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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-01-2004, 10:30 PM:

Anyone know what the music at the end of the "Around the World in 80 Days" trailer is? I am talking about the orchestral score, not the rock snip.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/aroundtheworldin80days.html

Normally I'm pretty good at this, but I can't seem to recall this one.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 04-01-2004, 10:31 PM:

Quick Adam, another test!

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 04-01-2004, 10:52 PM:

Teaser topic! You're BANNED!

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-01-2004, 10:56 PM:

It's not a teaser topic. The archive has multiple individual threads regarding this. I simply created one thread that can be dredged back up from time to time.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 04-01-2004, 10:58 PM:

That's it... I'm starting a thread called "Film related stuff".

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-01-2004, 11:01 PM:

I recognize that music (if I am identifying the right part in the trailer anyway). The music is from "Dinosaur." James Newton Howard was the composer.

I checked my 2-disc "Tarzan" DVD, which has a long version of the "Dinosaur" trailer on disc 1, in DD 5.1 no less.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-02-2004, 12:06 AM:

E-mail me the VOB file of that trailer, Bobby! I'm sure Hotmail can handle it. The trailer to that movie was the only good thing about it. I will, in exchange, give you the film version.

Pirating rules![av=m]

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 04-02-2004, 12:35 AM:

Its the theme from Disney's Dinosaur, which was the best part of that movie.

EDIT: whoops! I was looking at a cached version of this page, and did not see the replies above.

As long as we're on the topic, the trailer also uses music from the Lilo and Stitch score, and the rock snip is Sugar Ray's "Fly".

http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/ is a great resource for finding trailer music, although at this time they don't have a listing for Around the World in 80 Days.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-02-2004, 01:08 AM:

I agree Adam and Daryl! How about one titled: "DTS" or "OPTICAL" The title of this thread should be:

I'm looking for a fellow "Trailer music" dork who can teach me how to edit this title and...

>>> Phil

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 04-02-2004, 01:21 AM:

So this thread ain't about music that trailer trash listen to?
[Confused]

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-02-2004, 02:39 AM:

One of the most overused movie scores for trailers, in my experience, is the one from Dragonheart. That theme is EVERYWHERE, even the Disney's Young Black Stallion IMAX trailer. I'd be interested to see a tally of how many trailers EVER have used this piece of music.

Any other themes that are known to be way OVERUSED? Get Shorty comes to mind. I remember at my first theatre, when I first noticed that trailers rehashed themes, that we had three trailers in a row (accidentally!) that used the exact same orchestral sequence somewhere ... I don't know what it was originally from, but I'd know it if I heard it.

Oh, and then a couple months ago I noticed one of our films had three trailers on it that all had Michelle Branch songs, two of them with THE EXACT SAME SONG, back-to-back ... ugh!

(If there's an "individual thread" regarding this phenomenon, forgive me. If this is a general thread to be "dredged back up from time to time" [Wink]

, then I figure it's appropriate.)

Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 04-24-2005, 07:25 PM:

It has been 387 days since the last post.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-24-2005, 07:25 PM:

Okay, I know what music I want but the question is where the deuce do I get it!?!
You KNOW no one on any P2P client has it anyway, why do these idiots trade cruddy music?
The question is where can I find music by Brand X, Immediate music, E.S. Posthumus, etc.?

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-24-2005, 10:01 PM:

I have lots of movie score music CDs. But I've never had any urge to upload any of them to any P2P sites. Maybe if I had a Mac I might give the idea more serious consideration (but then probably not do it anyway). There's too much risk anymore to fart around with P2P sites like KaZaa. Lots of people get their computer systems hosed with spyware and malware by trying to download music and movies.

quote: Brian Michael Weidemann
Any other themes that are known to be way OVERUSED?

Since this thread got bumped, yes, there are a number of themes that have been horribly overused. I don't know the titles to some of the music passages, but can at least describe a couple.

There was a period where lots of thrillers and action movies would grab James Horner's climactic theme from "Aliens" (y'know, the part where the aircraft is climbing upward just in time to avoid the nuke explosion).

