I think it's wise not to compare it to goldsmiths.They are two diferent beasts altogether.For starters there's not as much choral work as in the original.On it's own merits as a Beltrami score I quite like it.I 'm happy to have it.

Damjamcar, June 8, 2006; 5:32 PM

By reading briefly posts from various soundtrack forums, people who have purchased and listened to Beltrami's score seem to like it.

I also listened to brief samples of The Omen and the soundtrack seems promising.
I don't expect anything like the unique and great score by Jerry Goldsmith not that I want to but I cannot prejudge Beltrami's music from listening to a few 30 second sample tracks.

Eventually I will purchase it but first I have to admit that I do want to view the movie on the big screen out of sheer curiosity mainly to see how the music works within the film and also to see if this remake is of any worth.

serifiot, June 8, 2006; 6:58 PM

I was gonna post this same topic yesterday but I strangely fell very ill. I saw The Omen yesterday and it is a remake on the like for like nature, take Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Hitchcock's. Both the original Omen and remake were penned by David Seltzer.
I was expecting that and as with Psycho's score by Elfman, I was expecting something similar from Beltrami. There are minute glimpses of Goldsmith's score in this film and because the subject matter is related to good and evil, in the biblical sense, voices would have added something sinister to this film (check out some of the views on Aintitcoolnews.com).
I am a Beltrami fan and the music failed to provide the suspense the film deserved, particularly in the Cerveti graveyard scene. Because the film is a like for like remake you know exactly what is going to happen and when. Those of you who played the original Resident Evil and then played the Gamecube version know exactly what I am getting at here. The film should have been revamped and maybe the film could have worked with Beltrami's score. It seems to me to be incoherent, in a musical sense, and loud for the sake of it. The inevitability of comparing it Goldsmith's was there from the start but you cannot compare the two because they are two different scores to the same film but only Goldsmith's worked. The proof is in the pudding, as we say in England, because Goldsmith got his one and only oscar for that film and I'll be surprised if Beltrami gets nominated. Still there is one scene where the absence of music is profound and was a stroke of genius as they let the elements provide the score. I shan't spoil it for those that haven't seen it yet but I do not know if it was Beltrami's idea or director John Moore's.

TheSaint.786, June 8, 2006; 11:54 PM

I have better things to do than bother with the score for the Omen remake. I'll take a pass on it. Sometime in the future if I happen to find one laying around in the junk store for a dollar I may check it out.

victoravalentine, June 9, 2006; 7:34 PM

As others have said, it's good, but it's not a patch on Goldsmith's classic.

It's more of an action score, there's none of the creepiness of sheer horror that's throughout the original soundtrack. There is a beautiful family theme during "The Adoption," and Beltrami briefly quotes Ave Satani in one of the cues (see if you can spot it...)

I've not seen the flick yet, so I can't comment on it's use in the film.

his_dudeness2002, June 18, 2006; 12:39 AM