(idm) Review: Fight Club Sandturk.

From Tom Millar
Sent Tue, Oct 26th 1999, 03:29

Dust Bros.: Fight Club
20th Century Fox/ Restless

I swear the motherfucker sounded ten, no, twenty times as fresh and excit=
ing
in the theater. Well, no. That would still be zero. Fuck. Okay: Parenthes=
es,
variable "fresh" plus one, close parentheses, times twenty. There.

Those of you looking for a cheap sample source CD, this is it- if it came=
 down
to a lawsuit nobody would be able to figure out whether you ripped off th=
e
Dust Brothers or the Dust Brothers' sources. Or even the Dust Brothers'
sources' sources, as the case may be. Par for the course for a movie scor=
e
nowadays I suppose, meaning there isn't an original musical phrase or sou=
nd on
here. I'm not talking about genre innovation, either- I mean I've heard _=
all_
of this before. It was either on a Juno Reactor record or a NIN record or=
 a
Hive record or a MBM record or in a PC game soundtrack, but dammit, I've =
heard
all this shit. What's worse is the DBs have put it all together so badly =
that
it's not even worthy of a stoner headnod 99% of the time and the transiti=
ons
are just as sloppy as the quick edits in the movie. In the film, Fincher =
has a
point to doing all the choppy editing- but this is a score, guys, on CD, =
and
you could at least mix it together a little more interestingly than STOP.=

MUSIC. HALT. SILENCE... MUSIC. STOP. every goddamned forty five fucking
seconds.

Okay, so that wasn't the short review. But I am annoyed. Verdict: Inbred
techno-hop slag. Computers write smoother stuff than this. Badly put toge=
ther,
sorely uncreative. I am Jack's massive disappointment.

Tom

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