Halloween: Resurrection score

[Carl Cunningham]

Damnit, even the score is pants!!!

How can you fuck up The Shape's music?!?!?! Easily the worst of the series, especially coming off of John Ottman's amazing fully orchestrated score (which you have to buy on CD, 'cause Dimension butchered it in the final film).

And who is this Danny Lux joker anyway?

The Akkads need to be destroyed. :mad:

[GQSioux]

What are you talking about? The Halloween theme in H8 was WELL DONE. Best version of it since JC's. The light chants Danny Lux added to it were chilling. And by the way, H20's score sucked ass. It wasn't even really Ottman's score. They had Marco Beltrami (Scream) come in and redo most of it. IT SUCKED.

[Carl Cunningham]

GQSioux:
What are you talking about? The Halloween theme in H8 was WELL DONE. Best version of it since JC's. The light chants Danny Lux added to it were chilling. Sorry, I disagree. To me, this score sounds like some newbie sitting at a keyboard, synthesizer, and computer and toying around with Carpenter and Howarth's music.

GQSioux:
And by the way, H20's score sucked ass. It wasn't even really Ottman's score. They had Marco Beltrami (Scream) come in and redo most of it. IT SUCKED.Uh, no kidding. That's what I meant in my original post when I said that "Dimension butchered" Ottman's score. But his full score is available on CD. It's called "Portrait of Terror". See:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000DF8N/qid=1027109818/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-2547173-2385636" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000DF8N/qid=1027109818/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-2547173-2385636</a>

[Greg Hansen]

Carl Cunningham:
...toying around with Carpenter and Howarth's music.That is a no-no.

[General Zod]

Who is surprised by this?

Akkad is a whore. Whores like money.

Expect part 9.

[Dan Whitehead]

Swiftly followed by Michael X, no doubt.

[EvilFutsin]

No no, they're gonna call it Halloween:Revived and then after that is Halloween:Resucitated (sp), and then Halloween:Ressure....oh wait...

*pause*
....don't mind me. *goes back into his hole*

[Dan Whitehead]

Wait, I've got it. Halloween 9 will be the tag team horror battle everybody's been waiting for...

Michael Myers vs Mike Myers

Oh, behave!

[Carl Cunningham]

Dan Whitehead vs Candid Gamera:
Wait, I've got it. Halloween 9 will be the tag team horror battle everybody's been waiting for...

Michael Myers vs Mike Myers

That's the only think that would get me to pay to see a Mike Myers movie.

[xtheshapex]

i still think a michael myers vs jason movie would be pretty fucking awesome...

if they did make that,what would be some good plot ideas for it?

them being friends as kids?

[Rawhead Rotten]

Uh...Inspector? Your thoughts, please?

[The Inspector]

I actually saw the CD on the shelf at Aron's records last night (in Hollywood), and, being the only guy I know who owns the CD's to every Halloween film, I actually picked the thing up and thought about buying it.

But I couldn't do it. The music was just too lame.

So what, Danny Lux worked a choir into the Halloween theme. Ooooo. I guess I'd like to have that. I also caught some of Ottman's score from H20 worked into the finished film...what's THAT about?!? Dimension goes and cuts most of Ottman's score (I've got the "Portrait of Terror" disc, I understand why they cut it) but then they throw some of it into 8? Ottman did a better score for "Urban Legend 2" by the way.

To answer the question "Who is Danny Lux?"; he's the in-house guy at Fox. He scores "Boston Public" and whatever "one-shot" shows they throw together. (Seen any of those "Magicians Secrets Revealed" shows? Yep, he scored them.)

I may pick this up used (if it's cheap), just to be a completist, but I honestly can't stick-up for this generic slasher score for this generic slasher movie. There has to be more substance to a "Halloween" movie, I'm sorry. Even 6 had Alan Howarth trying to work homages to the original score into it (at least in the "Producer's Cut") and H20 had the budget for an orchestra. This score, like this movie, was riding the long-dead "Scream" wave.

John Carpenter must be spinning in his grave.

[Rawhead Rotten]

Sucka' - you know you would've picked it up if I was there...

[Carl Cunningham]

The Inspector:
I actually saw the CD on the shelf at Aron's records last night (in Hollywood), and, being the only guy I know who owns the CD's to every Halloween film, I actually picked the thing up and thought about buying it.

But I couldn't do it. The music was just too lame.

Then I have to beat, because I do own a copy of every HALLOWEEN soundtrack on CD, including Ottman's "Portrait of Terror" and the 20th Anniversary Re-Issue/Remaster of the original score.

Sadly, that's not bragging. I'm the sucker, because I do own the H:R Danny Lux score (though in my defense I bought it before I saw the film).

[Carl Cunningham]

The Inspector:
There has to be more substance to a "Halloween" movie, I'm sorry. Even 6 had Alan Howarth trying to work homages to the original score into it (at least in the "Producer's Cut") and H20 had the budget for an orchestra. This score, like this movie, was riding the long-dead "Scream" wave.

I couldn't agee more. Dead-on evaluation.

And thanks for the backstory on Lux. He needs to be jettisoned along with the Akaads if this franchise is to be salvaged.