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The music was intrusive, way too loud (blame the mixers if you want but there were many instances where key segments of dialogue were inaudible) and by the end you just wanted the music to go away (my wife felt the same way) It felt like sonic wallpaper... it played almost from start to finish making the finale just headache inducing instead of special. There were some great moments but by the time we got to the third act the score became grating and film music should never do that.

The score plays much better on CD.

-Erik-

Demetris, do films you see in Greece get a Greek dubbing? Because the mix might be different then and we're all talking about something else. By the way, I really didn't feel the mix was all that loud in the music department - I also wonder if it might have to do with different cinema's and the way they have their sound system organized. But, then again, we Dutch people aren't totally dependent on hearing the dialogue because we also get the subtitles (though I always listen to the spoken word as well, and I never missed a thing). I'm anxious to hear it on BluRay.

Of course not, Greece and Cyprus have never gone the dubbing way, thank God otherwise i'd never go to the cinema. I absolutely loathe dubbing with all my strength.

I, a film score fan and a musician, naturally thought the mixing was great It helped that i loved the score from before too but anyway i talked with non-film score fans after the showing and also observed audience too, i didn't notice anyone being bothered; on the contrary it was one of those few times the general audience actually noticed the score and talked about it.

Well, Zimmer's music does tend to get a louder mixing than average in films, and his music does tend to get noticed more often by a general audience... draw your conclusions. They don't actively pay attention to it, so it needs to be a little bit 'in your face' for them to even start noticing.

Me, I like and often prefer a louder musical mixing, as I think it should carry the film and accompany it.

For a quality director, Nolan values too little the power of not having music.

Bullshit. I meant as a BIASED film music fan, naturally preoccupied positively and biased towards the music and that i would usually not mind if the music was mixed too loud.

I know exactly what he meant. Inception would have benefited by LESS score aka silence. Just because I'm an advocate of large symphonic music doesn't mean that a film should be dominated by such.

-Erik-

I've still yet to see it.

Mel saw it and enjoyed it and thinks the music is very good, she did say she thought it was overbearing at times but that it was a minor quibble, at the same time that's why she recognised it straight away when I played it for the first time.

Interestingly, I had the same thoughts at the last series of Doctor Who.
While Murray Gold already displayed a tendency to overscore some scenes in previous seasons, the immediate segue into full orchestral-cum-electronic-beat action music whenever someone turns his head slightly faster than usual, or the thunderous fortississimo blast with three or four choirs chanting epically over ever ascending orchestral scales (with thirteen timpani keeping time) at every single episode's apotheosis (no matter whether the Doctor saves the multiverse from Dalek-demon hybrids or just fastens a screw on a telephone) is becoming somewhat overly noticeable.

It's still great stuff to listen to on CD though, and I'm sure I'll buy the Season 5 album as I have the others.

I still dislike Matt Smith.
I really want to like him in the role, but I find him not very menacing (Tenant did that exceedingly well), not very seasoned (as Eccleston projected so well), and not very amusing. He has the quirky bit down pat, but sadly that's just the generally quite good dialogue in the scripts.

I've only seen it once but I thought the score worked brilliantly. It was constantly present and I felt constantly on edge throughout the movie because of it. I didn't know the music beforehand, so my enjoyment of the music in the movie was probably more like a non-film score fan.

Peter

THE EXPENDABLES

Fun, loud and brainless entertainment of the good ol' fashioned way but to be honest, i expected more action than what was shown in the trailer and essentially proofed to be a resume of all the action in the film. Still it was a nice ride with Stallone greatly in form (as an actor, the direction was numb) but i'd like more of Willis and Schwanzenpecker, instead of those brief cameos. The music was perhaps the most impersonal and auto-pilotish score by Tyler 'till now, but was loud and huge fun in the film. Liked the whole, 2 hours pleasantly killed!

The crying over the mirror and guilds thingy?

Enjoying DOCTOR WHO AT THE PROS at the moment on BBC3. Although I did not find this series as good as previous ones, Murray Gold's music shines by itself.