A Good Day to Die Hard

Unlike the other two reviews, I'm actually commenting on Beltrami's score and not asking/answering a question. His music is just as exciting here as it was for the last film in the series. Though the mixing by John Kurlander, like last time, is still awful. I don't have Michael Kamen's albums for the first three Die Hards, but I'm guessing they handle the brass instruments the same way and Beltrami was just trying to stay consistent. Either way, it's hard on the ears at times.I was shocked to see Beltrami didn't record the music at his own studio, but seeing as that place can only hold 30 or so musicians at a time and that this score required a large orchestra, I understand the reasoning.

Way more exciting and original than I was expecting. I hope they make another Die Hard so they have to make another score!

love this album ! great soundtrack !!!

Good.

Excellent!! If there were more stars I'd give it a higher rating. As good as the other Die Hard movies.

Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives...Die Hard ended in '95.After his feeble effort on  DHINO1  (Die Hard In Name Only) Marco Beltrami returns for DHINO2 to give us more of the same chaotic, non-melodic, auto-pilot action trash. His attempt at scoring DHINO1 involved taking far too many notes (pun intended) from John Powell's unfortunately popular scores to the Jason Bourne movies instead of studying Michael Kamen's expert command of tension his perfect balance between excitement and suspense. Very, very little in this album sounds anything like the real Die Hard movies. The movie itself only lasts for 98 minutes so this album, at 64 minutes, is likely everything that Beltrami composed, but even at just over an hour it's already too much of this atonal, lazy mess.Three of the previous movies (including DHINO1) were published by Varese Sarabande but this one is put out by Sony Classical (the irony) since, I assume, Varese were appalled by how noisy and horrible it is. There is literally no room in your collection for this. No matter how much of a Die Hard fan you are, no matter how much you love Bruce Willis there's just no reason to own this. Willis' standards have plummeted to minus infinity in the past decade but even he was ashamed at how awful this film was.The score is no saving grace. A total frisbee. I'm rating this 2/5 out of sympathy and lenience.

Marco Beltrami is an underrated composer by not being as well known as others like James Newton Howard or Hans Zimmer. His work on Live Free or Die Hard, The Thing prequel, I Robot, and Knowing were all truly fantastic, adding to the rich atmospheres of each. With A Good Day to Die Hard, he does the same thing, but to a much fuller extent. Now, the film itself was bad, but Marco's music is far from such blasphemy. Especially in Truckzilla do you hear Die Hard again, in the intense and action-packed rhythm of Marco's scoring.There isn't much else for me to say about the soundtrack, but that it's a must-own for those who love Die Hard, movie soundtracks, or anyone who thoroughly enjoys instrumental music.

The song played in the credits of Good Day to Die Hard is "Doom and Gloom" by the Rolling Stones.

Habe den Film noch nicht gesehen aber werde es noch tun. Der Soundtrack zu diesem Film ist genial. Fans werden Ihnkaufen.Frendliche GrüsseR.Cavallaro

A bit like the film this is lacking that special something that made the earlier scores so memorable. Where Michael Kamen cleverly inter-weaved well known classical pieces into the first three Die Hard Scores this film like the last one just misses a trick by not doing this and settling for standard action film cues. Its a shame as I like Marco Beltramis' Scream Scores. What so many Action Films lack these days is a good memorable theme tune, or short catchy cue of music for the main characters. This also applies to many comic book adaptions too these days, which is a huge shame. I always listen to the music in a film when it can be heard under all the sound effects layered on top of it. I really hope some day one of the current film composers that work in this generation can learn to do this again. as I mis a rousing theme tune in my movies.

I enjoy Bruce Willis and his travails through all kinds of crap he hgas to deal with. Just good entertainment.

Whilst I'll always have a man crush on Bruce, sadly, the legacy that he began re. Action Flicks & the music that backed them up is slowly dying... It doesn't hold a candle to the Die Hard score but neither does the movie. An adequte soundtrack for an adequate movie. What I ask myself is, if this was just a Bruce movie with nothing about Die Hard in the title, would I have liked it more...? It still works & there are some nice moments but there doesn't appear to be any throwbacks to what has gone before. Happy with the purchase though.

good