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4.0 out of 5 stars
Formulaic Score For A Formulaic Movie, But Trevor Rabin Adds His Style & Makes A Real Great Feel-Good Score, September 27, 2006
Fans of Rabin will know that he has two sides of composing. Sometimes will break out the synthesizers and give a blowout technical score, sometimes he'll show his orchestral side and make it a lush instrumental score, or sometimes he'll put the two together and make great modern composition. With Gridirion Gang we get an orchestral/synthesized sound that follows formula. Now, let's look at the movie he is composing for. It's your run of the mill sports movie that is all about teamwork and overcoming adversity. So, in a way he had some formulaic stuff to work with.
The score reminded me a lot of his work from The Great Raid with certain themes he used in Deep Blue Sea. This is one of his quieter scores as a matter of fact, with the stand out tracks being "We're Better Than This" parts 1, 2 and 3. In those three tracks is where you also hear the central theme Rabin developed for the movie. It's a feel good score that matches what the movie is about, and that's really what you're looking for. I can't wait to review Flyboys, because from what I heard in the theater it was amazing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Another clone out of Hans Zimmer's school of film music, July 9, 2009
You know, Trevor Rabin can fool himself all he wants, he will not fool those of us who know film music. He keeps saying that he is not a follower or immitator of Hans Zimmer but c'mon, there's a reason the experts always think that he's part of Mr. Zimmer's school of film music (Media Venture / Remote Control). His music is fun and you surprise your self by humming it. It's catchy and heroic. But at the end of the day, there is no originality to it and especially with Mr. Rabin, it keeps on repeating itself from movie to movie. It's like "Armageddon" was his best effort and he can't get out of it. I'm okay with it. Anyone who's got talent and wants to copy Hans Zimmer, i'm perfectly fine with that. I will automatically love the music as a guilty plasure. But i Can't praise it. In this case, for "Gridiron Gang", Mr. Rabin simply (again...) does a variation on other scores he composed before. And yes, you still can find traces of "Armageddon" in it in gentler ways. "Rap Up" and "Celebration Episode" are the most "Rabin-like" pieces, not "We're Better Than This" like a lot of people seem to think. At the end of the day, what can i say other than it's a guilty pleasure without any originality. It's what Trevor Rabin does all the time. You take every album of film music he did and you listen to them one after the other and you can't really see the difference. It always sound the same and it's like a big "Armageddon" that never stops. Somtimes slower, sometimes faster, sometimes bigger, sometimes with more elctronic, but it's always "Armageddon" just the same. And since the score from "Armageddon" was definitly good, well heck, all of Trevor Rabin's scores will always be good... but without any surprises. After all, why not? We don't want "AC/DC' to change, do we? We don't want "Iron Maiden" to change, do we? Why would we want Trevor Rabin to change? Especially when there is Hans Zimmer out there.
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