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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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So, I was looking forward to this movie for one major reason. That reason was Harry Gregson-Williams. His last score release was nearly 1 year ago with Prince Caspian, which was an amazing score. John Powell was the last composer to leave his mark on this franchise, and when I heard Harry was taking the helm I got super excited.

I'll stop dancing around and get right to the point. This score is okay. It has it's moments and plenty of Harry's signatures layered throughout. He carries some percussion over from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare and some vocals that remind me of Kingdom Of Heaven. It's a symphonic score layered with his signature electronics. I think the biggest thing I was disappointed about was that the score never really took off. It reaches a level and pretty much stays at it during the entire film. Surprisingly the film also lacks any major thematic or melodic material. There isn't a tune in the score that you can put your finger on and associate it to this score. So in that sense this score is floating around without a real identity. The best stuff here in my opinion is the music for Kayla, who is Wolverine's love interest who ends up getting killed. There are hints at some touching music there, but again the story leaves no room for it to blossom.

I can't really blame Harry for this one because honestly the movie was just plain awful. There wasn't anything in the film worth remembering and the writing is laughably bad. Everything seems rushed and the story is an utter mess. Harry composed this score knowing well that they would probably continue the franchise, but most likely with a different director and a different composer. In the end there a few pieces that are fun to listen to, but as a huge Gregson-Williams fan it didn't meet my expectations. The score never rises to stand on its own and it's lost within the picture. Looking forward to his score for The Taking Of Pelham 123, because when Harry and Tony Scott team up it never disappoints. Wolverine is a standard score for a less than stellar movie. The film was lucky enough to get this much effort out of Harry.

The Soundtrack has its ups and downs, but overall Harry Gregson-Williams did quite an excellent job. The themes are emotional, haunting, intense, and just plain AWESOME!!!!! This CD is SOOOOO worth buying!!!! Also "Logan Meets Gambit" is the best action-packed track of them all, with astounding violin performances, and "Kayla" is the most emotional track of them all!!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!

This is the kind of music I dream of creating. The melodies are subtle yet complex, the action is frenzied and yet accessible... and the production? Oh my word. The production on this score is a slobber-knocking right hook out of sound quality heaven! If I had one negative thing to say, it's simply that I would have LOVED a theme for Wolverine/Logan. "Kayla" has an absolutely beautiful theme, and I think something similar for Logan would have been incredibly powerful.

One of my favorite action scores, and CERTAINLY in my top 5 Harry Gregson Williams scores.

Just as the story behind Wolverine unfolded on screen, so does the musical score behind the story, which is just as engrossing. I highly recommend it. Action cues abound, with some romance. From the co-composer of "The Rock" comes a thrilling soundtrack.

Listened to a borrowed copy numerous times. It grows on you. Had to procure one for myself.

Harry Gregson-Williams adds a new feel to the X-Men universe with this soundtrack. It's probably closer to his other works, like the Narnia series, than the other X-Men movies. It certainly has a raw emotional power that adds to the movie. However, for whatever reason, it isn't particularly memorable - or at least as memorable as the Narnia sccores.

There is some great heart-pounding music here and I quite enjoy it. No buyer's remorse here! I actually think that the music by itself is a little stronger than in the movie. Not quite as good as PRince Caspian, but this is only my second movie score that I have by Gregson-Williams and I'm not disappointed.

There was a time, a few years ago, when I had Harry Gregson-Williams pegged as one of the best up-and-coming film score composers in Hollywood. More recently, though, he's been uneven: he hits it out of the park occasionally, but far more often writes dull, forgettable scores. Still, I had high hopes for this one: the film's subject matter is the sort of fantasy adventure that often affords composers the opportunity to spread their wings, and after Gregson-Williams' former collaborator John Powell's exceptional score for the previous X-Men film, I allowed myself to hope for another knockout here.

Unfortunately, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, described by the label as "an epic symphonic score," is a mediocre and insubstantial effort. The main theme, established in "Logan Through Time," is very okay, pleasant enough and vaguely epic, even if it does sound like leftovers from The Chronicles of Narnia. While it's used several times throughout the score, it's never really put through the works or played with in any sort of interesting fashion, and the score has very little else to recommend it. Besides the theme, there's a lot of droning underscore of the sort you'll find in Gregson-Williams' scores for Tony Scott movies, a good deal of serviceable but generic action music à la Narnia, and a pleasant and instantly forgettable love theme. Buried in all that are occasional glimmers of something better: the action near the end of "Logan Meets Gambit" is quite good, for instance. But Wolverine is a film that really could have been taken to the next level by a wonderful score and has been done a disservice by this vaguely entertaining but forgettable effort by a composer who's capable of much better.

This isn't awful music, but I can't in good faith recommend it.

LOL.

I have the movie & I wanted to download the "adamantium" and "Logan Through Time" tracks, but they are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE TRACKS USED IN THE MOVIE.

What a joke.

I love this CD. The music is so evocative of the movie. There are several reoccurring themes that run through the album, which makes identifying who or what was the focus of the music at any given point. I even use this CD to drop off to sleep with. It's great!