phicry7220 posted:This is a big one.....I don't think they're gonna win lots of awards for this score. ( I hope they do)
I don't think Fincher used it as well. there were many tracks not used, and some repeated. I think the score stands more as an album on it's own. ( an epic album! think Ghosts)
With TSN I hear those songs and remember the movie...it's not like that with tgwtdt....but I have only watched it once
Agreed. With TSN, it felt like the music
made the movie; it would be greatly diminished with anything else (especially if they'd used the studenty pop-rock themes that were originally intended). With Dragon Tattoo, the music is every bit as amazing and evocative, yet it doesn't gel as much into the movie. A lot of that is down to utilisation, as you say.
I think it does have one fundamental failing, though, in that it's rarely particularly dark - that's something that surprised me from my first listen. It's more mournful than anything else, and perhaps feels more like a mood setter than a direct score. Watching the film, I felt a lot of the grimmer scenes could have been greatly heightened by stronger, more sinister music. /Controversial opinion...