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Yep, reviews are absolutely scathing.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sea_of_trees/

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Has passed Alice to be Elfman’s highest grossing movie worldwide and will soon pass Spider-Man to be his highest grossing domestically. In terms of tickets sold Spider-Man will still come out on top though.

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It’s probably around that time when Van Sant needs to make an Oscar bait movie again.

I was really looking forward to this, still going to check it out.

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This is getting absolutely destroyed at Cannes, major booing after the screening apparently.

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Are ya’ll putting this in with your Elfman or Tyler CDs?

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Having seen the movie a few times I have a few observations.

‘Heroes’ is a wild track, it doesn’t feature in the movie but it wasn’t written for a scene in mind.
Only the first section of ‘It Begins’ plays where it is supposed to – the opening Marvel logo and the Twins reveal (and hint at their theme). The rest of the scene it was written for, the long shot of the Avengers culminating in the money shot of the trailers, is replaced with ‘I Got a Ride’ from Silvestri’s score. Some of this track is used later during the Seoul chase, notably when Black Widow drives under the truck.
The ‘Ultron’ section from ‘Ultron-Twins’ seems to be omitted entirely, this is the scene when Ultron first meets the Twins and features music by Tyler. When Quicksilver tells the story of the bombing the music changes to Elfman.
‘Can You Stop This Thing’ plays when the Twins stop the train, it plays in its entirety.
‘Farmhouse’ is pretty self-explanatry, pretty sure this plays in full. The only Bruce/Natasha scene which doesn’t feature Tyler’s music and Elfman doesn’t use his theme.
‘Inevitability/One Good Eye’ – the first section of this cue plays when Tony and Bruce start to reconfigure Vision. The section from 1:41 onwards, when Scarlet Witch becomes an Avenger, is probably the most prominantly mixed moment in the movie. The rest of the cue doesn’t feature in the movie at all, but the title rings no bells so I’m wondering if that scene was cut?
‘Ultron Wakes’ – I don’t think this features in the movie at all. It’s clear what scene it is meant to accompany but that scene has music from Tyler.
‘The Farm’ plays in full, prominantly mixed.
‘Avengers Unite’ is the big musical moment of the score and is mixed well considering how much is happening on screen, I think the last few seconds are cut in the movie.
‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ plays in full.
The ‘New Avengers’ section is completely cut and replaced with ‘A Promise’ from Silvestri’s score. ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ plays through the end title sequence.

So it’s all kind of a mess. Elfman was clearly asked to write around the Twins (more so Scarlet Witch), the quieter farm sequences and the Avengers themselves. All of these are major moments in the movie so I’ve no doubt Elfman replaced Tyler’s music no matter how much people scream about schedule conflicts. I mean why would Tyler not score the big Avengers scenes?

The unreleased cue when they fly off towards Seoul from the farmhouse struck me as Elfman.

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Choir recording today.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEhIR61UsAAB24y.jpg

Feeling spoilt as an Elfman fan this year, though I say that every year!

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Recording

https://mobile.twitter.com/scorecordist/status/595355333062627328

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I loved Goosebumps as a kid, books and show. Can’t imagine this being very good but it’s always cool when Danny’s attached to something I have a connection to.

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In very unsuprising news, the author of the book says that Danny is scoring at the end of this interview.

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Messy but good. Action kind of hard to follow but all the characters shine. Although I didn’t care much for Banner or Hulk in this one.

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The ‘New Avengers’ segment is cut from the scene it was obviously meant to accompany, ‘A Promise’ from the first is tracked in, but I think it was temped in earlier in the movie somewhere. It’s really a huge mess musically.

Elfman’s ‘It Begins’ opens the movie but ‘I Got a Ride’ from the first score plays instead of Elfman’s ‘Heroes’ cue.

And Tyler somehow gets it worse. Elfman’s dramatic cues get a bit of a chance to breathe, Scarlet Witch’s big moment (Inevitability) is prominant and ‘Avengers Unite’ is kind of audible, but 90% of what Tyler wrote is completely buried. On the other hand, Silvestri’s cues are prominantly mixed.

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A lot of Silvestri music was tracked in. Mixing wasn’t very good, a bit kinder to Elfman than Tyler but not ideal.

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I see the movie on Wednesday and I’ll let ya’ll know.

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Positive review of the score.

http://www.filmsonwax.co.uk/aou/

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Marvel site updated. Tracks 2 and 15, both Elfman, don’t feature in the movie.

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Henry Jackman, who was set to score this, isn’t attached to this anymore according to FilmMusicReporter. Seems like Danny might really be doing this?

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Updated with more Danny!

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron Title (Tyler)
2. Heroes (Elfman)
3. Rise Together (Tyler)
4. Breaking and Entering (Tyler)
5. It Begins (Elfman)
6. Birth of Ultron (Tyler)
7. Ultron / Twins (Elfman)
8. Hulkbuster (Tyler)
9. Can You Stop This Thing? (Elfman)
10. Sacrifice (Tyler)
11. Farmhouse (Elfman)
12. The Vault (Tyler)
13. The Mission (Tyler)
14. Seoul Searching (Tyler)
15. Inevitability / One Good Eye (Elfman)
16. Ultron Wakes (Elfman)
17. Vision (Tyler)
18. The Battle (Tyler)
19. Wish You Were Here (Tyler)
20. The Farm (Elfman)
21. Darkest of Intentions (Tyler)
22. Fighting Back (Tyler)
23. Avengers Unite (Elfman)
24. Keys to the Past (Tyler)
25. Uprising (Tyler)
26. Outlook (Tyler)
27. The Last One (Tyler)
28. Nothing Lasts Forever (Elfman)
29. New Avengers-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Elfman)

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No hard feelings anyway.

With the amazing Danny Elfman at the #AvengersAgeOfUltron premiere. Very proud! pic.twitter.com/pozdlNieRt

— Brian Tyler (@BrianTylerMusic) April 15, 2015

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A few sites have Elfman listed for Goosebumps but none of them are reputable.

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Happy to get Elfman on the album even though it’s probably a little over a third of what he contributed.

Incidentally, all Elfman’s announced 2015 scores are done, and Miss Peregrine and Alice 2 are a while away yet. I wonder what he’s up to? Wouldn’t be like him to take a long break.

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Tracklisting

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This is surely Elfman though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPJ90rSpFvE

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Definitely Tyler.

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Patrick Doyle had one year to compose Cinderella, Branagh let him have free reign, and that still needed an additional composer and Doyle never used one before Cinderella. Times are changing.

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