[.ca] King Kong

From Amazon.com:
James Newton Howard reportedly got the King Kong gig as a last-minute replacement for Howard Shore (who of course had worked on King Kong director Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series). The good news is that Howard still managed to write an honorable score; the bad news is that it's no more than honorable. For some, the biggest disappointment may be that Howard didn't find more inspiration in the film's 1930s setting. Once in a while he inserts a vaguely jazzy flourish (the brief clarinet passages in "Defeat Is Always Momentary" for instance) but the period detail is kept to a minimum. Having more may have helped give the score a shot of much-needed individuality. Action scenes, for instance, are set to the opulently orchestrated, frantic percussive rumble that is Hollywood short-hand for, well, action scenes. "Head Towards the Animals" and "Beauty Killed the Beast III" are just the most typical examples of that style: Howard gives these bravura numbers the requisite pounding intensity, but can we be blamed for feeling that we've heard them dozens of times before? Similarly, the composer sticks to the expected when he needs to get more contemplative, as on "A Fateful Meeting" (soothing strings, soothing clarinet) or "Beautiful" (flutes to suggest the exotic locale). In short, this album is everything you expect it to be. Which sometimes isn't quite enough. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Movie and the Soundtrack are awesome!!:
why do you think I give this a five stars? Well OBVIOUSLY!! Because it's a very good album. I love the movie and I have the dvd of the movie, and I am gettin the soundtrack, I decided to just have a listen to it because the songs in the movie I liked. When I pressed play on Amazon, I was AMAZED!! It's an awesome soundtrack and I like it very much. I am getting the album, and Just give it a listen and see if you like it. But I doubt you won't like it, James Newton Howard is an awesome performer. I like his music and it fitted just right in this movie!! 100/10 if I could. GOOD JOB JAMES!! KING KONG RULES!! =)

• King Kong
• Fateful Meeting
• Defeat Is Always Momentary
• It's in the Subtext
• Two Grand
• Venture Departs
• Last Blank Space on the Map
• It's Deserted
• Something Monstrous...Neither Beast Nor Man
• Head Towards the Animals
• Beautiful
• Tooth and Claw
• That's All There Is...
• Captured
• Central Park
• Empire State Building
• Beauty Killed the Beast, Pt. 1
• Beauty Killed the Beast, Pt. 2
• Beauty Killed the Beast, Pt. 3
• Beauty Killed the Beast, Pt. 4
• Beauty Killed the Beast, Pt. 5