The Amazing Spider-Man Reboot composer?

[Oscorp]

Sounds actually really good to me! Strange, but in a good way. Nice, because I disliked the previous sample

 

[Spider-Who?]

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.

I enjoy most of horners work, but I hate what I've heard so far for this film. That being said, I'm slightly annoyed/insulted by your assumption that because I and others don't like it means we have shallow musical or "disney-style" tastes.

 

[mclay18]

I love James Horner's work, especially his early to mid-1980s film work, but what I'm hearing for ASM just isn't grabbing me. Even in the clips coming out (like the chase scene), the score doesn't feel synched to the picture.

Elfman's themes were so much better.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I love James Horner's work, especially his early to mid-1980s film work, but what I'm hearing for ASM just isn't grabbing me. Even in the clips coming out (like the chase scene), the score doesn't feel synched to the picture.

Elfman's themes were so much better.

So far it's an interesting listen, but I agree.

 

[RealIrOnMaN]

I enjoy most of horners work, but I hate what I've heard so far for this film. That being said, I'm slightly annoyed/insulted by your assumption that because I and others don't like it means we have shallow musical or "disney-style" tastes.

The best post in this thread so far!

 

[socool]

That being said, I'm slightly annoyed/insulted by your assumption that because I and others don't like it means we have shallow musical or "disney-style" tastes.

This to a T. Just because I don't like it or think it belongs in a Spider-Man film doesn't make me a shallow movie goer or a man of bad taste.

Though, with that said, the video posted above is helping me a little. The new parts shown were actually pretty nice. They definitely do have darker feel here and there, which I was worried about. It seems as though the light-hearted scenes get this really cheesy music that doesn't work at all and then the other scenes have a very mellow, calmer, sound. Like "Playing Basketball." Should have been thrown out immediately. It sounds like something I would hear in a Sims game.

 

[spiderguy252000]

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.

I agree with everything that was said here! I also love Horner and when I first listened to it I too heard the VERY clear Spider-Man trumpet theme. It has such a fun and powerful feel to it that really captures what it would be like to have the wind hit your face as youre soaring through the air. I am really surprised a lot of people here said they didn't hear a clear Spidey theme, its played about 4-5 times in the samples themselves! ;P

 

[White_Knight191]

This to a T. Just because I don't like it or think it belongs in a Spider-Man film doesn't make me a shallow movie goer or a man of bad taste.

Though, with that said, the video posted above is helping me a little. The new parts shown were actually pretty nice. They definitely do have darker feel here and there, which I was worried about. It seems as though the light-hearted scenes get this really cheesy music that doesn't work at all and then the other scenes have a very mellow, calmer, sound. Like "Playing Basketball." Should have been thrown out immediately. It sounds like something I would hear in a Sims game.

Have you seen the new B-Roll footage? Then you'll understand why they chose that track for that scene.
It's supposed to be a funny scene where [BLACKOUT]Peter is messing with Flash while playing basketball.[/BLACKOUT] When I listen to the sample track I can imagine Peter doing funny things like in that B-Roll footage. It works perfect imo.

And how do you mean cheesy music in the light-hearted scenes? Horner is know for making emotional music. When I hear some of those samples it sounds like typical Horner music, which means emotional and beautiful music.

 

[socool]

Have you seen the new B-Roll footage? Then you'll understand why they chose that track for that scene.
It's supposed to be a funny scene where [BLACKOUT]Peter is messing with Flash while playing basketball.[/BLACKOUT] When I listen to the sample track I can imagine Peter doing funny things like in that B-Roll footage. It works perfect imo.

I have, and I do understand, but it doesn't sound GOOD. That's my problem. Light-hearted music for a light-hearted scene, I get it, but it doesn't sound good.

And how do you mean cheesy music in the light-hearted scenes? Horner is know for making emotional music. When I hear some of those samples it sounds like typical Horner music, which means emotional and beautiful music.

Only Playing Basketball is cheesy. The rest is not.

 

[OrbWeaver]

When i heard the fingersnaps, it sounded like a dance number straight out of a musical. Not sure what to make of that.

I got the same vibe. Sounds like something out of West Side Story.

 

[OrbWeaver]

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

To me, that part sounded like the theme from Star Trek: Voyager.

 

[mayo23]

This to a T. Just because I don't like it or think it belongs in a Spider-Man film doesn't make me a shallow movie goer or a man of bad taste.

Though I agree that one shouldn't assume anything of anyone, you haven't seen the film, you weren't there in the process of making the film and score and you don't know what the tone will be like in the final product. So how can you really say you don't think this kind of music should be in a Spider-man film?

 

[socool]

Though I agree that one shouldn't assume anything of anyone, you haven't seen the film, you weren't there in the process of making the film and score and you don't know what the tone will be like in the final product. So how can you really say you don't think this kind of music should be in a Spider-man film?

99.9% of the time, this type of view is completely right. I usually use it myself! But this is not one of those times. Listen to "Playing Basketball". It's horrid.

 

[Anno_Domini]

"Ben's Death" is quite epic.

 

[socool]

"Ben's Death" is quite epic.

It really is. A few of the songs are actually pretty good, but then there are a few that I really, really don't like. I think for the most part I'm going to enjoy the score, but it's not the score I was hoping for. It does nothing in the way of originality or being memorable. Sigh...

 

[Anno_Domini]

My favorite would have to be "Ben's Death" and then the Main and End titles.

 

[Web face]

They showed the scene with Uncle Ben's death?

 

[Anno_Domini]

No, the music.

 

[socool]

They showed the scene with Uncle Ben's death?

We're talking about the soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hj_YZEQzcU
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Which reminds me, the song "The Ganali Device" sounds VERY similar to Horner's "A Beautiful Mind" work. It's scary, but I really do love that score, so it's okay with me.

 

[Web face]

That would make sense as we are in the reboot composer thread. So the whole score was released? or was it a bigger preview?
EDIT: the latter

 

[socool]

That would make sense as we are in the reboot composer thread. So the whole score was released? or was it a bigger preview?

Basically a longer preview. It shows new sections of the same songs released before.

The more I listen to it, the more I like it actually. The new stuff shown is MUCH better than the stuff on the radio show.

 

[Web face]

Well that was a pretty good way to spend 10 minutes

 

[A Necessary Evil]

The opening portion of "hunting for information" is definitely ringing a bell for a past horner score...I can't think of it though..

 

[Oscorp]

I really like the Rooftop Kiss bit

 

[TheWallCrawler]

I had doubts about the score at first, but it sounds awesome now