Space Cadet BLing

In no particular order:

1. I Am The One – Inon Zur (from Dragon Age: Origins)

2. Atolago (End Credits) – James Newton Howard (from The Interpreter)

3. Deep Blue – George Fenton (from Deep Blue)

4. Elysium/Honor Him/Now We Are Free – Hans Zimmer (from Gladiator)

5. Gods & Generals – John Frizzell & Randy Edelman (from Gods & Generals)

6. Freedom of the Wa – Klaus Badelt (from The Promise)

7. Resurrection – John Debney (from The Passion of Christ)

8. Give Me A Smile – John Barry (from The Beyondness of Things)

9. Climbing Up Iknimaya – The Path – James Horner (from Avatar)

10. Forth Eorlingas – Howard Shore (from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

… overtaking Star Trek.

Inspired. Got heads up on this from Kevin Smith’s twitter feed and I agree, this may be the best trailer I’ve seen. I vaguely remembered Maurice Sendak’s cartoon, but not much, n’ didn’t think it really had a story. I love the song (Wake Me, by the Arcade Fire), and apparently the version in this movie is a newer version (and much improved) than the original which I took a listen to and thought was generic indie rock and rather forgettable. But man, everything about this trailer brings out the dreamer kid in me. I hope this doesn’t raise my hopes too much for the movie like a trailer did for M Night’s The Lady in the Water (the version with Josh Groban’s Mi Mancherai).

So now my list of must-see movies this year (post Watchmen) goes like:

1. Where The Wild Things Are

2. Star Trek (Man, I have goosebumps thinking about how good it can be. Props to Hans Zimmer whose inspiring Batman score really is the perfect scifi trailer music)

3. Avatar (The one by James Cameron scheduled for December release, trailer not out yet. So far, no word on how’s this gonna be like, but knowing Cameron, this is most likely gonna be mindblowing. It would’ve been top if it had a trailer by now)

4. Terminator Salvation (what’s with rock songs in trailers lately? not to complain tho coz it works! Oh, by the way, song is The Day the Earth Went Away by Nine Inch Nails)

5. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (I’m kinda ‘ngeeeeeeh’ with the movie and the trailer, seems like generic scifi fare n’ not a fan of Michael Bay who’s the king of Hollywoody. I repeat. Hollywoody. Not Hollywood. Still, can’t wait to watch it.)