The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Soundtrack Preview

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The soundtrack for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will not be here for some time, yet the nice people who made the movie have 4 tracks streaming on the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus website.

The composers are Jeff Danna and Mychael Danna.

If you want to listen to the 4 tracks, just go the main website (link right after the jump)

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Soundtrack Review: A Christmas Carol (2009)

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score A Christmas Carol by Alan Silvestri.

“This is not a Christmas classic, but undoubtedly a score that will put you in a Christmas mood.”

Yea, Christmas is here! Well almost anyway. At least Hollywood starts early, but that’s okay. A Christmas Carol is of course one of the most beloved and remembered of Christmas stories. The famous Charles Dickens story has rendered numerous movies and adaptions and will continue to do so. Ebenezer Scrooge is a sad, angry man who hates Christmas. He gets visited by the three ghosts of Christmas who show him his past, present and future to get him in a proper Christmas mood. A timeless, wonderful story, this time animated  in full Walt Disney 3D. Starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge, Robert Zemeckis as director and Alan Silvestri as composer, we’re in for a treat!
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Avatar Soundtrack Details (And Sample!)

December is almost here and do you know what that means? It’s Avatar time! Or more importantly if you are a soundtrack geek such as me, James Horner time!

I have been highly anticipating this for some time and now it’s almost here. Yesterday Atlantic Records revealed the soundtrack with a full song by James Horner!

Aren’t you excited?! The sample sounds fantastic, but what is puzzling is that the track “Into the Na’vi World” isn’t on the official soundtrack.

Never mind that… it sounds fantastic. Just listen to it below.

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Soundtrack Review: 2012 (2009)

Movie soundtrack review: This is a review of the motion picture score 2012 by Harald Kloser & Thomas Wander.

“A movie like this has great action scenes and a lot of emotional moments, and the emotional moments are sadly missing from the score (for the most part)”

So I watched 2012 yesterday, you know the one, the world is getting destroyed. The Mayas made this prediction long ago. It turns out to be true and the whole world goes to hell. Sounds pretty cool and the movie was as expected. The CGI and production value was through the roof and you even cared for the characters. I carefully listened to the score by Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander and thought it wasn’t too bad. Sure there’s some generic action stuff in there, but it plays along well with the scenes. What’s interesting about Roland Emmerich movies when it comes to the music is that, as of his last few films, he always chooses Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander to do it and even better, Harald Kloser also co-wrote the script with Emmerich. Should make for the perfect marriage of movie and music right? They did  that in 10,000 B.C. and it was really good. Here’s the review of 10,000 B.C. if you have forgotten. So what about 2012?
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The Wolfman is Angry. Danny Elfman Has Left The Building.

So who cried wolf!? Was it you? Well see the Wolfman here on the left? He looks pretty pissed off. So I guess you’ve all heard. Danny Elfman will no longer write the music for The Wolfman. Correction, he actually did. Rumors says he wrote a full score and because of scheduling conflicts he (un)conveniently had to leave the project.

Now who believes this story? I don’t see any hands. Good, because I don’t believe it either. The story about Danny Elfman leaving is absolutely true though, but I meant the part about scheduling conflicts. What is also true is that Paul Haslinger has taken the job to save Wolfman’s hairy ass (excuse my language).
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