"Codswallop" <chunkylover53@no-spam> wrote in message
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> Oh, and the soundtrack is as good as the visuals... Mmm... DTS.
That was the only thing that disappointed me.. a lame rip-off of the CTHD
score (the main theme is *really* similar, but not as good, as CTHD's, the
rest of the music is pretty much the same, too). What makes it worse is that
it was Tan Dun who ripped himself off. Not an actively bad score, but
disappointing due to lack of originality. If you'd never seen CTHD it
wouldn't bother you, obviously.
LH
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:55:49 GMT, Luke Hooft wrote in aus.dvd:
>> Oh, and the soundtrack is as good as the visuals... Mmm... DTS.
>
> That was the only thing that disappointed me.. a lame rip-off of the
> CTHD score (the main theme is *really* similar, but not as good, as
> CTHD's, the rest of the music is pretty much the same, too). What
> makes it worse is that it was Tan Dun who ripped himself off. Not an
> actively bad score, but disappointing due to lack of originality. If
> you'd never seen CTHD it wouldn't bother you, obviously.
I actually meant the sound effects rather than the music. I haven't
seen CTHD for a while so can't really comment. However, a lot of the
time composer's music sounds similar from one film to the next so it's
not surprising they would sound the same.
That sub-sweep when Nameless does his "super-move" on the first guy took
me by surprise... ;)
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:15:20 GMT, Sir Pudgie wrote in aus.dvd:
>> Ding'a ling'a ling.
>> I'm just about to order it :)
>
> Me too! Luke really should consider a career in advertising! :-)
Good move... You'll love it.
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The effects soundtrack was good though. Heaps of surround speaker action.
Hard to judge how clear dialogue is when you don't understand the language
though. I'll have to learn how to say 'how swift thy sword' and 'all under
heaven'. :)
"Luke Hooft" <luke[underscore]h@no-spam> wrote in message
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> "Codswallop" <chunkylover53@no-spam> wrote in message
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>
> > Oh, and the soundtrack is as good as the visuals... Mmm... DTS.
>
> That was the only thing that disappointed me.. a lame rip-off of the CTHD
> score (the main theme is *really* similar, but not as good, as CTHD's, the
> rest of the music is pretty much the same, too). What makes it worse is
that
> it was Tan Dun who ripped himself off. Not an actively bad score, but
> disappointing due to lack of originality. If you'd never seen CTHD it
> wouldn't bother you, obviously.