'ROAR!': Michael Giacchino's Absurdly Awesome 'Cloverfield' Theme Now on iTunes
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Home Entertainment
Before going to see Cloverfield, I read someone mention Michael Giacchino's fantastic musical score for the film. As it dawned on me that the movie proper had no musical score, I started to think that the writer had been making a sarcastic joke, and I hadn't read carefully enough to pick up on it. Of course, I was just being impatient: the music -- which is fantastic indeed -- shows up at the end. "Roar!", the beautiful 12-minute composition that played during Cloverfield's credits, is now available for a buck-ninety-nine, exclusively from the iTunes Music Store. Operatic and grand, it's a classical piece of movie music in the best John Williams/Jerry Goldsmith tradition.iTunes has "Roar!" in its vastly superior "iTunes Plus" format, with a higher bit rate and no DRM -- so if, like me, you boycott anything with copy protection, it won't be off-limits. The movie itself is available for iTunes download starting today, as well.
Giacchino, one of Hollywood's genius composers of the moment, also scored this summer's Speed Racer, which makes me all the more excited for that film (though I seem increasingly to be the only one). He also has J.J. Abrams' Star Trek and Land of the Lost coming up.
[hat tip: Comingsoon.net]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-29-2008 @ 6:53PM
MCW said...
My local theater quickly exited in anger when the film ended with silence. No one heard the "music" at the end, not even me, though I liked the film. I was just sick of watching someone shake a camera for 2 hrs or whatever it was.
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4-29-2008 @ 7:32PM
Craig Kennedy said...
I was ready to bolt for the exit as soon as the end credits started to roll in the hope of starting to atone for the 90 minutes of my life I'd never get back, but the theme caught me. I couldn't figure out who had done it or if it was a riff on the original Toho films or what.
Then the credit finally came up and somehow I wasn't surprised. Giacchino is doing some great work left and right.
And no, you're not the only one getting excited about Speed Racer. I am too and no one is more surprised by that than me.
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4-30-2008 @ 1:16AM
V.M.L. said...
I stayed through the credits because I knew there would be some "easter egg" at the end. Unfortunately, some dudes were talking and I never heard the dialog at the end of the score. :(
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4-30-2008 @ 10:49AM
Ralph said...
Having still not yet seen the film (yeah, yeah; I know) I bought ROAR! off of iTunes based on my enjoyment of Giacchino's works (THE INCREDIBLES, RATATOUILLE, etc.). It does not disappoint; a beautiful mixture of modern with so many touches from kaiju films. JJ wanted to give America their own GODZILLA; if he failed (again, I can't say; haven't seen it yet), Giacchino certainly gave us a theme worthy of the tradition.
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5-01-2008 @ 1:50AM
Travis Tidmore said...
I'm getting more and more excited about Speed Racer as well. Having gone from not caring what-so-ever about a month ago to now thinking I may go opening weekend, because it just looks like it will be so damned beautiful, er...um Manly and full of car racing testosterone!
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