Total Recall - The recognition factor of the scores

I can not quite understand some mediocre reviews. For me is Total Recall one of the top 10 works of Goldsmith. Certainly, all a matter of taste. But here's the master of the assembly-line film music turns out to be extremely creative and his action-packed tracks appear neither verirrend nor inconsequential.

It comes a bit close to a certain Mickey-Mousing principle. Quite some passages here that are somewhat noisy rich, but we must not forget the extraordinarily successful Bombastik the overall soundtrack. This work certainly is not classified under the 08/15 Soundtrack drawer. Because of the striking recognition factor of style prevents. The film, which is incidentally one of my favorite action films of the 90s, is accompanied by Goldsmith Soundtrack damn fit and supportive director Paul Verhoeven's cynical and ironic Inszenierstil outstanding.

Because just playful, relaxed and dynamic presents itself Goldsmith's score without unintentionally kitschy or sounding pseudo-bombastic. At the appropriate time, he is subtle, harmonious or bulky. Here he uses the latter in a very colorful and rhythmic sound spectrum, is that profound support with synthesizers and still follows its traditional melodic form, neither here in Chaos loses yet repeatedly. It ties repeatedly, though sometimes subtle (what I like) the main subject of the film.

As a fan of the movie and the soundtrack-fan, I was delighted that the score for Total Recall was again published in the complete version. Jerry Goldsmith has to synthesizers, despite the grip that he really used sparingly and only to support a kind of "Space" effect, which also wanted something funny sounds (if you have seen the movie, you know what that means). Nevertheless soundtrack still remains old-school Goldsmith. Modern composers of today could be as abschauen still a lot. Rarely has one seen such a brutal and action-packed strip, where so much emphasis was placed on a classic colorful score to old-school style.