Leonard Rosenman:"RoboCop 2" (1991)-Main Theme

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[alucard624]

Good score, very vintage Rosenman. However, I still prefer Poledouris' theme from the first and third film.

[Deanboy2007]

Great theme. I thought the movie was great too. Now as good as the first though.

[Biochemitra]

Certainly an uplifting theme, but not quite strong enough to be the main one. This would be more at home as a triumphant epilogue than anything.

[Macca1969]

I was so pissed when I watched RC2 and this theme started to play when Robocop made his first appearance in the movie. There was no fucking reason to change the theme from the first. It helped define Robocop. I'll admit it's got a cool intro but it sort of goes soft from there. It is a guilty pleasure but it just isn't Robocop. Fucking hollywood always messes things up!

[MrOHTEHNOES]

Why do I get the feeling that every policeman is secretly humming this tune as he walks down the road...

[Jman7133]

I was listening this going "this sounds awfully like the overture to Star Trek IV". Low and behold, its the same composer.

[penti77]

@RogueRotting360 I hate to say it, but I like you. You are very astute and humorous.

[RogueRotting360]

@penti77 I know what you mean, though minus that chorus, it's still a decent theme. As for the quality of his 80s-90s scores, I think perhaps the onset of frontotemporal dementia might have had something to do with it. Towards the end of their terms, Reagan and Thatcher both started to show signs.

Very sad, but possible.

[penti77]

@RogueRotting360 Yes, we agree on one thing: North was superb. But I will always recall that chorale drone of "ROBOCOP!" from that sequel and chuckle to myself, its like he deliberately went out to be musically horrendous.

[RogueRotting360]

@penti77 If you're talking about the respective films, you could call a few duds (Lord of the Rings, Prophecy, Beneath etc.), but they're fine scores in their own right. I'd agree, he was never as good a composer as North, but he was certainly up there. North and Rosenman were the two trailblazers of modernism in the so called Silver Age. Goldsmith and Williams earnt a lot to them.

[penti77]

@RogueRotting360 I cannot vouch for the majority of scores you have listed (there are a few real duds in there methinks though) but I would never think that he is up the level of an Alex North. I think that might be a personal and controversial view.

[RogueRotting360]

@penti77 Rosenman was never popular, but he was far from a hack. Sure, Star Trek IV and Robocop 2 are disappointing, but this is the man who composed East of Eden, The Cobweb, Rebel Without a Cause, Fantastic Voyage, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Lord of the Rings, A Man Called Horse and Prophecy. He's up there with Alex North.