Finally got around to listening to this. Had it sitting in my room for almost a month. I thought the score was good. Though I thought it was nothing really special in the film. Just GIJOE leftovers. Only the leftovers was actually better than Silvestri's own GIJOE score. It takes a while for the score to kick into highgear. But once it does it's a lot fun. Though I have to admit that some cues probably work better with the actual film. B/c if you haven't seen the movie it might be confusing to know what's going on. Luckily I saw the movie the weekend it came out. The score really grabbed my attention during the tracks "Vitarays" and "Captain America We Did It". I was really engaged during the tracks "Troop Liberation" -"Captain America" (Basically tracks 14 -25). Which is the rest of Silvestri's score opn the album. The action music though bombastic at times have a lot energy and are well written. Though it's in the same vein as his GIJOE score. I prefer his action writing from this than GIJOE.
Some quibbles. I don't think Silvestri's Cap. theme was used at it's advantage. It's just played mostly "heroic" and "triumphant". That's about it. Silvestri really didn't play with the theme like Elfman did with his Spider-man theme for his Spider-man scores, for example. Red Skull really didn't have a strong villain theme or a villain theme at all for that matter. Steve and Peggy didn't have a love theme. The cd could loose a few track mainly in the beginning. It would make a better listening experience. It's no big deal. The album missed the "Captain America March" that played during end credits, but that's WDR's fault. It also missed the track where Cap. is in the present day at Times square. I remember that track being pretty "powerful" and really captured Cap's reactions and feelings in that moment. Shame it wasn't on the album. Also I was hoping this would stack up to Horner's Rocketeer score, but didn't, imo. It also doesn't come close to Williams ROTLA score. (I know what does?) But Johnston (during pre-production and filming) said Raider's was an influence throughout the production of Cap. But the film and score really didn' live up to that at all.
Despite all of that. I still think Cap is a fun score. And better than most of his action scores in the past few years. Probably as good as his Beowulf score. But the score is just Silvestri good not Silvestri great, imo.
