Sileas
heeee!
i've been weak.
well now! No, batman doesn't have a theme that you can hum, but baby, he's got mood he doesn't even know what to do with. I've owned a few movie soundtracks---got one star wars return of jedi on VINYL!, used to own some star trek, um.....Henry V, the other batman ones.....but this one is unlike any of em. very very very interesting. Makes me wanna go see it again. part way through I caught myself thinking, "I paid $17 for this?" because there actually isn't a lot of what would traditionally be called music on here. but when it ended, I was glaring at my cd player for having ended it. it's part orchestral and part....synthetic, I guess. but the two different elements play off each other nicely. batman's theme is more a percussive element in the music, not just by drums but strings, too, and when it slides from that to something more lyrical, it's a nice break, but then it's also exciting to get back to his theme or something else that creeps you out. not to say that you're running from one element to another and never enjoying it, though. nice music to play at a halloween party!
it's the creepy element that I really like. this score is not done so much from batman's viewpoint as the viewpoint of a thug ("something creepy is in here with us!"
and/or the moviegoer/fan. he's creepy, scary, but he's a good guy. there's the occasional use of a single choir boy or a wooden flute, almost subliminal, that adds something like an other-worldly quality, reflective. cool. like I said, lots of mood. I don't mean to say it's a lightweight, barry manilow---it's not. I know some people would disagree, but this is the kind of music batman/bruce wayne should have. it's the kind of music this movie should have. some people have said the movie takes itself too darn seriously, and that this is a flaw, but to that I say this movie CAN and SHOULD take itself seriously. batman is a normal human male, so making this real person into a charicature is not doing batman justice.
now for the trivia search! here is a list of the titles of the pieces, and yes, it's latin, boys and girls! I've found translations for two of them---who can fill in the others?
1--Vespertilio --a bat
2. Eptesicus ---?
3. Myotis ----?
4. Barbastella ---?
5. Artibeus ---?
6. Tadarida ---?
7. Macrotus ---?
8. Antrozous ----?
9. Nycteris --- a plant
10. Molossus ---?
11. Corynorhinus ---?
12. Lasiurus ----?
I'll keep hunting around to see what i find. all in all, i'm glad I got it! this is not a proud soldier marching into battle---this is the scare-the-crap-outa-thugs make-them-soil-themselves batman movie soundtrack! just a half step away from jaws!
i've been weak.
well now! No, batman doesn't have a theme that you can hum, but baby, he's got mood he doesn't even know what to do with. I've owned a few movie soundtracks---got one star wars return of jedi on VINYL!, used to own some star trek, um.....Henry V, the other batman ones.....but this one is unlike any of em. very very very interesting. Makes me wanna go see it again. part way through I caught myself thinking, "I paid $17 for this?" because there actually isn't a lot of what would traditionally be called music on here. but when it ended, I was glaring at my cd player for having ended it. it's part orchestral and part....synthetic, I guess. but the two different elements play off each other nicely. batman's theme is more a percussive element in the music, not just by drums but strings, too, and when it slides from that to something more lyrical, it's a nice break, but then it's also exciting to get back to his theme or something else that creeps you out. not to say that you're running from one element to another and never enjoying it, though. nice music to play at a halloween party!
it's the creepy element that I really like. this score is not done so much from batman's viewpoint as the viewpoint of a thug ("something creepy is in here with us!"
and/or the moviegoer/fan. he's creepy, scary, but he's a good guy. there's the occasional use of a single choir boy or a wooden flute, almost subliminal, that adds something like an other-worldly quality, reflective. cool. like I said, lots of mood. I don't mean to say it's a lightweight, barry manilow---it's not. I know some people would disagree, but this is the kind of music batman/bruce wayne should have. it's the kind of music this movie should have. some people have said the movie takes itself too darn seriously, and that this is a flaw, but to that I say this movie CAN and SHOULD take itself seriously. batman is a normal human male, so making this real person into a charicature is not doing batman justice. now for the trivia search! here is a list of the titles of the pieces, and yes, it's latin, boys and girls! I've found translations for two of them---who can fill in the others?
1--Vespertilio --a bat
2. Eptesicus ---?
3. Myotis ----?
4. Barbastella ---?
5. Artibeus ---?
6. Tadarida ---?
7. Macrotus ---?
8. Antrozous ----?
9. Nycteris --- a plant
10. Molossus ---?
11. Corynorhinus ---?
12. Lasiurus ----?
I'll keep hunting around to see what i find. all in all, i'm glad I got it! this is not a proud soldier marching into battle---this is the scare-the-crap-outa-thugs make-them-soil-themselves batman movie soundtrack! just a half step away from jaws!
I was out at the local mall this morning and decided to do a little research. I spotted some toys in a local department store.....didn't actually see any posters at the poster shop until I asked, and there are two there, but they aren't up and displayed----you have to fish through the racks for them. also hunted in a book store and found the novelization. I originally thought that I would buy it if I ever saw it. it's by dennis o'neil. I flipped through it a bit, and the bits that I saw are actually pretty close to what they filmed, but.....dammit, kids, I just really dislike "the three letter prefix in front of every damn thing I own"..... don't like it at all. I'm still not sure what I think about the car, but I prefer the original army equipment name the Tumbler over the silly batmobile. sorry. so that makes me not a true batman fan. too bad. I only own one comic book, anyway. I ended up not buying the book.