Intrada Soundtrack Forum

In the "'Baby' --down to 100 copies" thread over at FSM, the thread has become a "I much prefer 'Coma' over 'Baby'" thread.

It's exceedingly dumb...and some participants engaged in the discourse are folks I had come to respect over the years.

Why is it that whenever a new title is announced and sells out that some people have to down-talk it by stating some preference for another score?

I mean, who cares? If "Lonely Are the Brave" ever gets a release, sells out and folks are discussing it, will someone come along and say, "Oh, I much prefer 'Poltergeist' to 'Lonely Are the Brave'. It's more psychological in its approach!"

Let's see -- "Coma" a goodish movie based on suspense story by Michael Crichton.

"Baby" -- a fantasy about two dinosaurs in the modern world.

Scores to be COMPARED?

I guess I can understand if someone truly prefers one over the other. That would be the time to be a super-cool fan and offer the unwanted CD to someone who missed out!

Or...maybe it's someone who missed out and is now bitter and trying to hide that bitterness with more-than-bitter pissing and moaning.

But, jeez!

Well, let's see Ron...they both are composed by Jerry Goldsmith and they both feature musical instruments. And...hmm...I guess those are the only two places those scores converge. I love the score to COMA. I love the score to BABY. Why choose...enjoy them both!

Roger

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I have no doubt that some consider me odd (at best). But I think you're mischaracterizing the FSM thread. One poster listed several Goldsmith scores he preferred to "Baby," including "Coma." Another replied by saying such a preference was inconceivable. Others (including me) chimed in in defense of "Coma." I don't think it came from anybody's need to "down-talk" the new release, or to suggest the films are somehow equivalent but scored differently -- certainly, that was not why I joined in. I firmly believe that one can love "Star Wars" and "Star Trek," the Mets and the Yankees, Coke and Pepsi… and even two different Goldsmith scores. I was just surprised that one of the initial posters considered the superiority of "Baby" to "Coma" to be an established fact. Nobody talks about my "Coma" that way!