David Newman - The Phantom: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Artist: David NewmanEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1996-06-04
Music Label: Milan
Soundtracks:
- For Those Who Came In Late
- The Tomb
- The Phantom
- Anything's Possible
- The Rescue
- The Escape
- Must Be The Humidity
- Diana Must Leave/New York
- Ray Gets The Point
- The Museum
- Flying To The Island
- Quill Is Destroyed
- Escaping The Island
Music reviews of The Phantom: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: INCREDIBLE film; Disappointing score
Rating: 3 Stars
When THE PHANTOM came out, my best friend (who always said the character was his FAVORITE costumed hero) said, at the end of the movie, "At LAST, somebody made one of these RIGHT!!!" Great praise, indeed. I have no idea how the movie (or THE ROCKETEER, around the same time) apparently "failed" at the box office, but that happens all the time with films I love. Suffice to say, apart from a few minor details, they captured the look and feel of the newspaper comic-strip PERFECTLY, and made a film that everyone involved should be rightly proud of.
With one exception. It kept bugging me in the theatre (and I saw it twice on the big screen). There's no "theme song". Nothing memorable to hum along when you think back on the epic adventure. How could this be?
I recently read a comment that most films these days have their soundtracks "assembled", by "collecting an assortment of big-name acts to create a buzz and move product". As opposed to music created to "blend with the imagery", as most older, and I daresay "classic" films had it. David Newman DEFINITELY follows the "old school" way here. The sounds, the moods, the overwhelming EPIC feeling of it all is positively MAGNIFICENT. But... and I really hate to say this... WHERE'S THE MELODIES? I've listened to the CD several times, and there's just NOTHING MEMORABLE here!!! I'm reminded of the music from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. 180 episodes on TV, and NOT ONE single piece of "memorable" music that stood out, GRABBED you, and STUCK with you even if you hadn't seen the episodes for years on end.
All told, I'm glad THE PHANTOM had "mood music" instead of a collection of noisy "artists". But-- just maybe-- the film would have been more successful if the music had more than just "mood" about it.
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