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1999-10-26 02:29Tom Millar (idm) Review: Fight Club Sandturk.
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1999-10-26 02:29Tom MillarDust Bros.: Fight Club 20th Century Fox/ Restless I swear the motherfucker sounded ten, no
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(idm) Review: Fight Club Sandturk.
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Dust Bros.: Fight Club 20th Century Fox/ Restless I swear the motherfucker sounded ten, no, twenty times as fresh and exciting in the theater. Well, no. That would still be zero. Fuck. Okay: Parentheses, variable "fresh" plus one, close parentheses, times twenty. There. Those of you looking for a cheap sample source CD, this is it- if it came down to a lawsuit nobody would be able to figure out whether you ripped off the Dust Brothers or the Dust Brothers' sources. Or even the Dust Brothers' sources' sources, as the case may be. Par for the course for a movie score nowadays I suppose, meaning there isn't an original musical phrase or sound on here. I'm not talking about genre innovation, either- I mean I've heard _all_ of this before. It was either on a Juno Reactor record or a NIN record or a Hive record or a MBM record or in a PC game soundtrack, but dammit, I've heard all this shit. What's worse is the DBs have put it all together so badly that it's not even worthy of a stoner headnod 99% of the time and the transitions are just as sloppy as the quick edits in the movie. In the film, Fincher has a point to doing all the choppy editing- but this is a score, guys, on CD, and you could at least mix it together a little more interestingly than STOP. MUSIC. HALT. SILENCE... MUSIC. STOP. every goddamned forty five fucking seconds. Okay, so that wasn't the short review. But I am annoyed. Verdict: Inbred techno-hop slag. Computers write smoother stuff than this. Badly put together, sorely uncreative. I am Jack's massive disappointment. Tom ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1