OT: Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow...

[geoschmo]

Saw a trailer for this movie coming soon. Looks slightly interesting. Allthough at this point it's hard to say it won't simply be two hours of eye-candy with no discernable plot. On the plus side it's steampunk, so it's got that going for it.

But one major early gripe, why rip-off the theme song from Stargate? There aren't enough out of work composers that they couldn't get an original orchestral work?

[tesco samoa]

will check that out.

hell boy looks like a 2 hour slam fest...

[atari_eric]

From what I've seen from half the Posts at Slashdot, producers tend to "borrow" themes from other movies for trailers, because often the real scores aren't recorded yet.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by atari_eric:
From what I've seen from half the Posts at Slashdot, producers tend to "borrow" themes from other movies for trailers, because often the real scores aren't recorded yet.

From what I know of movie soundtracks, this is true. Some composers, like my favorite, John Williams, will wait until the movie is complete and edited, then sit through a viewing and compose the movie afterwards. Other composers do it different ways. So there may be a soundtrack yet to go with the trailer.

[dogscoff]

Saw trailer for that sky thing, and I have to agree: Looks like a standard spesheffex fest with a partially redeeming steam-tech theme.

After the League of Exyawnary Gentlemen I guess Steam tech is in.

However I did see a ciple of trailers that look really good: One looked like a remake of Dawn of the Dead, and the other was some kind of genre-spoof named Shawn of the Dead which looked utterly hilarious...

[Atrocities]

I will reserve judgement until after I see it.