Comments on: Danny Elfman Scoring ‘Terminator Salvation’

By: Dan Hall

Dan Hall — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:47:42 +0000

*Correction it was Christopher Young

By: Dan Hall

Dan Hall — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:37:23 +0000

Elfman didnt score Spiderman 3, JessSayin.
I think it was christopher beck?

I AM worried about Elfman taking the musical reigns. When his music is good, it’s iconic.
But lets face it. He’s churned out an ENORMOUS amount of generic, dud scores.

If he throws Brad Fiedels theme in (not the duh duh, duh duh bit – im referring to the ‘hope of the future’ theme featured on the T2 opening and end credits) i’ll be happy enough!

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:51:45 +0000

I’m with The Big Dentist..
Howard Shore rules the roost.

Gotta say though, Elfman IS a musical genius. How many on this blog bat a 1000 every time?…Anybody?

This is obviously a new and different direction than anything he’s done before..He might surprise us all.

Personally, I thought he did a bang up job on the spidey movies. In fact, I think the ONLY good thing about Spidey3 WAS the music.

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:53:08 +0000

I heard he got disillusioned with the whole movie business and stopped composing for films or TV, Ken. He certainly hasn’t done anything since the mid-’90s as far as I know.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:45:39 +0000

Why not just bring back T2′s composer? We all generally agree that he handled the Terminator theme pretty well…

By: The Big Dentist

The Big Dentist — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:24:55 +0000

When Elfman’s on form he’s brilliant – when he isn’t his music stands out like a camel on an ice floe. I found his soundtrack for Hellboy 2 jarring, inappropriate and inescapable. Totally took me out of the picture. A friend of mine was an animator on The Corpse Bride and said that the minute the initial mixes of the songs came in, everyone there was shocked by how poor they were. Like someone doing an Elfman parody. It’s not that I don’t think he could handle T4, just that there are more suitable composers, and if he gets it wrong he’s gonna get it REALLY wrong.

Howard Shore is a great call. On LOTR he showed he can do ‘epic’, and his work on all the Cronenberg films plus Silence Of The Lambs and Seven has an almost subliminal quality: a kind of sick pulse that anchors a sense of unease and dread. Not unlike those parts of the T2 soundtrack whenever Robert Patrick shows up.

How about David Julyan? He did the scores for all Christopher Nolan’s non-Batman films plus The Descent. Good ‘n’ broody.

By: CanuckLou

CanuckLou — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:18:51 +0000

Michael Giacchino is the one I would have gone after.

By: dudelove

dudelove — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:24:54 +0000

As far as I’m concerned he’s usually the best when it comes to him touching franchises. No one has been able to touch his Batman score yet.

By: sahil

sahil — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:29:37 +0000

Let’s hope he goes off in a new direction, similar to how Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard did with Batman. Something that hardly even resembles a score, but more so a brooding background thumping… not to forget the Duh-DUH-duh-Da-DUM! classic terminator sound as used so amazingly in the trailer.

I didn’t really like what he did with the Wanted soundtrack, I loved the build up he kept using, but the main violin music was almost like he just took the old batman music.

By: SunNightRaider

SunNightRaider — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:00:30 +0000

*sigh*

Not using the classic original theme in this movie would be like making a new Star Wars flick without using the title music we all know and love.

…

Oh right. The Clone Wars.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:37:00 +0000

Yah, I am not sure about Elfman. I like his other work too, but it isn’t “mechanical” enough for Terminator I think…

By: Ray O

Ray O — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:09:43 +0000

Hey Ross, what about James Horner.

By: WAR-MACHINE

WAR-MACHINE — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:21:51 +0000

also ,
he scored and sang in nightmare B4 X-mas.
it should be a good score.
but im still i little scared that McGee is doing a terminator film.
i hope its good