Title: Some nice Horner stuff in a manipulative mess
Review: This CD is primarily for people who don't mind cynically shameless emotional manipulation and for the Titanic-soundtrack-cry-party crowd. A good deal of very nice (if derivative of itself) Horner work (Titanic Suite, Epilogue, Portrait, A Building Panic) and some completely gratuitous and unnecesssary dialogue clips from the film ruining music that was far more powerful in the original sountrack where it was allowed to stand on its own. And what can I say of the butchery of "Come Josephine in my Flying Machine"? A lighthearted, happy 1910 popular song turned into a funeral dirge?It's too bad that Horner and the executives at Sony Classical couldn't leave well enough alone and just give us an exceptionally good example of what a film soundtrack can be; and that they didn't have enough confidence in what they had to let it stand on its own merits, rather than cheapening it with sledghammer, ersatz "emotion."
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