"Whiteout"--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score

[roquat]

"Whiteout"--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#1

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:10pm

I don't know when I've seen a movie in which the background music was more intrusive--every action sequence had to be punctuated by a bongo drummer on crystal meth.

As for the movie itself, it's basically a super-episode of "CSI: Antarctica", with some clever twists, pulse-pounding moments, and ravishing scenery (it was actually shot in Canada). Since it's a Joel Silver production, though, the first scene (after the prologue and title card) consists of Kate Beckinsale arriving at an army base in Antarctica, disrobing, and taking a completely gratuitous shower.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[Pgenre]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#2

Posted: 9/14/09 at 4:45pm

Worst Score award will forever belong to TRUE ROMANCE for me.

Love the script and the performances but turn it off 9 times out of 10 thanks to that incessant xylophone pounding away.

WHAT was Zimmer thinking?!

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[JohnBoy2]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#2

Posted: 9/14/09 at 6:40pm

I hate all scores by Hans Zimmer. Who did Whiteout, which a friend of mine called the worst film of the year.

[FindingNamo]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#3

Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:03pm

See how above it all JohnBoy is!

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[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#4

Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:06pm

Not gonna lie, I love many Hans Zimmer scores. But then, I'm generally VERY pedestrian in my tastes.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[Pgenre]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#5

Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:36pm

Oddly enough, HANNIBAL possesses one of my absolute favorite scores, right up there with SUSPIRIA... so it's not a Zimmer thing, per se.

But in HANNIBAL Patrick Doyle wrote the beautiful opera, not Zimmer... and Hopkins wrote that haunting piano sonata himself... but Zimmer's music is quite chilling nonetheless.

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[JohnBoy2]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#6

Posted: 9/14/09 at 11:23pm

Film music is my favorite music, and has been since I saw the road show of Ben-Hur, in 1959! Miklos Rozsa's score is still among the finest ever written.

[roquat]

re: 'Whiteout'--fairly good movie, HORRIBLE score#7

Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:44am

John Frizzell "composed" the "music" for WHITEOUT. I was hoping for something spare and haunting (befitting the still, frozen settings) and I got a deranged Stomp concert.

I know WHITEOUT has gotten an avalanche of bad reviews. It is rather old-fashioned--a bit like a 1950s or 1960s B-movie--and has the same plot holes that plague most thrillers, but I was engaged all the way through, and Manitoba did a perfectly decent job doubling for Antarctica. Perhaps I'm just getting a lot less demanding in my moviegoing habits...

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."