Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
May.21, 2010 in
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 07/22/2003
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May 21st, 2010 at 10:53 pm
I know a lot of people will hate me for saying, I think this movie wasn’t entertaining, wasn’t funny, kept going on and on, and Orlando Bloom scared the crap out of me! He seemed more appealing in the Lord of the Rings series.
(Which I highly recomend seeing, if you havn’t)
Its not like I hate this movie….but it just wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. It seemed, to me, another one of those adventure shows that had practically no twists, a mooshy love story, a bunch of cheap action, unbelievable special effects, and a happy ending……oh brother…
The only thing that I truly enjoyed about Pirates of the Carribean was Johnny Depp. Now he was awsome! He alone earned my extra star! I know alot of fans will hate me, but I had to lower the ratings for this movie….it just blowed. ^..^ Rating: 2 / 5
May 21st, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Most likely the worst soundtrack since “Don’t go in the Woods”, this CD is not even worth of being called an actual score, for it is but a sampler. The credited composer, Klaus Badelt, is one of the many sour apples on that termite-ridden branch known as Hans Zimmer’s “Media Ventures” – yet even by the nonstandards set by that output, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” pseudoscore is downright wretched. Consisting almost totally of extracts from previous Media Venture soundtracks, patched up with generic electronic noise that appears to have been “composed” by a Casio synthesizer set to emit a random note every 15 milliseconds, this plodding, dull, flat evokes all the feeling and excitement of attending Hrantr’s concert while having a cold (Note for the simplistic illiterates, i.e. 99% of the ones that ranked this CD at five stars – this is a reference to Lem; learn to read, drop your comic books and try picking him up instead).
Since in the past some of the xerocopiers from Media Ventures did manage to compose a few worthy themes, they all have been included in this sampler. Hence, on this CD that allegedly contains a “Pirates of the Caribbean” score, you will find everything from “The Rock’s” Hummel’s Theme to Badelt’s own cues from “The Pledge”. And while, as I said, some of the themes are fine on their own, they make a terrible mish-mash when combined – one that might possibly appeal only to the dullards who only associate the word “score” with “the points I got in Half Life II”, and who define a soundtrack as one of those repulsive “inspired by the movie” nu-metal/rap garbage collections released on CD in, sadly, higher quantities than real music.
Some might wonder, “What is the matter? ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ is a thoroughly bad film, aimed at dull children of low attention span and an even lower intellect – surely such a mediocre movie deserves a mediocre score!”. One needs to know only the basics of score history, however, to notice how often bad films spawned magnificent scores – and this could have been no exception. In fact, it *should* have been no exception, as Alan Silvestri himself was supposed to score “Pirates…” – and, unfortunately, was replaced by the Badelt automaton.
In fact, the previous Hollywood foray into high sea piracy, Renny Harlin’s “Cuthroat Island”, was a bad film in itself, yet it gave the world John Debney’s score, which not only outranked even the enchanted pirate classics of Korngold, but which quite possibly is the best score of the last decade. And since any random second of Debney’s “Cuthroat Island” is worth more than everything the Media Vulture Badelts will ever produce, stop giving thought to purchasing this sampler of their messy “music” and instead get Debney’s treasure chest – recently reissued in a complete 2 CD version – immediately. Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:53 am
The Music is nothing but cheap synths-based Sh**… A great orchestral Score would have done the movie even better. There is only one good Theme heard in the score, dominated by the fiddles at the beginning and end of the score. It is a shame they did not let Alan SIlvestri do the job…
But Jerry Bruckheimer does not know anything about good film music… anyway, if you watch the movie, just try not to pay too much attention to its music Rating: 2 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:45 am
Come on, people–A film can only be carried so far on ‘star’ power before we eventually have to come to grips with the fact that it really was an AWFUL MOVIE, and the soundtrack was even worse. Klaus Badelt himself only worked on the thing for thirty days, and it shows! There’s nothing 17th-century about it whatsoever–Everything is completely synthesized and cheaply (and hurriedly) made, with no orchestral backing and no thematic pirate elements at all, which all amounts to a soundtrack completely out of place for the genre of the movie it’s supposed to be supporting. There’s not even any original melody in the music–It’s all just cues from The Rock, Gladiator, and Disney World’s own silly pirate ride! Anyone who owns the soundtracks from Zimmer’s other movies should easily be able to tell where they’ve just been cut and sewn together to form this grating mess of synthesized drums and cellos. I honestly can’t fathom why Amazon.com’s readers are giving it such good reviews, except maybe that they just want to support Johnny Depp–but Filmtracks.com gave it one star out of five (their average user rating is 2.75 stars) and after comparing it with John Debney’s magnificent score for Cutthroat Island, often considered the greatest soundtrack in the history of film, I completely agree with the professionals. To the bottom with this wreck! Rating: 1 / 5
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 am
I found this soundtrack to be a total disappointment. It sounded like a lazy ripoff of the Gladiator and Crimson Tide soundtracks.
It’s just a shame the soundtrack didn’t live up to the movie’s originality. Rating: 2 / 5