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Dependable Oct 28, 2008
James Newton Howard is the perfect composer for M. Night Shyamalan's films, even when he doesn't do anything completely original. His scores for these films are always effective, but sometimes a little harder to sit through when you're listening to the CD. All in all, it's good stuff for the committed fan.
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 Average score Jul 08, 2008
Howard's score for The Happening is similar to his other works, especially those where he teamed up with M. Night Shyamalan. He composed music for The Village, Signs, and The Lady in the Water. Most of the album is quiet and hard to hear without the experience of the film to back it up. When listening to it, it's hard to know when one track ends and another begins. Most of the album seems to be one long track of quiet music. "Mrs. Jones" and the "End Title Suite" are the highlights of the album, but overall it's good, albeit, quiet stuff.
James Newton Howard is one of the premiere composers in the film industry, most recently scoring I Am Legend and Shrek the Third.
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 Alright, but repeditive Jul 08, 2008
This soundtrack, while the theme was great, didn't really stand out for me. I found all the tracks to be very similar. Dramatic but quiet. As with the movie I guess.
 Another Collaborative Success! Jun 23, 2008
As always, James Newton Howard is back scoring Shyamalan's latest flick, and once again, he's hit the nail right on the head. Not only is the music enjoyable to listen to, but as it walks side-by-side with the film, it adds an entirely different dimension to Shyamalan's visuals.
Howard establishes a sort of main theme in the opening track, which is then repeated beautifully throughout the rest of the score in a variety of different styles, moods and sounds. As the soundtrack closes, it strengthens, concluding in the sweeping and emotional 'Be With You,' my favorite song on the CD, and then the end titles.
Eerily beautiful, and beautifully eery...'The Happening' is a worthy addition to any score-collectors collection.
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"The Happening" soundtrack Jun 21, 2008
After seeing M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", I was overall very pleased. The film definitely had a strong Hitchcock feel to it, and the best part was that the "scary" scenes never took place at night. Sure, some of it was disturbing, but it was a realm that Shyamalan had to try - and he did excellently with it. However, the movie wouldn't have been half as good without James Newton Howard's score. Three of the tracks stand out especially in my mind.
The main titles appeared against a background of time-lapse white cloud against bright blue sky, which grew steadily darker - very unexpected, much like the titles of "Signs." Howard's music for this was brilliantly done, and made it all the more unsettling. The theme for "Central Park" made it so the graphic suicides weren't scary, but bizarre and unnerving. Then, there's "Be With You", a tragic and emotional aspect to the score - Elliott (Mark Wahlberg) says that if they're going to die, he wants to be with his wife. The music as they walk out through the wind to each other was a defined climax and most definitely the strongest point in both the film and the score. Second to that is "Jess Comforts Elliott", where Elliot loses it in realization that Jess's father is dead.
The score for this movie is fantastic.
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