Among my favorite tracks on the soundtrack album are "Broadcast" and "Marcus Enters Skynet." "Broadcast" builds to a satisfying crescendo that cries out to me with the horns and strings. "Marcus Enters Skynet" slows the pace a bit to allow us to experience what Marcus is feeling as he discovers his true nature and rebels against the machines.
In addition to the score for the movie, the soundtrack also includes Alice in Chains' song "Rooster." This track was used in one of the movie trailers that I can recall and fits in perfectly with the storyline of the Terminator universe. It's hard to argue with lyrics like "Ain't found a way to kill me yet..." when talking about John Connor, who has now managed to survive four movies and multiple attempts on his life.
The last Elfman soundtrack that sounded promising was for Wanted in 2007. It had its moments, but the soundtrack for Terminator Salvation worked beautifully for me.
If you like soundtracks and are among the few fans of the original Terminator movies and actually enjoyed Terminator Salvation (like me), be sure to pick up Terminator Salvation — The Original Soundtrack at a retail store near you or online.
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1 - pq
Are you kidding me?
The only recall to the old soundtrack was a few seconds in the intro track, and when the T-800 appeared, and in the freakin end titles.
Rest was Totally absent of termonator feeling, No metal sounds, no dark (simple tonal) melodies with metal beats acordning it, and no machine feeling at all...
Just some freaking fast paced violin asemble that has no place in terminator universe what so ever... its not phantom of the opera, ITS JUDGEMENT DAY!
Let alone the machines were acting like Noobs compaterd to the old films.
And the feeling of being helpless as a human was totally gone.