| Burt Reynolds wrote: |
| I like the soundtrack for Sin City. It's absolutely perfect for setting the tone of the movie. The fact the Rodriguez composed it as well, makes it that much more amazing. |
You know I was debating making that yesterday's spotlight because I just imported it into iTunes. However, I couldn't do it.
And Rodriguez composed part of it. Graeme Revell and John Debney scored as well. Rodriguez mainly handled "That Yellow Bastard", Revell "The Hard Goodbye", Debney "The Big Fat Kill". For that endeavor I was going to spotlight, but honestly, I'm not a big fan of the score. It doesn't move. Revell as a composer I love, but his score really bothers me a bit. There's something off about it. Debney has a nice noir sound and feeling as he also has the most jazz in his score. Rodriguez also bothers me like Revell. I like Rodriguez's Kill Bill Volume 2 and Planet Terror scores so much more than this (granted Planet Terror is almost a remake of Sin City's score, but with more synthesizers and a better main theme).
Part of my uneasiness about "Sin City's" score is that it didn't fit the sound I heard in my head for Sin City and I understand how subjective that is.
--- Oh hell, it is tomorrow.
Okay, today's spotlight will be on Graeme Revell cause I just dissed him. "Pitch Black" a great atmospheric horror score. Moody, effective, but must also plays to the genre schizophrenia that the film does. There's huge action beats, but a lot of emotional creepers as well. There's a real primal, naturalistic sound to the score which reflects the monsters on the planet. "Race Against the Sun" is easily my favorite track and contains the "The Riddick Theme" which Revell would reuse in... "The Chronicles of Riddick". A stronger, bolder, and IMO better score than "Pitch Black". It builds upon the Riddick theme and takes it to much more grand levels. In fact, lots of themes are introduced because this film was supposed to spawn a franchise.
My only qualm about the CD is that a lot of music from the film is missing on it. However, my highlight on it goes to "One Speed" which uses the Riddick theme to its fullest (even if it is a remake of "Race Against the Sun"). The film had one more better use of it when Riddick leaves Crematoria to intercept the Necros, but alas -- not on the CD. What also bothers me is that there's a track called "Helion Attack, Pt. 2" but not Pt. 1... Hey!
