too much music! - From the Earth to the Moon (1998) Discussion

[–] Sunstone61 15 years ago

Really? I love the music. To each his own, I guess.

~May peace rain down from Heaven~

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[–] mraubenheimer 15 years ago

I also loved the music (the songs as well as the scores)

I actually found the soundtrack album in a sale yesterday, dirt cheap. It's pretty cool, but I really want the instrumental scores. Sadly I've only ever been able to find a couple of short clips on the net.

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[–] Sunstone61 15 years ago

Aw, they've gotta be out there somewhere. Keep looking!

~May peace rain down from Heaven~

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[–] budman57 15 years ago

Nope... unfortunately the movie score has never been released.

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[–] naughtyknight2000 15 years ago

Actually, promos for two of the episodes in the miniseries were released, but not to the general public. However, as these things tend to happen, they are available out there. The episodes and composers are:
Apollo One - Mark Mancina
Mare Tranquilitatis - James Newton Howard
Unfortunately, none of the other scores have been released in any form as of yet, barring the Main and End Titles by Michael Kamen on the official OST.
If you do some easy digging the two listed above can be easily found and are worth the listen.

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[–] SunRedRX7 12 years ago

Youtube user bsgtrekfan88 has edited the soundtrack from the series. Below is his From The Earth to the Moon Score playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54D1BF0E9C4A5C43&feature=plcp

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[–] LindaY 14 years ago

My gosh, are you kidding? The music was one of the best things about this miniseries. I wish the score was available on CD, or you could shut the dialog track off, like you can do on the APOLLO 13 DVD, so you can just hear the music.

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[–] dreamtheater46 13 years ago

There is no such thing as too much music in a Film or anything.

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[–] gmat6441 13 years ago

The music in the Apollo 9 crew part of episode five is especially haunting and I wish that it was available as a CD. I loved Rusty Schweickart's story.

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[–] dcornibe 13 years ago

Sorry guys, I have to agree on this one. While the scores are beautiful, too much constant music can create the air of flamboyance, and it can be over-the-top in its emotional manipulation. Filmmakers tend to do to that a lot with military/patriotic movies and movies about the space program.

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[–] jm-bowman 13 years ago

I agree with dcornibe, the music itself wasn't bad, but the timing made it seem melodramatic. Other then that, a great series. Excluding "The Original Wives Club", I found that unnecessary.

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[–] fskpilot 13 years ago

You don't think they deserved to have their stories told?

When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse, there's the Devil to pay!

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[–] jm-bowman 13 years ago

Not really. I'm more interested in the nuts and bolts of the space program, the experiences of the astronauts and what they saw and did above Earth... to hell with their wives. Though I know that as a television series, the producers have to try to give the people at NASA a more human dimension.

As a 25 year old virgin, everything is bland.

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[–] fskpilot 13 years ago

"To hell with their wives"

WTF is this?

I strenuously disagree with this statement. One of the things we understand in the military is that NO ONE can stay focused on their mission if they know that things back home are a bloody shambles. Those women had to hold their families together so that their husbands could train and fly, they had to cope with the stress of potentially watching their husbands blow up on the pad, or die of explosive decompression, or any of a hundred other gruesome ways for their husbands to die. They didn't get any training whatsoever, and no playbook. They had to make it up as they went.

They deserve at least a little credit.

When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse, there's the Devil to pay!

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[–] Dockelektro 12 years ago

The "Spider" episode in particular annoyed me like hell, did anyone noticed how cheap that "Great Escape" march sounded?

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

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[–] benjaminwg 9 years ago

I agree. Too romanticized, like Apollo 13.

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[–] KobiyashiMauru 9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8🎧

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra

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