Christopher Young's score
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Invaders from Mars
willywants — 16 years ago(April 26, 2009 11:06 PM)
I was wondering what y'all thought of Young's score. In addition to Stan WInston's creature effects, it was my favorite attribute of this silly but enjoyable timekiller. In particular, I absolutely love the gorgeous family theme played over the end titles, it's a very beautiful and rapturous melody that favorably reminded me of one of my personal favorite scores of all time, "To Kill a Mockingbird". And I absolutely love the action music. I think it's a shame the superb cue underscoring the military's showdown with the Super Martian Intelligence was omitted from the Intrada CD. The producers should have let Young completely rescore the film with orchestra, and not only select moments.
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superman1 — 13 years ago(June 23, 2012 02:00 AM)
I forgot til now it was young Christopher Young, who did one of the most memorable scores for
HellraiseR
.
Here then he demonstrates an action attribute of his brain-catching strength for melody which is the real meaning of music. Or to put it less-pretentiously, he uses a Martian military march theme with a strong melody behind it.
Can't recall the end theme, but my all-time-and-space fave is of course
ALIEN
's where in a stroke of inspiration, or hating
Goldy
's muse, Scott used a classical piece, by Hanson, offering it seems the same beautiful poetic contrast.
Also the end song of
The BLob
('87 or '88) struck me at the time as the first horror I'd seen anyway to use a cheery pop song for the end credits. Loved that.
'Brave New Love.'
Even the music of the high-budgeted
ALIENS
was cut and chopped like a storm without a brain, surprisingly. Only the CD restores it intact.Oh no I've just realised your post was 3 years ago. You might be dead now. But it does mean I will get a response from something I wrote 6 years ago. As is usual.