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| ARTIST: | Edward Shearmur |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony |
| FEATURES: | Soundtrack |
| TYPE: | Film, Soundtrack, Film Music, Classical, Original Score, Soundtracks & Film Scores |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | The World Of Tomorrow, The Zeppelin Arrives, The Robot Army, Calling Sky Captain, Back At The Base, The Flying Wings Attack, An Aquatic Escape, Flight To Nepal, Treacherous Journey, Dynamite, Three In A Bed, Finding Frankie, Manta Squadron, H-770d, Flying Lizard, Totenkopf's Ark, Back To Earth, Over the Rainbow- Jane Monheit |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 827969293225 |
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Customer Reviews of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Derivitive?? So what!! Many reviewers have praised Edward Shearmur's score for "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" in a somewhat backhanded way, referring to its being derivitive of the John Williams style. I find this comparison to be amusing because John Williams himself, in all of his movie scores, blatantly steals from many better composers than himself, such as Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst and Sir Edward Elgar, to name but the most obvious and most lawsuit-proof - that is - safely dead long enough for their music to have become public domain. <
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>That being said, Williams is a superb orchestral craftsman and at least chooses the best from whom to steal. And in this score, I think Edward Shearmur has shown himself capable of giving Williams, the current reigning champion of the sci-fi/adventure/action film genre, a serious run for his money. <
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>It would be fascinating to hear what a Danny Elfman might have done had he been tagged to pen this movie score, but I cannot see how Williams could have topped it. Most enjoyable.
Visually: 5 stars. But seriously overextends itself.
An old adage says that everybody knows who Picasso is, but nobody knows who invented the paintbrush. Call this movie a demo for a really great new paintbrush.
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>This is one of those movies which expands the range of things that a movie can be--honestly I've never seen such a wonderful look in a film, retro and futuristic at the same time. After about a century of moviemaking, its a pretty good achievement to come up with a whole new look.
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>The basic problem with this movie is that it just tries too do too much, and achieves too little. It goes from the sublime to the rediculous when it goes from cool-robo-gizmo-gadgets to trying to be Jurrasic Park. Dinasauroids just don't belong here.
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>What would have worked much better is instead of trying to fit all of these adventures into one movie, they should have just introduced the great new look in a tight, fast-paced, 70-minute movie showing some Sky-Captain derring-do. They could have started a whole new film franchise: Sky captain goes underwater, sky captain goes to the island that time forgot, etc etc.
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>But noooooo...by packing all these different scenarios into one film, they seem to have exhausted all of Sky Captain's possibilities, to the point that he was boring by the end of the film. Instead of teasing us and leaving us wanting more, the whole sky-capitain thing seems been-their-done-that before it even got started.
Sky Captain's Score Soars
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>Wow, this is a tremendous soundtrack. It is a great compliment to a great film. It conjures up comparisons to
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>Raiders of the Lost Ark, and is a rare cinematic treat. I highly reccomend it.