Brain Tyler's
Iron Man 3 theme
One of the
weaker aspects of the Marvel movies are that theit hero themes aren't
as strong as the DC movies themes. That's always been a problem for
these movies. It seems odd because there are some good composers in
that stable of movies. However, Brian Tyler has a very strong theme
for Iron Man 3. It uses metal clanking on metal to give it that
industrial sound and the theme is very powerful.
I also like the
end titles version of the theme (Can You Dig It)
It is clearly in
the same style as the 60s themes. And, I love how its edited with
the 80's style end titles in the movie. Very cool.
Now,
Brian Tyler will be doing the music for Avengers 2. Here's the
kicker, Danny Elfman also added some music to the film too. He added
Alan Silvestri’s theme into a theme he mixed for the movie.
Silverstri wrote the music for the first Avengers movie. I guess
they wanted to carry over that theme.
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I think the best score work Marvel has ever commissioned was the work of Henry Jackman for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. While the original movie's soundtrack had this very retro/patriotic theming, The Winter Soldier score was very dark sounding with electronic elements and it just felt big and epic (with "The Smithsonian" feeling like a callback to the first film). I think it was a perfect match for the movie.
Interesting enough, Jackman's action cues in CA2 are very similar to cues in Tyler's scores in Fast and Furious movies. I've grown to really like CA2's score because it is a hybrid of CA1's patrotic score, but also the fast moving strings of the modern action movies. It shows continuity with the older movie, which is something I have a problem with the Marvel movie's music, there seems to not be much connective tissue in the scores. CA1 and 2 however are different.
I am actually listening to the score at this moment, because you mentioned it.
It kind of has a MGS style to it.
Actually, it's really starting to grow on me as I listen to the tracks right now.
It has a retro Zimmer sound with the electronic drums and under-sounds. Zimmer really doesn't even do that anymore.
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