Customer Reviews

Ransom (1996 Film)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

By listening to this excellent album, you are almost thrown into the movie yourself. It is an entire different way to experience this movie. The scores by James Horner give a deeper look into the feeling of the father and mother and child. They all show the sorrow of what the family must have gone through. And then you are catapulted into the kidnappers' world with Billy Corgan's superb compilation. His music is as dark and eery as the movie.

I deffinitley reccomend this soundtrack. One of the best

James Horner's score for this movie does a good job underscoring the film. His music reflects the way the film's character are feeling. It also helps build up the tension in this movie. I like how Billy Corgan's "Kidnappers" music was include on this soundtrack. It offers and altnernative to those who think that James Horner's score "sucked".

i have never heard a more awesome soundtrack than Ransom. Billy Corgan's music is so cool and eery and so scary, it gave me goosbumps all over. And James Horner's music is so surberb, it is totally better than the titanic sdtrk.

scoreboy's crazy! this soundtrack was definetely worth the moola. the score done by Mr. Corgan is pretty amazing- offbeat and different, and with a certain leaning towards animal life. What's the deal with that? Anyway, it was a pretty good disc, and I enjoyed it.

This is no where near as goor as TITANIC. There is probably about 4 or 5 good songs on the soundtrack to RANSOM. It's better used as a frisbe to play catch with. Clay

I played it once. I love the works of James Horner, but something clearly went wrong here. This is not his style and it shows.

This is a really good score in the film, and the soundtrack album is okay. It gets just an "okay" for several reasons: 1- As usual, not enough of the music is on the CD, and, the greatest detractor... the terrible Billy Corgan noise for the last half of the cd. The beginning is some great James Horner music, but Corgan sounds like amature noise that I could creat in about thirty seconds in a simple music compositon program (I have, in Fruity Loops). I am really tempted to rip my copy of this cd and throw out all of the noise (Corgan's stuff) and make a good, listenable soundtrack to James Horner's score for Ron Howard's "Ransom".

James Horner is by far my favorite film composer, but I must be honest, I love this CD because of Billy Corigan. He is the true artist on this soundtrack. Every new venture for him is grand, not only with lyrical work-the Smashing Pumpkins-but also with score. I belive Billy Corigan could make a painless transition to film score just a easily as Danny Elfman did.

Ah.. mr. Corgan, you've done it again! If Billy Corgan would have to write a bad song to save his life, he'd die! THIS MAN IS GOD!! HE CAN'T FAIL!! Horner sucks though! he gets the minus 2 stars