From my point of view I absolutely agree with you. Fortunately none of us has to follow today's production because there are more old soundtracks available now than ever before.
There's so many music to listen to without paying attention to the mass commercial production of today's stuff.

I know I'll never either watch the movie or listen to the music of "Narnia".

42zaphod, December 7, 2005; 3:31 PM

These are difficult days for films, and for film music...

Just look at last entries : except for Williams and a few (very few)other works, we have Horner redoing his all de-generated stuff, Debney temp-tracking 1 film per month (oh, and deserving 4-to-5 stars in some review sites. Great work!), new MV scores and ¿composers? every day, etc... etc...

I only look forward classic releases like Prometheus or VAR CLUBs or INTRADA. Those are my real "last entries", and not the newest scores.

falcsanz, December 7, 2005; 4:08 PM

that is what I call EVOLUTION of film music.
100 years ago everybody loved classical music like Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Beethoven, Bach (just to name some of the famous one). Well then there was pop, rock, rap and other mainstream, and the old-fashioned people disliked the new music. I think today just few people listen to classical orchestations. The evolution of music accelerated in the last years very much and it's keeping that way. It's hard to bring up something new and fresh. Same problem with movies: the production is increasing and everything is almost the same. Same stupid ideas and effects and all.
Today there still are lot of great compositions. The difference is there are too much of them, good and bad. So you listening to much and it becames all the same in your ears. Maybe. :)

You hate Narnia, but maybe your children will love it. It's a matter of taste.
For my part I like that score and lot of other recent music too. I can't stand rap (except Eminem), hate pop (all the mainstream things) but therefore I like jazz at all. I don't like the FRIDAY THE 13th Part VII and VIII which I'm listening to right now. That score is awfull like lot of other score that were composed in the 70s till 90s.

John Williams is my God and Goldsmith is a great master too.
Same great new masters to me are Michael Giacchino and Alan Williams (for example).
There is bad and good music. There are bad and good films. And sometimes bad films has good music and bad music are in good films.

I don't feel today like there is more scum on CDs than in the past. Just matter of taste and evolution. :)

1701, December 7, 2005; 5:28 PM

Alan Williams a master of what ? Temp-tracking film scores into his IMAX music ? That's pretty insulting for me. But hey, if you like it... Maybe you should hear more music.

falcsanz, December 8, 2005; 4:48 PM