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Formulaic Score For A Formulaic Movie, But Trevor Rabin Adds

Kaya Savas | North Hollywood, CA | 09/27/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Fans of Rabin will know that he has two sides of composing. Sometimes will break out the synthesizers and give a blowout technical score, sometimes he'll show his orchestral side and make it a lush instrumental score, or sometimes he'll put the two together and make great modern composition. With Gridirion Gang we get an orchestral/synthesized sound that follows formula. Now, let's look at the movie he is composing for. It's your run of the mill sports movie that is all about teamwork and overcoming adversity. So, in a way he had some formulaic stuff to work with.



The score reminded me a lot of his work from The Great Raid with certain themes he used in Deep Blue Sea. This is one of his quieter scores as a matter of fact, with the stand out tracks being "We're Better Than This" parts 1, 2 and 3. In those three tracks is where you also hear the central theme Rabin developed for the movie. It's a feel good score that matches what the movie is about, and that's really what you're looking for. I can't wait to review Flyboys, because from what I heard in the theater it was amazing."