X-Men: The Last Stand (Original Motion Picture)
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Composer: John PowellEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- 20 Years Ago
- Bathroom Titles
- The Church of Magneto, Raven Is My Slave Name
- Meet Leech, Then Off To The Lake
- Whirlpool of Love
- Examining Jean
- Dark Phoenix
- Angel's Cure
- Jean and Logan
- Dark Phoenix Awakes
- Rejection Is Never Easy
- Magneto Plots
- Entering the House
- Dark Phoenix's Tragedy
- Farewell to X
- The Funeral
- Skating On the Pond
- Cure Wars
- Fight In the Woods
- St Lupus Day
- Building Bridges
- Shock and No Oars
- Attack on Alcatraz
- Massacre
- The Battle of the Cure
- Phoenix Rises
- The Last Stand
Music reviews of X-Men: The Last Stand (Original Motion Picture)
Music Review: "Powell versus K-Men": The Last Stand !
Rating: 5 Stars
What else is left to say about this big great soundtrack album? An outstanding emotional score composed by one of the biggest in this business - John Powell. I agree with an earlier reviewer who said that all the action and emotion of the third movie installment of this Marvel series has been captured marvellous good in this play of violins and other great instruments on CD. The orchestral arrangements are the most powerful on this third score. While Michael Kamen still made a very good job and owns all of my respect as my favorite composer, this third release still has its very own big ones: "The Funeral" track is my favorite on this whole album, not to mention the main theme "The Last Stand", which both play very well eventhough they ain't as much dramatic as the score tracks for the high action sequences. Also I think we all loved the "Jean and Logan" part that reminded me personally a lot of K-Men's last track for X-Men "Logan and Rogue", which still is the most loved and most harmonic arrangement of violins I've ever heard yet! And no, I'm not kidding!
Powell still made a good job though (watch my rating for this album), and yet it doesn't ecstasize me as much as the K-Men score did with its last track "Logan & Rogue"! Some scores go well with the film, but completely fail at listening when heard by themselves. I think at K-Men's position we had the perfect precedent for exactly the other way around: K-Men's score flew over the top as it was too good for X-Men 1 or in other words: X-Men 1 wasn't worth a score like the one K-Men finally delivered it! The problem with the first installment of the X-Men series was that most of the budget has been focussed at effects and characters only. The filmmakers spared a lot at the script conception and focussed only on the events that lead up to the romance or to what we call a father-daughter-relationship between Logan/Wolverine and Marie/Rogue. That's exactly where K-Men marched in with a whole orchestra and dramatized the emotional scenes which even the actors could not do better; e.g. when Wolverine rescues Rogue on the top of the Statue of Liberty and saves her life. I know it must be scathing for a director to hear that the only thing useful in his movie was the soundtrack, but it's possibly more ecstatic for the very composer to hear that his score pushes the action back into background and takes on the actual leading role of the movie!
With X-Men 3: The Last Stand all that has changed: We have action sequences as big as the expenditure for making the score. That's also the reason why Powell's work fits so well at this point. I'm glad he signed in to made this score, as much as I am excited to hear some more from this great composer. For me it truly is a work of art, flawless...but never as sublime as K-Men's masterpiece for the first installment, that one was a gift!!! At this point I should depart with the words: Sometimes the fine nuance that makes the difference "between as..." better or "not better as..." is bound to ones taste. And that is what makes us humane, isn't it?! At least the mutants of the X-Men circle will know what I mean. ;)
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