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TRACKLIST:
01. Traveling Through Space [01:32]
02. Great Speech [01:43]
03. Hostile Territory [01:29]
04. How Did They Get the Lights On? [01:19]
05. Inside the African Ship [01:28]
06. More Stimulation [01:56]
07. Fear [02:12]
08. The Friendly Spaceship [03:24]
09. The Only Family I Got [01:07]
10. Welcome to the Moon [01:23]
11. What Goes Up [02:17]
12. It’s Getting Real [03:12]
13. Flying Inside [02:06]
14. It’s a Trap [02:42]
15. Worth Fighting For [01:18]
16. The Sphere [03:43]
17. The Queen is Leaving [01:15]
18. Whitmore’s Choice [02:05]
19. Humanity’s Last Stand [01:16]
20. Bus Chase [03:14]
21. We are Rich [01:11]
22. Independence Day Resurgence Finale [03:20]
23. ID4 Reprise [02:33]
24. Electric U [02:56]
25. Bang Bang [02:59]
I’m sure Jeff Goldblum will save it somehow. :p
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The main theme returned though
Presumably to maintain familiarity.
I still hate that he wasn’t even asked back. Big strike against this film, as the original film is probably my favorite movie as well.
Yes, INDEPENDENCE DAY is my favorite movie, and I have no guilt or shame in saying that. I’ve always loved it from its release date nearly 20 years ago to now.
EDIT:
14 tracks, in, on "It’s a Trap" and it’s pretty damned generic after all, but with a bit of fantasy and a modern sound…and NOT A TRACE of David Arnold’s themes to be found. There’s a theme, but it can’t even touch Arnold’s themes. I guess traces of the original are only in the "iD4 Reprise" track which would completely clash with the music in this score. Such a disconnect from what I can tell.
Disappointed, and that’s what I was expecting anyway.
EDIT 2:
One little half-hearted attempt to use the main theme, on strings in "We Are Rich" before the aforementioned "iD4 Reprise" which is just a 2 minute quickie arrangement of the original film’s end title fanfare before the alien theme took over.
All that iD4 Reprise track does is show what a lame score Kloser and Wander composed. It’s a really good re-recording of Arnold’s themes that puts this score to shame in a mere 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
As I have ordered the CD I will wait and make a FLAC version.
I still hate that he wasn’t even asked back. Big strike against this film, as the original film is probably my favorite movie as well.
Yes, INDEPENDENCE DAY is my favorite movie, and I have no guilt or shame in saying that. I’ve always loved it from its release date nearly 20 years ago to now.
EDIT:
14 tracks, in, on "It’s a Trap" and it’s pretty damned generic after all, but with a bit of fantasy and a modern sound…and NOT A TRACE of David Arnold’s themes to be found. There’s a theme, but it can’t even touch Arnold’s themes. I guess traces of the original are only in the "iD4 Reprise" track which would completely clash with the music in this score. Such a disconnect from what I can tell.
Disappointed, and that’s what I was expecting anyway.
EDIT 2:
One little half-hearted attempt to use the main theme, on strings in "We Are Rich" before the aforementioned "iD4 Reprise" which is just a 2 minute quickie arrangement of the original film’s end title fanfare before the alien theme took over.
All that iD4 Reprise track does is show what a lame score Kloser and Wander composed. It’s a really good re-recording of Arnold’s themes that puts this score to shame in a mere 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
I feel your pain. It is uninspiring.
thank you anyway.
One little half-hearted attempt to use the main theme, on strings in "We Are Rich" before the aforementioned "iD4 Reprise" which is just a 2 minute quickie arrangement of the original film’s end title fanfare before the alien theme took over.
All that iD4 Reprise track does is show what a lame score Kloser and Wander composed. It’s a really good re-recording of Arnold’s themes that puts this score to shame in a mere 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
Spot on analysis. What a dog this score is. The original film is a dumb-but-cheesy-fun ride, and Arnold’s score is at least half of the reason why. I’ve absolutely no desire to see this new film now; with music this uninspired, the film is likely to be unwatchable for me.
On another note, someone really needs to get Arnold a tent-pole blockbuster again. His voice is sorely missed.
Preach!
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Thanks!
I still hate that he wasn’t even asked back. Big strike against this film, as the original film is probably my favorite movie as well.
Yes, INDEPENDENCE DAY is my favorite movie, and I have no guilt or shame in saying that. I’ve always loved it from its release date nearly 20 years ago to now.
EDIT:
14 tracks, in, on "It’s a Trap" and it’s pretty damned generic after all, but with a bit of fantasy and a modern sound…and NOT A TRACE of David Arnold’s themes to be found. There’s a theme, but it can’t even touch Arnold’s themes. I guess traces of the original are only in the "iD4 Reprise" track which would completely clash with the music in this score. Such a disconnect from what I can tell.
Disappointed, and that’s what I was expecting anyway.
EDIT 2:
One little half-hearted attempt to use the main theme, on strings in "We Are Rich" before the aforementioned "iD4 Reprise" which is just a 2 minute quickie arrangement of the original film’s end title fanfare before the alien theme took over.
All that iD4 Reprise track does is show what a lame score Kloser and Wander composed. It’s a really good re-recording of Arnold’s themes that puts this score to shame in a mere 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
I absolutely agree with your sentiments, JHFan. Seemingly, my worries over this score were well-placed. This score�upon first listen anyway�is quite bland. David Arnold�s score for Independence Day is among my favorites for a specific reason: it was earnest. In that earnestness was real humanity. All the bonkers on-screen crazy-go-nuts madness was offset by wonderfully patriotic, stirring music that took itself very seriously. I cherish the La La Land release, and listen to it often.
Wander�s/Kloser�s work here falls into the same traps so many modern scores do: brooding, pulsing noise, devoid of any character, that ultimately goes nowhere. I�m not entirely sure it means anything, but 22 score tracks, most no more than 1�30� was a red flag for me. I really wanted better!
But I�ll keep listening for now, just to see if it improves once I�m no longer appraising it in the wonderful shade of David Arnold�s massive shadow.
Anything that listed his name was speculation.
As I said before, David Arnold was NEVER asked. He said so himself on his twitter account last year.
If this score was NOT for the sequel to INDEPENDENCE DAY, it would be a perfectly serviceable action score with a hint of fantasy.
For a sequel to INDEPENDENCE DAY, this score had massive expectations from fans like us and it did not even try.
100% this. This new score is underwhelming one minute, then overwhelmingly cheesy the next. And bad cheese. Like B movie type stuff.
What a bland score this is. We do actually get hints of Arnold’s work in a few other tracks, besides the ones mentioned above. They’re the ONLY good parts of the score. Hell, we don’t even get a full end credits suite. We get a reprise of the first 2 minutes of Arnold’s end credits from the first film, then it apparently segues into some crappy pop song. Disappointing.
As much as I am surprised (Harald Kloser being that guy from that dull AvP film soundtrack) I actually like this. It sounds like something written in nineties for a new adventure cinema film of the period. As some of you I’m quite sentimental for Arnold’s score but always considered Stargate to be his absolute peak, his Opus Magnum. And everything after that was just… ok. ID, James Bond stuff, even this Horner’s style self rip-off that his music for third Narnia film was, all good work. Just far from the level Stargate represents.
Could you please send me the link to download ID N�2 ?
Many thanks in advance.
EL CID.
thanks