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Twilight: New Moon is the second installment of the highly successful film franchise Twilight, an action-packed, modern day vampire love story. The movie is based on the second novel in author Stephenie Meyer`s Twilight series titled, New Moon. Oscar Nominated composer Alexandre Desplat scores the follow up to the successful Twilight score. Desplat is highly regarded and the winner of numerous awards including 2008's "Film Score of the Year" & "Best Original Score for a Drama Film" by the International Film Critics Association (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), winner of the 2007 Golden Globe for "Best Original Score" (The Painted Veil), and two-time Academy Award Nominee (The Queen & The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). With even more anticipation, a growing fan base and an award-winning/critically-acclaimed composer , Twilight: New Moon Score is a must-have companion to the movie experience and sure to please not just movie fans but fans of the Score genre.
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Wonderful CD even for old person like me!
I got this Cd as a surprise for my birthday and wasn't sure I would like it altho I love Twilight. I am very sensitive to sound and cannot tolerate most "now" music as its too loud and jarring to the nerves but this CD is wonderful! I play it lots and enjoy it immensely. As someone else wrote here its one that grows on you and this is true for me also. I highly recommend it.
New Moon, New Movie, New Score
As I continue to listen to this score, I feel it growing on me. In fact, as I started this review I had given it 4 stars as it easily rated that for me, but now I just had to bump it to 5 as it takes a deeper hold.
This score definitely has a much different flavor than Carter Burwell's work for Twilight. Then again, they are also much different movies so I don't think it's truly fair to compare. While CB lead us through falling in love and the excitement of dangers and a chase, Alexandre Desplat has to turn the other direction to convey much darker emotions as heartbreak, pain, and loneliness... which he does quite well.
While this score may not be my go to when I'm looking for an up-beat pick me up, it definitely taps into depths of human (and maybe non-human ;) ) emotions in a way that's thoroughly enjoyable.
OK
I love the Twilight score and was really looking forward to the New Moon score. Although there is some very beautiful music on here, I keep thinking the music belongs in a Harry Potter movie vs a Twilight movie. I think Twilight's score was much edgier and darker then this music is.
A Completely Forgettable Score
The New Moon Score by Alexandre Desplat is unbelievably bland and utterly forgettable. Gone are all the haunting themes and sounds of Carter Burwell's Twilight Score. They have been replaced with vanilla music which does not captivate or inspire the listener in the slightest.
There were whole scenes in Twilight where Carter Burwell's music took front and center stage. I challenge anyone to find a comparable moment in the New Moon movie. Desplat's work is so mundane that it renders itself practically inaudible during critical dramatic moments.
I understand that the new director, Chris Weitz, worked with Desplat on the Golden Compass and wanted him to score the New Moon film as well. Ask yourself this - You know the themes to Star Wars, Titanic, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, and Twilight: would anyone out there recognize a single Golden Compass track if it came on the radio? Years from now, you won't remember any music from this score either.
