I'm now listening at work to the Tomb Raider 2 score and it's so damn cool! :yeah: Especially track 2, 3 and 4. Like I said in my review, Alan must have been wearing sunglasses and chewing gum when he wrote this :D I know some people were expecting an orchestral Mummy Returns 2, but I was so positively surprised when Alan came up with this techno-like action score but with a big touch of orchestral Silvestrian magic. I love orchestral scores most but this is a pleasant deviation from that route.

What do you guys think about it, are you now still disappointed or does it kick ass?

I think the score in general is a little disappointing...but, man... have you seen that movie?! Good lord, what a horrible pic. And that coming from our Dutch pride Jan de Bont.

BUT....

Pandora's Box is mindblowing. Absolutely amazing. I have no idea where Alan found the inspiration to write this track, but it continues to blow me away with its beauty and power.

-peter.

I like the score. It's not the best he's done, but it's really good.
First I was kinda split between "cool" and "very very odd" (with all that 'fungous' synths).
But after a few listens it really got to me and I now quite like it.
I even recall after a two day non-stop listening dreaming about something (can't remeber) and I heared the main theme, though with more emphasis on horns and trombones)
I didn't see the film and from what I've heared I don't plan to, I don't want to ruin the score...
9/15 points / C+ / ***

I have watched the movie before i listened to the score. Well... there are some few nice scenes in it i have to say and it was slightly better than the first movie. The score was one of the positive things about the movie. It is loosing a little when you listen to it on CD but there are still some great moments in it.

BTW, Luna Temple with the choir, fanfares and rythms just rocks! Flower Ragoda Battle contains my favorite version of the main theme and Pandoras Box is a nice emotional finale cue. Good score!

Exactly !!! I love this style and it works for a movie like Tomb Raider. So the score is damn cool :yeah: . * * * *

I could not even finish the first Tomb Raider movie because it was so bad. So, I will not be watching the second one for sure. I have heard the music however and it is done well. Not the best....but not the worst either.

That score is Damn Cool indeed!
I'd say it's the only thing of the Tomb Raider 2 movie that really is worth mentioning...well apart from Angelina Jolie that is... :D
If it weren't for the music I probably would have fallen asleep...the movie was soooooo boring... :yawn:

I have to admit that the movie wasn't anything special yes. But while watching it I kept on looking at Angelina Jolie and fantasizing about me and her sitting in a whirlpool and all. So I kind of enjoyed myself :D

There seems to be music fromt he score that is missing, at least 2 songs.

One of which is the part where they skydive off the building? There is a track titled "Skydive Getaway" but that isnt it. And then there is a part when the camera is going over the water where all the boats are, and Lara in the boat going to meet the people on their houseboat. That song was powerful and I wish it was on the CD. Any ideas?

I have a clip of that song if that would help?

Yeah, there is even more stuff missing than those 2 scenes you have described. For example, there is an eerie, silent string cue heard when we meet Jonathan Reiss, the "love scene" cue also remains unreleased and of course the lab fight cue which is from craig armstrongs rejected score.

And i could swear there is some little bit of unreleased music when lara travels to the shai ling.

So is there any hope of seeing that music....

I doubt it.

Paramount is not allowing expanded/complete releases in general. The only hope might be an expanded / complete bootleg but i dont see much need for that either since many people were satisfied with the official album.

I'm totally with you on this one. I love the theme versio nof Flower Pagoda Battle, I'd wish it was longer.
I'd like to hear what Michael Kamen had intended to write for the first one. Revell's score has some moments (the main title), but it's in most part a dreadful samples cut-and-paste (he had vry little time to work on the score).
But it was also fun to hear in Silvestri's replacement score for the second movie some nods to Revell's score.