Randy Edelman's score for the Alan Parker film, "Come See The Paradise" had a passage that was used on a ton of movie trailers throughout the 1990s.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-25-2005, 04:55 AM:

Indeed, P2P is getting hosed. And by a bunch of idiots who don't understand it and a bunch of dumbass kids who don't care about quality.
I'd much prefer to buy CD's of these artists, but I'll take what I can get. Unfortunately last time I looked nobody had any of these artists.

Posted by Daniel Alt (Member # 2303) on 04-25-2005, 10:38 AM:

Overused? "Crimson Tide" and "Speed." Turned up in dozens of trailers in the 90's. Since it's the end of our season, we've been playing random trailers the last few weeks just for fun. Last night, someone pulled "Air Force One". That trailer used "Crimson Tide" AND "Speed."

Sigh.

Last week during "Men Without Pants Weekend" ("Alexander" and "Robin Hood, Men In Tights" were the features) we showed trailers for "Ben Hur," and "Sorority Boys," just to compliment the theme.

In retrospect, I really wish I had been watching "Ben Hur" instead of Alexander. What a turd.

Oh dear... I seem to have wandered from the topic.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 04-25-2005, 01:00 PM:

quote: Dominic Espinosa
Unfortunately last time I looked nobody had any of these artists.

I found two of them on Amazon.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-25-2005, 04:55 PM:

I think Dominic was talking about being able to find that kind of stuff on the P2P sites. At any rate, one is going to have the best luck finding soundtrack stuff at online stores. Ebay is a pretty good source for out of print stuff. A friend of mine bought a "Risky Business" soundtrack CD from someone in Austrailia.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-26-2005, 02:31 PM:

Really? Amazon didn't have ANY of it last time I looked. Sweet!
I personally would rather buy the CD but I'll settle for P2P if they have it, which they don't anyway. I really don't care for mp3's when it comes to decent music where the quality of the recording is really important (i.e. anything that's not rap).

Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 04-26-2005, 05:36 PM:

The trailer music in the trailer for Meet Joe Black was actually from the movie soundtrack to the movie PI, and was just recently used again in some movie trailer I can't remember....

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-28-2005, 05:43 AM:

I could be mistaking, but I think the Hitchhiker's Guide trailer, version 2, had the Men In Black theme going.

This is slightly ironic, given that one of the reasons the Hitchhiker's movie wasn't picked up and made long, long ago was because "science fiction comedy won't work". And then Men In Black came out and, funnily enough, was fairly successful. It made "them" rethink things, methinks.

Posted by Daniel Alt (Member # 2303) on 04-28-2005, 06:00 AM:

It goes without saying, (so of course I'm going to say it) is that the reason so many trailers borrow music is that, in gerenal, the movie isn't scored at the time the trailers are made.

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-28-2005, 07:33 AM:

Oh, I'm sure we all know that. I just find it remarkable that with the TON of music in existence (even the TON of music a film company has the rights to), we hear the same handful of themes incessantly.

It's like if I have 500 CD's of clip art and I always use the same three images for every project, regardless of the nature of the project. [Razz]

Oh, sure, the lime-green Tongue Smiley has been used everywhere, but it kinda fits here ... no need to spend any time finding something else. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 04-28-2005, 09:23 AM:

quote: Brian Michael Weidemann
Any other themes that are known to be way OVERUSED?

Music from "Crimson Tide" and "Willow" come to mind, and also Orff's "Carmina Burana."

Similar to identifying music in trailers is picking out the temp music in rough cut test prints, for those who have had opportunities to see such versions. I recall detecting a cue from "Dances With Wolves" during a test screening of "Lost In Space." It didn't quite fit!

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-28-2005, 01:02 PM:

I see a lot of music from the Matrix, Aliens, and a couple others in trailers and features these days.
And yes, there was music from MIB in the trailer for Hitch Hikers.
I think...Check soundtrack.net in the resources section. Usually a good resource.