So it's all true. Iron Man is, musically, another bland orchestral synth rock pop pile of drivel. Ugh, what a shame. While superhero scores haven't quite hit the memorable peaks of John Williams' Superman, Elfman's Batman or even Goldsmith's cheesy, but very memorable Supergirl, recently, there have been plenty of decent entries. However, that all seems to have gone by the wayside and on a ratio of film quality to music, this is pretty much the poorest. Indeed, the film itself is excellent and Robert Downey Jnr. is superb as the lead, but the music lends very little to the film itself and is no more exciting on CD.
The opening cue pretty much sets the tone, rock band, synths, orchestra somewhere in there, lots of percussion, hardly a theme to speak of. I mean, I wouldn't mind if it went from that, morphing into something memorable, after all, a build up to the main theme can be most effective. In this case, it builds to more of the same, just relentlessly on and on. The action is typical post-MV territory (one day I might not have to write that any more, but it's not coming any time soon) and there are some vague ethnic bits. There's little decent on the quiet side either. It's interrupted by the odd couple of songs which are no more or less uninteresting than the score itself. Ok, if you like loud and not particularly interesting scoring, you'll have a wet dream over it, but this is a superhero score I can happily leave. Just glad it didn't ruin the film. Une Etoile.
3 comments:
I totally agree!, i mean yes it would be great to see some real scoring in the matter, the movie deserves better although, like you said it doesnt matter really, the visuals are cool enough, the story is interesting and Downey Jr is a believable Tony Stark.
Please people from music film industry, stop paying for this crap!
Sad but true; how Djawadi got the gig over John Debney (who would, for a start, have written a proper theme) beats me. And don't get me started on the de rigeur (for composers from Remote Control Productions as Media Ventures is called now) "additional music by" credit... as I've said before, Danny Elfman didn't need anyone else to help him compose Batman or any other comicbook scores. And John Williams sure as hell didn't need any help with Superman (weird to think that it's his only contribution to the genre!).
Interesting, didn't know Debney was originally on board... now I'm hardly his biggest fan (technically proficient, but a bit generic a lot of the time for my liking) but it would hvae been a lot better than what Djawadi came up with. Who knows what goes on in the minds of directors and producers...
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