Finally sat down and watch the Every Frame a Painting video, and wow. Some of that stuff is blatant ripping off another composer. I can’t even believe that.

But what really blew my mind about the video was that they completely skipped over the lack of themes for the characters. I could forgive the rest of the “bland, uneventful, safe” music in the films if the characters just had themes or motifs that ran through all the films and then all came together in the Avengers films.

Dude dropped that Spider-Man theme though. Good show.

I then started the video Mala linked, but heard in the intro to it about another response to the Every Frame a Painting video, and decided to watch that.

This video contends that temp track copying and the play-it-safe mentality has been around forever, and that the transition from analog to digital is a bigger factor in why all the big blockbusters today sound mostly the same (thanks to Hans Zimmer!). It’s very interesting, but again, he fails to mention what I’ve always felt is the real reason Marvel music isn’t “hummable” or memorable.

Finally got down to Mala’s video, and this guy gets it. This is the exact reason that nobody knows the Marvel music: there’s no continuity. At all. Every new movie comes with new music and established characters don’t have an established or developed theme, they have a new and often totally different theme each film and it seriously makes it like you’re seeing the character for the first time each time.

For all the things Marvel is doing right, they’re doing this so incredibly wrong, and it’s actually a really big deal. If it were up to me, I’d rescore the entire franchise.