12-14-2005, 01:20 AM | #1 |
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Soundtrack
Anyone bought it? It just came out in the US today.
I didn't buy the whole thing, but I did buy my favorite song: Narnian Lullaby and I love it. Overall, during the movie, I wasn't really impressed with the music. It was good, but not as good as Howard Shore, etc. except for one or two songs, like Narnian Lullaby. |
12-14-2005, 01:36 AM | #2 |
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I wasn't that impressed either. Get the soundtrack for the 1988 BBC version.
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12-15-2005, 09:12 PM | #3 |
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Shouldn't this be in the Lewis forum?
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12-24-2005, 12:55 PM | #5 |
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Yay, someone agrees with me!
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12-24-2005, 04:23 PM | #6 |
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Yeah, the only one I liked was the narnian lullaby. But usually I dont listen to the music in any film unless its really something.
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12-24-2005, 07:07 PM | #7 |
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I want it, just one of those obsessed with music. Only thing that made me mad was that Amy Lee was originally supposed to be on the soundtrack but she was taken off because she wouldn't change her style for them, just because they said it was too "dark". Yet Alanis Morisette (sp?) is still on it.
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12-24-2005, 08:10 PM | #8 |
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I just saw the movie, I wasn't really impressed with the music either. A few parts were great, but I liked the music for the old movie better too.
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I wasn't wild about the music in general. As far as pacing, it was too much, too soon, IMHO. Music can be very effective in building up the story, and they just didn't do it very well.
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What you say is true Rian, the music was just to...to suspensful in all the wrong areas, and not very new sounding during the battle etc...I'm really dissapointed that Harry Gregson-Williams wrote so commonplace...he's no Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams, but I've known him to have one or two inspired things up his sleeve. When Lucy meets Tumnus, I thought the music sounded more aprpopriate for Scream 5. And when Edmund sneaks after Lucy, the music makes it seem like he's a murderer and not her brother. The Narnian Lullaby was good.
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I'm pretty dissapointed with myslef right now...a few weeks back I was listening to Johnny Cash's "Night Riders in the Sky". Well, I must have come away with the music half conciously stuck in my mind, and I forgot that it was Johnny Cash, because by the end of the week I had worked it over and made it into what I thought was my own very good theme. I tried to write it down at the piano, but I couldnt find the right notes(!). Well, just yesterday I listened to that song again. *weeps*
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I have the soundtrack and the meeting tumnus thing is bad way bad especially when you're listening to a CD I think it transitions a little too quickly in spots, but the main problem might be as you say Harry-gregson Is no John.
Now I'm gonna have to find the old BBC movies, Since I have no idea what y'all are talking about.
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01-23-2006, 02:04 PM | #15 |
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Is the song from when the children play hide-and-seek on the soundtrack? That was the best bit of music in the film, IMO - I was singing it for days afterwards.
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sadly no, I don't know why they left it out, it was a great 1920's sounding song, at least to me.
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01-24-2006, 12:11 AM | #17 |
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Maybe it was a 1920s song, and there were, like, copyright things...? It suited the mood really well though.
*shrugs* Nothing particularly special about the soundtrack, it sounds like.
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it sounds like a period (.)??
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