John Williams - War of the Worlds [Music from the Motion Picture]
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Music Label: Decca
Product features:
- SOUNDTRACK WAR OF THE WORLDS (LA GUERRA DE LOS...)
- Prologue (Narration: Morgan Freeman)
- The Ferry Scene
- Reaching The Country
- The Intersection Scene
- Ray And Rachel
- Escape From The City
- Probing The Basement
- Refugee Status
- The Attack On The Car
- The Separation Of The Family
- The Confrontation With Ogilvy
- The Return To Boston
- Escape From The Basket
- The Reunion (Narration: Morgan Freeman)
- Epilogue
Music reviews of War of the Worlds [Music from the Motion Picture]
Music Review: This is such a disaster
Rating: 1 Stars
Okay, mostly this is a review for the horrid movie... in fact that's all it is. But let me say while I was busy not caring about the characters in the movie, I noticed that the music lacked any kind of substance, drive, or hooks whatsoever. I can't believe looking now the John Williams was responsible for this. He's lost it. Big time.
I honestly can't believe the gushing about this film. It was wretched. I took my father, and he agreed... so I know the opinion goes beyond just my own jaded adulthood.
I have to wonder if anybody praising this film has ever seen anything besides Spielberg movies with gushing, over-precocious children, or perhaps the extant of their exposure to "acting" is the Mission: Impossible series.
Here's my review:
This should have been a period piece. The audaucious oversight of having a digital video camera work after even the star's watch has stopped working due to the EMP pretty much sets the tenor of giant holes through the rest of this film.
Tom Cruise is over the top. His range is limited to happy jock (Risky Business) and angry guy (Magnolia), and I never believe him as a parent who cares. Maybe that's why his children hate him?
Having the aliens die because of germs is pretty much key to the whole plot as it stems from the book, so the oversight of the alien scientists has to be forgiven to stay true to Orwell's vision. The movie's addition that they had their ships buried in the Earth for tens of thousands of years, at least, is unforgivable. If they had visited before, why had they not taken a sample of bacteria? Why hadn't they just harvested other creatures that the Earth was rife with then? At least they wouldn't have had to worry about creatures with technology. Was it supposed to be scarier? Provide another special effects sequence? It was just dumb.
Tim Robbins' was the only worse acting than Tom Cruise's. His laughable charicature of a man driven to the edge does nothing to ground the movie in reality. It feels more like a scene in Airplane or The Naked Gun.
As for the parallels to 9/11 I keep hearing about, there are none in this movie. I would say the idea must stem from American viewers ego-centrism of the one succesful attack on their home soil by foreign terrorists. Now, a technologically superior force completely occupying a land to take advantange of it's natural resources seems a much better correlation to the occupation in Iraq. Secretly hidden tripods = well-established Army bases in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Planning for thousands of years = Downing Street Memo. Giant unstoppable tripods = shock and awe. Even so... this is just coincidence; the ever prevailing coincidence of movies about occupations to the truth about occupations.
Yes, the tripods looked pretty sweet. The aliens did not. The effects were incredible, but I'm not impressed. Spielberg having good effects in his movie is about as impressive as Darryl Strawberry hitting a t-ball. It's just a given when you have that much money. And something I missed, a friend pointed out the tripod design that I thought was the best part of the film was totally ripped off of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore. Check it out!
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Here's a test... do you remember the characters' names? No? What about the characters in Jaws or E.T.? I remember them, but no one in this movie. I can't remember because I couldn't be made to care.
Essentially, this movie is nothing more than a series of B-grade action sequences done very well thanks to a budget bigger than the deficit.
Description of War of the Worlds [Music from the Motion Picture]
SOUNDTRACK WAR OF THE WORLDS (LA GUERRA DE LOS...)John Williams continues his longtime collaboration with Steven Spielberg in this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name (previously filmed in 1953). Considering that the movie depicts a gigantic Martian invasion, you'd think Williams would have fully gone into his familiar bombastic mode, but he's refrained from doing so. While the composer makes full use of the outsize orchestra at his disposal, he prefers juxtaposing layers and building atmosphere rather than hitting you over the head with dramatic arias. "The Intersection Scene," for instance, begins slowly and minimally, then progressively builds into an ominous pounding; Williams then inserts spooky, otherworldly banshee-like effects that escalate into a frenzied pitch before abruptly disappearing as the track begins its descent back towards calm. The sound is genuinely scary and could lead to a spike in blood pressure among impressionable listeners without the help of visuals. "Probing the Basement" is another example of Williams masterfully building anxiety. War of the Worlds culminates with "Escape from the Basket," in which Williams methodically builds tension over close to ten minutes. And refreshingly, even when the action picks up, he mostly avoids the clichéd thundering timpani that often plague this type of score. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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