplifting theme and I can imagine Peter Parker having a ball with swinging through the city streets.

There's been a lot of press about how this is going to show more of Peter Parker's humorous, sarcastic side which the Raimi movies didn't really cover, and it sounds like a lot of the more whimsical music in the sample supports that.

I like that it has a very modern edge, a blending of the traditional orchestral with the more modern Zimmer era of electronics, but they aren't overtaking the music, just supporting it.

Plus there's electric guitars. Those are cool. :)

There's nothing that stands out as being 'familiar' in the sense of Horner's quoting and making use of previous themes, either.

Can't wait to get the album along with Zimmer's 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Can't wait to be blasting TWO (I'd assume radically different) summer superhero scores on the stereo. :D
 
NL197 said:
I'm so accustomed to people hating Horner's music (and the man himself) that I don't even care anymore about if someone has a problem with it simply because it's pretty much almost everyone who does. It's when people are happy that is surprising!

I like that right off the bat (I mean spider, bat comes a little later) there's a strong trumpet-led main theme, very fast paced and most of all, fun. It's a fun, uplifting theme and I can imagine Peter Parker having a ball with swinging through the city streets.

There's been a lot of press about how this is going to show more of Peter Parker's humorous, sarcastic side which the Raimi movies didn't really cover, and it sounds like a lot of the more whimsical music in the sample supports that.

I like that it has a very modern edge, a blending of the traditional orchestral with the more modern Zimmer era of electronics, but they aren't overtaking the music, just supporting it.

Plus there's electric guitars. Those are cool. :)

There's nothing that stands out as being 'familiar' in the sense of Horner's quoting and making use of previous themes, either.

Can't wait to get the album along with Zimmer's 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Can't wait to be blasting TWO (I'd assume radically different) summer superhero scores on the stereo. :D
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Thanks for your thoughts. I'd say I'm a Horner fan, definitely of some of his better known work. I've been counting on him to deliver bigtime on ASM, and am still hoping really hard that it'll be a soundtrack I'll love when all's said and done.
 
I liked your little review of the score NL197 :up: Haha, I agreed with pretty much everything you said.
 
If there's one thing I love to ramble on (and on and on and on) about, it's Horner's music.

Well that and how great TDKR will be. :)
 
NL197 said:
Horner's music is something I listen to both in and out of the films all the time, because I collect his music. I have every single score ever been released by him. I proudly call myself one of his biggest fans and supporters.

I had no interest in this film until learning he was scoring it, because like most of the "mainstream" audience I didn't see a point to quickly rebooting Spider-Man. I didn't have the problems many fans did with the Raimi trilogy. I had no idea what the hell Horner was going to do with this film because he hasn't done a superhero movie (aside from a kind of superhero film in 'The Rocketeer' back in 1991) and in 2010, said in an interview that he was never interested in doing "summer tentpole movies" like this - he specifically said "Spider-Man" ironically enough but this film wasn't in production or anything so his comments predate this film, so there had to be something in this particular story he latched onto to agree to do it. His perspective was that there's no need to be doing the same Zimmer / Jablonsky / Remote Control productions thing of percussive loop-based "propulsive" music which is all about driving the action.

So many remarks here about how "different" and "weird" the music is, when to someone like me there's absolutely nothing weird about it - it's probably weird to many listeners here because as a collective audience, you're probably so accustomed to that same Zimmer / Jablonsky style of electronic loop based music that anything outside of that (Transformers, Iron Man, The Dark Knight Rises from the sound of it, and other big action movies the Zimmer-based sound is a part of) any other music will sound out of the ordinary or 'Disney' like.

That's just the observation I get, I have no idea how accurate or not it is.
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NL197 said:
I'm so accustomed to people hating Horner's music (and the man himself) that I don't even care anymore about if someone has a problem with it simply because it's pretty much almost everyone who does. It's when people are happy that is surprising!

I like that right off the bat (I mean spider, bat comes a little later) there's a strong trumpet-led main theme, very fast paced and most of all, fun. It's a fun, uplifting theme and I can imagine Peter Parker having a ball with swinging through the city streets.

There's been a lot of press about how this is going to show more of Peter Parker's humorous, sarcastic side which the Raimi movies didn't really cover, and it sounds like a lot of the more whimsical music in the sample supports that.

I like that it has a very modern edge, a blending of the traditional orchestral with the more modern Zimmer era of electronics, but they aren't overtaking the music, just supporting it.

Plus there's electric guitars. Those are cool. :)

There's nothing that stands out as being 'familiar' in the sense of Horner's quoting and making use of previous themes, either.

Can't wait to get the album along with Zimmer's 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Can't wait to be blasting TWO (I'd assume radically different) summer superhero scores on the stereo. :D
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Very well said. You made some good points. Both of these comments has gotten me more excited for this score. I know I'm picky when it comes to Horners's scores, but your thoughts on his AS-M score has me believing that Horner is doing something really special with it. That's what I was hoping for. I'm actually looking forward to this score more than Zimmer's TDKR now. A few months ago they were pretty much on the same level of anticipation for me.
 
I used to dislike Horner because he replaced Jerry Goldsmith as composer for the Star Trek films. While I still say Goldsmith's score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is far superior, I started to appreciate Horner's work later on. The score for Wrath of Khan is actually really well done and it fits the tone of the movie.
 
Picard Sisko said:
I used to dislike Horner because he replaced Jerry Goldsmith as composer for the Star Trek films. While I still say Goldsmith's score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is far superior, I started to appreciate Horner's work later on. The score for Wrath of Khan is actually really well done and it fits the tone of the movie.
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Which is no reason to dislike Horner, it's a reason to dislike the producer Harve Bennett, who, like Paramount, did not want to have the Goldsmith sound for Star Trek 2, they considered 'The Motion Picture' a failure, which at the time, it was regardless of how good the music was for it. They wanted a completely different tone so they went with someone else. Horner was replaced by Leonard Nimoy for 'The Voyage Home' and Goldsmith came back for most of the movies, so I really don't get it but to each their own.
 
Its funny but even when you had the bad Star Trek films (Final Frontier, Nemesis), Jerry Goldsmith had the best scores.
 
At first listen on my mobile I was kinda meh about it... Then I piped it through my surround... It's nice.
 
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