Comments on: Soundtrack Review: Outlander (2009)

By: Film-Book dot Com

Film-Book dot Com — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:01:33 +0000

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Review: Outlander | Film-Book dot Com — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:47:25 +0000

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By: Jorn Tillnes

Jorn Tillnes — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:02:41 +0000

That’s a good point. Not many scores do this, but it makes you wonder what their reasons are.

By: AD

AD — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:57:03 +0000

Oh, and the track order on the disk is really odd, since it doesn’t follow the film order at all.

By: AD

AD — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:53:43 +0000

There’s definitely music missing. There’s about sixty four minutes on the CD and roughly a half hour more than that was written.

By: Kurt Roithinger

Kurt Roithinger — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:58:20 +0000

i’d trade my copy for a copy of ‘young sherlock holmes’ by bruce broughton! ah, well…:)

By: Jorn Tillnes

Jorn Tillnes — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:51:57 +0000

Maybe a lot of people don’t know this exists. I think there wasn’t planned to make a score release of Transformers but due to heavy pressure from fans it was made and sold a lot. With Outlander, there’s no promotion and the movie is a limited release so I don’t think there’s need for more than 3000.

You never know, maybe in the future it will be a sought after cult hit, sold on eBay for $500.

By: Kurt Roithinger

Kurt Roithinger — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:23:17 +0000

this score took me a few listens to really get into, but once i did, i really rather liked it and have been listening to it rather heavily ever since.

the ’subtleties’ imo are pretty much the main body of tracks, which i liked rather a bit more than the original reviewer — they are atmospheric and moody and suit the nature of the movie very well, imo. the ‘heroci’ themes that sort of bookend the disc have a sort of MV vibe to it, sure enough, but also a little bit of brian tyler as well. still, i feel it stands on it’s own far better than ‘transformers’ did (which still was a pretty good score in my book also, despite making me think ‘it’s zimmer lite.’)

anyway, i think the original reviewer has it right — thiswill be pretty much a guilty pleasure only — since only 3000 copies of the disc were made, chances are it won’t exactly be a runnaway sales success (though i’m sure it’ll get torrented a lot.)

By: Jorn Tillnes

Jorn Tillnes — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:49:47 +0000

Yes I think it was the blatant MV similarities that got me on this score. I just love to hear such a score again, a proper “guilty pleasure” like Transformers was for me in 2007.

This could possibly be my guilty pleasure for 2009, although I’ve yet to hear the new Transformer score coming out this summer.

By: Jon Blough

Jon Blough — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:09:43 +0000

This score was derivative and samey, and it all sounded just a bit too cheap in the recording style for me. Few scores have produced such a jolting negative reaction from me. The subtleties its supporters mention were drowned out of my ears by the blatant Media Ventures similarities. Different strokes, I suppose.