Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000


Colosseum (4005939614423)
Varèse Sarabande (0030206614428)
Película | Fecha de estreno: 02/05/2000 | Medio: CD
 

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# Pista   Duración
1.Battlefield Earth Theme0:52
2.The Dome3:32
3.Jonnie Leaves1:34
4.Meeting Carlos, the Hunter1:19
5.Teri1:39
6.Jonnie's Enlightenment1:56
7.The Plan / Fort Hood2:42
8.Chrissy1:04
9.Denver Library1:19
10.Chrissy Collected1:40
11.Man Animal Revolt2:53
12.Mountain Tribe1:43
13.Psychlo Wrangler2:28
14.Psychlo's Top 402:07
15.Commence Revolt3:10
16.Do You Want Lunch?1:34
17.Revolt Continues2:16
18.Options for Renewal2:00
19.Hope at Last0:55
20.Cavalry0:34
21.Air Battle1:50
22.Trench Attack0:53
23.Web Cracking Stops1:47
24.Dome Explodes1:55
25.Gas Drone and Fight1:43
26.Mickey the Hero0:40
27.We've Won1:12
28.End Titles1:33
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 - 02/10 - Crítica de Tom Daish, Publicado en (Inglés)
I think it's been some time since a film has been so roundly panned in almost every department as Battlefield Earth (or Battlefield Dearth if you have a unimaginative sense of humour). I've not seen it, but any film that looks that dreadful fro the poster art and trailers is never a good start and this one could have had a picture of a turkey on the movie poster and I think it would have looked as promising. However one iconic image will possibly come from this film: John Travolta as a long haired, baldy alien, pointing a gun/blaster/whatever with tubes coming out of his nose which looks like he has a severe snot problem (it's on the back of the CD if you want to see it without purchasing the album or seeing the film). Not exactly the most threatening sight known to man (or Psychlos) and it seems likely that whomever the gun is pointing, is liable to be sniggering loudly than cowering in fear.

As Jerry Goldsmith would testify, you don't need a good film to produce a good score. Of course if the film is better then it is easier to be inspired but even so, many a lame action/sci-fi flick has benefitted from a superb Goldsmith score. However, Elia Cmiral isn't Jerry Goldsmith and it shows in every dismal minute Battlefield Earth. Any score where the concert arrangement (I use the term more for comedic effect than anything) of the main theme is less than a minute long isn't promising. The theme is high impact because it's loud and has lots of banging in it, but otherwise totally unmemorable. It appears on occasion through the score, but unless you subjected yourself to the entire album several times you'd probably have difficulty spotting it in amongst the orchestra/synths/choir crashing that passes for nearly 49 minutes of album.

I am usually quite happy to accept scores that work on viceral impact over and above artistic merit. Independence Day is no masterpiece, but David Arnold managed to conjur up half a dozen themes and with orchestrator Nicholas Dodd created a score that is high on impact, but also has some kind of dramatic arc and plenty of memorable moments. It has a plethora of genuinely thrilling action cues as well as some very chilling, apocolyptic music for the arrival of the aliens. Battlefield Earth on the other hand lurches from one selection of noise to another. Alright, I admit it, there are a couple of half decent moments. The action in The Plan and Fort Hood has some fairly decent brass writing; Denver Library is passably stirring and almost sounds noble at one point and ther are a couple of action cues near the end which brake loose from the noise and actually seem interesting for a brief moment. However, it seems that every decent section is to be ruined by some ungainly synth or ill-advised crash and thump intruding.

I wish I could be more positive; epic sci-fi is usually a genre in which composers can write music to the hilt and generally have fun. Whether or not Cmiral had fun or not, I can't tell, maybe he did; playing with all his samplers and synth machines. However, for us less fun is to be had from listening to the album. I wonder whether he was attempting to be adventurous in the way that Don Davis attempted to integrate different styles into his score for The Matrix, maybe so, but Davis really did it with much more flair and coherence. I hope this is a single blip at the beginning of a good career since Cmiral seems a little more adventurous, but unable to successfully pull off his ambition. Maybe he'll get some better assignments which allow him to focus some of his creativity a little better. However, Battlefield Earth as a score is a mess, has almost no narrative or dramatic drive and a dearth of memorable melodic material to speak of and to be honest has very little to recommend it.
Trailer:



El tráiler del soundtrack contiene música de:

The Matrix (1999), Don Davis (Película)
Requiem Rave, Immediate Music (Trailer)




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